Bariki is an on-device NCERT study tutor for Indian school students — Classes 7 through 12. No server-side AI, no data leaving the device: every answer below was generated locally, on a mid-range Android phone, with the network switched off.
Every recording here is a live screen capture from a Motorola Edge 60 Stylus — a mid-range, budget-conscious Android phone, the exact class of hardware a real student would own.
Airplane mode on, Study Help selected. "How many zeroes are in one crore" gets a correct, step-by-step answer, 100% on-device.
Greets the student by name, adapts to school hours automatically, and surfaces what matters today.
School/Life spheres, priority, projects, due dates, tags and subtasks — not a to-do stub.
A Pomodoro-style timer tracking study minutes and a daily streak — habit-building, not just tracking.
English and Hindi today, switching instantly, no restart — the groundwork for more regional languages.
Recording next, live, on a 7-year-old 4GB phone
Tested next on an actual ~7-year-old, 4GB/64GB phone running a custom ROM — not a flagship, not a simulator.
Every design decision here was made against one constraint: it has to work on the phone a real NCERT-curriculum student actually owns.
Inference runs on the student's own hardware — no per-token or per-seat cost that scales with usage.
Built for the connectivity reality of Indian schools and homes, not an always-online assumption.
A student's questions never leave their device — no conversation log sitting on a server.
Accent color, type, corner shapes adapt per grade (7–12), not just the content.
Tuned and verified on a mid-range Snapdragon 7-series phone, not a flagship.
Fine-tuned specifically against the NCERT curriculum, Classes 7–12 — not a general chatbot.
Every other row in this table is a direct consequence of one architectural choice: the model runs on the student's phone, not on our servers.
| Bariki | Typical AI tutoring apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the AI runs | 100% on the student's phone | Company's cloud servers |
| Needs internet to answer | No — works in airplane mode | Yes, for every question |
| Student's conversations | Never leave the device | Sent to and stored on a server |
| Cost per question, after setup | None — one download, that's it | Data + server compute, every time |
| Works during school/exam network blackouts | Yes | No |
| Curriculum alignment | Fine-tuned on actual NCERT textbooks, Classes 7–12 — not just prompted to "act like a tutor" | Generic, not curriculum-specific |
| What it covers | A student's whole day — study help, planner, focus timer, journal, a vent space | Homework Q&A only |
| Runs on budget hardware | Yes — mid-range Android phones | Needs a newer phone + fast, reliable internet |
Every clip above is this week's build, running on real hardware. We'd love to show you the rest of the product and talk about what a school pilot could look like.
Get in touch — hello@bariki.appOr call/WhatsApp 9912749512