Bible Translation Tools and Apps
Thousands of languages still have no Scripture in them, and closing that gap is slow, collaborative, deeply technical work. The software on this page is what that work runs on.
You'll find drafting and checking platforms used by SIL and Wycliffe teams, offline-first tools for capturing oral translation in the field, developer APIs serving Bible text and audio in thousands of languages, sign language Scripture, and original-language study tools for anyone who wants to see what the text actually says. Each one is reviewed against the selection criteria.
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API.Bible
A Bible API for developers: access hundreds of text and audio Bible versions in 145+ languages through clean REST endpoints, built by American Bible Society's Digital Bible Lab and reliably maintained for over 15 years. Free Starter and Pro plans, per-translation commercial licensing, negotiated Enterprise plans, and an official TypeScript SDK (React and Python SDKs coming soon).
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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.
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fetch(bible)
A free, open-source Bible translations platform by Gracious Tech that gives developers unrestricted CDN access to 1,464 translations across 1,150 languages, plus a TypeScript client, embeddable reader, and web enhancer. MIT-0 licensed, with no keys or rate limits.
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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.
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Scripture App Builder
Scripture App Builder is a free desktop tool from SIL Global that lets Bible translators create customized Android, iOS, and Progressive Web Apps with synchronized text and audio — no programming required. Ministries have used it to create over 2,600 Bible apps; Frontier Ventures reported apps for 1,960 languages in more than 140 countries with over 65 million installs. Actively maintained with nine releases between April and October 2026 (v14.0–v14.7), including YouVersion Platform integration on both Android and iOS, direct Paratext and Scripture Burrito imports, a Compare Versions view, Simple and Advanced builder views, Covenant and Acts film clips, a Quiz Preview in the builder viewer, and Gloo AI as an optional faith-aligned guardrails provider for the AI Assistant.
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Bible.is - Faith Comes By Hearing
Free Faith Comes By Hearing app for dramatized audio Scripture, Gospel Films, offline downloads, and playlists in 2,749 languages and counting. The ministry is working toward Vision 2033: audio Scripture in every language that still needs it.
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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.
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tools.bible - Bible Translation Tools
Centralized, searchable library of 128 Bible translation tools covering every phase of translation: assessment, drafting, quality assurance, publishing, and engagement. A collaborative effort by Biblica and Wycliffe, built on the Gloo platform, free to use, with an AI-powered discovery assistant. Includes Paratext, Scripture Forge, Scripture App Builder, and tools from SIL International, United Bible Societies, Faith Comes By Hearing, and more.
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Aquilla
Aquilla is a browser-based, AI-assisted translation workspace for text and audio, with captions and subtitles now available, built for Bible and resource translation in the world's low-resource languages. It is the web-based evolution of the Codex Translation Editor from Frontier R&D, using Living Memory so a human expert steers while each correction compounds across the project. Currently in public beta and free for every translator, with paid plans coming; partners include Come and See (The Chosen), Biblica, and ETEN Innovation Lab.
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Bible Brain API
Bible Brain is Faith Comes By Hearing's developer API for Bible text, audio, and video across thousands of languages. Request an API key and build multilingual Scripture apps against documented REST endpoints.
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LangQuest
Free, offline-first mobile app for oral Bible translation in underserved languages. Native speakers capture Scripture, stories, and songs by voice or text, validate translations through community voting, and sync when connectivity returns. Built by Frontier R&D (Ryder Wishart, PhD) as the data-collection half of a translation pipeline with Aquilla. Community members have contributed over 319,000 clips across 290 projects and 286 language profiles. Note: the GitHub repo is public but contains no LICENSE file; the website claims MIT.
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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.
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Deaf Bible App
The largest free collection of sign language Scripture videos, now available in 92 sign languages (up from 84) with over 9 million streams worldwide. Watch, download, share, and search Bible content signed by skilled Deaf communicators in sharp close-up video, with 210,000+ verses published across 90+ active translation projects — and an accelerated goal of 16 full Bibles by 2030.
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Codex Translation Editor
Free, open-source AI-assisted desktop translation editor for Bible and other high-stakes, low-resource-language work. Translators stay in authority while Living Memory learns their voice; Frontier R&D also offers Aquilla, a web successor, while this macOS, Windows, and Linux app stays in active development.
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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.
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Paper Bible
A free, open-source web app from Gracious Tech for printing customized Scripture in over 1,000 languages — as a fold-at-home booklet or a file for a professional printer.
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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.
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Scripture Forge
A free, open-source web app by SIL International for collaborative Bible translation — featuring AI-powered draft generation (powered by the open-source Serval model), Paratext integration, and community checking tools that connect translation teams with language speakers across the globe, including an emerging oral Bible translation workflow. More than 600 projects have been onboarded, and incremental draft generation was enabled for all projects in September 2026.
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