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It’s not fully offline — we sync data across your many devices, have a cloud service that parses the clean versions of documents using ML, etc

It’s just that once your device is synced, you will be able to use it + read fully offline, then have those changes sync once you’re back!

> Why are more and more apps trying to tickle all our accts for monthly/recurring fees?

Because it works. If we want to stop it, we need to actually stop paying for them.

For this case, it's probably to cover their GPT token costs. Still though, I agree that this doesn't need to be a subscription by the look of it.