Privacy Policy
Last updated September 1, 2026 · Applies to Steadfast, the app currently distributed for testing as Scripture by Heart (“the app”), published by Fremdly.
The short version. What you practice and how you practice it is between you and God, not us. Your recall attempts, mistakes, notes, and voice recordings stay on your device. If you create an account, we sync only your saved passages and review schedule so they follow you across devices. We never sell data, we show no ads, and our analytics can never contain Scripture text or anything you typed or said.
What stays on your device
The following is stored only on your device and is never uploaded, logged, or shared:
- Your typed recall attempts and the words you miss during practice.
- Your raw practice and mistake history.
- Recitation audio and speech transcripts. Speech recognition runs on-device only — the app refuses to use cloud speech recognition — and audio and transcripts are discarded after your attempt is scored.
- Personal reflections, notes, and visual memory aids.
Account and sync (optional)
You can use the app without an account. If you sign in (Sign in with Apple, Google, or email/password via Firebase Authentication), the following syncs to your private space in Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore), readable by no other user:
- Your saved passages: the Scripture reference, the passage text for translations whose license permits storage, the translation credit, and collection/status metadata.
- A summary of your review schedule (due dates, intervals, progress) — never your raw attempt or mistake history.
You can permanently delete your account and all synced data from inside the app on iOS (Android in-app deletion is coming; contact us meanwhile and we will delete it for you).
What we never collect
- No ads, no ad tracking, no sale or rental of personal data — ever.
- Our analytics and crash reports (Google Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics) contain only coarse, predefined event names and bucketed numbers. They are engineered so they cannot carry Scripture text, your selected passages, recall attempts, transcripts, notes, or your email or user ID.
- Reminder notifications are optional; a push token is registered with Firebase Cloud Messaging only after you turn reminders on. Notification content never includes your practice data.
Purchases
Subscriptions and purchases are processed by Apple's App Store or Google Play and managed through RevenueCat, which receives your purchase state and an app account identifier so your purchase can be restored across devices. We never see or store your payment details.
AI coaching (as this feature rolls out)
The app includes an optional coaching feature that suggests what to practice next and how. It is designed so that artificial intelligence can help without your data leaving the boundary above:
- The core recommendations are computed on your device by deterministic rules and work with AI disabled or offline.
- When cloud AI assists, the app sends a small, strictly structured request to our service running on Cloudflare containing only non-identifying practice signals — for example, coded reason categories, accuracy ranges, and candidate passage references. It never contains Scripture text, your recall attempts, missed words, notes, transcripts, your name, email, or account ID.
- Cloudflare processes these requests as our service provider and states that customer content on its AI platform is not used to train models. We do not store the AI requests or responses.
- On supported devices, some coaching runs entirely on-device (Apple Intelligence on iOS; Google's Gemini Nano via ML Kit on Android). On Android, Google's ML Kit reports technical performance metrics (not your content) to Google to operate the service.
- AI-assisted suggestions are memorization coaching, clearly labeled — never Bible text, commentary, or theological guidance.
Scripture text
Bible text in the app comes from public-domain or licensed sources with attribution shown where the text appears (for example, the World English Bible, public domain, via eBible.org). Licensed texts are handled per their licenses, including limits on storage and audio.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the “last updated” date, and note material changes in the app.
Contact
Questions or deletion requests: email nathaniel.fremd@gmail.com. A dedicated Steadfast support address will replace this before public launch.