Biblion is a Bible reader built on one conviction: nothing should stand between a reader and the text. The website is free in full, and the apparatus of a reference Bible sits behind the page, appearing only when you ask for it.^1
Six English texts are built in: the World English Bible by default, with the King James, American Standard, Bible in Basic English, Geneva, and Tyndale beside it, plus the Hebrew Westminster Leningrad Codex, the Septuagint, and the Greek Textus Receptus, every text public domain.^1 Four of the translations are recorded in full: 327 hours of narration in three voices, with the text following along as it plays.^2 Five views reshape the same page: a study view with a margin for notes, a reader's view in plain prose, a commentary view setting Biblion's own commentary of 3,031 comments beside the passage, a comparative view that shades where translations differ, and an interlinear stacking transliteration, gloss, parsing, and Strong's numbers under every original word.^1
The tools go wide as well as deep. Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge are quoted in full and drawn as arcs across the canon, in both directions.^1 Full-text search covers all six English texts, and thirty-two hand-gathered topics, from grief to money to doubt, open the passages that speak to each.^1 Three thousand people and thirteen hundred places carry their verses, families, and events, drawn from Theographic's open knowledge graph, and seventeen maps drawn for Biblion link each settlement back into the reader.^1 Notes, highlights, and marked verses gather on their own pages, yours to export and to delete.^1
Biblion was made, in its makers' words, by "people who love the Scriptures and wanted nothing standing between a reader and the text."^1 Daniel Urban is credited as developer and UX designer, and Mint Labs, s. r. o., in Kosice, Slovakia, publishes it.^1 Reading, searching, cross-references, and the original languages work signed out; a free account adds notes, favorites, reading plans, and a daily devotional.^1 Companion apps for iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows hold everything on the device for one purchase, with no subscription, advertising, or account at all, and those purchases are what pay for the free website.^1 The phone apps add a camera that names the chapter of a printed Bible you point them at, matched on the device with no photograph kept, and the desktop apps add a sermon builder.^2
