BibleDesk Privacy Policy

What BibleDesk stores on your device

BibleDesk keeps the following on the device you are using, inside the app's own storage:

• Your preferences: theme, Scripture text size, selected translation, preferred language, and whether you have completed onboarding.
• Your notes, including verse-anchored notes and Service Mode sermon notes.
• Images you share from Create, saved locally as PNG files, and a local record of completed sharing activities used for the sharing streak and reminders.
• Your bookmarks and highlights.
• Your reading position and the references you have recently visited.
• Your verse reminder settings. Reminders are scheduled on your device as local notifications, each carrying its day's verse; no server sends them.
• Downloaded chapter illustrations in the system Caches directory. iOS may remove these temporary files when it needs space, and you can remove them from BibleDesk Settings.

Preferences are stored in the system preferences store for this app. Notes, bookmarks, highlights, reading position, and recent references are stored in a database file inside the app's Application Support directory. Both are private to BibleDesk.

The English translations are bundled with the app; any other translation downloads once from the BibleDesk server when you choose it, and the request identifies only that translation. Scripture text, search queries, notes, bookmarks, highlights, and reading history are never sent with an artwork request.

Optional chapter artwork downloads

When Chapter artwork is on, opening a supported chapter requests that chapter's illustration files from https://plugai.in. The requested file path identifies the Bible book, chapter, and illustration. Standard internet routing necessarily exposes the request to the hosting and network providers while it is delivered. The BibleDesk artwork route is configured without access logging, and BibleDesk does not add an account ID, device ID, advertising ID, note, search, or Scripture text to the request.

Downloaded illustrations are cached on your device so BibleDesk does not need to fetch the same file every time. You can turn Chapter artwork off or remove downloaded artwork in Settings. Scripture reading remains available without a connection.

What BibleDesk does not do

• It contains no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting service, and no tracking of any kind.
• It does not build a profile of you, and it does not use your data for advertising or for measurement.
• BibleDesk does not upload your notes to a BibleDesk server. Optional downloads and Apple Image Playground can use the network; image generation is described below.
• It does not ask for your contacts, location, microphone, camera, or health data. If you choose a photo for a greeting card, the system Photos picker gives the app only the photo you select.

Device backups

Because your notes, bookmarks, highlights, and preferences live in the app's storage on your device, they are included in your device backups if you have iCloud Backup or encrypted computer backups turned on. Those backups are handled by Apple under Apple's terms, not by BibleDesk. If you have backups turned off, uninstalling BibleDesk permanently deletes everything it has stored.

On-device intelligence

Explain Verse, the suggested message on a share card, sermon note tidying and summaries, and the picture plans Create writes for Image Playground are generated by Apple's on-device Foundation Models, using Apple Intelligence on devices that support it. The verse, or the note you chose, is passed to that model on your device. BibleDesk sends nothing to a server for these features, and BibleDesk does not collect the generated text. On devices that do not support Apple Intelligence, these features are unavailable and BibleDesk falls back to fixed text. A picture plan only leaves the device if you then open Image Playground, as described below.

Generated explanations are produced by a language model. They are offered as study context, not as doctrinal teaching, and they can be wrong.

Optional Image Playground artwork

Create and sermon posters can open Apple's Image Playground system interface. BibleDesk supplies picture concepts and, when you choose one, a source photo or drawing. Sermon posters supply the summary you have reviewed, rather than the entire original note. Image Playground may send those inputs to Apple's Private Cloud Compute to generate images; on iOS 27, image generation uses that cloud service and requires internet access. Apple manages availability and usage limits. BibleDesk's integration offers Apple-native styles and does not enable external-provider styles.

Words and card layouts are composed on your device. You can create and share a sermon summary card without using Image Playground. Generated artwork is copied into the card locally; completed sharing activities can save the resulting image in Your Images. Delete saved images from Create.

Sharing

When you share a card, BibleDesk renders its text and layout on your device and hands the resulting image to the standard iOS share sheet. Optional generated artwork follows the Image Playground behavior described above. Where it goes from there is your choice, and is governed by whichever app or service you send it to. BibleDesk does not receive a server copy. Create saves a local copy and records the day only when the system reports that the sharing activity completed; it does not record recipients. Canceling the sheet does not count as sharing.

Deleting your data

Deleting a note, bookmark, highlight, or saved image inside the app removes it from the device. Settings also offers “Delete All My Content”, which removes every note, bookmark, highlight, saved reading position, recent reference, saved Create image, and the sharing streak in one step. Deleting BibleDesk removes everything it stored, subject to any device backup you have made.

Children

BibleDesk does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated text ships inside the app and the date at the top changes with it. This page is kept in step with the copy inside the app.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to admin@plugai.in.