Bible Study Apps to Go Deeper

CrossTalk: Bible Chat + Prayer

CrossTalk is a free AI-powered Bible assistant from Manifest Automation, Inc. offering interactive Scripture study with a built-in multi-translation Bible reader (ESV, NIV, NLT, NLV, NRSV), shareable Clips, Fruit of the Spirit assessment, 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.

Fighter Verses Bible Memory

A structured Bible memory system from Truth78 with 1,000+ preloaded verses, 11 translations, six quiz types, spaced review, songs, lock screen widgets, and iCloud sync—helping churches, families, and individuals memorize Scripture since 1997.

MessengerX

Free discipleship app from Messenger International with courses, ebooks, audiobooks, and daily teachings in 130+ languages. Donation-funded library from John and Lisa Bevere for Scripture-centered growth 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.

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.

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.

Bible Answers AI

Free AI-powered Bible Q&A companion that delivers scripture-backed answers in seconds, with unlimited questions, searchable history, shareable answers, and a web app — built by serial SaaS entrepreneur Kyle under Sabbath Ventures to aid your study, not replace it.

ActiveChristianity

ActiveChristianity is a free web library from Brunstad Christian Church with articles, testimonies, videos, and theme pages on living out Scripture through discipleship and sanctification. Sister sites serve English, French, Chichewa, and Swahili readers, and Hidden Treasures Publishers hosts a companion literature archive.

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.

AlephBeta

Aleph Beta is a Jewish Torah media library of animated videos, podcasts, and courses led by Rabbi David Fohrman's close-reading method. A Hoffberger Institute nonprofit, it is subscription-based with a try-for-free path and a scholarship offer, on web, iOS, and Android.

BibleProject Classroom

Free, self-paced Bible courses from the BibleProject nonprofit, with scholarly lectures from Genesis through Paul's letters plus reading-skills classes. Guest instructors include Dr. Carmen Imes on Exodus; every class is crowdfunded and open to individuals and groups.

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.

GodTools

Free evangelism app by Cru with interactive gospel presentations, conversation guides, and lessons in 100+ languages. Features QR screen sharing, dual-language support, and tools like 'Seen. Known. Loved.' and 'Spirit-Filled Life.' Actively maintained — iOS v6.3.18 shipped July 1, 2026, and the team's 2025 annual review reports 600K+ users, 15,932 professions of faith, and 60% of users in Africa.

Through the Word

Through the Word is a free nonprofit Bible app that pairs every chapter of Scripture with a short audio guide and organizes the whole Bible into 19 Journeys. Founded by pastor Kris Langham, it is available on iOS, Android, YouVersion, and podcast feeds, with no ads and no paywalls.

WordGo

Free Bible study app from Bible Study Fellowship with 50+ guided courses across the Old and New Testament. Daily readings, audio teaching, and group tools for personal or church small-group study on iOS and Android.

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.

She Reads Truth

A worldwide community of women reading Scripture together each day through curated plans, devotionals, a weekly podcast, and printed guides. Founded in 2012 by Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams; now an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group.

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.

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.

Grace to You

The official streaming app from Grace to You, offering 55+ years of John MacArthur's verse-by-verse Bible teaching — sermons, devotionals, broadcasts, Grace Stream 24/7, and a twelve-language translation initiative — all free. Now led by Matt MacArthur as President, preserving an archive of nearly 4,000 sermons with an explicit pledge against AI-generated content.

Daily Grace Co

A Bible study app by Jeremy and Kristin Schmucker offering theologically rich digital studies, teaching videos, community discussions, a blog, and weekly podcast — now celebrating 10 years with over 50 studies, 3 million+ shipped, and expanded offerings for men, couples, families, and churches under the tagline "Equipping Disciples in the Word." Recent 2026 additions include anxiety and Sermon on the Mount studies, an ESV Journaling Study Bible line, and a growing team that now includes a Theologian in Residence.

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.

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.

Audiobooks by BibleStudyTools

A free, browser-based library of 13 classic Christian audiobooks from BibleStudyTools.com (Salem Web Network) — stream titles like The Pilgrim's Progress, Confessions of St. Augustine, Ben-Hur, and The Pursuit of God instantly, chapter by chapter.

iBIBLE

Free animated Bible app presenting Scripture's one story from Genesis to Revelation through approximately 280 episodic animations covering 20,000+ Bible verses — with 42 Genesis episodes, a 3D-animated Life of Christ series now at 16 episodes (through Nicodemus), interactive quizzes, ASL content, and multilingual support for global missions.

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.

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.

Edifi Podcasts

A curated Christian podcast app by The Christian Post with 20,000+ shows and 3,000,000+ episodes — sermons, devotionals, Bible studies, and more — available on iOS, Android, web, and smart devices.

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.

First 5

A free daily Bible study app from Proverbs 31 Ministries that meets women with a short, book-by-book Scripture teaching before the day's noise. Follow the current study or pick a past plan from an archive covering every book of the Bible.

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.

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.

Rava: Discover God's Story

Rava is a free, group-centric Discovery Bible Study app from the makers of Waha. Press play, listen to Scripture and discussion questions, and discover God's story together — now available across the Waha platform's 63 languages with offline support, encryption, a security mode, and a read-along mode for following along in different Bible translations.

Discovery Bible Studies

A free, no-signup web app offering a growing library of Discovery Bible Study courses that let anyone lead a small group or one-on-one Bible study using the same simple three-step rhythm every session.

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.

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.

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.

Agentic Jesus

Free AI faith companion using Claude by Anthropic with theological guardrails, personalized Journey devotionals, guided prayer, Bible Chat with Matthew Henry Commentary, a 4,500+ church directory, and unlimited memory — available on iOS and Android.

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.

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.

Devotional for Women | Refuge

An AI-powered daily devotional app for women that generates personalized devotionals based on selected topics and life circumstances, with built-in KJV/ASV Bible reading, offline support, and multilingual availability in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Built by indie Christian developer James Wade.

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.

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.

Sanctuary

A Christian AI assistant for everyday life — Bible study, prayer, parenting, and work decisions — built on a biblical worldview with 10 denomination support, three AI modes (Standard / Pro / Deep Research), 26 Ministry Tools for church leaders, Sanctuary Kids mode for ages 8–16, and a Plant With Purpose tree-planting referral program. Web-based with credit-based freemium pricing: Free (50 credits/mo), Grace ($9.99 / 300 credits), Believer ($24.99 / 1,000 credits), Disciple ($49.99 / 5,000 credits).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

STRIVE

A men's discipleship app by Iron Hill Press offering daily devotions, articles on faith and family, and sermon archives — founded by Andy Blanks (former Marine, YM360 co-founder). Content remains theologically sound, but the iOS app has now gone over 4 years without an update (still v1.0.25, May 2022), Android is removed, and the official site still links a dead Play Store page. Iron Hill Press thrives as a publisher (new 5-week curricula, Man Church events booked through 2027) while the app sits as a deprioritized legacy product still selling subscriptions. Third consecutive cycle flagged for review — delist decision pending.

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.

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.

Chirp Audiobooks

An audiobook retailer offering deeply discounted Christian and general audiobooks with no subscription fees — browse hundreds of free titles, buy only what you want, keep it forever, and listen on any device. Built by the BookBub team.

RightNow Media

RightNow Media is a church-subscription streaming library of Bible studies, kids shows, and small-group curriculum, with built-in guides, Bible access, and group tools. Member access is free through a subscribing church, school, or workplace.

Storyverse Institute

Seminary-level Bible, theology, apologetics, and ministry courses made simple — via app, online platform, podcast (now 100+ episodes), and live cohort. Built by DTS grad Derek Mathews for individuals and churches. The 10-month cohort earns seminary credit; the current cohort is full. Endorsed by Dallas Theological Seminary, Watermark, and Faithbridge Church.

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.

Versle

Versle is a daily Bible game from Toast Mobile with Classic verse-reference guessing plus trivia, placement, crossword, passage-memory, and friend play — and Mosaic on the App Store listing. Track streaks and leaderboards on the web, iOS, and Android.

Malachi Daily

A free daily Scripture memorization newsletter using a brain-science-backed fill-in-the-blank method, reaching 140,000+ believers across seven Bible translations, with deep teaching in the original languages, a companion podcast, an interactive web app, and a pay-what-you-want course. The team also built Within, a companion iPhone app for interactive verse memorization with games and audio devotionals. Now led full-time by co-founder Kieran Lenahan with a growing team.

EasterNow

A free seasonal app that walks you through Passion Week in real time with step-by-step notifications, scripture references, maps, and Old Testament prophecy connections — from Palm Sunday to Easter Morning.

Harvous

A beautifully designed, open-source Bible notes app that helps you capture, organize, and revisit your Bible study with threads, automatic scripture text, and cross-referencing across 11 translations — now featuring a Recall memory layer, Easton's Bible dictionary, Daily Passage, collaborative Shared Spaces, and an invite-only church education platform for teaching plans, sermon series, and congregant curriculum delivery. Built to complement your existing Bible app, with group study, spaced-practice review, and an AI connector add-on on the roadmap.

Lessons.Church

Free, open-source church curriculum platform with 1,100+ video-based lessons for preschool through adult from 12+ providers. Built by ChurchApps (Live Church Solutions), now serving 15,000+ churches in 130+ countries. Summer 2026 added three new NextLevel adult studies (Discipleship, Evangelism, Zephaniah); companion FreePlay TV app, presenter mode, comparison pages against paid alternatives, and no login required to browse.

OpenTheo

A free, searchable archive of AI-transcribed Christian audio and video — over 10,000 hours of sermons, lectures, and podcasts from teachers like Steve Gregg, NT Wright, Mike Licona, and Stand to Reason. Interactive transcripts let you click any word to jump to that moment in the audio with real-time highlighting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LifeWay Women App

A free companion app for Lifeway's women's Bible studies, featuring daily Scripture plans, journal prompts, private study groups, a prayer wall, and the MARKED podcast (Season 13 ongoing through August 2026) — designed to keep women connected to God's Word and each other between group meetings.

Study Gateway

Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service from Zondervan and Thomas Nelson (HarperCollins Christian Publishing), offering thousands of teaching videos from trusted Christian authors and pastors like Max Lucado, Lysa TerKeurst, Jennie Allen, Lisa Harper, Matt Chandler, and Anne Graham Lotz. Tiered subscription plans serve individuals, small groups, and churches across iOS, Android, web, and smart TV platforms, with new studies released regularly — most recently Making Peace with What I Can't Control (Lysa TerKeurst) and Epic of Eden: Deborah (Sandra Richter).

Waymark

Waymark is a web-based Reformed theological Q&A tool that answers questions from a curated corpus of 550+ primary sources — including Scripture from named public-domain translations — with every claim cited to its source and a Compare view across Reformed, Catholic, and Lutheran traditions.

Passion Equip

Passion Equip is the free digital discipleship platform from the Passion Movement (led by Louie Giglio), featuring Classroom — a structured theology curriculum taught by seminary-trained teachers — alongside rotating online Bible studies (currently Abide: A Sabbath Study in 1 John), daily devotionals, worship content, talks, and a podcast network of eight shows, all designed to help believers grow daily.

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.

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.

Love God Greatly

A global women's Bible study ministry offering free studies in 45+ languages using the SOAP method — with an app featuring daily reading plans, guided journaling, memory verses, and a worldwide community of women studying Scripture together. Newest study: The Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians).

New City Catechism

A free catechism from Tim Keller, Sam Shammas, The Gospel Coalition, and Crossway — 52 questions and answers adapted from Reformation catechisms, with ESV readings, prayers, commentary, and kid-friendly memorization songs. Print companions include a Devotional edited by Collin Hansen and a 52-lesson Curriculum for ages 8–11.

Knowing Him

Knowing Him is a 50-day chronological Gospel study by Mark Edwards that walks through the life of Jesus with Israel-filmed videos, daily podcasts, and Harmony readings. Power to Change Australia uses it as SHIFTm2M preparation for pastors and ministry teams.

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.

BiblicalTraining

BiblicalTraining is a free, donor-supported classroom of evangelical Bible teaching from professors across many seminaries, spanning basics through seminary-level study. Founded and still led by Dr. Bill Mounce, it also offers church leadership training and a path into accredited degrees through Okanagan Bible College.

ARMA Courses

ARMA Courses is a subscription video school from Manny Arango and Aaron Ross that helps Christians understand the Bible through courses, workbooks, quizzes, and a private community. A free intro course and an iOS companion app sit alongside the web classroom.

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.

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.

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.

The Waha Discovery Bible Study App

Waha is a free, audio-based Discovery Bible Study app that facilitates small-group meetings: gather, press play, and discuss. It includes a nine-week Disciple Making Course, Micro Lessons, read-along Scripture, optional account sync, and a Security Mode for restricted-access settings.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

WonAnother

WonAnother is a research-informed discipleship platform that uses a 60-question spiritual maturity diagnostic and adaptive learning paths to help individuals, mentors, and ministries grow — built by a Dallas Theological Seminary student with 50+ church partnerships, a Ministry Intelligence Suite featuring sermon-to-lesson conversion and theological guardrails that validate content across Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, and Ecumenical traditions, and Planning Center integration for church workflows.

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.

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.

Restore + Revive Journal

Restore + Revive Journal is a topical Bible journaling app, paired with paper card decks, that walks you through Scripture on fear, doubt, worry, and dozens of other life topics with daily prompts, voice or SMS replies, and weekly review. Founded by Telisha Ortiz, it is free to start with optional Premium and group sessions on iOS and Android.

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.

Following Jesus

A free discipleship app by pastor Samuel Deuth, built around seven essentials for new and growing believers. It includes devotionals, a one-year Bible reading plan also on YouVersion, worship, and video teaching that churches can hand someone the day they decide to follow Jesus.

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.

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.

Divinav AI

DiviNav AI generates complete, ready-to-teach ministry lesson kits aligned to your church's statement of faith, with built-in theology, plagiarism, and sensitivity review. Built by the Wurster family behind the DiviNav Bible-study curriculum line in Donnelly, Idaho.

TheoScope

TheoScope is a web-based, AI-powered discernment tool that scores Christian media — books, podcasts, movies, and 85+ faith apps — on biblical faithfulness and doctrinal alignment. Built by a pastor, it offers tiered subscription plans, a lifetime Founder's Offer, and a church licensing program that covers entire congregations under one access code.

Faithlife Audio

Browse and purchase Christian audiobooks, seminary-level courses, sermons, and audio Bibles at audio.faithlife.com, then listen through the Logos Bible app (now on version 52) — built by the makers of Logos Bible Software with 500+ publisher partners, an AI-powered Study Assistant, and a free monthly book through the Logos ecosystem. The standalone Faithlife Ebooks app was retired June 2, 2026; all content is now delivered through Logos.

FULLER Equip

FULLER Equip is Fuller Theological Seminary's online learning platform offering 160+ self-paced courses and nine professional certificates across theology, ministry leadership, emotional health, church planting, youth discipleship, and spiritual formation — accessible from any device without enrollment in a degree program.

bible.ai

Voice-first Christian companion for iPhone: Theology Mode, personalized devotionals, guided biblical journeys, and multiple Bible translations. Founded by Leio McLaren; Nicene Creed statement of faith; freemium.

Ascend

Ascend is a gamified Bible study app where short lessons, quizzes, and a growing phoenix companion help you build a daily Scripture habit with friends. It is free to play with an energy system, with optional Premium and Steward gifting for groups.

Aura Bible

Aura is an AI-powered Bible study and prayer app from Aura Ventures, with verse-level context, daily devotionals, guided prayer, Scripture memory, small-group fellowship, and several major translations. A published Reformed statement of faith treats the AI as a study aid, not a stand-in for the Holy Spirit or a local church.

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.

Formed

Catholic streaming platform by the Augustine Institute offering thousands of exclusive study programs, movies, documentaries, audio dramas, e-books, kids' shows, daily reflections, and *The Augustine Institute Show* with Dr. Tim Gray (73 episodes). Trusted by 1.6M users, 5,000+ parishes, and 180 dioceses worldwide. Content highlights include *Into Great Silence*, *LoFi Saints*, *What Catholics Believe*, and *The Ulmas: A Blessed Family*. iOS on v10.301.1 (July 2, 2026); Daily Reflections posting daily through August 2026. 4.9 stars on both app stores.

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.

Jesus.net Online Courses

Free online courses from Jesus.net covering faith, prayer, the Bible, identity in Christ, anxiety, finances, marriage and family, the character of God, and Jesus — with optional personal e-coaching or a self-chosen Accountability Partner using a WATCH-APPLY-SHARE model. Part of a global network of 120+ ministries in 40+ languages reaching hundreds of millions worldwide; flagship courses include Identity, The Character of God (with Bible Project videos), and companion courses for all five seasons of The Chosen.

Bible in One Scroll

A free, single-page walk through the Bible's storyline from Creation to Restoration that ends in the gospel, actively maintained on GitHub and available in more than 200 languages.

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.

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.

Overflow Quiet Time Companion

A free iOS quiet time companion that guides believers through prayer, worship, reflection, and Bible study using SOAP and SWORD methods — designed to work alongside your favorite Christian apps rather than replace them. The companion web version has been pared back to a minimal landing page.

QAVA TV

QAVA (branded 'Quiet Time Companion'; from the Hebrew qavah, 'to wait with expectation') is a nonprofit Christian streaming and discipleship app by City on a Hill Productions, offering Bible studies, documentaries, and original series from a vetted, multi-church teaching collective — now the exclusive home of Kerygma Summit sessions — with guided reflections and daily quiet-time tools, and a statement of faith rooted in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds.

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.

Sermon Keeper

An iOS app for recording church sermons, taking timestamped notes, and getting AI transcription with summaries and SOAP Bible study entries — built for churchgoers who want to hold onto Sunday's message. Freemium with a free trial; English and Spanish.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Bible Memory App

The Bible Memory App helps believers memorize Scripture with a Type It, Memorize It, Master It system, spaced-repetition review, and optional flash cards, audio, and speech recognition. A subscription plan unlocks those tools plus in-app Bible Intelligence and premium translations on web, iOS, Android, and Mac, with a free Lite tier and bulk licenses for churches.

Biblingo

Learn biblical Greek, Hebrew, and Latin through an immersive web and mobile curriculum of picture-and-video lessons, graded readers, and a path into the biblical text itself. Freemium flashcards cover all three languages; subscription and lifetime options add the full Learn and Read tracks, community, and live courses.

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.

Bible Memory Community

A free online community where over 3,000 believers encourage each other and stay accountable in memorizing Scripture, featuring weekly challenges, diverse small groups by life stage, the Memorize What Matters podcast, and founder Josh Summers' Amazon bestselling book of the same name. The Bible Memory Goal YouTube channel has grown to 43,600+ subscribers.

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.

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.

Land of Promise Minecraft Server

A Christian Minecraft server with 1:1 scale biblical landmarks where kids ages 7–12 join facilitated Bible education sessions, explore Jerusalem and the Tabernacle, and grow in faith through interactive gameplay — now also offering a 12-month Builders Program, an Ambassador Program, and the Beyond Survival Advanced Camp (Genesis 1-themed) to equip churches and families worldwide to launch their own Minecraft ministry.

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.

Bible Engagement Project

Free, age-aligned digital discipleship curriculum from the Assemblies of God covering preschool through adults across four years (Listen, Learn, Live, Lead) — now discipling nearly 800,000 people weekly in 176 countries with 600+ videos, family devotions, Scripture Memorization Games, seven in-app Bible translations, topical series, and the KidminRoadmap year-long ministry strategy tool.

Remember Me

Free, open-source Bible memory app by Swiss nonprofit Poimena — uses spaced repetition, interactive games, and group campaigns to help 2.2M+ believers memorize Scripture across 320+ translations in 48 languages. No ads, no cost, no limits. Actively maintained across Android (1M+ downloads), iOS, web, macOS, and Windows; now connects to Claude and ChatGPT via the Model Context Protocol for hands-free verse management by chat or voice.

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.

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).

Reformed Hours of Prayer

A free app guiding church communities through seven daily liturgical prayer hours with psalms, Scripture readings, real-time prayer connections, and Bible tracking — available on iOS, Android, and web.

BibleBoard

A free visual Bible study web app that lets you lay out verses, notes, interlinear Greek/Hebrew words, and worship plans on a shared canvas — built for visual learners, seminary students, and small group leaders who want to see how everything connects. Open-source backend, created by a Christian ML developer at Ontario Tech University.

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.

Got Questions

GotQuestions.org is a free evangelical Bible Q&A library started by S. Michael Houdmann. Staff-reviewed articles, a question form, and an offline iPhone and Android app help readers find Scripture-grounded answers.

BibleBolt

A free Bible Society add-on for Google Docs and Microsoft Word that lets pastors, students, and Bible communicators insert and format Scripture from 11 translations (now including the Berean Standard Bible) in 7 languages — right inside their documents. Multilingual with support for Welsh, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Exegesis

A Bible study app that puts two thousand years of church commentary — 26 commentators, 17 confessions and creeds, 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. Version 1.0 launched free on Google Play in August 2026, with in-app purchases for premium study tools and metered AI credits; iPhone, iPad, and Mac builds are pending Apple review. Built by Roberto Chavez Jr.

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.

StudyChurch

A free web-based platform where small groups collaborate on Bible study lessons online — leaders build studies with embedded questions, members share answers and discuss before meeting in person, and churches manage all their groups from one dashboard.

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.

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.

TheosU Online Biblical Teaching

TheosU is a subscription theology streaming library of video courses in plain English, taught by pastors and seminary faculty, with Theos Seminary as a path for those who want credit toward a certificate or degree.

Christian Productivity Planner

An all-in-one Notion template for Christians that unifies task management, goal tracking, prayer, Bible reading plans, and journaling in a single workspace — created by Reagan Rose of Redeeming Productivity, a Moody Publishers author (plus 2024's Well Done), Master's Seminary graduate, and Ligonier Ministries teacher whose ministry serves 500+ Academy members and 71.2K YouTube subscribers.

Bible Bot

A free, open-source AI Christian companion on ChatGPT that helps you explore 100+ biblical topics, find verses, and dig deeper into Scripture — built with grace, truth, and an open-handed spirit. Featured in AP News (2026) and cited by Doxa as the reference framework for evaluating Christian AI apps.

Ligonier Ministries

Free app with thousands of Reformed teaching resources — podcasts, video series, articles, devotionals, and conference messages from R.C. Sproul and Ligonier teaching fellows — available on iOS and Android. Ligonier reaches 100M+ people annually in 23 languages. The app was redesigned in v11.0.0 (Jul 2026) with a fresh interface, smoother navigation, and a fixed sign-in process; it supports offline downloads, Chromecast, and CarPlay.

Men's Ministries

Free discipleship app from the Assemblies of God's National Men's Ministries offering 400+ Bible studies in three tiers (Growth, Biblical, Targeted), a daily devotional email, connections to local men's ministry networks, Light for the Lost missions content, 360Go missions trips, the weekly 360Man Podcast, and the free 360Equip church coaching program.

Crown Financial Ministries

A pioneering Christian financial ministry approaching its 50th anniversary, offering free tools like the Money Map, one-on-one budget coaching, online courses, the Career Direct and YES! assessments, and global stewardship training across 100+ countries — all rooted in biblical principles of faithful money management.

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.

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.

Navigate The Way ✝️

Navigate The Way ✝️ is a Christian AI assistant for Scripture and theology with a first-party chat experience on navtheway.com and AI responses powered by Apologist AI. Basic chat remains free, while announced paid membership features and the enhanced workspace are still being built and are not active yet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He Reads Truth

The men's companion to She Reads Truth — a worldwide community reading God's Word together through curated Bible reading plans, devotionals, and a full-text multi-translation Bible. Co-founded by Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams; now an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Holy Reads

The first app built exclusively for Christian book summaries — offering 1,000+ bestselling titles in written, audio, and animated video formats, with a Bible donation mission delivering Bibles to remote villages in India.

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.