Terms of Use

1. Accepting these Terms

By downloading, opening, or using Bible Journal, you agree to these Terms of Use. If you don’t agree with them, that’s okay — but please don’t use the Service.

These Terms are an agreement between you and us, the makers of Bible Journal. If you’re using the app on behalf of someone else, you’re confirming you’re allowed to accept these Terms for them.

Please also read our Privacy Policy. It explains, in the same plain language, how the Service handles information (the short version: your journal entries live on your own device, not on our servers).

2. What Bible Journal is

Bible Journal is a quiet place to read scripture, journal your reflections, and browse curated theme collections. There’s no account, no sign-up, no login, and no email required to use it.

The full Bible text and all included translations are bundled right into the app and read locally on your device. Reading the Bible, browsing theme collections, and writing journal entries all work offline, with no network connection needed.

The Service also offers optional AI features: finding relevant verses for a journal entry, plain-language scripture search, and explaining a verse you’ve selected. When you choose to use one of these, the relevant text is sent securely to compute the result, which comes back as verse references (like “John 3:16”) and short framing or explanation text. Our Privacy Policy describes exactly how that works.

3. Scripture and translations

The scripture in Bible Journal comes from public-domain Bible translations. Public-domain means these texts are free for everyone to use and are not owned by us.

We’ve taken care to include these translations faithfully, but as with any text, we can’t promise the included translations are free of every typo or formatting quirk. If you spot something that looks off, we’d genuinely welcome a note at limesdevelopment@gmail.com.

4. About the AI features (please read this one)

The verse suggestions, plain-language search results, and verse explanations that the AI features produce are meant for personal reflection only. They’re there to help you explore scripture and your own thoughts — nothing more.

These AI-generated responses are not professional advice of any kind. They are not theological, pastoral, medical, mental-health, legal, or financial advice, and they’re not a substitute for a qualified person you trust. AI can also be wrong, miss context, or surface a verse that doesn’t fit your situation the way you’d hoped.

Please use your own judgment, and when something in your life feels heavy or important, reach out to a real person — a pastor, counselor, doctor, or trusted friend — rather than relying on the app.

5. Bible Journal+ subscriptions and billing

Core journaling and reading the whole Bible are always free. The AI features (verse reflections, plain-language search, and verse explanations) include a limited free daily use, and the optional Bible Journal+ subscription removes that limit.

If you choose to subscribe, your purchase is handled by the Apple App Store or Google Play, depending on where you got the app.

Because the stores handle billing, we never see or receive your payment-card details. The stores manage the price you pay, your renewals, your cancellations, and any refunds. The app only checks whether your subscription is currently active so it knows which features to unlock.

Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. You can view, manage, or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings — cancelling there stops future renewals. For questions about a charge or a refund, please go to the store you purchased through, since they hold the billing relationship, not us.

6. Using the Service fairly

We ask just a few reasonable things. Please use Bible Journal for its intended purpose — your own personal reflection and study — and don’t use it to break the law or to harm others.

Please don’t try to disrupt, overload, or abuse the Service or its AI features, don’t attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or circumvent the app, and don’t try to get around the rate limits or other safeguards that keep the Service running smoothly for everyone. These limits exist to protect the experience and keep costs sustainable so the app can keep going.

You are responsible for the words you write in your journal entries and the text you submit to the AI features.

7. Who owns what

The Bible Journal app, its design, its name, its brand, and the software behind it belong to us. Please don’t copy, resell, or pass them off as your own.

The scripture itself comes from public-domain translations, which means it belongs to no one in particular and is free for everyone — including us — to use.

Your journal entries are yours. You own what you write. They’re stored on your own device, and using Bible Journal doesn’t give us any ownership of your reflections.

8. The Service is provided “as is”

We care a lot about Bible Journal, and we work to keep it dependable. That said, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We don’t promise the app will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or perfectly accurate — including the AI-generated content.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties such as merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Because your journal entries live on your own device, keeping your own device backed up is the surest way to protect them. We can’t recover entries that are lost if your device is lost, damaged, or reset.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we won’t be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the Service.

Where liability can’t be excluded under the law that applies to you, our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim — and if you’ve used the app for free, that amount may be nothing.

Some places don’t allow certain limitations or exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you. In that case, those limitations apply only as far as the law permits, and nothing here is meant to take away rights you have that can’t be waived.

10. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time — for example, if a feature changes or the law requires it. When we do, we’ll update the effective date at the top.

If a change is significant, we’ll try to make it easy to notice within the app or on our website. By continuing to use the Service after an update takes effect, you’re agreeing to the revised Terms. If you don’t agree with a change, you can simply stop using the Service.

11. Getting in touch

If you have a question about these Terms, the app, or anything you’ve read here, we’d love to hear from you. You can reach us at limesdevelopment@gmail.com.

Thank you for spending time in scripture with Bible Journal. We hope it’s a calm and meaningful part of your day.