Reading
A reading app first. Everything else second.
One column of scripture, set to a measure you can actually read, with every control out of the way until you reach for it. No feed, no badges, no streak shouting at you from the top of the page.
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13Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.
14And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.
32And they said to one another, "Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?"
Translations
Three of them, bundled, and none of them locked
They are inside the application file you download from the store. There is no translation shop, no download queue, and no text that costs money.
New King James Version
The default, and the translation most of the people this was built for already read in church. Included in the app under licence held by the Foundation, not bought by you and not unlocked by anything.Berean Standard Bible
Carries 3,016 section headings and 4,854 translator footnotes. If you want to know why a particular word was chosen, this is the one to open.King James Version
The 1769 text, set in the same column and the same measure as the other two, so switching between them does not move the page under you.
Reader themes
A room at dawn is not a room at midnight
Five of them, and two are for the dark, because there is a real difference between a dim screen and a screen that turns its pixels off.
32Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road?
Morning
Warm paper for full daylight
32Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road?
Paper
A printed page rather than a screen
32Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road?
Evening
Ink lowered for dusk
32Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road?
Night
Dark, for a dark room
32Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road?
True black
For an OLED screen at four in the morning
Offline
Aeroplane mode is not a limitation. It is the test.
Submarine cable cuts have taken West African connectivity down for days at a time. Most apps treat that as an outage. This one treats it as Tuesday.
Works with nothing switched on
- Reading any chapter in any of the three translations.
- Search across the whole Bible, by word or by reference.
- Highlights in five colours, notes on any range of verses, and bookmarks.
- Reading plans, and your place in them.
- Your prayer journal, including writing new entries.
- The Get help card, with local resources cached on the device.
- Read aloud, using the voice built into your phone.
Needs a connection
- Asking Emmaus a question.
- The community, and prayer requests from other people.
- Giving.
- The recorded studio voice, the first time you play a chapter.
- Syncing your writing to another device.
Everything you have already written stays readable and editable without one, and syncs when the signal returns.
- 66
- Books
- 1,189
- Chapters
- 31,102
- Verses
- 5
- Reader themes
Genesis to Revelation
Every one, on the device
In each translation
Two of them for the dark
Marking it up
Your writing belongs to you
Highlights in five colours, notes on any range of verses, bookmarks, and a prayer journal that nobody else can read.
All of it is anchored to the verse rather than to a page number, so it survives a change of translation and a change of phone. Open the same passage in the King James Version and your note from the New King James Version is still beside it.
A small promise
A highlight is stored by name, not by colour value. If the palette is ever tuned, your amber highlight stays amber rather than becoming whatever hex it used to be.
Listening
For the hours when you cannot look
Read aloud follows the verse on screen, so you keep your place while you are cooking, driving, or too tired to focus your eyes.
A recorded studio voice covers the whole Bible and costs you nothing, because it was paid for once by people who gave. There is no premium voice tier, because there are no tiers.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.