Is Bible.is safe to use?

Bible.is integrates 10 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including User Content. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Bible.is need?

Bible.is requests 4 iOS permissions: Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), and Location (Always).

What data does Bible.is collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Bible.is collects data linked to your identity including User Content. It collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Bible.is have?

Bible.is integrates 10 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 1 for analytics, 1 for customer support, 1 for social integration, 2 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does Bible.is use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Bible.is includes 5 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, Facebook Gaming Services, Facebook Login, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Bible.is access your location?

Yes. Bible.is requests location access. The developer states: "BibleIs would like to use your location.".

Does Bible.is access your camera?

Bible.is requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "Used to send pictures on FAQ". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Bible.is run in the background?

Yes. Bible.is registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Bible.is?

Other reference apps include Abide , Acorn , Aim High US Air Force , Translate AI , Curio , and Athkar . Each app takes a different approach to reference and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is Bible.is safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Bible.is is built with more third-party tracking code than 47% of the reference we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 101 referenceModerate

Trackers from other companies4 · some

typical reference: 4

Data the app links to you1 type · little

typical reference: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Bible.is links 1 category of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Bible.is ties to your identity.

User Content

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 1 company.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among reference.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one reference app. Bible.is sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 10 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 4 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

2push & messaging

4standard libraries

4 of the 10 are third-party trackers. 2 are push-notification SDKs that deliver notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Gaming Services · Facebook Login

Push & messaging2 · notifications

OneSignal · OneSignalLocation

Standard libraries4 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v3.14.5, 2026-04-05.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 101 reference in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.