The internet is down on a Sunday morning
Scripture, slides, media and your licence all resolve locally. A dropped connection should not be the difference between a service running and a blank screen.
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A whole service runs offline. The Bible ships inside the app and is stored on the machine, media files live on disk, and slides are local — none of it waits on a network round-trip.
What still works with no connection
- Every slide, song and scripture passage in your service.
- All screen outputs, including the stage display.
- The phone remote, over your local Wi-Fi, or over the app's own hotspot on Windows. On a Mac, the phone and computer need to share a Wi-Fi network.
- Your licence, for the duration of its existing validation window.
What needs a connection
- Signing in for the first time on a new machine.
- Renewing a licence that has passed its validation window.
- Syncing changes between machines.
- Downloading updates — though these install on quit, never mid-service.
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