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Book by book, in any translation you have: Open to any chapter in any of the bundled public-domain translations, or the licensed ones your instance has unlocked. It remembers where you were.
Chronologically, in the order events happened: Not a reordered table of contents but a woven narrative, one event to a reading: Chronicles beside Samuel and Kings, the psalms where they were prompted, the letters where Acts says they were written. 813 readings across 11 eras, covering all 66 books with every verse exactly once — verified rather than asserted.
The chapter you are on, in time and on the map: The reader names the chronological reading a chapter belongs to, with its era and dates, and carries a link to its place on the timeline and another to the same chapter on the map. Both go the other way too.
Up to four translations side by side: Compare a passage across translations in parallel columns, including the tagged Greek and Hebrew.
Flow: Editorial section headings, poetry and dialogue indented rather than run together, and genealogies broken one item to a line. Layout only: not a word of the translation changes, and switching it off puts the plain paragraph straight back. Where a translation punctuates its speech, Flow follows the quotation marks exactly. Marked experimental, and honestly so — no translation here records where a paragraph begins, and the older ones do not mark speech at all, so there Flow works it out from the wording and is sometimes wrong. Off until you turn it on.
Words: Makes every word of the English tappable. Tap one and a panel opens with the Hebrew or Greek behind it: the word as it actually stands in that verse and what it is doing there — completed action, single masculine subject — then the lemma, the definition, and every other place it occurs. Or print it instead of tapping it, and the original sits under the English word it renders, in English word order, for reading a verse against what is beneath it.
Red letters: The words of Jesus in red, from a checked list of ranges rather than a guess at quotation marks.
Cross references in the margin: References beside the verse they belong to, out of 344,780 of them, ranked by reader votes so the strongest connection is the one you see first, with the text of each one a click away.
Connections: The pages of your own imported library that discuss the verse you are on, in the margin, opening into a side panel.
Reading offline, and on a phone: Install it to the home screen and the chapters you have read stay readable with no connection. On a phone the screens you use most sit on a bar along the bottom; on a larger one the sidebar groups them and folds. Typography tuned for long sittings, in light, dark, or whatever your system is already doing.

Study

Everything here hangs off of what you are reading, and everything you write about it belongs to you rather than to the passage you happened to be on. The timeline and the atlas sit here too: you do not read them, but you reach for them to place what you are reading.

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Select the words, not the verse
Drag across a phrase anywhere in the line. Whatever you chose becomes the anchor for everything after.
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A toolbar follows the selection
Five highlight colors, a note, a bookmark, a link, copy, or hand exactly those words to the study assistant.
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And it stays on the phrase
The highlight marks those words and no others, and the note hangs off them: in the reader, in Chronological, and on the notes page.

Select a phrase, and the toolbar follows it: five colours, a note, a link, a copy, or hand it to the assistant.

The whole story on one timeline: The same 813 readings laid out at once, from creation to Patmos, grouped into the five threads that run through them — narrative, law, wisdom, prophets and letters — so the psalms visibly light up beneath David and the letters appear only once the church does. Scroll or swipe along it, zoom in for more detail, and search it: type “exodus” and it tells you when.
A map of every place it names: The atlas puts all 1,342 of them on the ground where they can be placed, with 1,488 freely licensed photographs and every verse that mentions each one. Relief shading shows the country the story crosses. More than half the places have several locations proposed for them, and each is shown with its standing rather than one being picked — the seven nobody has located stay honestly off the map.
Six journeys, drawn as routes: The Exodus and the wilderness years, Abraham from Ur to Canaan, Paul's three journeys and his voyage to Rome — each stop numbered, with the passage that records it. Where the route is argued over, the map says so before you read anything into the line.
A study assistant that names its tradition: Choose the tradition it reads from — eleven of them, from Reformed to Roman Catholic to historical-critical — and every answer says which one produced it. The default is a named position too, not an absence of one: set out the main readings and leave the disagreement standing.
Traditions set beside each other: Ask one question of up to three further traditions at once and read the answers side by side, with a closing note on what they are actually disagreeing about.
Every citation checked before you see it: Each reference an answer makes is looked up in this app's own copy of the text, and shown beside the words that verse actually contains. A reference to a verse that does not exist is flagged where you cannot miss it.

What the assistant is not

It is not a source. It reads the passage, the reference works and your own library, and it is told to say so when it does not know. No theological advisory board has reviewed any of it, and the page that says which model answers you says that too, because reviewers of these apps note that most do not say which model they use.

It never runs on its own. Every answer is something you asked for, and the AI keys are shared across the instance, with usage logged per user for cost tracking — worth knowing before you ask it anything you would rather keep off a shared bill.

The original languages

The tagged Greek and Hebrew are texts in their own right here, not a decoration under the English — and there is a course in each, built out of the same tagged text.

The tagged Greek and Hebrew, read as texts: Open them like any other translation, word by word, with transliteration, gloss and parsing. 376,086 word-groups are tagged to the original behind them.
A lexicon keyed by Strong's number: 14,268 Hebrew and Greek entries with lemma, transliteration, definition, the ways the KJV renders each one, and every verse it occurs in, ranked by frequency.
An exhaustive concordance, in seven translations: Every word of the text and every verse it stands in — 12,713 distinct words of the KJV across 791,668 occurrences, and the same for the other six. Nothing is left out, down to "the" and "and", and words are listed as they are printed, so "love" and "loved" are separate entries. Each shows how often it occurs and how it falls across the books.
The word behind the word, and only its verses: In the Berean text a concordance entry breaks down into the Greek and Hebrew words it translates, with how often each is rendered that way. Choose one and the verse list narrows to just those places — so you can read where “love” is agapē and leave aside where it is something else. No printed concordance can do that.
Courses in New Testament Greek and Biblical Hebrew: 78 units across the two, generated from the corpus rather than written by a model: the vocabulary is the text counted, and every example form is one that occurs.
A question that hardens as the word beds in: Recognise the meaning, then produce it, then name the word an inflected form belongs to, then find it inside an English verse.
Reviews timed to arrive before the forgetting: FSRS, a spaced-repetition algorithm, models how long each memory lasts rather than multiplying an interval, so a word you find easy goes months between showings and one you keep losing is back tomorrow. A fortnight away costs a longer queue, not a reset.
Hebrew on its own terms: A curriculum of its own — the construct chain, the binyanim, pronominal suffixes, the narrative tense — set right to left in a face that puts the vowel points under the letter.
Pronunciation, only when asked for: Every letter and course word carries a button that says it aloud, in the traditional lexicon pronunciation a printed Strong's teaches. Nothing plays uninvited, and the buttons can be switched off.

What the courses will not do

About one Hebrew word in fifty is a preposition with an ending and nothing else, and Strong’s only numbers words with their own dictionary entry, which those are not. They turn up in the verses you read, correctly parsed, but never as a card, because there is no entry to put on the back of one.

Nothing plays sound uninvited, there is no leaderboard, and nobody else on the instance can see your progress. The schedule belongs to each word rather than to a lesson.

Reference, included

Three topical indexes, two Bible dictionaries, a five-volume encyclopedia and a third of a million cross references ship with the app, seeded into the same database as the text. Nothing to buy, and no lookup leaves the app.

Nave’s Topical Bible

5,319 subjects

Mercy

Nave’s own outline, with the Scripture inline in whichever translation you’re reading.

Mercy → Of God

Psalm 103:8

⁸The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Mercy → Enjoined

Luke 6:36

³⁶Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Mercy → Blessings of

Matthew 5:7

⁷Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Easton’s, Smith’s and the ISBE

11,177 entries

Ephod

Easton’s Bible Dictionary, 1897

A sacred vestment worn over the tunic by the high priest: two pieces joined at the shoulders and bound at the waist with a girdle of the same work. The breastplate was attached to it.

Cited in the entry

Exodus 28:6

⁶And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

Strong’s lexicon

14,268 words

ἀγάπη

a·gá·pēG26N-fs

love, benevolence, goodwill

From ἀγαπάω; affection or benevolence — rendered in the KJV as love, charity, and dear.

116 occurrencesWord study

First of the 116

Matthew 24:12

¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Three entries as they open: Nave's outline, Easton's definition, and a lexicon entry.

Nave's, Torrey's and Thompson's topical indexes: Nave's Topical Bible, 5,319 subjects from AARON to ZEAL; Torrey's New Topical Textbook, 628 subjects worked through at length; and Thompson's Chain Topics, 1,728 subjects, each a chain of passages to follow through the Bible. Each keeps its own outline, with the Scripture set inline underneath it in whichever translation you are reading.
Easton's and Smith's dictionaries: 11,177 entries on the people, places and terms of Scripture, merged under one search box. Nineteenth-century works, valuable and dated in equal measure, and the app says so.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: The 1915 five-volume encyclopedia, 9,205 articles of it, on the same page as the dictionaries rather than behind a separate search. A short entry is a paragraph; Jesus Christ runs to book length, and arrives a section at a time.
Cross references from OpenBible.info: 344,780 of them, ranked by the votes of the people who submitted them, so the strongest connection is the one you see first.
Cited passages behave like passages: Anything quoted in a reference work renders in your translation and can be highlighted and annotated there like anywhere else.

Your own library

The part of your study that no app ships with: the commentaries, sermons and class notes you've imported, indexed and attached to the verses they discuss.

Import what you already study from: EPUB, PDF, Word, OpenDocument, rich text or plain text up to 80 MB, straight from the browser — or paste the address of an article. Extracted and indexed within moments, and the original file is not kept.
Citations found without a model: An offline scan lifts every explicit reference out of the document — every “1 Cor. 13:4-7” and “Rom 8:28” — instantly and at no cost.
AI suggestions for what a scan cannot see: Ask, and you also get allusions and thematic links, each with its reasoning and a confidence score. Nothing is proposed until you ask for it.
Nothing lands without your approval: Every link arrives as a suggestion to accept or reject, one at a time or in bulk. Accepted ones appear in the margin as you read.
A shelf at a time, not a book at a time: Choose or drop as many files as you like, or paste a column of web addresses, and they come in one after another with a count of where it has got to. The reference scan and the AI pass run over a batch the same way.
A library you can keep tidy: Rename a resource, change what kind of thing it is, or put a cover on it. Tabs above the shelf say which resources are still waiting to be scanned and which are done. Long documents open a hundred sections at a time rather than all at once.
The community library: Publish a resource and it reaches everyone on the instance, to be upvoted there, after you state the licence and an admin reviews it. Uploads are private until you take that step, and you can withdraw one at any time.

Where your library goes, and where it does not

The text pulled out of an imported book is sent to an AI provider to be indexed, which is how searching your library by meaning works. It is the one part of your own material that leaves this app, no provider may train on it, and it is spelled out in the privacy notice.

The uploaded file itself is discarded once processing finishes, and until you publish one deliberately, nothing in your library is visible to anyone else.

Questions

More about what it does

The questions about getting an account — whether it is free, why access is by request, what happens to what you write — are on the front page.

Can I see what is being built next?

Yes. The roadmap lists every feature readers have asked for, with the votes that decide the order they get built in, and you can read it and its discussion without an account. Signing in is what lets you vote and comment.

Is there a limit on how much AI I can use?

Every account gets the same daily AI allowance: $5.00 of metered AI usage a day, reset in full at midnight UTC, which is roughly 100 study generations a day, plus a burst limit of 20 study generations in any 5 minutes. Donating does not raise it — donors and non-donors have exactly the same allowance, and the figure here is read live from the app's own configuration rather than written into the page.

Which tradition does the study assistant answer from?

Whichever one you choose, and it says so on every answer. Ten named traditions are offered, from Reformed and Lutheran and Anglican through Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and Anabaptist to Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and a historical-critical reading — plus an eleventh, default option that works across them: where Christians read a passage differently, the main readings are set out side by side and the disagreement is left standing. That is a position of its own rather than an absence of one, which is why it is named like the rest. You can also set your tradition beside up to three others and have the same question answered from each, with a closing note on what they are actually disagreeing about.

Are there commentaries and sermons built in?

Yes, and both are filed under the verse rather than shelved beside it. Six public-domain commentaries — Matthew Henry, Calvin, Trapp, Poole, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and, in the Psalms, Spurgeon's Treasury of David — come to 94,709 notes, readable beside the chapter you are on or on their own screen, book by book, and searchable word for word. And 8,867 sermons from eighteen preachers, the whole of Spurgeon's published run among them, sit under the passages they were preached on, each saying which tradition its preacher spoke from. All of it is the printed text as it was set, so what you read is the man's own words rather than a modern revision.

Can I import my own books and notes?

Yes. EPUB ebooks, PDFs, Word and OpenDocument files, rich text, web pages, and plain text, up to 80 MB, uploaded from your browser — or paste the address of an article and the page itself is imported. A whole shelf can come in at once: choose or drag as many files as you like, or paste a column of addresses. Each one is indexed for search and linked to the passages it discusses, with every link waiting on your approval.

Can I write notes with an Apple Pencil?

Yes, and with a Surface pen, an Android stylus, or a fingertip. Every note box has a switch between typing and writing; the writing side gives you a pen that follows pressure, a marker, a highlighter and a pencil, in five colours and three thicknesses, with an eraser and undo. A palm resting on the screen does not leave a mark. What you draw is kept as the strokes themselves rather than as a picture, so you can open a note weeks later and carry on writing on the same page, and it stays sharp at any size. Because searching only knows words, the study assistant will read a page of your handwriting back as text when you ask it to — you correct it before it becomes part of the note.

Can my small group use it together?

Yes, and you can find one too: every group here is listed and searchable by town, church and the kind of group it is, so you can ask a leader to let you in, or use an invite code they hand you. A leader prepares a study — passages with their text on the page, questions, notes, and prep notes only leaders see — and publishes it to the group, where each question carries its own reply thread through the week. What is inside a group stays between its members unless the leader deliberately shares a study, only members can ever reply, and anything in a group can be reported privately to whoever runs it.

Can I watch anything, rather than read?

Yes. Every book of the Bible has a short animated overview from BibleProject, and it sits under the chapter you are reading — you watch it here rather than going off to find it. Each book also has an illustrated poster mapping its shape, which opens full size. They are BibleProject's own work, shown under licence and clearly marked as theirs, and they are free like everything else here.

What does reading the Bible chronologically mean here?

Not a reordered table of contents, but a woven narrative: each reading is a single event with every passage that tells it on the same page. The nativity alternates Luke, Matthew, Luke, and Chronicles sits beside Samuel and Kings.

Can I see when things happened, rather than just what to read next?

Yes. The Timeline puts all 813 chronological readings on one screen, from creation to Patmos, and each one opens into the passage itself — so you can see where a moment sits in the story rather than only what to read next. Every chapter in the reader links to its place on it, and back again. Dates are given as approximations, because for a good deal of the Old Testament that is the honest thing to do.

Can I see where the Bible's places actually are?

Yes. The atlas maps 1,342 places the Bible names, with photographs of the ground and every verse that mentions each one, and every chapter in the reader links out to it. Where scholars disagree about where a place was, and for more than half of them they do, you are shown the candidates with their standing rather than a single pin, and the seven nobody has located stay off the map. The place data is OpenBible.info's under a Creative Commons licence, and the photographs are freely licensed and credited.

Is there a daily reading?

Two, and neither of them is a plan you can fall behind on. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening is here in full — a short reading for each morning and each evening of the year, written in the 1860s and out of copyright — with the verse each one is built on opening straight into the reader. And the chronological order can be walked a reading at a time, with your place kept on your account rather than in one browser. There is no streak and no quota: the whole year is available, so a day you miss is a day you can simply go back to.

Can I learn Greek and Hebrew here?

Yes. Two courses, 78 lessons in all: the alphabet, then five hundred words in the order they actually occur, with grammar units threaded between them. Every question is generated from the tagged text rather than by AI, reviews are paced by spaced repetition, and your progress is private to your account.

Is there a concordance?

Yes, and an exhaustive one — every word of the text and every verse it stands in, not a selection. The KJV alone runs to 12,713 distinct words across 791,668 occurrences, and the other six translations each have their own, because the words of a translation are a fact about that translation. Nothing is left out, down to "the" and "and", and words appear as they are printed, so "love" and "loved" are separate entries. In the Berean text an entry also breaks down into the Greek and Hebrew words behind it: choose one and the verse list narrows to just the places it is used, which is the one thing a printed concordance cannot do.

Everything it does, in one place

Reading

Book by book

In the order it happened

The Birth of Jesus