Free: no account, ads, subscription, telemetry, or usage fees.

Local: screen pixels and recognized or translated text stay on this device.

Open source: the application source is licensed under GPL-3.0.

The app downloads ordinary static files and OCR models from its host. Chrome may separately download language packs. Hosts can observe normal asset requests and IP metadata, but the app never uploads captured content or text. Language choices are stored only in this browser.