Bixberry is built to stay completely out of your way. You shouldn’t notice it running — your browsing, streaming, gaming, and work always come first.
No noticeable impact on your connection. Bixberry only uses your idle connection. When you're actively using your device or connection, it steps back; when things are free, it shares more.
Why it runs differently from most apps
Most apps run in short bursts — open, use, close. Bixberry works only while connected, so with your permission it stays active in the background. That's why it appears in your battery list, and why it needs a moment of explanation most apps don't.
How priority works
When you start browsing, streaming, gaming, or downloading, Bixberry automatically reduces what it’s doing. There’s nothing to toggle on or off.
When your connection is free, Bixberry uses that spare capacity to help power AI requests — small web checks like pages, prices, and listings, a fraction of the data used by a short video call. You earn for it.
Because sharing is capped to idle capacity, you shouldn't see any drop in your normal browsing.
Battery - staying connected does use some energy — modest, and comparable to any ordinary app that stays connected in the background. It rises a little when your connection is busier. The reason is simple: your phone talks to the internet by radio, and talking costs a little energy. Over Wi-Fi it costs noticeably less than over mobile data, since your router is a few meters away while a cell tower is much further.
Usage policy
AI requests — assistants retrieving information from the live web
AI training Background workloads Any other workloadsYour connection is reserved exclusively for this one kind of request.
If you’re using your connection very heavily for long stretches, there’s less idle capacity left for the network — so your earnings may dip a bit during those periods. That’s not Bixberry interfering with your activity; it’s the opposite — Bixberry getting out of the way.