Bible Apps to Engage with Scripture

Bible Words

A Christian word guessing party game with 2,000+ words across five themed packs. Hold up your phone, get clues from friends, and race to guess Bible and church words in 60 seconds — from the same studio whose Dot Conner: Webtective film is streaming on Angel Studios. Now iOS-only; removed from Google Play in 2026.

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.

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.

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.

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. Freemium from Erin Walker and Launchround in South Africa — free to read, with a short trial before unlimited annotation.

Common Prayer Canada

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

BBC Media App

A free streaming app from BCC Media, a Norwegian non-profit in the Brunstad Christian Church federation, with animated Bible studies, quizzes, and ad-free Bible Kids series such as Bible Heroes of Faith.

Dabar

Dabar is an AI-powered spiritual reflection tool that responds to real-life questions — grief, doubt, anxiety, purpose — with structured four-part answers grounded in Scripture (KJV by default, five other translations available). Created by indie developer Michael Clarke, it now offers a web app, a free iOS app, a daily devotional, KJV reading plans, and a private journal, with clear AI disclosure (Claude/Anthropic) and a 'not pastoral counsel' posture.

Sword of the Spirit

Sword of the Spirit is a free Godot-built Bible RPG from Nolan Ng that pairs a full reader and journal with campaign levels, quests, armor, and raid bosses as you work through Scripture.

Bible Pinpoint

Bible Pinpoint is a free web-based quiz game that trains Christians to locate and memorize Bible verses through step-by-step drills, ordering puzzles, timed rounds, and synchronized multiplayer, with a browsable topic-tagged verse library and daily shareable verse art.

Prayminder

Prayminder is a free prayer reminder app that helps you keep a personal list, receive gentle or scheduled reminders, log answered prayers, and read Scripture with YouVersion on iOS, while a matching Android rebuild is underway.

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. Founded by Bob Pritchett and colleagues, it remains a free-to-start, subscription-optional app for pastors, students, and everyday believers.

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.

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, with prayer prompts, reflection questions, and reading plans for longer books.

Verses - The Melody of God's Word

A non-profit Scripture-to-song app that turns word-for-word Bible passages into original music performed by diverse worship artists like Charlie Hall, Jackie Hill Perry, Tori Kelly, and The Sing Team — helping Christians memorize and meditate on God's Word through melody. Active since 2010, releasing new songs regularly, available in five languages on iOS, Android, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Brilliant Bible

Brilliant Bible illustrates every KJV verse in oil-painting-style art, with chapter summaries, reading plans, comic-style story adaptations, and several additional English translations. It is a subscription-based iPhone and Android app from Brilliant Illustrations; the same studio is preparing illustrated classic literature.

ReadScripture

A free year-long Bible reading plan paired with hand-illustrated BibleProject videos that explain every book's structure and themes — built by Basil Technologies in partnership with Francis Chan's Crazy Love Ministries to help anyone discover truth in God's Word through daily ESV reading segments with cross-device sync.

fetch(bible)

A free, open-source Bible translations platform by Gracious Tech that gives developers unrestricted CDN access to 1,404 translations across 1,116 languages, plus a TypeScript client, embeddable reader, and web enhancer. MIT-0 licensed, with no keys or rate limits.

Illuminate Bible

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

NeedGod.net Bible Trivia

A free, chapter-by-chapter Bible trivia quiz covering Genesis to Revelation with difficulty levels, audio listening, book overviews, progress tracking, and unlockable achievements — built as an installable web app by the NeedGod.net evangelism ministry (189K+ YouTube subscribers).

Bible Verse Image Generator

A free ChatGPT custom GPT by Rob Laughter (Director of Summit Online at The Summit Church) that instantly generates shareable Bible verse graphics. Just type a verse or theme and get a designed image ready for social media, sermons, or encouragement. Originally built on DALL-E 3 (retired May 2026), now running on OpenAI's current image model. Rob actively trains church leaders in AI through the AI Collaborative, the AI Creative Podcast, and ongoing workshops including a featured speaking role at the Church AI Roadmap Summit (April 2026).

her.BIBLE Women's Audio Bible

A free Cru audio Bible that plays Scripture in ethnically diverse women's voices, with synced text, playlists, a Spanish edition, language-coaching resources, and the her STORY podcast.

Bible Loop

A daily Bible experience for teens from YouVersion and OneHope — video devotionals, feelings-based check-ins that connect emotions to Scripture, a four-level verse memory game with leaderboards, and the full Bible (multiple translations on iOS; NIV/NLT on Android) with Streetlights audio. Free on iOS and Android in India, Philippines, South Africa, USA, and Australia.

Best Commentaries

Best Commentaries aggregates Bible commentary reviews and ratings from scholars, journals, and users into a searchable database with a transparent scoring algorithm. Now available in six languages, it helps pastors, seminary students, and laypeople find the right commentary for any book of the Bible.

Bible Glide

Bible Glide is a focused Scripture reader and small-group discipleship app that lets you open any passage, scroll through surrounding context without losing your place, and chat with Bible Glide AI for study questions, prayer, and cross-references — now extended with a free 1,189-chapter summary library, a Sermon Companion tool, a communities leaderboard with reading streaks, and a remote MCP server that brings Bible readings and AI chat into ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP-compatible clients.

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.

The Study Bible

A free Bible study app from Grace to You, fully redesigned and rebranded as "The MacArthur Study Bible" (relaunched August 2026), featuring NASB, LSB, ESV, and KJV texts alongside John MacArthur's 25,000 study notes — now free with a Grace to You account — plus sermons, devotionals, and an audio Bible. John MacArthur went home to the Lord on July 14, 2025; the ministry continues under Matt MacArthur's leadership.

Our Daily Bread

The beloved daily devotional trusted by millions since 1956 — now an app with daily readings, audio devotionals, Evening Meditations podcast (with text Reading Companion, expanding to more languages), an in-app Bible with multiple translations, Bible-in-a-Year plan, a refreshed time-of-day home screen, personalized Reading Lists and Streaks, screen reader accessibility, and 20+ languages. Built by Our Daily Bread Ministries, a donor-supported nonprofit serving 150+ countries. Free, with no ads or in-app purchases. Sibling apps: Utmost App and Artos Academy.

The Word One to One

A free evangelism and Bible study app that guides you and a friend through John's Gospel and Acts verse by verse, with helpful notes, maps, and conversation prompts — available in six in-app languages with additional PDF resources in five more, now used in over 80 countries. A companion one-year reading plan is available on YouVersion. The resource is now produced by Make Known, a new UK charity launched by the same team, backed by international partners across five continents.

Superbook Kids Bible App

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

Hallow

Hallow is a Catholic-rooted Christian prayer and meditation app with thousands of 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; live testing of that chat was out of scope.

The Serpent & The Seed

A poetic musical adventure from Discipleship Tech that walks the Bible's big story from Genesis to Revelation through the promise of the Seed of Eve. Free on iOS and Android with no in-app purchases; a full version is also on Steam for Windows and Mac.

Discover

A free Discovery Bible Study app in forty-one 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.

Sermonly

Sermonly is Tithe.ly's subscription sermon writing workspace, with a built-in Bible, snippets, preaching mode, and an AI Researcher for outlines and illustrations. I reach for it when I want sermon prep in one place instead of a word processor plus a stack of tabs.

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.

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), and customizable themes — built by a Ukrainian developer with a Sola Scriptura conviction, actively maintained with 600+ commits and 133 GitHub stars, available on web, Android, Windows, and Linux.

Bolls Bible API

A free, open-source Bible API and reading platform offering 146+ translations in 31 languages with endpoints for chapters, verses, search (including vector/semantic search added July 2026), version comparison, Hebrew/Greek dictionary definitions, and a Reference Tagging Tool — built by a Ukrainian developer with a Sola Scriptura conviction, actively maintained as of August 2026, available on web, Android, Windows, and Linux.

DvG: Conquering Giants

A physically immersive VR game where you play as David, slinging stones at wolves, lions, bears, and the giant Goliath — built by former Hollywood VFX artists whose work also appeared in The Chosen, The Last Supper, and National Geographic. Originally launched on Steam VR in 2020 and now on Meta Quest and iOS, with an expanding portfolio of VR Bible experiences, the companion VRT Bible app, the new 1776 history app, and articles positioning it as a companion to the 2025 animated David film.

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 rich text note editor, Bible dictionary, 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.

Bible Strong

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

Bible Portal

A free Bible study platform from The Christian Post offering 50+ classic commentaries, reading plans, structured Bible studies, daily devotionals, sermon libraries, a companion wiki, 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.

Lumenology

An AI-powered Bible study platform from CraftedPath, LLC offering eight study lenses, 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 For Churches program — designed for pastors, group leaders, and individual believers seeking Logos-level depth without the library. Available on web and iOS.

Free Use Bible API

A free, open-source JSON API by AO Lab serving 1,256 Bible translations across 1,004 languages with no API keys, no usage limits, and no copyright restrictions — now with an official JavaScript/TypeScript SDK, commentary datasets, and a growing ecosystem of community integrations including MCP servers, an iOS Bible Atlas (Sacra Tabula), a Minecraft plugin, and a Roblox wrapper. 150 stars on GitHub, with API traffic nearly doubling to ~14 million hits/month as of July 2026.

Prayer Partner

A free web app that writes personalized prayers paired with Bible verses in many languages, with prayer history, reminders, a Bible Quiz, and optional Ko-fi donations.

Track Bible

A free, private Bible reading tracker that lets you tick off chapters at your own pace in the browser. Open-source progressive web app from Gracious Tech, with no accounts, ads, or tracking.

AndBible

AndBible is a free, open-source Android Bible study app with split-screen commentary, Strong’s word study, a large offline SWORD library, and an optional AI assistant — no ads and no subscription. An iOS public beta is on TestFlight.

DUO Space

A free space-themed Bible preschool game where kids fly spaceships, help 25 neighbors, visit Pastor Leon's church to hear Scripture, and play 20+ mini games — all offline, ad-free, and built around the Golden Rule. iOS-only, from the studio behind the award-winning Dot Conner: Webtective film.

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.

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. Actively maintained as of August 2026.

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.

Doxa

A prophetic encouragement app from the UK (“Know the God who speaks”) that saves, weighs, and remembers the words spoken over you against the full Bible and 1,700+ verified testimonies from church history — free across iOS, Android, and web with daily Engage (AI) interactions, free small-group courses, and low-cost paid tiers for unlimited text and voice.

Bible365

A free community Bible reading program that guides believers through the entire Bible in one year (or two years at a slower pace) with daily readings from OT, NT, Psalms, and Proverbs, pastoral teaching from Calvary Chapel, and multiple ways to follow along including app, text, and podcast. Readers can join any time of year and roll missed readings into the next cycle.

Paper Bible

A free, open-source web app from Gracious Tech for printing customized Scripture in 800+ languages — as a fold-at-home booklet or a file for a professional printer.

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.

Hide The Word

Hide The Word is a free-to-download Bible memory app with guided micro-lessons, a personal Scripture Companion, spaced review, and community challenges. Optional premium features unlock additional lessons and advanced tracking.

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 from South Africa who now serves as Senior AI Translation Technologist at Seed Company.

Cardinal Bible

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

ReProof.AI

AI-powered Messianic apologetics engine (ARIA, 11 agents, patent-pending) that cross-references 1.7M+ sources across 11 worldviews with real-time fallacy detection and live debate support; now also publishes a book series and operates company social accounts. Openly operates from a Torah-observant perspective.

Catena Bible and Commentaries

Free Bible app with tens of thousands of verse-by-verse commentaries from hundreds of early church fathers, drawn from public-domain patristic works across a wide 76-book canon including the deuterocanon. Built by a globally distributed team of Coptic Orthodox volunteers with experience from Google, Microsoft, Yelp, and PlayStation. Available on iOS, Android, and web — the web version is the primary maintained platform, as mobile apps haven't been updated since early 2023.

5fish

Free multilingual evangelism app by Global Recordings Network with the story of Jesus in 7,000+ languages — audio, films, audio Bibles, LUMO Gospel films, and songs for sharing the gospel cross-culturally, all downloadable for offline use on Android, iOS, and web.

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 also offers teaching videos, music, a podcast, and academy training, with apps on iOS and Android.

Recite: Bible Verse Memory

A free, ad-free, voice-first Scripture memory app built by David Gibson of Ocho (Aberdeen, Scotland): you recite verses aloud, the app scores you word-by-word using on-device speech recognition, and SM-2 spaced repetition brings each verse back as you start to forget it. Live on iOS and Android.

Psalmlog

Psalmlog is a voice and text journaling app that responds to your real-life situations with personalized six-point biblical guidance — affirmation, Scripture, reflection, prayer, encouragement, and an actionable step — across iOS, Android, and web, with multiple Bible translations, optional Psalmcast audio devotionals, and a shareable "Psalmstory" format.

Bible Reader

A free, open-source Bible reading plan tracker and PWA by Ethiopian developer Gadisa Teklu. Choose popular plans or create your own, track progress across all 66 books, and access from any device. Built with Next.js and Supabase.

Literal Word BibleTagger

A free, lightweight JavaScript widget from the Literal Word team that automatically turns Bible references on any website into clickable links with hover-pop-up verse previews — supporting NASB, LSB, ESV, NKJV, and KJV. Now also available as an official WordPress plugin for one-click installation on WordPress sites.

Versify

Free Bible verse memorization app with interactive games across eight translations (ESV, NIV, NASB, NLT, CSB, BSB, LSV, KJV). Built by siblings Alyssa Hulet and Richie Tarkowski as Versify LLC, with an explore page of verses by topic and no account required.

For All Things Bible

A curated directory of 708 Bible websites and apps across 21 categories, operated by the American Bible Society through Bibles.com and the .BIBLE Registry. Community-driven with submissions and upvotes, with new resources added regularly.

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 15 translations covering 5 billion speakers with 14 audio versions, Holy Land photos, and red-letter text. Over 11.4 million active users across 190 countries. Led by John Sawyer (former Zondervan VP, Clear Bible CEO).

inWORD Bible

A feature-rich Bible study app with 70,000+ resources — commentaries, interlinears, maps, audio, and video — all linked to individual verses in a clean, uncluttered interface. Available on iOS, Android, and Windows with an affordable annual subscription.

Bible Brain API

Bible Brain is Faith Comes By Hearing's developer API for Bible text, audio, and video across thousands of languages. Request an API key and build multilingual Scripture apps against documented REST endpoints.

Scripture - Audio Bible Reader

A distraction-free audio Bible reader for iOS that reads the King James Version aloud in a natural AI voice, with word-by-word highlighting, offline playback, verse lookup, highlights, bookmarks, and daily reading goals. Built by Aloke Pillai's ScriptureApp Inc.

Armorer

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

Bible Clock - Verse Clock

A verse clock from CodeInFaith that pairs the time with Scripture through time-matched verses, tap-to-open Reflection, home screen widgets, and Night Mode on iPhone, iPad, and Android. An optional Pro upgrade adds themes and photo backgrounds, and Bible Guide can suggest verse collections for what you are facing.

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.

Gospel Onchain

An open-source project that stored the entire KJV Bible directly on the Optimism blockchain — censorship-resistant, immutable, and free to read. Built by a BuidlGuidl Ethereum developer; its first independent review (Learn of Christ, Aug 2026) affirms the engineering while noting it remains a niche, developer-oriented preservation experiment.

Spoken Gospel

A 100% free nonprofit Bible study app that completed its seven-year mission to cover every book of the Bible. Offers 800+ short films, chapter-by-chapter devotionals, and a popular podcast — all showing how Scripture points to Jesus. 150M+ views worldwide. Now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), and French.

Dear God - Prayer Diary

A prayer journal where each letter to God becomes a flower in a personal garden, with Scripture-based daily prompts and optional anonymous community letters. Analog Studio (Namu) offers a free app with an optional Fellow membership.

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, paywall, or ads. It runs on AO.bot and is backed by AO Lab's key-free Free Use Bible API of over a thousand translations.

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, study journaling, memorization, and a documents editor — free to read, with paid tiers for deeper study and publishing. New app (submitted 2026); no native mobile app.

ScOAR - Scriptural Orientation, Application & Reflection

ScOAR is a free, ministry-run AI tool that turns a described struggle or question into curated, cited Bible verses with practical application steps.

LifeBible

A content-rich Bible study app with 40+ free translations, 150+ Study Bibles and commentaries (Premium), AI-powered verse search (now with fair-use daily quotas), and a new built-in dictionary — plus Explain (instant verse insights) and TouchPoints (500+ life-topic Scripture answers with video). Built by Tecarta in Palo Alto, loved by over 2 million users across iOS, Android, and web. Summer 2026 brought a redesigned Library; July–August 2026 releases added journal saving for verses, devotionals, and TouchPoints, theme options, and stability improvements.

Daily Bible Reading Tracker

A free, distraction-free iOS app that helps you build a daily Bible reading habit through gentle reminders, a weekly progress view, and integrated devotional resources — including BibleGateway — no pressure, no clutter.

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 study insights, original-language word study, and video courses.

Bible AI Search

AI-powered Bible search engine with natural-language Q&A built on ~700K hand-approved Q&As, now with a follow-up chat mode, document attachment (answers from your own files), audio/video filtering, 113 Bible translations across 100 languages, offline mode, and accessibility-first design. Operated by the Bible AI Foundation (developed by Integral Web Design), a UK-based org whose About page calls itself "a charity" while its donation page states it is "not a charity but funded from our own personal finances." Free; iOS and Android, with iOS most actively updated.

DUO Town

A free Christian preschool game where kids explore a neighborhood, play 20+ mini games, visit a church to learn Scripture and the Golden Rule, and customize their ride — all offline, ad-free, with zero data collection. From the studio behind the award-winning Dot Conner: Webtective film. Currently iOS-only — the Android edition was removed from Google Play as of July 2026.

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 Android and in any web browser.

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 also powers apps for Alpha, Christianity Explored, and Premier Christianity. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Android; still building its user base with no public reviews yet.

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, offline libraries, and optional study-pack subscriptions across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.

YouVersion Platform Services

Free developer platform from the YouVersion/Life.Church team offering REST APIs and SDKs (Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript, React, React Native Expo, TypeScript), fast-track Bible licensing for 1,475 versions in 1,244 languages, AI Skills for coding agents, and an embeddable Bible Reader (now with server-backed highlights as of SDK 2.4.0). Currently running the Gloo "Scripture in New Frontiers" Summer Challenge (live July 2026) leading into the October 2026 Gloo AI Hackathon ($250K prize pool); launch partners include The Chosen and BibleProject. All at no cost to developers.

Bible Study Tools

Bible Study Tools is Salem Web Network’s free online study library: many 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.

Dwell

Dwell is an audio-first Bible app from twin brothers Jonathan and Joshua Bailey, with many narrators and translations, Read Along, listening plans, devotionals, kids content, and sleep listening so Scripture can fill ordinary parts of the day. Their About page affirms the Nicene Creed and a Mere Christianity welcome across Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox streams.

CiteVerse

CiteVerse is an AI-powered scripture display and sermon-prep platform that transcribes Bible teaching in real time, detects verse references as they're spoken, and auto-saves every session as a searchable, exportable Journey. Built by Joseph Obiagba (Gjio Technologies), it supports 11 Bible editions across six transcription languages through its web app and Chrome extension, with Presenter Mode for hands-free projector display.

FJN - Find Jesus Now

FJN (Find Jesus Now) is a free, lightweight Christian app for iOS and Android that combines a Bible reader, daily verses, testimonies, sermons, a 52-week study roadmap, and an AI-powered verse explanation tool — all built around an evangelism mission. The companion website and blog are actively maintained as of mid-2026.

Bible Gateway

A free HarperCollins / Zondervan Scripture library for reading, searching, and listening across 200+ translations on the web and in official iOS and Android apps. Optional Bible Gateway Plus adds ad-free reading and verse-aligned study tools.

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.

The Serpent & The Seed

A free mobile Bible-story adventure from Discipleship Tech that walks from Genesis to Revelation with hand-painted art, gentle puzzles, and a Poor Bishop Hooper soundtrack. Also available on Steam for Windows and macOS.

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.

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.

The Bible Plugin

A free, open-source WordPress plugin that embeds a customizable Bible reader into any site, supporting 2,000+ translations via the Bible Brain API with Paratext file support in v2.0 (now available May 2026). Built by missionaries for global digital engagement — localized, strategic, and designed to keep seekers on your site.

Sola — Bible companion app

Bible reading companion with fully customizable reading plans (up to 24 months), group sharing via link or QR code, scheduled notifications, interactive maps, historical timelines, and embedded BibleProject videos — free on iOS and Android with optional supporter tiers.

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.

BibleShelf

BibleShelf is a simple Bible reading and memory verse tracker for Christians who want to read Scripture one book at a time without the pressure of daily plan deadlines. Available on iPhone, iPad, and the web, it offers progress tracking, daily reminders, reading categories, an ESV.org Bible reader, and a memory verses feature, built by Christian developer Paul Kim.

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.

Bible Vector Search

A free, open-source semantic Bible search tool that uses AI embeddings to find Scripture passages by meaning rather than keywords, with a live public REST API (BBE translation) for developers. Web app and API remain fully functional; repo is in stable/maintenance mode (no functional code changes since Sep 2024) while creator Tim actively maintains sibling Antioch Tech projects.

BibleDojo

A free, gamified hermeneutics platform from Basil Tech that trains you to read Scripture yourself, starting with a live Law dojo and ESV trainings shaped by Dr. Dru Johnson and Dr. Dominick Hernández. A Discord community sits alongside the belts.

Biblos

Biblos is a free, open-source semantic Bible search tool powered by BGE-large-en-v1.5 embeddings. Find passages by meaning, study Greek text with the Dodson Lexicon, read Church Fathers commentary, and follow a daily reading plan — all free with no sign-up.

Pray the Bible

Scripture-rooted prayers powered by AI and the Barker Chain-Reference™ system (7,464 topics, 550,000+ verse mappings). Four prayer modes, a Discovery Library spanning eight content types (including the newer Resound, Persona, and MyOB modules), a My Journey wellbeing centre with validated psychometrics and an AI-generated pastoral summary, a Living Prayer Chain community, Voice Mode, and PrayOS architecture unifying every module under one Scripture spine. Marketed to "Deep Seekers."

Bible MCP

An open-source MCP server that gives AI chatbots direct access to accurate, freely licensed Bible text — so Scripture is quoted, not hallucinated. Three tools (verse lookup, chapter fetch, translation browsing), strong uptime, and steady adoption across Claude Code, Claude.ai, and Cursor via Smithery.

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.

My Shepherd

A free, ad-free Bible AI chat app that answers life and faith questions using the King James Version, with cited verses and follow-up prompts. Built by Bar Above LLC (Austin, TX) for the "ChatGPT generation." Includes church-connect matching for congregations and a "Question of the Week" that shares anonymized questions to encourage others.

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.

Free Christian eBook Reader

A free, ad-free Android app from the Cornerstone internet ministry offering a curated library of Christian ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, and Bible translations — no account or payment needed. The library continues to expand with new titles on suffering (Job), biblical archaeology, and New Testament military figures, twenty-five podcast discussions of both their own works and classics like Tozer's Pursuit of God, a growing translation effort now spanning Hindi, Nepali, and Telugu, and a new children's books collection. Note: the Android app shell has not been updated since v5.2.0 (Oct 2024), though the underlying content library is actively maintained.

route.bible

A free, open-spec tool that turns Bible references into app-agnostic links and QR codes — letting anyone open a passage in their preferred Bible app or browser. Ships with a live Chrome extension that linkifies references across the web, and a Skills.sh agent skill (Bible Links) that teaches AI agents to emit portable route.bible Markdown links automatically.

TheoSumma

A Scripture-rooted AI companion from Jordan that lets Christians converse with AI personas of history's greatest theologians, study the Bible verse-by-verse, and explore systematic theology across Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions — with every answer cited to primary sources.

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. Version 5.4 (July 2026) improves Global Search, audio playback, and stability. Completely free with no in-app purchases. Backed by an organization with 125+ years of Scripture distribution and ECFA-accredited financial accountability.

Bible Brief

A free app, podcast, and book from the Bible Literacy Foundation that walks the whole Bible story in ten eras and three levels of depth, with church and small-group launch kits.

Bible Notes

A sermon and Bible notebook whose Auto-Complete feature inserts full passages as you type a reference, with recording timestamps, folders, and a multi-language Bible reader. Personal devotion follows a pray-read-examine-apply-devote pattern; listed on iOS and Android.

Bible Times Bible Game

A free chronological card game with 150 hand-illustrated biblical event cards. Play solo against the clock or compete with up to 4 players to place Scripture's events in order — from a Tennessee studio whose sibling title Dot Conner: Webtective became a feature film, streaming on Angel Studios since March 2026.

YourBible

A free Bible app from GOOD NEWS for Everyone! (formerly GideonsUK), built with scout+redeem for newcomers. Thematic series, life-situation helps, in-text notes, flowing prose without verse numbers, and video testimonies make Scripture easier to start.

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. Features vector-based Meaning Search for finding verses by concept, audio playback with follow-along verse highlighting, favorite verse saving with custom colors and Markdown export, and 15+ translations across 9+ languages. Serves hundreds of monthly active users globally with 95% feature engagement.

Bible Speed Read

Bible Speed Read uses RSVP technology to display Scripture one word at a time, helping you read the Bible faster with deeper focus. Features five Bible translations (KJV, NKJV, NLT, NIV, and ESV) via the YouVersion SDK and ESV (Crossway) API, real-time verse tracking, a haptic rhythm mode that pulses on each word, swipe-based chapter navigation, offline downloads, and adjustable reading speed. Free on iPhone and iPad; also installable on Apple Silicon Macs, though not yet verified by Apple for macOS.

Obsidian Bible Reference Plugin

A free, open-source Obsidian plugin (MIT license) that lets you instantly look up and insert Bible verses into your notes — supporting multiple translations (WEB, KJV, NVI, CUV, DRB, UBG, BG, Korean, and Portuguese) across every platform Obsidian runs on. Includes offline Bible support with bundled WEB text, verse of the day, Literal Word linking, and a fully offline link-only insertion mode (July–Aug 2026 additions). 58k+ downloads, 68 contributors, 119 releases, actively maintained.

Versogram

A free daily Bible cryptogram puzzle you play in your browser -- decode a new Scripture verse each day by cracking the letter cipher, with dark mode and adjustable difficulty. Part of a three-game puzzle family (alongside Versomix and Versodex) from the Good Friday Films podcast team, whose podcast resumed in August 2026 after a 2.5-year hiatus.

Kings of Israel Video Game

A strategic turn-based video game based on the cooperative board game by Lance Hill, set during the reign of Israel's kings. Lead prophets to fight evil, destroy idols, and build altars before Assyria's invasion — with an optional Bible Study mode for Scripture learning. Published by Funhill Games, who continue to create biblical tabletop games.

BibleProject

Free animated Bible videos, podcasts, classes, and study tools from the nonprofit founded by Tim Mackie and Jon Collins, helping people see the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus. Content in 50+ languages, with no ads or paywalls.

Spirit Notes

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

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.

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.

Jesus Spoke

A daily Gospel-word guide from Emilio Meza that walks you through read, reflect, and respond — delivered by morning SMS and available in English and Spanish.

Forge

A local-first macOS Bible study app that lets you build atomic notes connected directly to verses — plain markdown files you own forever. Built-in BSB and KJV reader, no account required, free forever. Operated by PJ Ventures. Still pre-1.0 (v0.2.4, Jan 19 2026); no new release in ~7 months but website, download, and Featurebase board all remain active. Creator's personal dev blog (paytondennis.dev) remains offline; canonical feedback board is forge.featurebase.app.

Pando App

The first and only faith-based app approved for U.S. prison tablets — now on 671,000+ devices with over 150 million content views — streaming free sermons, worship, devotionals, Bible studies, and financial literacy content from 100+ church and ministry partners (including The Chosen) to incarcerated individuals nationwide.

audibible

An immersive bilingual (English and French) audio Bible app with word-by-word text synchronization, AI-generated narrations with multiple voice options, mood-matched background music, ambient soundscapes, narrated Bible stories, a Deep Dive podcast, reading plans, and offline listening — now expanded as "audibible: stories & podcast" on Google Play, with an interactive Bible genealogy tree in development. Actively maintained by solo developer Stéphane Montlouis-Calixte.

Bible Reading Plan Generator

A free, highly customizable web tool for building personalized Bible reading plans — choose your books, timeframe, format, reading order, and language, with direct links to Bible Gateway, YouVersion, Biblia, or Y'all Version. Created by Dr. John Dyer, VP for Enrollment and Educational Technology at Dallas Theological Seminary. Available in 26 languages with five reading orders including M'Cheyne and chronological.

Bible App for Kids

Free, ad-free children's Bible app from YouVersion and OneHope: 41 interactive animated stories, memory games, and companion church curricula for young kids and families.

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.

Answers.tv

A Christian on-demand streaming platform from Answers in Genesis offering 7,000+ apologetics, science, and family titles across 11+ platforms, with subscription or individual purchase options.

Velora

A smart Bible app that listens to your pastor's sermon in real time, surfaces Scripture passages as they're referenced, and extends personalized sermon insights — transcripts, outlines, debriefs, and reflection questions — throughout your week. In June 2026 it added Ask Velora, an AI companion scoped to your own captured sermons (devotionals, quizzes, discussion guides) and explicitly designed not to generate new theology. Available on iOS and Android from brothers Jonathan & Colin Hooper (Everywai, Cleveland OH).

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.

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.

Scribe Scripture

Scribe Scripture is a web experiment by Cam Pak for memorizing Proverbs by typing one chapter each day as the calendar turns. The Berean Standard Bible text loads in the browser; there is no official native app for this tool.

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.

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.

Bound Bible

A beautifully minimal, completely free offline Bible reader that removes every distraction — no ads, no account, no subscription — and uses a clever tab system to recreate the feel of a physical Bible, with daily verse-hunt challenges for readers who want to turn Bible familiarity into a game.

BibleLink

BibleLink is a free, multilingual website plugin by GlobalRize that converts Bible references into hoverable links showing the verse text. Now supports 47 languages and 87+ active Bible translations, available as a WordPress plugin or lightweight JavaScript snippet, with v1.0.20 compatible with the latest WordPress releases.

API.Bible

The largest Bible API available — access nearly 2,500 text and audio Bible versions in 1,600+ languages through clean REST endpoints, built by American Bible Society's Digital Bible Lab. Fully redesigned platform with free Starter and Pro plans, per-translation commercial licensing, Custom Enterprise plans on the roadmap, and an official TypeScript SDK (React and Python SDKs coming soon).

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 Verse Bot for Discord

A free Discord bot from the nonprofit Bible SMS ministry that delivers beautifully designed KJV Bible verse images on demand and auto-posts daily devotionals to your server via announcement channels.

Magisterium AI

Catholic AI answer engine powered by 32,000+ Church documents — get cited, verifiable answers on doctrine, Scripture, and the Church Fathers, with Holy Widgets for guided prayer, Biblical Commentary, and daily readings.

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.

Christian Wordle

A free daily Bible word puzzle in the style of Wordle — guess the five-letter word from Scripture with color-coded hints and a direct link to the verse. Still active as of July 2026 with an engaged player community sharing gameplay online.

Within: Memorize the Bible

An iOS Scripture-memory app from the team behind the 140,000+ subscriber Malachi Daily newsletter, pairing interactive memorization games with daily devotionals and themed challenges. Subscription-based with a free trial; exceptionally active release cadence and a growing team.

Lumen

An open-source, AI-powered Bible study companion with an ESV reader, contextual AI copilot, personalized passage recommendations, reading progress tracking, testimony editor, and activity calendar — all in your browser. Built by an xAI engineer and in active development for over a year.

Polaris Bible

Conservative AI Bible companion on iOS, iPadOS, and web — Scripture-grounded chat, OIA devotion generation, offline Bible reading across five translations, Home/Lock Screen widgets, two-pane iPad/web study, and theological guardrails anchored in historic orthodoxy.

Sparks Chinese Bible

Sparks (火花) is a British and Foreign Bible Society web platform for Chinese-speaking Christians, with dozens of Chinese and other Bible translations, original-language tools, encyclopedia and course content, podcasts, daily devotionals, and a Sparks AI study space. Live testing of the AI feature was out of scope.

On-Demand Prayer

A free web library of pre-written Christian prayers across twenty categories, with search, breath prayers, and Scripture guides for moments when you need words.

Daily Bible Devotion & Prayer

A free morning-and-evening Bible devotion app from Salem Media with a verse, short reflection, and life application in NLT, KJV, or NIV, plus trivia and humor. A subscription-based Daily Bible Devotion+ tier removes ads; Salem is now privately held by WaterStone and still runs the app.

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 regularly and a growing Spanish library.

Type the Word

Type the Word is a free, ad-free web app for typing the Bible verse by verse across a dozen translations, with recall modes, progress tracking, and a weekday Passage of the Day. Founder Josh Wootonn also offers a subscription-based Christian-school classroom program that assigns Scripture typing through tools such as Google Classroom.

Evergrace

Evergrace is a Christian kids' audio-story app from Australian families Brad and Claire Flood, mixing Scripture-inspired and original tales with narration, music, and sound effects. Collections are buy-once, with Kid Mode and offline listening for quiet, faith-filled wind-downs.

BiblePlan

BiblePlan is a free, donation-supported web tool that builds custom, verse-balanced Bible reading plans from any books and dates, then tracks progress with rebalancing, reminders, and CSV export.

Anchor Christian: Daily Mood

Anchor Christian: Daily Mood is an iPhone daily check-in from Rooftop Labs that offers Scripture, biblical wisdom, and action steps from what you share, then tracks prayers and struggles. A subscription is required to use it.

Zaia

Zaia is a free Christian social network for sharing photos, video, and words, reading the Bible in-app, and connecting with other believers. The name means light, and the product is built around Jesus' prayer for unity in John 17:23.

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.

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.

Biblify.ai

Biblify.ai is a free web-based Bible reading companion that uses AI to provide verse-by-verse explanations and answer your questions as you read — built by Christian software engineer and founder Luke Mueller with pastoral input, growing organically worldwide since its mid-2025 launch.

Gamaliel

Gamaliel is a free, open-source AI Bible reader that answers your Scripture questions with biblically grounded responses. No login needed, funded by ministry, with theological guardrails rooted in the Nicene Creed. Now available on iOS, Android, and the web, with a curated sermon video library from trusted ministries.

Scroll The Bible

A distraction-free Bible reader that turns doomscrolling into Scripture scrolling with an infinite-scroll, social-media-style interface. Features verse-by-verse study tools (original language, deep study, plain-language paraphrase, cross-references), a Discover page, Reading Plans, lock/home screen widgets, full-text search, and a growing library of translations. Rapidly scaling and actively updated by indie developer Gabriel Jacobson under the JCBSN Brand; iOS and Apple Vision Pro, freemium.

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, journaling, and sharing.