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Privacy Policy

Last updated 2026-05-28

RapidBible is built to give you a focused way to read scripture. We don't want your data and we don't collect it. This page explains exactly what that means in practice.

What we do NOT collect

• We do not have accounts. There is no sign-in, no profile, no email field.
• We do not collect, store, or transmit your name, email, phone number, location, IP address, identifiers for advertising, or any other personally identifiable information.
• We do not use analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting SDKs of any kind. No Firebase, no Mixpanel, no Sentry, no Crashlytics, no Facebook SDK.
• We do not track your reading behavior on our servers (we don't have servers).
• We do not share, sell, or rent your data, because we don't have any data to share, sell, or rent.

What stays on your device

The following is stored locally on your iPhone and never leaves it:

• Your reading positions — which word you stopped at, per chapter, per translation. Lets you resume mid-chapter.
• Your preferences — words-per-minute, theme, font size, haptic mode, auto-advance, last translation used.
• A small in-memory cache of recently-read passages, so flipping back to a chapter is instant.

This data lives in iOS's standard UserDefaults and SwiftData store. Deleting the app removes it.

What goes over the network

When you read a chapter in a translation other than World English Bible, the app requests the passage from bible-api.com, a free public-domain Bible API. The request URL contains the book name, chapter number, and translation code (for example: bible-api.com/Genesis 1?translation=kjv).

We send no identifiers with that request. bible-api.com is operated by Tim Morgan; their privacy practices are governed by their terms at bible-api.com.

The World English Bible is bundled with the app and reads from your device's storage, so it never makes a network request and works fully offline.

Children's privacy

RapidBible is rated 4+. Because we collect no personal information, we comply with COPPA by design: there's nothing to collect from a child user.

Apple App Store privacy nutrition label

Across every Apple-defined data category — Contact Info, Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Location, Sensitive Info, Contacts, User Content, Browsing History, Search History, Identifiers, Purchases, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Other — the label is "Data Not Collected".

Changes to this policy

If we ever add a feature that would change the answers above (for example, optional iCloud sync or an opt-in donation flow), this page will be updated and a note will appear in the app's About sheet before that feature ships.

Contact

Questions? Open an issue at github.com/ajakerogers/rapidbible/issues or email ajakerogers@gmail.com.