Building a Bible app or website but drowning in the complexity of organizing Scripture content across languages and formats? Bible Brain, the developer API from Faith Comes By Hearing, gives you straightforward REST endpoints for Bible text, audio, and video — so you can focus on your app instead of wrangling content.^1
Bible Brain (also known as the Digital Bible Platform v4) serves Bible content in 2,713 languages, including dramatized audio recordings, plain and formatted text, Gospel Films, and adaptive bitrate audio streaming.^2 The API is well-documented with Postman collections, core concept guides, and example user flows to help developers get started quickly.^3 Powered apps include Bible.is, Subsplash's Church App, the Gideon Bible App, United Bible Societies, SIL's Scripture App Builder, and Kolo Africa — together reaching millions of listeners worldwide.^1
The story behind Bible Brain is one of quiet faithfulness. Faith Comes By Hearing was founded in 1972 by Jerry and Anet Jackson as a small cassette tape lending library called Hosanna. As a child, Anet saw a vision of a Bible and heard a voice say, "Test everything by this Book" — words that became foundational to her life's calling.^4 She went on to envision and produce the first dramatized New Testament ever recorded, traveling the globe to facilitate recordings in dozens of languages.^4 That small library grew into a global 501(c)(3) nonprofit — top-ranked on Charity Navigator for 17 consecutive years with a Platinum Seal of Transparency on GuideStar — that has produced audio Bibles spanning over 170 countries.^5 Co-founder Anet Jackson passed away on December 20, 2025 at age 90, surrounded by her husband of 70 years and their family, leaving a legacy of millions who heard Scripture in their own language for the first time.^4
The API is free for non-commercial use, and the FCBH GitHub organization remains actively maintained with commits as recent as August 2026 across 17 repositories.^7
Notable- Vision 2033: FCBH aims to provide God's Word in every language that needs it by 2033^1
- Fiscal year 2025 saw 283 new languages recorded, 142 Gospel Films released, and 149 Oral Bible Translation projects started, with 338,119 Audio Bible programs shared serving 30.4 million people^8
- The 2026 Ministry Impact Report documents God's Word reaching hearts and nations through audio Scripture across 170+ countries^1
- Partnering with the Deaf Bible Society to provide sign language Bible translations by 2033^10
- Member of the Forum of Bible Agencies International and the Wycliffe Global Alliance^11
- Bible Brain powers Bible.is, which offers Scripture in 2,200+ languages with audio, video, and text^12
- Open-source repos on GitHub with active development across 17 repositories^7
- Comprehensive developer docs with Postman collections and interactive API reference^3
- Excellence in Giving Certified Transparent (2025); audited financials and impact data publicly available^5
