Want to read through the Bible in a year without feeling overwhelmed? Bibleread.app breaks Scripture into a manageable 5-day-per-week reading plan spread across 52 weeks, covering the whole Bible — Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and more — in 260 daily readings using the ESV translation.^1
Each day's reading is displayed right in your browser with built-in ESV audio narration so you can listen along. What makes it stand out is the integration of Church Fathers' commentaries — writings from voices like Augustine and Chrysostom that offer historical theological perspective on the passages you're reading. An optional AI summarization feature (powered by Anthropic's Claude) provides contextual summaries grounded in the text itself.^2
Bibleread.app also includes a semantic search tool (also available at biblos.app) that lets you search the Bible by meaning rather than just keywords. Type a concept like "dealing with fear" and it surfaces relevant passages even if your exact words don't appear in the text. For New Testament passages, you can view the original Greek alongside definitions from the Dodson Greek Lexicon.^2
Why Christians Love It"Playing with this a bit more, and it is very cool! One thing I like is that it provides the source text, so you can verify whether the summary is accurate." — Hacker News user^3
"Bible study just got more lit." — Hacker News user^3
"Impressive. It actually gave useful results and summary for annihilationism." — Hacker News user^3
Notable- Created by developer Jon Boldt as a free, no-ads, no-tracking Bible study tool^4
- Open source on GitHub (CC BY-NC 4.0) with 225+ stars and community contributions^2
- Featured on Hacker News "Show HN" with 136 points and 84 comments^3
- The semantic search component runs entirely in the browser with no server costs — no data sent to external servers^4
- Also accessible at biblos.app, which focuses on the semantic search experience^2
- Church Fathers commentary drawn from 15+ historical sources^4
