Yes, fully. The entire Bible database is stored locally on your device — not fetched from the internet. This means scripture detection, verse lookup, and semantic search all work in airplane mode, at rural churches, on retreats, or anywhere network connectivity is unreliable.

The only feature that requires internet is Google Drive backup and restore — and that’s only when you explicitly trigger it.

VerseTap currently includes the King James Version (KJV) as its primary translation for auto-detected passages and inline previews (which works completely offline). Additional translations are part include NKJV, NIV, ESV and NLT. If a specific translation is important to you, let us know through our contact page.

VerseTap uses a lightweight on-device AI model that analyses your text as you type. It recognises two types of references:

Exact references — like “John 3:16”, “Romans 8:28”, or “Ps 23” — are matched directly to the scripture database.

Semantic phrases — like “the valley of the shadow of death” or “faith without works” — are matched by meaning using semantic similarity, so you don’t need to remember the exact reference.

All of this runs entirely on your device — nothing is sent to a server for processing.

Only you. VerseTap stores nothing on our servers. Your notes exist only on your device. We have no user accounts, no content analysis, and no telemetry that reads what you write.

When you back up via Google Drive, the backup file goes directly to your Google Drive folder — we cannot access it, and it is secured by your Google credentials. You can delete it from Drive at any time.

The native app is currently Android-only on Google Play. However, the web app at versetap.app works on any modern browser — including Safari on iPhone and iPad — and supports offline functionality through Progressive Web App technology.

A dedicated iOS app is on our roadmap. Join the waitlist via the contact page to be notified when it launches.