Pew: Sermon Notes, Bible Study · Last updated 21 August 2026
Pew records a church service on your iPhone and turns it into text you can keep notes on. This page says what leaves your phone and what does not.
Pew has no sign-up, no sign-in and no user profile. We do not ask for your name, email address or phone number, and nothing the app sends carries an identifier that points back to you.
AI notes are off until you turn them on. The first time, the app shows what will happen and waits for you to agree. You can withdraw that agreement at any time in Settings → AI notes, and nothing further is sent.
When it is on, and only when you open a sermon that has been transcribed:
sermonnotes.wuyuxai.com, which writes the
summary, outline and quotes and sends them back to your device.Our server does not store your transcripts. It holds the text only in memory for the length of the request and writes nothing to disk. Its application log records the number of characters, how long the request took and how many tokens were used. Never the content itself. Standard web-server access logs record the time, the request path and the IP address the request came from, which is ordinary infrastructure logging and is rotated automatically.
If you would rather nothing at all left the phone, leave AI notes off. Recording, transcription, your own notes, search and Scripture links all work without them.
The text of a sermon can reveal religious belief, which European law (GDPR Article 9) treats as a special category of personal data. That is why AI notes are opt-in and ask for explicit consent rather than being on by default, and why the recording itself is never sent. Your explicit consent is the legal basis for that one transfer, and withdrawing it in Settings stops any further transfer.
Pew includes public-domain Bible translations for 21 languages on the device. When a verse is in a translation we cannot include, tapping it opens bible.com in your browser. From that moment you are on their site and their privacy policy applies.
Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card, your Apple Account or your billing address. All we check is whether this device currently has an active subscription, and that check happens on the device.
Since version 1.1 the app reports which of its screens get used. It is on when you install it. You can turn it off in Settings → Anonymous usage data.
The reports are event names with no words in them. The app was opened. A sermon finished transcribing. The subscription page appeared. A purchase was started. A purchase ended, and whether it went through. Each event is stamped with the app version, your iOS version, your device model and a random identifier that this installation generated for itself.
It answers one kind of question: two hundred people transcribed a sermon and eleven opened the subscription page, so we know which screen needs work.
Swipe a sermon in Archive and delete it: the recording, the transcript and your notes are removed from the device, and the audio file goes with them. Deleting the app removes everything it stored. We hold nothing that is tied to you, so there is no account to close.
Pew is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from them.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Changes that affect what is sent off the device will also be surfaced in the app before they take effect.
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with your data: wuyuxai@gmail.com.