The film
A teacher and a beginner.
How it works
Four things you actually do with a language.
Read
Meet each phrase in print, with a clear gloss and a note on the sounds that surprise you.
Write
Write it back by hand — the one thing screens skip, and how it stays with you. Or type, your choice.
Listen
Hear everything spoken by real native voices, warm and human, in every lesson.
Speak
Say it out loud, then take your turn in short guided conversations with your hosts.
Inside MyScribe
A complete course, properly made.
A full beginner’s course
Twenty units in Italian, twenty-three in Russian — from greetings to describing people, with real spoken audio throughout.
Handwriting on every phrase
Trace the words yourself, the way they stay with you. Typing is there when you would rather.
A practice room for every unit
Recognise words, identify sounds, choose the right reply, rebuild a phrase from memory, and hold a short conversation.
A grammar bank and sound reference
The patterns you have been using, in plain language, and the letters and sounds you meet first.
No streaks, no scores, no pressure
A course you move through at your own pace, with gentle review that brings older words back before you forget them.
Private by design
Fully offline, with optional sign-in (MyScribe Russian only, for now) to back up your progress, and no adverts in the app. Start free — the alphabet and greetings in Russian, the first three units in Italian — then one purchase opens the rest, for good.
Questions
Before you start.
Do I need an account?
No. MyScribe opens straight into the course. On MyScribe Russian, signing in is optional, and only for backing up your progress so it can follow you to another phone — every lesson works the same as a guest. MyScribe Italiano does not offer an account yet.
Does it work offline?
Yes, completely. Everything, including all the audio, lives on your device. No connection is needed to learn.
Why does it ask for the microphone?
Only for the “say it yourself” speaking practice, so you can hear yourself and see a live level as you speak. What you say is kept only long enough to play it back to you, then discarded — nothing is sent anywhere, and you can skip it and still use the whole app.
What is free, and what is paid?
In MyScribe Russian the Cyrillic alphabet and the greetings unit are free; in MyScribe Italiano it is the first three units. Either way there is no time limit. After that you can open every remaining unit with a single one-time purchase that never renews, or with a weekly or monthly subscription that begins with a three-day free trial and renews until you cancel — subscriptions are in MyScribe Russian today, and are coming to MyScribe Italiano. No adverts, whichever you choose.
Is my progress backed up?
By default your progress is saved on your device, so deleting the app clears it. If you sign in (optional, with Apple or Google; MyScribe Russian only for now), it is backed up so it can follow you to another phone. Sign-in is only for that backup.
Privacy
Your learning never leaves your device.
Last updated 11 September 2026
MyScribe runs on your device. Your lessons, your writing and your voice never leave it. This applies to every edition of MyScribe, including Italian and Russian.
What we collect
Nothing that identifies you, unless you choose to sign in. Signing in is optional (see “Your account” below); without it MyScribe holds no account for you, and nothing you do in a lesson — what you write, what you say, what you answer — ever leaves your device.
What we do collect is anonymous usage: which parts of the course people reach, and whether the app was opened from one of our adverts. To count returning learners without knowing who they are, the app is given a random identifier that belongs to the installation rather than to you. Deleting the app deletes it, and it is never linked to your name, your email, or your Apple or Google account. If you have not signed in, we hold none of those. If you have, what we hold is listed under “Your account” below, and it is kept separate from this usage data and never joined to it.
Measurement
When we advertise MyScribe we need to know whether the advert worked, and when we improve the course we need to know where people get stuck. So the app reports a small number of events: that it was opened, that onboarding finished, that a lesson or unit was completed, that the purchase screen was shown, and that a purchase was started or completed, with the amount.
These go to Meta, which measures our advertising, and to Google Firebase, which we use to understand how the course is used. Neither receives anything you wrote, said or answered.
We never ask permission to track you, and we never read your device's advertising identifier. Your activity is not linked to you, not built into a profile, and not followed into anybody else's app. On Apple devices the advertising measurement uses Apple's own privacy-preserving system, which reports totals rather than people.
Your learning progress
Your lessons, words, and settings are saved on your device, so the app remembers where you are. Unless you sign in, this never leaves your phone and isn't visible to us or anyone else. If you sign in (optional, and currently available in MyScribe Russian only), a copy is backed up so your progress can follow you between devices — see “Your account” below. Deleting the app removes the copy on your phone.
Your account (optional)
MyScribe works without an account. In MyScribe Russian you can sign in with Apple or Google if you want your progress to follow you to another phone; MyScribe Italiano does not offer an account yet. Signing in gates nothing: every lesson, game and purchase works the same as a guest.
What we store when you sign in. A user ID created for your account, the email address Apple or Google returns to us (Apple may give us a private relay address if you choose “Hide My Email”), your name if the provider shares it, and your learning progress: which lessons you have finished, which words you have gathered, and which daily games you have played. We do not store your password; Apple or Google handles sign-in.
Where it is kept. In Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore), on servers in the Australia South-East region, in a document only your account can read or write. Google acts as our processor and does not use this data for its own purposes.
What it is used for. Only to back up and restore your progress between your devices. We do not use it for advertising, we do not sell or share it, and we do not link it to the anonymous analytics described above.
Deleting your account. Open the app, go to Profile, and tap Delete account. This removes your account and its backup from our servers straight away; for Sign in with Apple it also revokes the sign-in token with Apple. Your progress stays on your phone. If you cannot open the app, email hello@drawbridgestudio.com from the address you signed in with and we will delete it within 30 days.
Purchases are separate from the account. They are tied to your Apple ID or Google account through the App Store or Google Play and restore through those, whether or not you sign in.
Microphone
MyScribe asks for microphone access only so you can practise speaking aloud. Your voice is used on your device, in the moment, to show a live audio level while you speak. During the “hear yourself” step it is kept just long enough to play back to you, then discarded — it is never sent anywhere, and never stored beyond that moment. You can decline access and still use every other part of the app.
Purchases
MyScribe can be unlocked with a single one-time purchase, or with a weekly or monthly subscription that begins with a three-day free trial. A subscription renews automatically until it is cancelled, and it is cancelled in your Apple or Google account rather than here. All of it is handled by Apple or Google — we never see your payment details, your name, or your account, and they tell the app only whether the purchase exists. Their handling of the transaction is covered by their own privacy policies.
Internet access
The course, including every lesson and all of its audio, is bundled inside the app, so MyScribe works fully offline. The app reaches the network only when it needs to: when you make or restore a purchase, which goes to Apple or Google; if you sign in, to back up and restore your progress (see “Your account” above); and to send the advertising-measurement and anonymous-usage events described above. Nothing you write, say, or answer is ever transmitted.
Children
MyScribe collects nothing that identifies anyone, including children. It contains no advertising inside the app, no external links that gather information, and it builds no profile of anyone who uses it.
Your rights
Data-protection laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you the right to access, correct, or delete the personal data a company holds about you. If you have not signed in, we hold no account and nothing that names you, so there is nothing to look up. If you have signed in, you can delete your account and its backup at any time (see “Your account” above). The anonymous usage described above is held against a random installation identifier rather than against a person; if you contact us we will delete what is held against it. Deleting the app removes everything stored on your device, and that identifier with it. If you would like to ask us about any of this, the address is below.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date. It last changed on 11 September 2026, when MyScribe Russian 1.0.6 added an optional account — sign in with Apple or Google — to back up and restore your progress between devices (see “Your account” above). Before that, on 3 September 2026, MyScribe began recording anonymous usage through Google Firebase, widened its advertising measurement from two events to six, and added weekly and monthly subscriptions alongside the one-off purchase. These are live in MyScribe Russian and are coming to MyScribe Italiano shortly, so for a short period this page describes slightly more measurement than the Italian edition performs. Before 31 August this page named only the Russian edition as measuring advertising; both editions have done so since 19 August 2026.