Android app

Steadfast

Steadfast is a Bible reader and a focus tool. It is not a VPN, and it is separate from Holdfast. King James, American Standard, World English, and Berean Standard text ship on the phone. New Living Translation, New King James, and Christian Standard chapters are requested from API.Bible when you open them.

What it does

Lets you read, save your place, and listen. Listening can use the phone's own speech engine, audio that ships with the app, a Berean Standard narration streamed from openbible.com, or a neural voice that sends the chapter text to a speech service to be spoken.
Includes morning and evening devotionals stored on the phone.
Limits apps you choose. Usage access measures time in those apps. A full-screen cover appears when focus time is used up.
Uses Accessibility only for Instagram and Facebook, and only to recognize Instagram DMs, Facebook Messaging, and Facebook Marketplace while one of those unlocks is on. It reads short labels on those screens. It does not use Accessibility to read the Bible or other apps.
Lets you invite a partner. The partner can approve extra time and the other protection changes the app offers. A weekly summary can list verses and chapters read, reading streak, minutes in each guarded app, approved changes, and permissions that were turned off.
Lets you check in. A weekly reading check-in is part of the partner summary. A separate check-in screen can take a short note by typing or, when you tap the microphone, by the phone's speech recognizer. The words are sent so the app can suggest passages. See the privacy policy for what leaves the phone.
Offers reading groups: a name, an invite, comments, prayers, notes, and shared verses.
Can keep a PIN as a hash on the phone. The PIN is a local pause, not an account password.

Sign-in and Plus

The same style of email sign-in used by Holdfast links a partner. Steadfast Plus is an optional Google Play subscription for features such as having a partner for this phone and streamed narration. Supporting someone else is available without that subscription. The app does not show third-party ads.