Simple Bible Memory

Privacy policy

Last updated November 13, 2026

What stays on your device

Your collections, cards (including any private notes), study progress, review history and settings are stored on your device. The app works fully without an account, and we never receive this data unless you sign in or publish a collection, as described below. The app does not use Android's automatic cloud backup. If you want a copy of your data, use Export everything in Settings. Bible text you fill in from a copyrighted translation (see Bible translations below) is kept only on your device.

If you sign in

Signing in is optional. You sign in with your Google account, through Google Firebase Authentication. When you sign in, Firebase gives us your Google account's email address, display name, profile picture link and a unique account ID. We use them only to run your account.

When you are signed in, your collections, cards (including private notes), study schedule (when each card is next due) and study settings (new cards per day, which card types to study, and fill-in-the-blanks difficulty) are copied to a private area of your account in Google Cloud Firestore, so they follow you to your other devices. Only you can read that area; our security rules do not allow anyone else to. Your review history, theme, font and language are not copied. For cards in a copyrighted translation, only the verse reference and the translation's name are copied, never its text.

Public collections

You may choose to publish a collection. A published collection is public: anyone can see its title, description, translation, language, and each card's verse reference and text, and can import a copy. For a collection in a copyrighted translation, only the references and the translation's name are published, not the text. Your name and email are never shown, and a card's private note is never published. A published collection is tied to an anonymous identifier, not to your name. You can unpublish a collection, or delete your account, and the public copy is removed. Copies other people already imported stay with them.

Bible translations (YouVersion)

You can turn on Autofill when you add a card, to fill in the passage from a Bible translation. The app then asks YouVersion's service (the YouVersion Platform, run by Life.Church) for that passage: the request contains the verse reference and the translation, plus the technical information any request carries, such as your device's IP address. It contains no account, name or email. The same happens in the background when you import a public collection whose cards are in such a translation. If you never turn on Autofill or import such a collection, the app sends nothing to YouVersion.

Text from copyrighted translations belongs to its publishers. It is stored only on your device, shown with the publisher's notice, and is never backed up, exported or published. We may switch a translation off from our side, for example if its publisher asks. The app then removes its saved text from your device and stops fetching it; the references in your cards stay. See YouVersion's privacy policy.

Reports

If you report a public collection, we store the collection, the reason you chose and any details you type (up to 500 characters). A report is not linked to your account.

Reminders

Study reminders are scheduled on your device. The text and times you choose are stored only on your device, and the app asks for permission to send notifications only when you turn reminders on.

Speak mode (voice)

Speak mode reads verses aloud and listens to what you say. Listening is done by your phone's built-in speech recognition, the same service your phone uses for voice typing in any app. The app asks for microphone permission only when you start Speak mode. Depending on your phone, that service may process your voice on the device or send it to the company that provides it (on most Android phones, Google). The app never receives, records, or stores your audio, and it does not choose or control where that service sends it. See your phone's speech settings and Google's privacy policy. The app only uses the words your phone recognises, briefly, to hear a rating or a command such as "good" or "skip", and does not keep them. What you say is never graded or saved.

Word study (original Greek and Hebrew)

When you hold a word of a verse or open the word-by-word page, the app asks the Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org, run by AO Lab) for the verse's Greek or Hebrew words, their dictionary entries and the Berean Standard Bible text (and the Reina-Valera 1909 text in Spanish). The request contains the book and chapter, or a Strong's number, plus the technical information any request carries, such as your device's IP address. It contains no account, name or email, and not the collection you are studying. The answers are kept on your device so they are asked for only once. In Spanish, the definitions are a file loaded from our own website. The buttons to Blue Letter Bible, Bible Hub, StudyLight and La Biblia Todo open those websites in your browser, and their privacy policies apply.

Other services

The app has no analytics, no advertising and no third-party tracking.

How long we keep data

Your backup and published collections are kept until you delete them or delete your account. Reports are kept as long as needed to review them.

Deleting your data

In the app, open Settings, then Account and backup, then Delete my account. That removes your backup, your public collections and your sign-in from our servers. The collections stored on your device stay on your device. You can also ask us to delete your data from the web: see how to delete your account.

Your choices and rights

You can export all your data at any time (Settings, Export everything), unpublish collections, sign out, and delete your account. If you have questions about your data, or want a copy of what we hold, write to us.

Security

Data sent between the app and our servers is encrypted in transit, and access to stored data is controlled by security rules, so people can read only their own private data.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top, and tell you in the app if the change matters to your data.