Privacy Policy
In short: Ink & Word is free and non-profit. It has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and we never sell or share your data. Your notes, drawings and highlights stay on your device. They only leave it if you choose to use one of the few online features below, and then they go straight from your device to the service you chose, never to us.
What stays on your device
Everything you make in the app is kept on your device: notes, drawings and handwriting, highlights, bookmarks, tags, sketch pages, pictures and photos you add, reading progress and settings. The Bibles, commentaries, illustrations, maps and other study material come with the app, so reading and studying work without the internet. Read aloud uses your device's own voice.
We (the makers of Ink & Word) have no server and receive none of this. If you delete the app, it's gone from that device, unless you've synced it or saved a backup.
Online features you can choose to use
Only these features use the internet, and only when you use them:
| Feature | What is sent | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Sync (off until you turn it on) | Your notes, drawings, highlights, bookmarks, pictures you added and settings, so your other devices can get them. | A hidden app folder in your own Google Drive, which only Ink & Word can see. You sign in with Google; the app asks only for access to its own folder, not your other files. Google's privacy policy applies. |
| Online Bibles (ESV, NLT and versions from YouVersion) | The passage you open, with the app's key for that service. | Crossway (ESV), Tyndale (NLT) or YouVersion. |
| AI chat (needs your own Claude key) | Your question, any passages you attach to it, the earlier messages in that chat, and the app's own notes on the subject. The answer and the web pages it cites come back. | Anthropic, using the key you entered, which is kept only on your device. Anthropic may search the web to answer. |
| Report an answer | The question, the answer and your reason, in an email you see and send yourself. | Us, at the address below, only if you send it. |
| Links and sources | Nothing from the app; your browser opens the page. | The website you tapped. |
All of these use encrypted connections (HTTPS). You can turn the AI chat off in Settings, and sync is off unless you turn it on.
Permissions
The app uses the internet only for the features above. On iPad and iPhone it may ask for the camera, only to take a photo for your notes. Pictures and files you pick are read only when you pick them.
Children
Ink & Word is a Bible study app for a general audience. It doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included, and it has no accounts or ways to contact other users.
Your choices
- Turn sync off, or remove the app's access, in Settings or in your Google account's permissions. To delete the synced copy, remove Ink & Word's hidden data in Google Drive (Settings → Manage apps).
- Remove your Claude key or turn the AI chat off in Settings.
- Delete everything on a device by deleting the app or clearing its data.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: support@inkandword.app