Keep Arabic Writing Private in Your Browser
Exactly what is stored while you type Arabic, what never is, which actions move your text off the device, and how to remove everything.
If you are writing something personal in a language your device does not support, it is fair to ask where the words are going. This page answers that as precisely as it can — including the places where the honest answer is “that depends on you”.
The short version, which the rest of this page unpacks: your text stays in your browser unless you choose an action such as search, share, copy into another app, or download or export.
What is not stored
The text in the typing box is not saved. Typing does not write anything down. Close the tab and it is gone.
There is no account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to, no profile, no email address. There is nothing for your writing to be attached to.
Your text is not sent anywhere to be converted. The transliteration runs in the page on your device. So does building a Word document, a PDF, or a card image — those files are assembled in the browser and handed to your downloads folder, not produced on a server.
What is stored, and where
Four things, all of them on the device you are using, in that browser:
| What | Contains | Controlled by |
|---|---|---|
| Your typing settings | Typing style, the chat-number switch, your own letter rules | Change or clear them in Typing settings |
| Recent texts | The texts you have taken an action on | A switch, plus per-entry and clear-all deletion |
| Favorites | Which phrases you have starred | Remove one, or all |
| Card preferences | Your last card design, background, and text colour | Changing them replaces the old value |
Two details worth drawing out.
Favorites stores which phrases you starred, not any text of your own. It is a list of references to phrases that are already public pages on this site.
Card preferences store design choices, not your message. Which background you last used, not what you wrote on it.
So the only one of the four that holds your own words is recent texts — and that one is the most controllable of the lot.
How recent texts actually work
Worth knowing in detail, since it is the one that matters.
- Entries are added when you do something with a text — copy it, share it, download it, search with it, or turn it into a card. Typing something and abandoning it records nothing, and listening to a text does not record it either.
- One deliberate exception: clearing the box saves a snapshot first, so Clear is recoverable.
- The list keeps a small number of recent texts and drops the oldest as new ones arrive.
- Save recent texts is a switch. Turn it off and nothing further is recorded.
- Individual entries have Delete, and Clear all empties the list after confirming.
The panel says the same thing where you use it: recent texts are stored only in this browser, and you can delete them at any time.
Which actions move your text
This is the part that depends on you, and it is where a vaguer page would say “your text never leaves your device” and be wrong.
| Action | What happens |
|---|---|
| Copy | Goes to your device’s clipboard. Nothing is transmitted |
| Download | A file is built in the browser and saved to your disk |
| Share | Hands the text to an app or site you pick — then their rules apply |
| Search web | Opens a destination you pick with your text as the query |
| Listen | Uses your browser’s own speech feature |
Share and Search are the two that genuinely send your words somewhere. Both require you to choose a destination, neither happens on its own, and the interface says so at the moment you choose: it opens an external app or site with your text, and nothing is sent by us.
Once your text reaches WhatsApp, or Google, or an AI assistant, that service handles it under its own terms. Nothing here changes that, and no claim on this page should be read as covering it.
What this is not
Being clear about this is part of being trustworthy about the rest.
- It is not encryption. Nothing here is encrypted, and local processing is a different thing from encryption.
- It is not a security product. It does not protect you from someone with access to your device, from malware, or from anyone watching your screen.
- It cannot promise anything about where you send your text. It can only be precise about what it does itself.
What it is: a tool that does its work locally rather than on a server, and that does not ask you for an identity. That is a meaningful difference, and it is a smaller claim than “private” usually implies.
Removing everything
- The quickest way: clear this site’s data in your browser settings. That removes the settings, recent texts, favorites, and card preferences together.
- Selectively: turn off Save recent texts and use Clear all; use Remove all favorites; use Start fresh under Make it yours.
- Leave nothing at all: use a private window. It starts from the defaults and keeps nothing when you close it.
On a shared or borrowed device
Everything above is per-browser, which cuts both ways. Nothing follows you home — and anything you save stays on that machine until it is deleted.
If the computer is not yours, a private window is the simple answer. If you have already been typing in a normal one, turn off recent texts, clear the list, and clear the box before you leave.
Note also that if your browser blocks storage entirely, the keyboard still works — it simply cannot remember your settings, and it tells you that changes may not be saved after reload.
Next step
Open Typing settings and look at what is actually stored — the settings panel states it plainly, in the product rather than in a policy. If you want the detail on the two lists, favorites and history covers both.