Last updated 23 August 2026.
Versekin is local-first: your progress lives on your device first, and syncs to your account so it follows you across devices. This page says exactly what we store, why, and how to delete it.
Versekin requires a free account — reading, memorizing, and everything else happens signed in. Creating one stores:
Your device keeps a local copy of your progress in its own on-device database (IndexedDB) — that's what lets the app work offline. When you sign in, that local copy merges into your account, and afterward the two stay in sync automatically. Every table in our database restricts access so only you can read or write your own rows (Postgres row-level security); the only exception is anything you deliberately publish to your public profile, described below.
Once signed in, your device syncs:
Versekin's social side (Kin) is built around a public profile that is on by default — the app provisions one automatically the first time you sync, so people can find and connect with you. It only ever contains what you've enabled: each category (level & XP, faithfulness, books finished, mastery counts, recent activity, top books & Bible coverage, personal records, intentions, location, the faithfulness calendar) is its own toggle under Settings → Privacy, and anything you leave unchecked is never published. Faith-journey fields (baptism, church, spiritual gifts, country) are the one exception to "on by default" — those are sensitive and stay off until you explicitly check them, one field at a time.
A separate "Findability" switch controls whether your profile can be discovered by search or by mutual-friend suggestions; turning it off makes your profile link-only (a direct /u/<handle> link still works — that's what sharing a link means) without changing what's published. You can turn the whole public profile off at any time from Settings → Privacy ("Turn off public profile"), which deletes the published copy immediately; the categories underneath, and your progress itself, are untouched.
Becoming "kin" with someone is a two-sided handshake — one person asks, the other accepts — never a one-way follow. What your kin can see about you comes only from your public profile: an opt-in milestone feed of your recent activity, never your raw progress and never verse text. You can remove a kin connection at any time (unilateral, no confirmation needed from the other side), and blocking someone severs the connection both ways and cancels any pending request.
When another believer does something that needs your answer — asks to be your kin, or accepts the request you sent — Versekin can email you, so you find out without having to open the app. That is the whole of it: no digests, no product announcements, no re-engagement or marketing email of any kind.
You can hold a conversation with a kin (one to one) or with a kindred you belong to (one thread per group). Only people you have already accepted can write to you — a mutual kin, or a fellow member of a kindred you joined. There is no way for a stranger to start a conversation with you, and you can stop new personal conversations entirely with the "Let your kin message you" switch under Settings → Privacy, which leaves conversations you're already in untouched.
What we store is what you'd expect: the text of each message, who sent it, which conversation it belongs to, when it was sent, and — if you attach a verse — that verse's reference, never its text (your device renders the words from its own copy of Scripture, in your own translation). Deleting a message removes its text for everyone in the conversation and leaves a "message removed" marker in its place.
Messages are not end-to-end encrypted. They are stored in our database, and we can read them — in practice we only do so when a message is reported to us. We are telling you this plainly rather than implying a privacy we do not provide. Please don't put anything in a Versekin message that you would not put in an email.
You can report any message you receive (harassment, hate speech, sexual content, spam, seriously false teaching, or anything else), and you can block the sender, which ends the conversation immediately and both ways. A kindred's founder can remove a member from their group and its conversation. Reports go to a human at hello@versekin.com.
Conversations last as long as the relationship behind them. If you and a kin stop being kin, the conversation disappears from both of your accounts immediately and is deleted permanently after 30 days. Deleting your account removes your side of every conversation; in a kindred, the group's history stays for the people still in it, with your messages attributed only to "a former member". Leaving a kindred ends your access to its thread.
If you add a city and country to your profile, it's typed by hand — Versekin never asks your browser or device for your location, and makes no geolocation call at all. Like every other profile category, it's published only if you leave that toggle on.
We track a small set of first-party events tied to your account — a verse being mastered, a quiz being passed, a comprehension section being viewed, a review's result — used only to evaluate whether studying a passage's meaning before memorizing it actually helps it stick. These events carry no verse text and nothing you've typed. There is no third-party analytics, no ad tracking, and no advertising in Versekin at all.
The public-domain translations (WEB, BSB, KJV) ship inside the app and never touch the network. Four translations are licensed rather than bundled:
If you enable reminder notifications in the iOS app, your device's push token is stored against your account so we can deliver them (and so a kin request can reach a closed app). It's removed when you sign out.
Questions or deletion help: hello@versekin.com.