Lectio: Bible Reading Plans

A calm Bible reader with paths from Genesis to Revelation. Highlights, notes, audio, search, daily reminders. Free. No ads. No accounts.

Lectio is a calm Bible reader designed around reading paths — short, guided journeys through Scripture that replace the chapter index with a clear next step. Pick a path, get one short reading a day, mark it complete, and keep your streak.

Why Lectio?

Most Bible apps either bury you in features or sit you in a social feed. Lectio does the opposite: one screen for today, four soft themes, beautiful serif typography, and nothing pulling you back to scroll. Calmer than a feed. Clearer than a chapter index.

Six bundled reading paths • The Four Gospels in 30 Days — your first read through Jesus. • The Story in 40 Days — a 40-day arc from Genesis to Revelation, hand-curated for first-time readers. • The Psalter in 30 Days — five psalms a day, the rhythm of Anglican prayer books for centuries. • New Testament in 90 Days — every NT book, about three chapters a day. • Whole Bible in a Year — 365 short readings, no skipping. • Wisdom Literature in 30 Days — Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and the Maccabees, for the Catholic canon.

Built for both canons Choose Protestant (66 books) or Catholic (73 books, with the Deuterocanon and the Greek text of Esther and Daniel). The whole library reflects your choice — including the reading paths available to you. Switch anytime in Settings; your progress is preserved.

A reader you'll want to come back to • Four reading fonts: System Serif, Iowan Old Style, Georgia, New York. • Three themes: Light, Sepia, and a true Dark for late-night reading. • Adjustable reading size, 85 % to 150 %. • Tap any verse to highlight in four colours, bookmark, add a note, or share. • Share verses as beautifully composed 1080 × 1080 / 1080 × 1920 / 1080 × 1350 PNG cards — square, story, and portrait formats. • Listen to any chapter aloud with the built-in reader (free, no subscription unlock).

Search the whole Bible Lectio's full-text search is canon-aware and runs entirely on your device. Try "shepherd", "new heart", or "Bethlehem".

A library, not a feed "My Library" gathers every bookmark, highlight, and note you've made into one place. No friend feed, no leaderboards, no streak shaming. Just the texts you've marked, the words you've underlined, and the thoughts you've kept.

Daily reminder, no email required Choose any time of day for a gentle local notification. No account is required; nothing leaves your device.

Bible translations included • World English Bible (WEB) — full text including Deuterocanon. Public domain.

More translations land in v1.1, including Reina-Valera (Spanish), João Ferreira de Almeida (Portuguese), and the Douay-Rheims (Catholic, English). All public domain.

Privacy that works because we don't collect anything Lectio has no accounts, no ads, no trackers, no analytics. Your bookmarks, highlights, and notes live in your device's local database and (in v1.1) in your own iCloud. We never see them. We never see anything.

Designed for Apple platforms Built natively with Swift and SwiftUI for iOS 17 and later. Optimised for the iPhone reading experience, with iPad support, dark mode, dynamic type, and VoiceOver throughout.

Free, forever No subscription. No premium tier. No ads. No tracking. We may add an optional donation tier in a future update, never a paywall.

Made with care for readers of every tradition.