Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 6, 2026
Bible Detect is built so that your congregation’s words never leave the building. This policy is short because there is very little to describe.
We collect nothing. Bible Detect has no accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, and no server of ours that receives your data. Nothing you say, record, or display is transmitted to us — because there is nowhere for it to go.
Speech and transcripts
Speech recognition runs entirely on your device using Apple’s on-device speech engines. Sermon audio, live transcripts, detected verses, and saved service history are stored only on that device. They are never uploaded, and we have no way to see them.
You can delete any saved session — or all of them — at any time from within the app. Removing the app removes its data with it.
On-device AI
Optional features such as sermon points and story interpretation use Apple’s on-device foundation models, available on recent hardware. These also run entirely on your device. Nothing is sent to us or to any cloud AI service, and nothing from your services is used to train any model.
Microphone access
The app asks for microphone and speech-recognition permission so it can hear what is being preached. Audio is converted to text on the device as it arrives and is not written to disk as a recording. You can revoke permission at any time in system settings; the app simply stops listening.
Network use
The apps make no internet requests. Updates are delivered through the App Store, the same as any other app you install.
- NDI® output (Mac, optional, off by default). When you turn it on, the verse display is published on your local network only, so production tools such as ProPresenter, OBS, or a video switcher can pick it up as a video source. Nothing crosses your front door. NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB (ndi.video).
- Links you tap. Opening a link from the app — such as this page — hands it to your browser, which behaves as it normally would.
Children’s privacy
Bible Detect does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted on this page with a new date. The app is free and account-free, so there is no mailing list to notify — the current policy is always the one published here.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or anything else: pennyfea@gmail.com.