A verse where you already look. Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy and Apple Watch, in 27 translations and 20 languages. Free, offline, no ads.
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Most verse-of-the-day apps want you to open them. Bible Verse puts the verse where your eyes already go: the Lock Screen before you unlock, the Home Screen between apps, StandBy on the nightstand and the watch on your wrist.
How it works: pick a translation, a theme and the time your morning starts. Each day a curated verse arrives in every widget at once. Tap it to read the whole chapter, save it, share it as a card, or add it to your memory deck.
Every widget is designed around the longest verse it will ever show, so the whole verse is always there. Never cut off, never shrunk below the size you can read. All scripture is bundled and public domain, so it works offline from the first launch.
Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets, extra-large on iPad, Lock Screen widgets above and below the clock, StandBy and Apple Watch complications. Save a verse straight from the widget.
A curated verse each morning at the time you choose. Read the chapter around it, browse any book, and search the whole Bible, all on device.
King James Version, World English Bible, American Standard Version, Douay-Rheims and many more, from eBible.org. Public domain or openly licensed, and free for everyone.
The Gospels in 30 days, Psalms in 60, Proverbs in 31, John in 21, Paul's letters in 40, Genesis in 50, the Sermon on the Mount in a week, plus topical plans with Spurgeon's Morning and Evening readings.
Learn verses with hidden words, first letters and type-to-check. Spaced review brings each verse back just before you'd forget it.
Prayers with reminders, a linked verse and an archive of answered prayers. Kept on your device and in your own iCloud.
Ten themes, from Parchment and Night to Cathedral. Share any verse as a story, square or message card in your theme, with the reference and translation always included.
Today's verse on your wrist and on your watch face, kept in step with your iPhone.
Pure Swift 6 with strict concurrency and SwiftUI. The app, widgets and watch are thin shells over a shared Swift package. Scripture is built at compile time from eBible.org sources into a single SQLite database with compressed chapters and FTS5 full-text indexes, including character-level search for Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
WidgetKit widgets never open the database: they read a precomputed daily set and an App Group snapshot, and every verse goes through a fitting ladder of full, short and micro layouts so nothing is ever truncated. Favorites, prayers and progress live in SwiftData and sync through the user's private CloudKit database. WatchConnectivity keeps the watch in step, and Patron is verified with StoreKit 2. No third-party dependencies.
One-time purchase, or yearly with a 7-day free trial. Optional tips unlock nothing.
Scripture is never behind a paywall. Patron is a way to support the app and adds only extras.
Your favorites, prayers and progress stay on your device and in your own private iCloud. No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. We never see what you read or pray.
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