If you are a developer or ministry who wants Scripture in an app or website, YouVersion Platform gives you the same Bible technology that powers the Bible App — at no cost.^1 Created by Life.Church and led by YouVersion founder and CEO Bobby Gruenewald, it exists so ministries do not have to spend years building a reader or negotiating every publisher license themselves.^2
Register at the Platform portal for an App Key, then call the REST API or use an SDK for Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript, React, React Native (Expo), or TypeScript.^3 You get an embedded Bible reader with 1,487 licensed Bibles from 36 publishers in 1,283 languages, Sign in with YouVersion so readers can sync highlights and preferences, and engagement analytics.^2 The SDKs are open source on GitHub.^4 Installable Platform AI Skills teach coding agents how to use those APIs and SDKs; live testing of those agents was out of scope.^5
Among the first ministries to build on it are BibleProject and Come and See, the nonprofit behind The Chosen.^2 The YouVersion Family of Apps has been installed on more than one billion devices.^2
