Bibliome

What Bibliome needs

Some of Bibliome's filing and answering runs on Apple Intelligence, and not every device has it. Here is exactly what you get either way, so nothing is a surprise after you install.

iPhone and iPad

Bibliome requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later.

With Apple Intelligence (iOS 26 on a supported iPhone or iPad, Apple Intelligence switched on): Bibliome's sharpest filing, plus Ask writes a direct answer from your documents.

Without it, Bibliome is still a full library — it suggests a category for every document and learns from what you file, searches your whole library, reads scans with OCR, and runs every scan and page tool. Ask shows you the passages from your own documents that answer your question rather than writing the answer for you.

This is a hardware difference, not a paywall. There is no subscription and nothing to unlock.

Mac

Bibliome Library requires macOS 14 or later on an Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later). Intel Macs are not supported. The Mac app carries its own language model inside the app, so its AI filing and answers do not depend on Apple Intelligence.

Privacy Policy

Bibliome is built so your documents stay yours. The app runs entirely on your device and makes no network connections of its own — no servers of ours, no third parties. The only data movement anywhere is Apple iCloud, inside your own account, described below.

What we collect

Nothing. Bibliome has no servers, no accounts, no analytics, and no ads. We never see your documents, your library, your searches, or how you use the app. No data is collected by us, sold, or shared with anyone.

Everything runs on your device

Organizing, classification, OCR, search, and the answers to your questions are all computed locally on your device, offline. Your documents are never uploaded to us or to any third party for processing.

Optional iCloud sync

iCloud sync is off by default. If you turn it on, your library is shared across your own Apple devices through your own iCloud account — including reading positions and bookmarks, kept by document name. That data lives in your personal iCloud — performed by iOS and macOS, not by Bibliome. We have no access to it, and it is never routed through a third-party server. You can turn sync off at any time; your library stays on your devices.

Device presence file

When your device is signed into iCloud, each Bibliome app saves one small file into your own iCloud container so your devices can notice each other and offer to link up. It contains only the app version, a date, and your library's document count and total size — never document names or contents. It exists only in your iCloud; we can never see it. If you're not signed into iCloud, nothing is written.

Device access

Bibliome may ask permission to use your camera (to scan paper into PDFs) and to read files or folders you choose (to add PDFs and other documents to your library). These are used only on your device to build your library. Nothing is uploaded.

Children

Because Bibliome collects no data, it is appropriate for users of all ages.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update it here and revise the date above.

Support

Questions, bugs, or feedback? Email info@psychosonicconsulting.com and we'll help.

Using assistive technology? See our Accessibility statement below.

A few quick answers

• Where are my files? On the Scan tab Bibliome shows the documents it found on this device; your organized library lives on the Library tab.
• Why is Ask showing me passages instead of an answer? Writing the answer needs Apple Intelligence, which your device may not have. Everything else still works — see What Bibliome needs.
• How do I sync across devices? Settings → Sync → turn it on. Your library then syncs through your own iCloud (it can take a little while to download the first time).
• Is anything sent to the internet? The app makes no connections of its own and talks to no servers of ours or anyone else's. The only data movement is Apple iCloud inside your own account: optional library sync, plus a tiny device-presence file (app version and document count — never names or contents) so your devices can find each other.
• My library is in iCloud Drive (or Dropbox/Google Drive) — will Bibliome scan everything? Only what's already downloaded to this device. Before touching a file, Bibliome checks whether it's still an "online only" placeholder and skips it rather than risk the scan hanging while it waits on a download. If you want full coverage, set your cloud app to keep that folder downloaded/available offline first — once a file is local, Bibliome indexes it like any other.
• My scanned document is long — is all of it searchable? Only up to the page depth set in Settings → Scanned documents (12 pages by default; you can raise it, including to every page). Pages beyond that limit aren't partly indexed — they're simply not searchable yet, with no per-document warning that a long scan stopped short. Raising the depth later backfills those pages without redoing OCR that's already done.
• Why is a scanned page's text garbled in search? Bibliome's on-device OCR indexes its best reading of a page even when the scan quality is poor — it doesn't discard a low-confidence result, so a badly scanned or blurry page can surface odd text. This is on our list to improve.

Accessibility

Bibliome is built to work with the accessibility features you already rely on. We test against Apple's accessibility tools and the WCAG 2.1 AA contrast standard, and we treat accessibility gaps as bugs — if something doesn't work for you, tell us and we'll fix it.

What Bibliome supports

• VoiceOver — Bibliome's screens and controls carry VoiceOver labels, and we test the app's main flows with VoiceOver. If you hit a control that isn't labeled or reachable, tell us and we'll treat it as a bug.
• Larger text — on iPhone and iPad, Bibliome follows your system text size (Dynamic Type). On Mac, a built-in Text Size setting (Settings → Interface) enlarges all of the app's text — macOS doesn't extend its system text-size control to third-party apps, so Bibliome provides its own.
• Dark Mode — a full light and dark appearance that follows your system setting.
• Sufficient contrast — the color palette meets WCAG 2.1 AA contrast (4.5:1 for body text), verified by an automated contrast test suite.
• Reduced Motion — when you turn on Reduce Motion, Bibliome quiets its animations.

Bibliome collects no data and runs entirely on your device, so none of this depends on an account or a connection.

Report an accessibility issue

Email info@psychosonicconsulting.com with "Accessibility" in the subject and we'll prioritize it.