Hundreds of languages still don't have a single verse of Scripture — and many of those communities live in remote areas where laptops overheat, internet is unreliable for months, and traditional translation workflows simply can't reach.^1 LangQuest puts oral Bible translation directly into the hands of native speakers, right from their phones.^2
Built by Frontier R&D — a team of AI researchers, linguists, and engineers united by the conviction that God's Word belongs in every language — LangQuest is an offline-first mobile app designed for the realities of field translation.^3 Users capture bite-sized chunks of Scripture, stories, songs, or cultural content by voice or text, then collaborate with their community through voting and feedback to validate translations.^2 Everything is stored locally and syncs seamlessly when connectivity returns.^1
What makes LangQuest distinctive is its approach to AI: rather than replacing human translators, it uses AI-assisted translation to generate initial drafts that communities review and refine together.^1 Gamification features like leaderboards keep the work engaging, and all validated translations become part of a global open-access dataset — freely usable for language preservation, research, and future AI training.^1
Founder Ryder Wishart holds an MA in Christian Studies from McMaster Divinity College and has spoken at the Museum of the Bible's "Generating Wisdom: AI and the Bible" conference on human-centric approaches to Bible translation.^4 The project is open source with 13 contributors actively developing the codebase.^5
Notable- Built by Frontier R&D, which also develops the Codex Translation Editor and the Blank Slate Bible translation project^3
- Open-source codebase with active development (2,000+ commits)^5
- Supports multimodal content capture — text, audio recordings, and images^1
- Part of the broader ETEN Innovation Lab ecosystem for Bible translation^3
- Ryder Wishart presented on AI and Bible translation at the Museum of the Bible (July 2024)^4
- Available on iOS and Android, with peer-to-peer offline collaboration in development^1
