What exactly am I paying for?
The upstream AI model's tokens, plus a small markup that keeps the gateway and this scanner running. The on-device OCR, the cloaking engine, the detection model and the receipts cost you nothing.
Is anything free forever?
Yes. Unlimited on-device OCR + cloaking + preview with no account, 10 scans a day, and 25 AI "ask" actions a month once you connect a free CloakAPI wallet — drawn from the shared suite pool. It's the same detector and the same receipts as the paid tiers.
Do you ever see my scans?
No. The image never uploads at all, and only cloaked text reaches the gateway — and only when you press "Ask AI". We can't read your names because they never leave your browser — the receipt attests it.
How is this different from a phone's built-in OCR, or ChatGPT vision?
Those send the raw image (or the raw extracted text) to a server. cloak-scan reads the page entirely on your device and only ever offers an AI the cloaked, surrogate-bearing text — for the letters, forms and IDs where that's not optional.