Privacy policy
The Bible app collects no data. There's no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. Your highlights, notes, bookmarks, searches and reading history are never sent to the developer.
What stays on your device
The app saves your highlights, notes, bookmarks, reading position, history and settings in a file inside it on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. They leave it only when you export or share them. On iPhone and iPad, your device's iCloud or computer backups include them, as they do for any app. Translations you import on the Mac stay on your Mac.
When the app uses the internet
On iPhone and iPad, never. The seven translations are inside the app, and it makes no network connections.
The Mac app goes online for two things only:
- Checking for updates, which downloads the list of releases from GitHub. The request carries only the app's version, and GitHub sees your IP address, as with any download.
- Online translations you add yourself: the ESV, NLT, NET, or a Bible from API.Bible. The app asks that publisher's server directly for the chapters you open, with your API key where one is needed. For API.Bible it also reports which passages were shown, with random identifiers, as API.Bible's terms require. Each publisher's own privacy policy covers those requests.
Sharing and crash reports
When you copy or share a verse, or export your notes, it goes only where you send it. Apple passes crash reports to developers only if you've turned on sharing with app developers in your device's settings. They describe the crash, not your notes or highlights.
Children
The app collects nothing from anyone, children included.
This website
This site sets no cookies and serves its own fonts. It counts page views with Vercel Web Analytics. For each view, Vercel records the page, the site that linked to it, your country, region and city, and your browser, operating system and device type. In the web reader, the page is the chapter it opens at. Vercel tells visits apart with a hash of the request, which it discards after 24 hours, and doesn't link the views to you or your IP address. The site also loads the download count from GitHub, which sees your IP address when it serves it.
Changes and questions
Changes to this policy are published on this page with a new date. Questions are welcome on the support page.