They don't use cloud services, so stuff is processed and stored locally.
Other apps store stuff locally also, you can compare for example bravenewtube and grayjay, you will see a weird size difference.
I guess because they store all the required data for voice recognition and other "AI" stuff while other apps use privacy-invasive and low-security cloud services to provide such features.
I don't think that is the answer because other privacy respecting apps(Open source or offline) have a lower size.
Take for example Typewise keyboard the offline paid version, it comes at 44MB only despite them implementing their own AI stuff and implementing a completely new keyboard layout.
If it is artificial intelligence based and the data is stored locally then that data can be quite large. My keyboard is well over 100 megabytes just for the data, for the AI alone. I think it's fair to say that it is probably a good thing that it's large because it means that it's on your machine and it's not being processed anywhere else.
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