From the maker
No Ads. No Analytics. No Tracking. Here's Why.
Exegeo has no advertising in it, no analytics software, and no tracking of any kind. For a free-to-download app that is an unusual choice, and I made it on purpose. Exegeo is a one-person project, so there is no team to hide behind: I am PeterJohn Fox, I build the app, and this page explains why it works the way it does, what the claim means on each platform, and what it costs me to keep it.
Reading Scripture is a private act
People open the Bible in their most unguarded moments. Grieving, doubting, hoping, repenting, hunting for a verse at three in the morning. What someone reads, lingers on, highlights, or searches for in those moments is as personal as a prayer, because it often is one.
The standard mobile app business model turns exactly that kind of information into a product. Analytics record it, advertising networks build a profile from it, and device identifiers connect the profile to everything else a person does on their phone. I did not want to build that, and I would not want to use it. I wanted an app where the only two parties in the room are you and the text.
What "no ads, no analytics, no tracking" means, concretely
Vague privacy promises are cheap, so this is the specific version.
- No ads. There are no advertisements anywhere in the app, on any plan, and no advertising software is included in it.
- No analytics. The app contains no analytics software. I do not know which screens you open, which features you use, what you read, what you search, or how long you stay.
- No tracking. The app uses no advertising identifiers and shares nothing with ad networks, data brokers, or social media platforms. You will never see an App Tracking Transparency prompt from Exegeo, because there is nothing to ask permission for.
- Your content stays yours. Notes, highlights, favorites, and reading progress are stored on your device. On Apple devices they sync between your own devices through your private iCloud, which I cannot see.
On iPhone and iPad
The iOS app uses Sign in with Apple purely to verify your access. Apple handles the authentication, I do not run an account server for iOS, and none of your personal information is sent to or stored on any server of mine. Chapter summaries are included in the app itself. Audio narration is downloaded over the internet from Apple-managed hosting the first time you play a chapter, and that transfer carries the audio file and nothing about you.
On Android
The Android app is built differently, and I would rather say so plainly than bury it. You sign in with Google, and Exegeo stores the minimum needed to run the service: your Google account email and name, whether your subscription is active, and how many chapter summaries you have used that day so the free daily limit works. Summaries and audio are delivered from a server. That is the complete list. Nothing records what you read, and there is still no advertising, analytics, or tracking software in the app.
The full detail for both platforms is in the privacy policy, which is the same policy linked from both app stores.
How I pay for it instead
An app has to be paid for somehow. I chose the oldest and most transparent model there is: you pay for the app, and in return I work for you rather than for advertisers.
Exegeo is free to download. The free plan includes the complete Bible text in two translations and one chapter summary every day, with no time limit and no ads. Exegeo Pro, at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year after a 30-day free trial, unlocks unlimited summaries, the full audio Bible, and the rest of the features. Apple and Google handle the payments; I never see your card details. I do not sell data, because I do not have any to sell.
What I do measure, and where
Honesty requires one caveat. This website, exegeo.app, uses standard web analytics and an advertising pixel, with your consent, so I can tell whether the site works and whether people find their way to the app stores from it. A banner asks before anything runs, and declining is honored. None of that exists in the app, and nothing the website measures is connected to anything you do inside Exegeo. The two are kept completely separate, and the privacy policy describes each in its own section.
What it costs me
Building without analytics means giving up things most developers consider essential. I cannot see which features people use, where they get stuck, or how long they read. I find out the slow way: from reviews, from the emails people send to support, and from using the app myself every day. That is a real cost. I think it is the right one, and it keeps me close to the people who write in.
It also means the app has to earn its subscription by being genuinely useful, because there is no second revenue stream quietly making up the difference. I am fine with that.
My commitments
- I will never put advertising in the app.
- I will never add analytics or tracking software to the app.
- I will never sell or share your data with third parties for advertising or marketing.
- I will keep the App Store and Google Play privacy declarations accurate, because those carry consequences and marketing pages do not.
- If any of this ever changes, I will say so on this page and in the privacy policy before it takes effect, not after.
If you would rather check these claims than take my word for them, my guide to Bible apps with no ads or tracking shows how to read any app's privacy labels in two minutes, including Exegeo's. And if you want to see what an app built this way is like to read with, start with the chapter summaries.