Privacy
VerseTap runs entirely on your Mac. It does not ship telemetry, analytics, crash reports, or any other signal back to a server we operate. There is no user account, no sign-in, and no identifier tied to you.
What the app fetches from the internet
The full Arabic Quran and the default English translation (Sahih International) ship inside the app, so first launch works offline. VerseTap contacts two third-party services only when they’re actually needed, and always directly from your Mac — we do not proxy or log the requests.
- api.quranhub.com — alternate translations (Yusuf Ali, Pickthall, Danish). Fetched the first time you switch Translation in Settings to a non-default option, then cached locally per edition.
- cdn.islamic.network — recitation audio. Fetched per verse the first time you tap, then cached locally.
When VerseTap does talk to these services, they receive the same information any HTTP request would: your IP address and the verse or audio file being requested. Their privacy policies apply to those requests. The app sends no additional data.
What stays on your Mac
Cached verse data, your last-read position, and your overlay preferences are stored in VerseTap’s Application Support folder. Nothing is synced to iCloud or any other service.
Permissions
VerseTap asks for Input Monitoring so it can read raw accelerometer events from the built-in sensor on Apple Silicon Macs. It does not monitor keystrokes, mouse input, or any other user activity — only the motion sensor.