What if the Bible weren't just something you read alone on your phone, but something you could experience together — right inside the group chats and conversations where your community already lives?^1
That's the vision behind Seed Bible, built by AO Lab, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Craig Bradley in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Seed Bible is a web-based platform that turns Scripture into a shared, real-time experience. No app download required — just click a link and you're in, exploring the Word side by side with your small group, family, or church, even across languages and translations.^1
At its heart, Seed Bible is built on a conviction straight from Matthew 10:8: "Freely you have received; freely give." Everything AO Lab makes is 100% free — no paywalls, no ads, no data harvesting, no strings attached.^2 They also maintain the Free Use Bible API, serving over 1,000 translations in JSON format with zero usage limits or API keys required, now averaging over 7 million hits per month — including over 1.1 million hits in a single day in April 2026 alone.^3
The platform is designed to live where people already gather — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and beyond. One click opens a living space in the Word where groups can read, reflect, and respond together in real time.^1 The platform also includes immersive 3D Bible reading with ambient sound design, interactive games like Bible Streak, a Chiasm explorer that reveals the literary structures of Scripture, Bible geography experiences, curated Scripture "playlists" you can share via a single link, and full-text Bible search.^4
In early 2026, AO Lab introduced a Codex integration that lets users rapidly create and share Bible translations — a breakthrough for missionaries and translators working in underserved languages.^5 They launched a Twitch extension enabling churches to stream Seed Bible during services with up to 1,000 simultaneous participants sharing presence in the Word.^6 A Discord bot is in development that will allow scheduled Bible study sessions with personalized, localized links — set it and forget it.^7 AO Lab is also building AI integrations so that AI chat agents can contextually drop Seed Bible links into spiritual conversations in any language.^7
AO Lab partners with organizations like Ligonier Ministries, Every Tribe Every Nation (ETEN), Apologist.ai, Viz.Bible, Tapos, and Shiloh to push the boundaries of what Scripture engagement can look like.^1 They're also tackling a real barrier in Bible translation — helping translators distribute their work freely using the Seed Bible framework, so a missionary with an Arabic translation in a Word document can share it as a fully navigable digital Bible.^4
Built on the open-source CasualOS engine, the whole project is MIT-licensed and designed for ambient intelligence — context-aware, real-time interactive experiences that run entirely in the browser.^8 The underlying Bible API repo has 481 commits, 142 stars, 32 forks, and active development as recently as May 2026.^3
"For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them." — Matthew 18:20
