About Bridgi and the Hebrew guides

Who writes these, and why they are checked the way they are. · Updated

Bridgi is an Android keyboard that lets you type in English and send Hebrew, right inside your chat. It is built by Yakir Geffen, who started it for a simple reason: staying in a Hebrew conversation should not mean leaving the chat for a translator on every reply.

Why these guides exist

The short Hebrew guides on this blog come out of building that product. When you make a tool for sending Hebrew, you spend a lot of time on the small, real questions people actually ask: how do you say “thank you,” when does a phrase change for a man or a woman, how do you reply. The guides answer those questions plainly, one phrase at a time.

How the Hebrew is checked

Getting Hebrew right matters more than sounding clever about it. Every phrase in these guides is checked against a standard Hebrew dictionary for correctness, and read by a native Hebrew speaker for how people actually talk, before it is published. Where a phrase changes with gender, the guide says so instead of picking one form and hoping. If something here is ever off, it gets fixed.

Bridgi is coming soon to Google Play as a subscription at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial to start, no card required. Join the waitlist for an email when it goes live, or start with the Hebrew phrases guide.