Privacy

Reading needs no account. Ask is optional.

No analytics, no advertising, no tracking of any kind. Reading, highlights, notes and sync never need an account, and nothing you read is reported anywhere.

What stays with you

Your highlights, bookmarks, notes, handwriting and Ask chats are stored on your device.

If you are signed in to iCloud, Vesica keeps them in step across your iPad, iPhone and Mac through your own private iCloud account, using Apple’s CloudKit private database. Only you can read that data. We cannot see it, and neither can anyone else. Typed notes and saved chats are kept in iCloud’s encrypted fields.

Your reading settings and your place in the Bible sync the same way, through iCloud key-value storage in your account.

Ask, the AI study companion

Ask is optional, and it is the only part of Vesica that uses a network service of ours. Until you open Ask, Vesica makes no network calls of its own. You can hide Ask entirely in Settings.

To ask a question you sign in with Apple. Vesica receives an account ID from Apple and never asks for your name or email. Signing in is how you agree to what follows.

What is sent when you ask: your question; the passage you selected, if any, with its text; the reference of the passage on your screen; your translation; the app’s language; your time zone (so the daily limit resets at your midnight); and the recent messages of that chat. It goes through Vesica’s server to Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, which writes the answer.

What Vesica keeps: no questions and no answers. Our server keeps only your account ID, how many questions you asked today and their cost (deleted automatically after a couple of days), and, if you subscribe to Vesica Plus, which subscription is yours and when it ends. Your chats live in your own iCloud, as above.

Who processes it: Google Firebase (Google Cloud) runs Vesica’s server and its sign-in, and checks that requests come from the real app on a real device (App Check). Its request logs, which include IP addresses, are kept for about 30 days. Anthropic processes each question to answer it and, under its commercial terms, keeps inputs and outputs for about 30 days for safety and abuse monitoring; they are not used to train its models. Both process data in the United States under their data processing terms.

Purchases: Vesica Plus is sold by Apple. Vesica receives Apple’s signed record of the purchase to know your plan; it never sees your payment details.

Your choices and rights

The legal basis for Ask is your consent, given when you sign in. You can stop at any time: sign out, or delete your Ask account in Settings ▸ Ask ▸ Delete Account. Deleting the account erases everything our server holds about you, and you can choose to delete your chats too. It does not cancel a Vesica Plus subscription; cancel that in your App Store settings. You may also ask us for a copy of the little we hold, to correct it, or to erase it, and you may complain to your data protection authority. Vesica is made by Edson Ayllon, who is responsible for this data.

Removing your data

Deleting the app removes everything stored on that device. To remove what is kept in iCloud, open Settings, tap your name, then iCloud, then Manage Storage, choose Vesica and delete its data. To remove your Ask account, use Settings ▸ Ask ▸ Delete Account in Vesica.

Children

Reading Vesica is suitable for every age and collects nothing. Ask is for people 18 and older.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, this page and the app’s privacy details on the App Store will be updated first, and Ask will ask for your agreement again. Questions are welcome at eayllon1@gmail.com.

Last updated October 20, 2026.