BibleText

A clean, fast, distraction-free way to read and study the Bible.

📖Distraction-free reading — the World English Bible (incl. a Catholic edition), Berean Standard Bible, and New King James Version — words of Christ in red, light & dark themes.
🤖AI study — select any passage and have it explained, its context unpacked, its translation discussed, or several traditions' readings of it compared. Bring your own AI key; entirely optional.
📤Share — any verse as a clean, typeset image card, or as text with a Bluebook-style citation.
💬Notes from friends — send a verse with a short note riding inside the link. Click or tap it — the note opens beside the passage, in the app if you have it, or right in the browser. No account, no server.
🎧Narration — complete human-recorded audio on every platform, with read-along verse highlighting; on-device read-aloud on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Mac, where audio also keeps playing with the screen locked.

Get it from a store

Store editions update themselves and open shared links.

iPhone, iPad and Mac

Android 7.0 or later

Windows 10 and 11

Linux

Download a file instead Mac, Android, Windows or Linux, without a store

These you update yourself. The desktop files are unsigned, so your computer may warn you the first time.

Mac (.zip) One app for Apple Silicon and Intel Doesn’t open shared links

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Opening it the first time

macOS blocks the app’s first launch until you allow it. On macOS 15 and later, open the app and dismiss the warning, then, within the hour, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, click Open Anyway and confirm with your login password. On macOS 12 to 14, Control-click the app in the Finder, choose Open, then click Open in the warning.

Android (.apk) Requires Android 7.0 or later Phones and tablets — allow Install unknown apps Opens shared links Never updates itself; moving to Google Play later means uninstalling it, notes and all

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Windows (.zip) Unzip and run BibleText.exe Doesn’t open shared links

Intel / AMD ARM

Opening it the first time

Windows may say it protected your PC. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Linux (.tar.xz) Unpack, then make install Opens shared links once installed

Intel / AMD ARM

Linux (AppImage) One file — chmod +x and run (AppImageUpdate can refresh it) Doesn’t open shared links

Intel / AMD ARM

Shared links are the bibletext.co.uk links friends send you. A download that doesn’t open them still shows the passage: paste the link into Search. ARM means 64-bit ARM: a Snapdragon laptop, a Raspberry Pi, an Ampere server or an Apple Silicon virtual machine. Most PCs are Intel / AMD.

BibleText is free and open source (Apache-2.0) — no ads, no accounts, no tracking.
Browse the source on GitHub ↗