About

The name

God doesn't need push notifications. We know. The name is a joke about phones, not a claim about revelation, and if it made you wince slightly then you've understood it correctly.

Here's the serious version. The average person looks at their phone something like ninety times a day. Almost none of those moments are chosen. The phone decides, and it usually decides in favour of whatever is most likely to keep you there. It seemed worth asking whether a few of those interruptions could be something you'd actually be glad to have read.

So: the name is a wink. The verses aren't. Every passage this app sends is Scripture, quoted exactly, from a translation in the public domain.

What we're building

An app you tell about your life — plainly, in your own words. What you do, who you're carrying, what's heavy at the moment. It writes back with a verse chosen against that and one line about why this one and why today — sometimes straight away, sometimes hours later. You don't set the timing.

There is no feed. There is no streak. There is nothing to open, and nothing that will tell you you've fallen behind. If it ever starts nagging you, we've built the wrong thing.

What we won't do

• Guilt. No streaks, no broken-run notifications, no shame as a retention mechanic. Scripture is not a habit tracker.
• Doctrine. We're not going to settle baptism, church government or the end times in a push notification, and we're not going to take sides in anyone's culture war.
• Sell what you tell us. The things you say about your life are used to choose your verses. That is the entire list of uses. See privacy.
• Put words in God's mouth. The software chooses a passage and writes a short note. It never writes, edits or paraphrases Scripture.

About the AI, plainly

People are right to be wary here, so here is exactly what happens. An AI reads what you told it about your circumstances, decides which passage fits, and writes the one-line note underneath it. That's the whole job.

The verse text is never generated. It is pulled from a fixed, public-domain text and quoted verbatim. If a notification ever shows a verse that doesn't match its reference, that's a bug, and it's the kind we'd fix the same day.

The articles on this site are also written by an AI, to a fixed editorial standard, and they publish automatically. Nobody reads them before they go up, and we would rather say that plainly than imply an editor who isn't there. Every page says so, and the machine-readable credit names Push From God rather than claiming a human wrote it.

The trade is deliberate: it means a lot of pages, checked by rules rather than by a person. The rules are strict — scripture quoted verbatim from a fixed public-domain text and never generated, every factual and cultural claim verified against a source before publishing. But rules are not a human editor, and if something slips through, the fastest way to fix it is to tell us: contact@lolasquared.com.

Which translation, and why

The World English Bible for modern English, and the King James Version for those who prefer it. Both are in the public domain.

That choice is deliberate. The NIV, ESV and NLT are all under copyright, which means apps using them work inside licences that limit how much can be shown and shared. Public-domain text means we can quote whole passages instead of fragments, and you can copy anything you find here into a card, a sermon or a message to a friend without asking anyone.

Your membership

Push From God is a monthly subscription, bought through Apple. New subscribers get their first month free (Apple decides who's eligible). After that, it's the price Apple shows you before you subscribe, every month until you cancel.

You can cancel any time in iPhone Settings: tap your name, then Subscriptions. You keep your membership until the end of the current month. Deleting the app, or your account, doesn't cancel it.

Refunds are handled by Apple, which sells the membership. You can ask for one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

A membership lets you write and receive new passages. If yours ends, you can still read your record and delete any of it, or all of it. It never locks.

The Terms of Use are Apple's standard licence agreement for apps: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula.

Changes and ending the service. We may change Push From God or stop providing it. If we end it, we'll tell you at least 30 days ahead, stop any further renewals, and you'll keep access until the end of the period you've paid for.

Who we are

Push From God is made by Lola Squared LTD, a company in London that builds software. It is not affiliated with any church, denomination or ministry, and nobody is paying us to point you at a particular one.

If something here is wrong — a mis-set verse, a claim that doesn't hold up, a page that reads as if it's promising something Scripture doesn't — we would genuinely like to know. contact@lolasquared.com.