Bible Study Apps to Go Deeper

LifeBible

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

Aura Bible

Aura is an AI-powered Bible study and prayer app from Aura Ventures, with verse-level context from The Apologist Project's curated source library, daily devotionals, guided prayer, Scripture memory, and small-group fellowship across seven major translations. Its published Reformed statement of faith treats the AI as a study aid, not a stand-in for the Holy Spirit or a local church.

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.

Sanctuary

A web-based Christian AI assistant for everyday life, Bible study, prayer, parenting, and work, answered from a biblical worldview with 10 denomination perspectives, a kids mode for ages 8 to 16, and ministry tools for church leaders. Credit-based freemium; see the pricing page for current plans, which have changed since launch.

Discovery Bible Studies

A free, no-signup web app with 17 or more Discovery Bible Study courses that let anyone lead a small group or one-on-one Bible study using the same simple three-step rhythm and five discovery questions every session.

Polaris Bible

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

Lux Bible

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

Waymark

Waymark is a web-based Reformed theological Q&A tool that answers questions from a curated corpus of more than 1,400 works and commentaries — including Scripture from named public-domain translations — with every claim cited to its source, a Compare view across Reformed, Catholic, and Lutheran traditions, and public charters that set each tradition perspective's confessional anchor.

Lingua Deo Gloria

Lingua Deo Gloria teaches Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek free of charge, through stories and comprehensible input instead of memorized paradigms. Its browser courses, illustrated readers, and live online classes serve the global Church.

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.

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.

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.

RockReader

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

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, web reading stats with streaks and totals, daily reminders, reading categories, an ESV.org Bible reader, and a memory verses feature, built by Christian developer Paul Kim.

AlignedAI

A free, doctrine-aware AI workspace for pastors and church leaders, covering sermon prep, exegesis, sermon repurposing, media, meeting notes, and automations, now paired with Aligned Church, an AI-run church-management suite for people, giving, websites, church apps, and social media. Available on the web and as a free iOS app; a Pro subscription adds unlimited requests, staff seats, and two-way SMS.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Malachi Daily

A free weekly Scripture memorization newsletter using a brain-science-backed fill-in-the-blank method, reaching 130,000+ Jesus followers in the ESV, 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.

Rava: Discover God's Story

Rava is a free, group-centric Discovery Bible Study app from the Waha nonprofit team. Press play, listen to Scripture and discussion questions aloud, and discover God's story together, with offline lessons, encrypted data, and a security mode for sensitive regions, across the Waha platform's 63 languages.

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.

Reformed Hours of Prayer

A free church-community app for fixed-hour prayer, built by Christ Church Bellingham with Jon Boldt and Seth Copeland: morning and evening liturgies, Bible-reading progress, and a live view of who is praying, plus a liturgy.io browser companion.

Sola — Bible companion app

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

Bible Gateway

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Forge

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Biblion Bible Reader

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

Bible Portal

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

ReadScripture

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

Magisterium AI

Catholic AI answer engine drawing on a library of 42,302 Church documents — get cited, verifiable answers on doctrine, Scripture, and the Church Fathers, with Holy Widgets for guided prayer, Biblical Commentary, and daily readings.

Men's Ministries

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

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.

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 Bot

A free, open-source AI Christian companion on ChatGPT that helps you explore 100+ biblical topics, find verses, and dig deeper into Scripture. Its prompt has been substantially revised with explicit AI-identity, Scripture-accuracy, and crisis safeguards. Featured in AP News (2026) and cited by Doxa as a reference framework for evaluating Christian AI apps.

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.

Eternity Bible

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

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. Created by a Christian ML developer at Ontario Tech University.

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.

Just the Verses

A website for finding Bible verses by topic, with roughly 1,900 topics ranked by the OpenBible.info community and every verse shown side by side in the BSB, KJV, and WEB. Free and ad-supported, run by AGENTHICAL, S.L. of Madrid, with a free verse-of-the-day widget for church websites and no generative AI.

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.

Shepherd Docs

A writing app for pastors that organizes sermon notes and Bible study around Scripture itself, automatically indexing everything you write by passage. Built by Luke Netti (Luke Netti LLC); web-based and subscription-based after a free trial, with no AI writing and a clear promise never to train on your notes.

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.

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 27 languages with five reading orders including M'Cheyne and chronological.

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 — designed to keep women connected to God's Word and each other between group meetings.

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 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 and moved in October 2026 from bible-search.antioch.tech to antiochtech-bible-search.bai.uno, on the creator's own domain; creator Tim actively maintains sibling Antioch Tech projects, including a new Obsidian Bible Reference release in October 2026.

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, certificates for an enrollment fee, and a path into undergraduate and graduate degrees through Okanagan Bible College.

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, a free Church Memory Challenge, and bulk licenses for churches.

Free Christian eBook Reader

Free Christian eBook Reader is the free, ad-free Android app for FreeChristianEBooks.org, the non-commercial Cornerstone ministry library of Christian living and Bible-study titles. It needs no account, and the ministry is adding audio books, podcast discussions, and explainer videos alongside the e-books, plus Hindi, Nepali, and Telugu translations.

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.

Pencil Bible

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

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 more than 960,000 people weekly in 176 countries with 600+ videos, family devotions, Scripture Memorization Games, seven in-app Bible translations, topical series, and the KidminRoadmap and YouthRoadmap year-long ministry strategy tools.

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.

Following Jesus

A free discipleship app by pastor Samuel Deuth, built around seven essentials for new and growing believers. It includes a free seven-session video course, a guided 365-day Bible reading plan also on YouVersion, built-in reading plans, and tools to walk a friend through the faith, and churches can hand it to someone the day they decide to follow Jesus.

Overflow Quiet Time Companion

A free iOS quiet time companion that guides prayer, worship, reflection, and SOAP/SWORD Bible study, built to sit beside the Christian apps you already use rather than replace them.

Gamaliel

Gamaliel is a free AI Bible study companion from Lew Cirne (Wily Technology, New Relic) that answers Scripture questions with open-source Nicene guardrails. It is free with no account or ads on the web, Google Play, and iOS, and the App Store listing says it is funded entirely by the Beloved in Christ Foundation.

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.

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.

Discover

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

Harvous

An open-source Bible notes app that helps you capture, organize, and revisit your study, with a built-in Bible reader across 15 translations, threads that connect related notes, and Suggestions that resurface what you wrote. Free for personal study, with Harvous Plus for group spaces, review exercises, and a read-only AI connector, plus an invite-only church education platform.

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.

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, including a Biblical Finances course — alongside rotating online Bible studies, daily devotionals, worship content, talks, and a podcast network of eight shows, all designed to help believers grow daily.

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.

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.

Seed Bible by AO Lab

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

VerseLink Bible

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

Lamplight

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

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.

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.

Sword of the Spirit

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love God Greatly

A global women's Bible study ministry offering free studies in 40+ 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. Next study: The Promised Messiah, a four-week Advent study.

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.

Our Daily Bread

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

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.

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.

Lessons.Church

Free, open-source church curriculum platform with 1,175 video-based lessons across 199 studies for preschool through adult from 12 providers. Built by ChurchApps (Live Church Solutions), now serving 15,000+ churches. 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.

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 trusted teachers, guided reflections and daily quiet-time tools, and the exclusive home of Kerygma Summit sessions, with a statement of faith affirming the Trinity, the Bible as the final authority, and salvation by grace through faith.

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.

Bolls Bible

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

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.

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 210+ languages.

Knowing Him

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

Exegesis

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

Scroll The Bible

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

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.

Spark Bible

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

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 and community, and homeschool families can pay with ESA funds in a growing list of states.

Bible AI Search

AI-powered Bible search engine with natural-language Q&A built on around 700K hand-approved Q&As, with a follow-up chat mode, document attachment (answers from your own files), audio/video filtering, multiple Bible translations and multilingual support, 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; available on the web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.

Daily Grace Co

A Bible study app by Jeremy and Kristin Schmucker offering theologically rich digital studies in a newly refreshed, distraction-free reader, with notes and highlights, streaks and reminders, teaching videos, community, blog, and podcasts. Celebrating 10 years with over 50 studies and 3 million+ shipped, with the new Joy of Every Longing Heart Advent study for 2026 and expanded offerings for men, couples, families, and churches.

Velora

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

Sparks Chinese Bible

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

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.

Selah

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

Formed

Catholic streaming platform by the Augustine Institute offering thousands of exclusive study programs, movies, documentaries, audio dramas, e-books, kids' shows, and daily reflections with Dr. Tim Gray. Trusted by 1.6M users, 5,000+ parishes, and 180 dioceses worldwide, with content from over 100 providers. 2026 additions include The Heart of Prayer, an eight-part Lenten series with Bishop Andrew Cozzens. Many parishes give members free access.

The Waha Discovery Bible Study App

Waha is a free, audio-based Discovery Bible Study app from a Washington nonprofit: gather a group, press play, and discuss Scripture together, with curriculum in 63 languages. It includes a nine-week Disciple Making Course, Micro Lessons, offline lessons, and a Security Mode with encrypted data for restricted-access settings.

Storyverse Institute

Storyverse Institute is Derek Mathews' seminary-style library of Bible, theology, ministry, and soul-care courses, plus a podcast and a one-year Institute Cohort, for individuals and churches who want deeper Scripture without a degree. Sample courses are free, the course library is subscription-based, and the next cohort starts in January 2027.

Catena Bible and Commentaries

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

FJN - Find Jesus Now

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

Bible Strong

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

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.

Parabible

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

BibleRef

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

Illuminate Bible

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

CrossTalk: Bible Chat + Prayer

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

Bible Reader

A free, open-source Bible reading plan tracker and PWA by Gadisa Teklu. Choose popular plans or create your own, track progress across all 66 books, and access it from any device. Updated in September 2026 with a modernized interface; built with Next.js and Supabase.

Ascend

Ascend is a gamified Bible study app where short lessons, quizzes, and a growing phoenix companion help you learn Scripture with friends, share reflections, and pray for each other. It is free to play with a daily energy system, with optional Premium and Steward gifting for families, small groups, and churches.

Cardinal Bible

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

Bible Study Tools

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

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 millions worldwide; flagship courses include Identity, The Character of God (with Bible Project videos), and companion courses for all five seasons of The Chosen.

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.

The Word One to One

The Word One to One is a free app, book series, and online guide for reading John's Gospel and Acts with a friend, verse by verse, with notes, maps, and conversation prompts. It was founded by Richard Borgonon and is made by Make Known, free on iOS and Android, with the John series in Spanish, German, and Ukrainian in the app and further translations as downloads and through partners.

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, and select classes now include facilitator guides.

AndBible

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

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 the Blue Letter Chronological daily reading plan — all free with no sign-up.

Lumenology

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

Logos Bible Study App

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

Ligonier Ministries

Free Reformed teaching app, now called Grow, that puts thousands of Ligonier Ministries resources on iOS and Android: podcasts, video series, articles, devotionals, conference messages, and in-app Bible reading from R.C. Sproul and the Ligonier teaching fellows. All of Sproul's 170+ teaching series stream free, and Ministry Partners also unlock the Ask Ligonier intelligent assistant, Reformation Study Bible notes, and the full teaching series library.

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 Notes 2.0

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

Bible App by Olive Tree

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

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.

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.

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, with weekday teachings and a Saturday audio teaching.

The Study Bible

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

ARMA Courses

ARMA Courses is a subscription video school from Manny Arango and Aaron Ross that helps Christians understand the Bible through 55+ courses, workbooks, quizzes, a private community, and a Bible reading plan with daily videos. A free intro course and an iOS companion app sit alongside the web classroom.

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.

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 The Stories We Live By (Timothy Keller and Michael Keller) and Gather (Lisa Harper and Christine Caine).

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.