Ancora Translate On-device translation

Privacy Policy

Effective date: 22 September 2026

Ancora Translate is a translation app for Android and iOS. This Privacy Policy explains what the app does with your information. It describes the app as it is built today.

1. Who we are

Ancora Translate is developed and published by the team behind Ancora. If you have any question about this policy or about your information, contact us at [email protected].

2. There is no account

Ancora Translate has no sign-up, no login and no user profile. We do not ask for your name, your email address, your phone number or your date of birth, and there is no Ancora account behind the app.

3. Translation on your device

Standard translation in Ancora Translate runs on your device using Google ML Kit's on-device translation.

  • The text you enter, the language you translate from and the language you translate to are processed on your device by the ML Kit model.

  • ML Kit downloads the language pack for a language pair the first time you use that pair. The download needs an internet connection. Once a pair has been downloaded, translating with that pair does not need the internet.

  • We do not receive the text you translate, the translations you produce, or the language pairs you use.

4. Voice input

Voice input is optional and runs only while you are using it. When you tap the microphone, the app asks your device's speech recognition service to turn your speech into text. Your device, and the provider of that speech service, determine how the audio is handled: depending on your device and platform, speech recognition may process the audio on the device or on the provider's servers. Ancora Translate receives only the recognised text, which is then translated like text you typed. Ancora Translate does not record or store the audio.

5. Camera and photos

Camera-to-text is optional and runs only when you ask for it. A photo you take, or choose from your gallery, is read on your device using Google ML Kit's on-device text recognition. The photo is a temporary file that the app deletes as soon as the text has been recognised. Photos are not uploaded to us, the app does not save them to your gallery, and they are never added to your translation history.

6. Read aloud

Read aloud uses your device's text-to-speech engine. The translation is handed to the speech engine on your device so that it can be spoken. Ancora Translate does not record or store the spoken audio.

7. Translation history kept on your device

Ancora Translate keeps a translation history so that you can find a translation again. It is stored in the app's own database on your device and contains the source text, the translation, the language pair, the date and time, how the text was entered (typed, voice or camera) and whether you marked the entry as a favourite.

This history never leaves your device. It is not synchronised to us and we do not back it up. You can delete single entries, delete a period of entries, or clear the whole history in the app, and uninstalling the app removes everything it stored.

8. AI translation (Pro)

Pro users can optionally use AI translation. When you use this feature, the text you enter and the selected source and target languages are sent securely to our backend so that the translation can be generated.

Our backend processes the request only to provide the requested translation. Translation requests and translations are not stored.

Ancora Translate does not use your translation content for advertising, profiling, analytics, or any other unrelated purpose.

AI translation does not require an account, email address, name, or other personal information.

9. Our backend

Ancora Translate's AI translation backend is operated by us. It does not provide user accounts or maintain user profiles.

We do not store translation requests, translated content, email addresses, names, or other personal information through the translation service.

The backend receives the information necessary to process an AI translation request and returns the translation. It does not retain the translation content after processing.

10. Subscriptions and promotional codes

Pro is sold as a subscription through the store you installed the app from (Google Play or the Apple App Store). Payments are handled by the store; we never see your payment card or your full billing details.

Subscription state is managed with RevenueCat. RevenueCat receives the anonymous installation identifier as the app user identifier together with the receipt information the store provides, so that the app can tell whether Pro is active and which features to unlock.

If you redeem a promotional code, the app sends the code and the anonymous installation identifier to our backend. The backend validates the code and checks whether that installation has already redeemed it. Promotional access is then applied to that installation for the applicable period.

11. Advertising

The free tier of Ancora Translate shows a banner advertisement supplied by Google AdMob at the bottom of the translator screen. Google may collect and use information to provide and measure advertising under Google's own privacy policy. When Pro is active the banner is not shown.

12. What the app does not do

  • No account and no user profile.

  • No copy of your translation history on our servers.

  • No analytics and no crash-reporting service is included in the app.

  • We do not sell your information, and we do not share your translations with advertisers.

13. Permissions the app asks for

  • Internet — language pack downloads, AI translation, promotional codes, subscription checks and advertising.

  • Microphone — only for voice input, and only while you are using it.

  • Camera — only to scan text with the camera.

  • Photos (iOS) — only to let you choose a picture to scan.

You can refuse any of these permissions. The features that need them stop working and the rest of the app keeps working.

14. How long information is kept

  • Translation history and app settings stay on your device until you delete them, clear the app's data or uninstall the app.
  • An AI translation request is processed to produce and return the translation you asked for. The translation request and translation are not stored by us.
  • Promotional codes are processed by our backend to validate the code and enforce the applicable redemption rules. We do not maintain a user profile or store translation content as part of this proces

15. Children

Ancora Translate is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. There is no account and no data that identifies a child, and translation history stays on the device and can be deleted at any time.

16. Third-party services

Ancora Translate uses services from these providers, each of which applies its own terms and privacy policy to its part of the service:

  • Google — ML Kit on-device translation and text recognition; the device speech recognition and text-to-speech services on Android; AdMob advertising; Google Play billing. See Google's Privacy Policy.

  • Apple — the speech recognition and text-to-speech services on iOS, and App Store billing. See Apple's Privacy Policy.

  • RevenueCat — subscription and entitlement management. See RevenueCat's Privacy Policy.

  • Cloudflare — infrastructure used to operate our AI translation and promotional code backend. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.

17. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the app changes. The effective date at the top of this page will change when we do, and the current version will always be published here.

18. Contact

If you have any question about this Privacy Policy or about how Ancora Translate handles your information, contact us at [email protected].