Privacy

Last updated 21 October 2026

This site is free and has no ads, no tracking and no analytics. You can use all of it without an account. If you choose to sign in, we keep only what is needed to save your study, it is private to you, and you can delete it yourself at any time.

Without an account

Everything you save stays on your own device, in your browser's storage, and is never sent to us:

• your highlights and bookmarks
• the place you were last reading
• chapters you marked studied, and the days you studied (for your streak)
• your notes
• the reading plan you are following
• your memory verses and their review schedule
• small preferences, such as which translation you read

Clearing your browser's website data removes them. On an iPhone, the home-screen app and Safari keep separate copies.

With an account

Signing in is optional and uses only your email address: we email you a 6-digit code instead of using a password. When you are signed in we store:

• your email address, to sign you in
• your highlights and bookmarks: the book, chapter and verse, and the colour you chose (not the verse text)
• your reading place: the last chapter and verse you were reading
• your memory verses: each reference, the verse text you saved, and your review schedule
• chapters studied: which chapters you marked and when, and the dates you studied, for your streak
• your notes: what you write, and the passage a note is about
• your reading plan: which plan, and the day you started it

That is all. We do not ask for your name, phone number, location or anything else.

Your account is kept with Supabase, a database service, on servers in the United States. For security, Supabase also records when you sign in, along with your device type and IP address. Sign-in codes are emailed through Resend.

Friends (optional)

If you set up Friends, we also store the name you choose to show your friends, your private friend code, and who you are connected with. Nothing is shared until both of you accept. Then each of you sees the other's name and, unless you turn it off, your streak, number of chapters studied and the chapter you are reading. A verse or note is shared only when you choose Share on it, and you can unshare it. Removing a friend stops all of this straight away. You can also block someone, which ends any friendship with them and stops their friend requests reaching you; we store who you have blocked so this keeps working, only you can see that list, and the person is not told. Nobody can find you without your code.

Who can see it

Only you, apart from what you choose to show friends above. Each account can read and change only its own saved study; this is enforced by the database itself, not just by the website. The person who runs this site can reach the database to keep it working, and will not look through anyone's study except to fix a problem you have asked about.

We never sell, rent or share your information, and we do not use it for advertising.

We know that reading the Bible can be a private matter, and in some places a sensitive one. If that is true for you, you are welcome to use the site without an account, so nothing about your study leaves your device.

Deleting your account

Signed in, open the account button at the top of any chapter (or the account section under Choose a Passage in the app) and choose Delete my account. This permanently removes your account and everything saved with it, including your notes, friends and anything you shared, on every device, straight away. It cannot be undone. You are welcome to use the site without an account afterwards, or sign up again.

Daily devotional reminders

If you turn on reminders on the Devotional page, your browser gives us a notification address for your device, and we store it with your time zone and the hour you chose, so the reminder arrives at the right time. If you also keep the streak reminder on, we store the date you last studied and your streak length, so we can nudge you at 7 PM only on an evening your streak would end. Nothing about what you read is sent. If you are signed in, we also note which account the device belongs to, so that when a friend sends you a request or shares a verse or note, a notification can reach you; it shows only their friend name and the passage or note title they shared. If you follow a reading plan, the device also tells us the next reading (for example “Day 3 of 40: Matthew 5, Matthew 6”) so it can come with your daily reminder. You can turn friend notifications and plan readings off on the Devotional page, and signing out on the device unlinks it. Turning reminders off removes all of it. Requests are briefly checked by IP address to prevent abuse.

Services the pages load

Like most websites, pages here load a few things from other services, which can see your IP address when they do:

• the ESV text, fetched through our own small service on Cloudflare (only the passage you are reading is sent)
• fonts from Google Fonts
• photos from Unsplash, and YouTube thumbnail images on chapter pages
• a YouTube video only once you tap play, after which YouTube's privacy policy applies

Links to commentaries, articles and other sites take you to those sites, which have their own policies. This site sets no cookies of its own.

Changes

If what we store ever changes, this page will be updated first, with a new date at the top.