FAQs
General
Section titled “General”What is Hissab?
Section titled “What is Hissab?”Hissab is a calculator app where you can type your calculations and get results instantly. It uses an intuitive syntax and AI. It can perform wide range of calculations.
Who is Hissab for?
Section titled “Who is Hissab for?”Hissab is designed to be a general purpose calculator app. Its capabilities range from simple calculations to advanced computations. Thus, Hissab is useful for everyone including students and professionals.
What is Hissab classic?
Section titled “What is Hissab classic?”Hissab classic is the standard non-ai part of hissab. Its totally free to use. It has an almost natural language like syntax and you can refer the docs for more details for its syntax and capabilities.
What is Hissab AI?
Section titled “What is Hissab AI?”Hissab AI is a wrapper over classic hissab to provide full natural language capabilities for calculations and math and uses hissab engine for the actual calculations.
What platforms does Hissab run on?
Section titled “What platforms does Hissab run on?”Hissab can be installed on all major OSs like web, Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome & Edge browser extension.
Are my notes backed up in the cloud?
Section titled “Are my notes backed up in the cloud?”Not currently. The notes are only stored locally on device.
Is there any difference between using hissab on the web vs installing it as a pwa on device?
Section titled “Is there any difference between using hissab on the web vs installing it as a pwa on device?”No. It is identical. However installing it can be convenient as it integrates the shortcut to open hissab based on the OS.
Does Hissab work offline?
Section titled “Does Hissab work offline?”Not currently. But soon, if you have installed hissab it will work offline except for some features (like AI) that require internet connection.
What LLM Models does Hissab AI use?
Section titled “What LLM Models does Hissab AI use?”Currently Hissab uses Google Gemini set of models, tuned for use with hissab. We are always working to improve the models and its performance while experimenting with other models as well.
How does Hissab AI work? And how does it ensure accurate results?
Section titled “How does Hissab AI work? And how does it ensure accurate results?”Hissab AI uses a combination of LLMs and hissab engine to provide accurate results. The LLMs are tuned to understand the context of the calculations and extract calculation intent from the prompts which generate hissab expressions. These expressions are parsed by hissab engine which does the computation to provide the final results.
Account
Section titled “Account”Do I need to create an account to use Hissab?
Section titled “Do I need to create an account to use Hissab?”No. Hissab does not require you to create an account to use it. You only need an account if you want to subscribe and use the AI features.
Privacy
Section titled “Privacy”Does Hissab collect my personal information or share it with any 3rd party vendors?
Section titled “Does Hissab collect my personal information or share it with any 3rd party vendors?”Hissab does not collect any personal information nor does it share any info with any 3rd party vendors. Hissab AI does use the user prompts anonymously to improve the models and its performance.
Are the calculations performed locally on device, or on the cloud?
Section titled “Are the calculations performed locally on device, or on the cloud?”All classic calculations are performed locally on the device. All AI calculations are performed on the cloud.