The project

Who made it

Free software still comes from somewhere. This says who wrote it, who is answerable for it, and what the program does and does not send.

Who writes it

ScriptureCaster is written by Isaia Pașca, a sound and IT technician in Brisbane, Australia. He runs sound and AV for Romanian churches here, and is an active member of one of them.

That is the reason the software behaves the way it does. All 66 books on one screen, nothing on the projector until you project, Esc as the key that always works — none of those came from a specification. They came from standing at the back of a hall with thirty seconds to find a verse somebody has just read out. It is built by the person who then has to operate it.

Who owns it

The software is owned by Arknet Pty Ltd, an Australian company. That is why the download is published under that name, and why it is the name Windows will show you once the program is digitally signed. Same software, same person — the company is the legal shape around it.

No church owns ScriptureCaster, and none needs to. It belongs to the company; every church may use it freely and on equal terms.

Why it is free

Because a church should not have to choose between a projector and a licence fee, and the people who most need this are the ones least able to pay for it. It is not a trial and there is no paid edition behind it. The domain, the hosting and the code signing certificates are carried by Arknet Pty Ltd; no church is asked to.

What the software sends

Very little, and it is worth being exact.

  • No account, no sign-up and no analytics inside the program.
  • On startup it asks this website whether a newer version exists. That request fetches a file and reads a version number out of it — it says nothing about you, your church, or which translations you have. You can turn it off in Settings.
  • Downloads from this website are counted. What is stored is a running total and a one-way hash that cannot be turned back into an address.
  • Everything else — your settings, your translations, and every verse you have put on the wall — stays on your computer.

If something is wrong

One person reads what comes in, and it is the person who wrote the software. If it breaks, or it is missing something your church needs, get in touch — that is how nearly everything in the program came to exist.