Bible Apps to Engage with Scripture

Lux Bible

A free, offline-first Bible study app for iPhone, iPad, and Android with Greek and Hebrew interlinear, commentaries, maps, and reading plans, and no ads, accounts, or purchases. Built by Jake Boychenko of JLogical LLC; it uses no generative AI.

Superbook Kids Bible App

A free CBN kids Bible app with an easy-to-understand Bible, NLT and NIV audio, games, interactive Quests, and all 68 Superbook animated episodes on iOS and Android.

Biblion Bible Reader

A free web Bible reader with a full study apparatus: six English texts plus the Hebrew and Greek originals, all public domain, its own commentary of 3,031 comments across all sixty-six books, 327 hours of narration, five reading views, cross-references, maps, and full-text search. Companion apps for iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows are a single one-time purchase. By Daniel Urban and Mint Labs, s. r. o.

Our Daily Bread

The beloved daily devotional trusted by millions since 1956, now an app with a fresh reading and audio devotional each morning, the Evening Meditations podcast with a text Reading Companion, an in-app Bible with multiple translations, a Bible-in-a-Year plan, reading streaks, and content in 20+ languages. Built by Our Daily Bread Ministries, a donor-supported nonprofit serving 150 countries; free, with no ads or in-app purchases.

Bible Loop

A free teen Bible app from YouVersion and OneHope with daily video devotionals, a feelings-based Scripture check-in, a verse memory game with a community leaderboard, and a full Bible you can read or hear offline on iPhone and Android.

VerseLink Bible

VerseLink Bible is a free, fully offline, privacy-first Bible study app with bidirectional verse-note linking, Greek and Hebrew interlinear tools, a note editor with live formatting, and the Berean Standard Bible—no account, no tracking, no ads. The developer has committed to keeping it permanently free. Available on iOS, Android, and Windows.

Sola — Bible companion app

Bible reading companion with custom plans you can share, plus maps, timelines, and BibleProject videos beside the passage — free on iPhone and Android with optional supporter purchases.

Forge

A local-first macOS Bible study app that lets you build atomic notes connected directly to verses, in plain markdown files you own forever. Built-in BSB and KJV reader, no account required, and free to download, with an optional one-time Founding Membership for early access and paid features through version 1.0. Operated by PJ Ventures. Still pre-1.0; Windows support remains planned, and recent Featurebase completions include a dedicated dark mode and adding a personal Bible version.

Ascension App

The Ascension App is a Catholic Bible and Catechism companion from Ascension Press, with the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, daily Mass readings, Rosary, study plans, and the In a Year podcasts. It is free to download, with a premium subscription for the fuller library.

Hosanna: The Audio Bible App

Faith Comes By Hearing's free Audio Bible app and the successor to Bible.is: dramatized audio Scripture, text that follows along, and word-for-word Gospel Films in thousands of languages, with offline downloads and no account required.

FJN - Find Jesus Now

FJN (Find Jesus Now) is a free Christian app for iOS and Android that combines a Bible reader with highlighting and notes, daily verses, testimonies, sermons, a 52-week study roadmap, and an AI-powered verse explanation tool, all built around an evangelism mission. Solo developer Ryan Patterson maintains the app and its companion website, which remain live in October 2026.

Illuminate Bible

A free iPhone and iPad Bible reader with fast offline search, chapter context and summaries, and tap-to-ask verse questions answered through AI, plus guided reflection prompts. Built by designer Chris Lee.

Relight

A free Reformed theology and Bible study web app by David and Sarah Mikucki, featuring in-line commentaries (including Calvin, Henry, Gill, Poole, and Hodge), confessions, catechisms, Greek and Hebrew text with morphology, word studies, and backlinks — all from a curated library of historically Reformed resources.

Selah

Selah sends the Bible to your inbox one chapter a day. The same chapter returns until you reply, so a missed day never puts you behind.

The Path

A free, curated Christian devotional app built on the UK-based Journeys discipleship platform, offering Scripture-based series like the Holy Week 'Grief to Glory' meditations. Built by scout+redeem (Coventry), whose platform site shows apps for The Word One to One and Christianity Explored. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Android; still building its user base with no public reviews yet.

iBreviary

iBreviary is Paolo Padrini's free Catholic breviary for iOS, Android, and the web, with the Liturgy of the Hours, Missal, and Lectionary in ten languages plus Holy Land texts through the Custody of the Holy Land.

audibible

An English and French audio Bible app with synchronized word highlighting, narrator and translation options, ambient soundscapes, narrated stories, daily podcasts, reading plans, and offline listening. Published by Le Studio 316 (App Store seller Stephane Montlouis-Calixte), with a free tier and subscription-based plans.

Scripture - Audio Bible Reader

A distraction-free iOS audio Bible reader from ScriptureApp Inc. that plays Scripture one chapter at a time with a natural AI voice, word-by-word highlighting, offline and background playback, daily goals, and playlists.

Bible Notes

A sermon and Bible notebook whose Auto-Complete feature inserts full passages as you type a reference, with timestamped sermon recording, tags, and a multi-language Bible reader. Personal devotion follows the B.R.E.A.D. devotion method; the Bible stays free, with a subscription for the notes features presented as coming soon on the site. Listed on iOS and Android.

My Shepherd

A Scripture-grounded AI chat app from Bar Above LLC that answers faith and life questions with King James Version verses cited chapter and verse, now with a built-in Bible reader and an on-device personal journal. Free access covers up to 3 questions a day, with optional paid plans for more; mobile apps are in preparation.

YouVersion Bible App

The world's most-installed Bible app — 1 billion+ installs, 3,500+ versions in 2,400+ languages, with reading plans, audio Bibles, guided prayers, verse sharing with friends, and the free YouVersion Platform for ministries and developers. Its 2026 World Cup Mid-Year Bible Challenge drew nations into a global Scripture-engagement contest. Built by Life.Church; 100% free, no ads, ever.

Discover

A free Discovery Bible Study app in forty-five languages with text and audio, built for offline groups that want to make disciples from Creation to Christ. Backed by The Discover Network, a UK registered charity, and used across more than 200 nations.

Common Prayer Canada

Free Prayer Book Society of Canada app that builds the 1962 Canadian BCP daily offices in English, Inuktitut, and French, with Cree now offered on the web edition, and KJV, ESV, and NRSV readings, on the web, iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Every Day with Jesus

A free daily Bible devotional from Waverley Abbey Trust, continuing Selwyn Hughes's Every Day with Jesus notes with classic and contemporary tracks, audio, and sharing.

Bound Bible

A beautifully minimal, completely free offline Bible reader that removes every distraction, with no ads, no account, and no subscription. Its tab system recreates the feel of a physical Bible, and it now adds daily study notes and read-aloud listening alongside its verse-hunt challenges.

LifeBible

A content-rich Bible study app with 40+ translations you can search at once, 100+ Study Bibles and commentaries, AI-powered verse search (now with fair-use daily quotas), and a built-in dictionary — plus Explain (instant verse insights) and TouchPoints (500+ life-topic Scripture answers). Built by Tecarta in Palo Alto, loved by over 2 million users across iOS, Android, and web. August 2026 Bible Changelog updates brought the NKJV Study Bible to its 2018 edition and the King James Study Bible to its 2017 edition.

Catena Bible and Commentaries

Free Bible app, recently rebuilt from the ground up, that puts verse-by-verse commentary from more than 100 Church Fathers beside Scripture, with over 220 translations, a library of complete patristic works, and verse-tagged video and podcast talks. Available on iOS, Android, and the web.

Literal Word Bible App

A distraction-free Bible app offering NASB 1995, LSB, ESV, NKJV, and KJV translations with built-in Greek and Hebrew lexicons, cross-references, and cross-device sync — completely free, offline-capable, and designed to keep your focus on Scripture alone. Also available as a redesigned web app for desktop browsers.

Bible Strong

Free, open-source Bible study app from Stéphane Montlouis-Calixte (le studio 316) with Hebrew and Greek lexicons and interlinear indexes, Nave's topics, commentaries, audio Bibles, and offline libraries. Actively developed on GitHub for iOS, Android, and the web, in English and French.

TheSinging.Bible

The whole Bible sung word for word: every chapter in more than 20 music styles, in male and female voices, with the words on screen as it plays. Free, with no sign-up and no ads, on the web, iPhone, and Android.

NET Bible Web Service

Bible.org's free web service for the NET Bible: one GET endpoint returns a passage, the verse of the day, or a random verse as HTML, JSON, XML, or plain text, with no key or signup. Use is non-commercial under the NET Bible copyright, with attribution required.

Hallow

Hallow is a Catholic-rooted Christian prayer and meditation app with more than 10,000 audio-guided sessions, from Lectio Divina and the Rosary to sleep Bible stories and Byzantine prayers. Hallow AI can help users find prayers and explore Church teaching; it is labeled as AI and is not a substitute for a priest or discernment.

Polaris Bible

Conservative AI Bible companion on iOS, iPadOS, Mac, and web — Scripture-grounded chat, OIA devotion generation, Deep Study with commentary and original-language tools, offline Bible reading across five translations, 80+ reading plans, and theological guardrails anchored in historic orthodoxy.

ESV Bible App

The official Crossway app for reading and hearing the English Standard Version, with synced notes, reading plans, thematic playlists, and the ESV Global Study Bible. A subscription unlocks additional study Bibles, commentaries, and premium audio.

Enduring Word

A free verse-by-verse Bible commentary by Pastor David Guzik covering Genesis through Revelation, on the web and in iOS and Android apps. The notes began as his teaching outlines and have stayed free to use for more than thirty years.

Eternity Bible

A free, distraction-free Bible app that lets you create multiple personalized Bibles, each with its own translation, theme, and reading mode, and pick up exactly where you left off on any device. It now adds reading plans, a notebook with notes and summaries, and study tools including a Berean interlinear with Strong's numbers, Matthew Henry Concise Commentary, and Tyndale Open content.

Bible SuperSearch API

A free, open-source JSON API from Preserved Word Ministries for Bible passage lookup and full-text search across 91 Bible modules in 51 languages, with Strong's-number editions. Hosted use is free for non-commercial purposes, capped at 1,000 hits per day; the same API can be self-installed with no usage limits.

Bible.is - Faith Comes By Hearing

Free Faith Comes By Hearing app for dramatized audio Scripture, Gospel Films, offline downloads, and playlists in 2,749 languages and counting. The ministry is working toward Vision 2033: audio Scripture in every language that still needs it.

Ecclesia Bible

Ecclesia Bible is a free iOS (iPhone/iPad) Bible study app offering original Hebrew/Greek source analysis, verse correlations, contextual illumination, translational variations, and interpolated-text notes. Built by born-again developer Albert Renshaw, AI was used only on the dev side to organize its study data — the app contains no live AI features.

CrossTalk: Bible Chat + Prayer

CrossTalk is a free AI-powered Bible assistant from Manifest Automation, Inc. offering interactive Scripture study with a built-in Bible reader, voice chat restored in the October 2026 update, shareable Clips, a Fruit of the Spirit assessment, a community Prayer Wall, and a curated knowledgebase of hundreds of thousands of questions and answers — available on iOS, Android, web, WhatsApp, and Telegram, serving 100K+ users across 190 countries. The same team also makes Pray Screen Time – Bible Focus.

Lumen

Lumen is an open-source web app for reading the Bible and asking an AI companion about Scripture. It pairs an in-browser reader with study tools and says AI should complement pastors and teachers, not replace them.

Midvash Bible API

A free, open-source REST API for Bible text across 119 translations in 69 languages, with chapter, verse, range, batch, reference-parsing, and verse-of-the-day endpoints. It needs no key or signup, carries each version's attribution in its responses, and is part of the broader Midvash Bible reading platform led by theologian Neto Gregório.

ReadScripture

A free year-long Bible reading plan paired with hand-illustrated BibleProject videos that explain every book's structure and themes, with ESV text, progress tracking, and cross-device account sync, from a small volunteer team in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bible Tiles

Bible Tiles is a free 501(c)(3) nonprofit Bible app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision with Apple Pencil drawing, typed notes, 40+ offline translations, and optional iCloud sync — no ads, accounts, or tracking.

Berea

Berea is a free web-based Bible study platform by Jean Kabasomi that guides Christians through whole books of Scripture — starting with an eight-path journey through Romans — featuring an argument map, Greek language insights, historical context, and spaced-repetition memorization. Built by a theology graduate from Durham and Edinburgh to make serious biblical scholarship accessible to everyday believers.

Y'allVersion

A Bible translation that uses "y'all" for plural "you" and "YHWH" for God's name, recovering the communal heart of Scripture. Created by DTS professor John Dyer under the Y'all Version Bible Society, available free online, on YouVersion (version 4108), and in multiple print formats on Amazon. Translation in draft status with active corrections. Endorsed by scholars at SMU and DTS; featured on Passion Equip and in Tim Wildsmith's Bible review content.

Armorer

A free, open-source minimalist King James Version Bible web reader with infinite scroll, in-browser search, verse-level deep links, and offline-first reading. Built by a church deacon who wanted a clean, ad-free reading experience with no account required.

Mere Bible

Mere Bible is a distraction-free Bible reading app from Dwell App, LLC for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision, and the web. It offers 11 translations in English and Spanish, plus highlights, notes, search, and sync—free, with optional donations and no subscriptions.

Gideon Bible App

The Gideon Bible App is the free digital companion from The Gideons International, offering the full Bible in over 2,200 language translations with dramatized audio, offline access, and built-in evangelism tools like "Follow Jesus" and curated Scripture help sections. Completely free with no in-app purchases. Backed by an organization with 125+ years of Scripture distribution and ECFA-accredited financial accountability.

Spirit Notes

Spirit Notes keeps sermon recordings, live transcripts, typed notes, and a customizable Bible reader together, with Scripture auto-complete that works offline. Built by Leio McLaren for iPhone and iPad. Freemium.

JO App (JesusOnline)

A free, comprehensive discipleship app from JesusOnline Ministries with the NET Bible, daily devotions, interactive studies, apologetics resources, downloadable books, and a global prayer community — built to guide seekers and believers alike deeper into their faith journey.

Ezra Bible App

A free, open-source Bible study app for topical tagging, verse notes, Strong's and commentary study, and CrossWire SWORD translations on desktop and mobile.

Bible Speed Read

Bible Speed Read is Seth Potter's free RSVP reader that shows Scripture one word at a time at a chosen pace, with NIV and ESV available through the YouVersion SDK. It includes speed calibration, a warm-up, Continue Reading, offline downloads under publisher terms, and progress that stays on your device, and it collects no data.

Parabible

A free, open-source, browser-based Bible study tool that lets you read and search the original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts with morphological parsing, built by James Cuénod, a PhD biblical scholar who serves as Senior AI Translation Technologist at Seed Company.

Deaf Bible App

The largest free collection of sign language Scripture videos, now available in 92 sign languages (up from 84) with over 9 million streams worldwide. Watch, download, share, and search Bible content signed by skilled Deaf communicators in sharp close-up video, with 210,000+ verses published across 90+ active translation projects — and an accelerated goal of 16 full Bibles by 2030.

The Study Bible

A free Bible study app from Grace to You, fully redesigned and rebranded as The MacArthur Study Bible in August 2026, with NASB, LSB, ESV, and KJV texts alongside John MacArthur's nearly 25,000 study notes, now free with a Grace to You account, plus sermons, devotionals, and an audio Bible.

Cardinal Bible

A distraction-free iOS Bible app that removes feeds, streaks, and social features in favor of focused Scripture reading in thirteen free translations, a guided daily Quiet Time, verse memorization, 3D-satellite biblical Journeys, Threads through the lives of biblical figures, and a verse-grounded AI assistant ('Ask'). Built solo by product designer Jed Bridges.

IQ Bible API

A Bible knowledge API for developers: passage lookup across 1,400+ translations in 1,000+ languages, plus word-level Hebrew and Greek with Strong's numbers, lexicons, commentaries, a cross-reference graph, and audio, across 90+ endpoints. Run by IQ Bible, a company and ministry built for the Great Commission; access starts with a free developer API key, paid tiers are usage-based, and the terms allow ministry and commercial use.

Zaia

Zaia is a free Christian social network for sharing photos, video, and words, reading the Bible in-app, joining Tribes groups, and connecting with believers worldwide. Founded through Zaia Ventures by Ukonwa Ojo, it is built around Jesus' prayer for unity in John 17:23.

The Bible with Nicky and Pippa

A free daily Bible reading plan from Alpha that walks through Scripture in 365 days with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel's commentary, audio, and shorter Express and Youth editions — plus a 30 Days overview and the same plan on YouVersion.

Brilliant Bible

Brilliant Bible illustrates every KJV verse in oil-painting-style art, with chapter summaries, reading plans, and comic-style story adaptations. It is a subscription-based iPhone, iPad, and Android app from Brilliant Illustrations.

Pencil Bible

A Bible journaling app for iPhone, iPad, and Android that lets you write, highlight, and draw directly on Scripture, with Apple Pencil support on iPad. From Erin Walker and Launchround in South Africa: reading is free, annotation on iPhone is free, and iPad journaling starts with a 14-day trial before a subscription or one-time Lifetime unlock.

Seed Bible by AO Lab

A free web platform from AO Lab for shared Bible reading in group chats and the browser, with no download, account, ads, or fees. Ministries can white-label it and place teaching beside Scripture, and AO Lab also runs a key-free Free Use Bible API with more than 1,200 translations.

Theo

Theo is an audio prayer and meditation app for Christian families: Bible stories, guided prayers, and devotionals for a bedtime routine, with content matched to the tradition your family chooses at the start.

TeoCentro

TeoCentro is a free bilingual (English and Italian) web platform for studying the Bible's Jewish roots, with parallel Greek Gospel texts, the Psalms and Mishnah, rabbinic and patristic sources, a published statement of faith, and a theology quiz.

her.BIBLE Women's Audio Bible

A free Cru audio Bible that plays Scripture in ethnically diverse women's voices, with verse highlighting and saving, playback speed control, a growing Spanish edition, language-coaching resources, and the her STORY podcast.

Bible Portal

A free Bible study platform from The Christian Post offering 50+ classic commentaries, reading plans, Bible studies, daily devotionals, a sermon library, and 10,000+ shareable verse images — available on web, iOS, and Android. Website and daily-verse newsletter are actively maintained; mobile apps have not been updated since December 2021.

Lamplight

A web-based Bible study workspace from tinkerSoft Pty Ltd (Australia) that unifies Scripture reading across nine public-domain translations with notes, commentaries, dictionaries, cross references, memorization, and a documents editor. Free to read with no account needed, with paid tiers for deeper study tools, journaling, and publishing; web only, with no native mobile app.

Amen - Catholic Bible & Prayers

Amen is a completely free Catholic prayer and meditation app by the Augustine Institute, offering daily Mass readings, guided Lectio Divina, the Rosary, Scripture reflections from Dr. Tim Gray, sacred music, sleep stories, a Bible in a Year audio companion, and a prayer journal — all without paywalls or in-app purchases.

YourBible

A free Bible app from GOOD NEWS for Everyone! (formerly GideonsUK), built with scout+redeem for newcomers. Thematic series, life-situation helps, and in-text notes make Scripture easier to start, and a French Bible was added in September 2026.

Spark Bible

SparkBible is a free, ad-free Bible study app that places curated video teaching from pastors and seminaries beside every chapter of Scripture, with optional Plus tools for AI answers and study insights, original-language word study, and video courses.

Redeeming Time

A free Bible reading app from Discipleship Tech that turns spare minutes into Scripture: tell it how much time you have and it suggests books you can finish, now with a rebuilt reading experience, light mode, reminder alarms, prayer prompts, and reading plans for longer books.

AndBible

AndBible is a free, open-source Bible study app for Android and iPhone, with split-screen commentary, Strong's word study, a large offline SWORD library, and an optional AI assistant - no ads and no subscription. It left TestFlight and launched on the App Store in September 2026.

Scroll The Bible

An iPhone Bible reader that turns vertical social-style scrolling into verse-by-verse Scripture, with Verse of the Day, a daily devotional, Discover, search, reading plans, and optional AI study tools in English and Spanish. Built by Gabriel Jacobson of JCBSN LLC; Scripture scrolling is free, with a subscription for deeper study.

Psalmlog

Psalmlog is a voice and text journaling app that puts what you write next to Scripture and returns a six-point reflection with a next step, across web, iOS, and Android, with deep YouVersion integration (two-way highlight sync, journal from any verse, Verse of the Day, free 46-version Bible reader), a shareable Psalmstory format, and Muse, the Gloo x YouVersion prize-winning companion that connects your music to Scripture.

CBN Bible

Free Bible app from CBN with multiple translations (NLT, KJV, ESV, NASB), audio Bibles, 365 daily devotions, reading plans, notes, highlights, and a new moderated community Prayer Wall. Now also available as a web app at cbnbible.us. Completely free with no in-app purchases.

Exegesis

A Bible study app that puts two thousand years of church commentary, 27 commentators, 21 confessions, creeds, and catechisms, 218 hymns, and 6,211 letters, one tap from any verse, with Greek, Hebrew, and Latin word study across 18 texts, weighted cross-reference analysis, a sermon-transcribing journal, a daily devotional, and a confessions-grounded AI study assistant. Free on the App Store and Google Play, with optional subscriptions and in-app purchases for premium study tools and metered AI credits; also available in a web browser. Built by Roberto Chavez Jr.

The Word One to One

A free app, book, and online guide for reading John's Gospel and Acts with a friend, verse by verse, with notes, maps, and conversation prompts. Produced by Make Known, it is available on iOS and Android, with Spanish, German, and Ukrainian in the app and further translations through downloads and partners.

Sparks Chinese Bible

Sparks (火花) is a web platform for Chinese-speaking Christians, jointly founded by the British and Foreign Bible Society and the United Bible Societies. It offers 60+ Bible translations free with no advertising, original-language tools, a Bible encyclopedia, scholar-led courses, podcasts, daily devotionals, and a Sparks AI study space. The interface is Simplified or Traditional Chinese only.

Concise Bible

A free Bible app by Initiative.Global (501c3, Dallas TX) that curates key Scripture excerpts into an easy-to-follow path revealing the Bible's central theme — Jesus Christ as Creator, Redeemer, Judge, and King. Available in 17 translations covering 5.5 billion speakers with 15 audio versions, Holy Land photos, red-letter text, and a dedicated Listen audio player. Over 11.5 million active users across 197 countries. Led by John Sawyer (former Zondervan VP, Clear Bible CEO).

Gospel Partner | Day & Night

Gospel Partner | Day & Night is Joseph Prince Ministries' iOS and Android app for morning and evening devotionals, free Bible reading and notes, and a subscriber Joseph Prince Study Bible plus sermon library.

Blue Letter Bible

Free Bible study platform with thirty-plus translations, Hebrew and Greek lexicons, commentaries, and audio Bibles on the web, iOS, and Android. A 501(c)(3) ministry since 1996 that affirms biblical inerrancy and the historic Christian faith.

Bible Study Tools

Bible Study Tools is Salem Web Network’s free online study library: more than 30 translations, classic commentaries, concordances, lexicons, and reading plans on the web, with a companion iOS app. A PLUS subscription is available for extra study Bibles and an ad-free experience.

HisWord

A web-based, AI-powered Bible study platform by Soundview Anchor Labs LLC (founder Kelley Farris, Fayetteville AR) — daily AI devotionals, full Bible reader with neural TTS audio, Scripture Q&A, prayer journaling, and study groups, originally built to help a mother with macular degeneration stay in God's Word. Still web-only; an Organization tier for churches is coming soon.

Lumenology

An AI-powered Bible study platform from CraftedPath, LLC offering study tools that open beside every chapter, a cited Research Assistant with user-selectable trusted sources, a curated Library of reference works including the UBS Greek and Hebrew dictionaries, a History of Christian Doctrine reference library tracing 42 doctrines across 278 historical movements, and a Church Staff plan giving pastors and group leaders Premium seats — designed for pastors, group leaders, and individual believers seeking Logos-level depth without the library. Available on web and iOS.

Logos Bible Study App

Logos is Faithlife's Bible study platform: original-language tools, a large theological library, Reading Plans, and a Study Assistant that answers from the books you own, now previewing a deeper research mode in version 54. Founded in 1991, it remains a free-to-start, subscription-optional app for pastors, students, and everyday believers.

Lordle

Lordle is a free daily Bible verse guessing game where you narrow down a verse's location by testament, book, and chapter — a fun way to build your sense of biblical geography over time. Created by Sang Tian (Basil Tech), the game runs fresh puzzles every day at lordle.com.

Ambo

A Catholic prayer app for iPhone and iPad that puts the day's Mass readings, audio homilies, the Rosary, a Bible reader, the saints of the day, and confession preparation in one calm place. Free with a generous core; an optional Premium subscription adds reading plans, prayer routines, and app blocking that silences distracting apps while you pray.

ESV API

Crossway's official REST API for ESV passage text, HTML, audio, and search for websites and digital ministry projects. A free key covers non-commercial use within published limits; commercial use or use beyond those limits requires a formal Crossway license for an organization.

Sword of the Spirit

Sword of the Spirit is a free Bible RPG from indie developer Nolan Ng (Couch Brotato) that pairs a full reader and journal with campaign levels, quests, armor, and a forge as you work through Scripture.

Dwell

Dwell is an audio-first Bible app from twin brothers Jonathan and Joshua Bailey, with more than 20 voice recordings across 14 translations, Read Along, listening plans, devotionals, kids content, and sleep listening so Scripture can fill ordinary parts of the day.

Bible Gateway

A free HarperCollins Christian Publishing Scripture library for reading, searching, and listening across 200+ Bible versions in 70+ languages on the web and in official iOS and Android apps. Optional Bible Gateway Plus adds ad-free reading and 70+ verse-aligned study resources, and free Bible Chapter Overviews launched in September 2026.

Bible Glide

Bible Glide is a focused Scripture reader and small-group discipleship app for iPhone and the web that lets you open any passage, scroll through surrounding context without losing your place, listen with a resumable audio player, and chat with Bible Glide AI anchored to the passage in front of you. It also offers a free 1,189-chapter summary library, Daily Scripture plans, sermon companion pages, church groups with a communities leaderboard, and a remote MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP-compatible clients.

Bolls Bible

A free, open-source, cross-platform Bible reading app offering 146 translations in 31 languages with bookmarks, parallel reading, cross-device sync, vector/semantic search (added July 2026), dictionary lookup with Strong's numbers, offline downloads, and customizable themes — built by a Ukrainian developer with a Sola Scriptura conviction, actively maintained with 614 commits and 143 GitHub stars, available on web, Android, Windows, and Linux. The NIV is no longer offered after Biblica prohibited its use.

Bible App by Olive Tree

A free Bible study app from Gospel Technologies with a Study Center that opens commentaries and original-language tools beside Scripture, a tap-to-compare view across installed translations, offline libraries, and optional Bible Study Pack, Commentary Select, and Classic Commentary subscriptions across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.

SoapBox Super App

A multilingual faith super-app (Bible, prayer, journaling, church tools, and the ORA AI study companion) that also exposes a free Faith API and MCP server serving verified, public-domain Scripture to AI agents.

Velora

A smart Bible app that listens to your pastor's sermon in real time, surfaces Scripture passages as they are referenced, and extends sermon insights, transcripts, outlines, and reflection prompts, throughout your week. Ask Velora, added June 2026 and expanded into Velora AI in October 2026, is an all-purpose AI assistant rooted in Scripture and your own church's teaching, with web search, image and file attachments, and one-tap questions about the passage or sermon you are viewing. Bookmarks shipped September 26, 2026, with favorites, highlighting, and notes. Available on iOS and Android from brothers Jonathan and Colin Hooper (Everywai, Cleveland, Ohio), free to download with an optional Velora Premium subscription.

bible-rs

Bible is a fast, native Bible reader for the Mac, written in Rust, with seven public-domain translations built in, instant full-text search, and highlights, notes, and bookmarks kept on your computer. The same reader also runs on the web. Free and open source.

A free, open-source JSON API for Bible verses and passages: look up typed references or precise passages in 17 public-domain translations, including the World English Bible and KJV, with no API key or signup. Built by Tim Morgan, with the code and open data on GitHub so anyone can self-host it.

RockReader

RockReader is a free, ad-free daily devotional and Bible study app with built-in cross-references, classic commentaries, original-language word study, and SOAP-method journaling. Your reflections stay private and encrypted by default, shared only with the friends, small group, or church circle you choose. Available on iPhone, Android, and in any web browser.

BibleRef

BibleRef is a free verse-by-verse Bible commentary from Got Questions Ministries, written in plain language so everyday readers can follow a passage and its connections across Scripture. The same notes are on the web and in free iOS and Android apps, with new chapters published about twice a month and a growing Spanish library.

The Word in Context

A voice-first, web-based AI Bible study assistant that grounds every answer in live-cited Greek and Hebrew Scripture; free Bible reader plus a paid Pro tier for unlimited study.

Latria

A Catholic Bible, Church Fathers, and traditional prayer app for Catholics and other historic-tradition Christians — fully offline, no data collected, no AI features. iOS-only, solo-developed by Arif Hassan, actively maintained, and now warmly reviewed by independent Catholic review site Learn of Christ.

Xiphos

Xiphos is a free, open-source Bible study application for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, built on The SWORD Project, with tabbed reading, a module manager, fast indexed search, Strong's and morphology display, commentaries, dictionaries, maps, and read-aloud. Windows users get an installer; Linux users typically install through their distribution or Flathub.

NLT API

Tyndale House Publishers' own API for the New Living Translation: fetch passages as ready-to-embed HTML, search the text, parse references, and pull daily reading plan entries across the NLT (US and UK), the Spanish NTV, and the KJV. Free anonymous and key-based tiers are non-commercial; commercial use is arranged at signup.

Bible365

A free community Bible reading program that guides believers through the entire Bible in one year, with daily readings from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs, pastoral teaching from Calvary Chapel, and audio, app, text, website, and podcast options. Readers can join any time, take a two-year pace, and roll missed readings into the next cycle.

Tov: a Bible without noise

A beautifully minimal, open-source, distraction-free Bible app for iOS featuring the Berean Standard Bible, 30,000+ cross-references, reading history, bookmarks, and offline access — completely free with no ads or paywalls. Built by Trent Cowden.

Streetlights Bible

A free word-for-word audio Bible set to a hip-hop soundtrack and read by diverse voices, made so urban communities and multimedia learners can hear Scripture. Streetlights is a Chicago nonprofit that completed its English Audio Bible in late 2025 and also offers teaching videos, music, a podcast, and academy training, with apps on iOS and Android.