Lectern – Offline Bible

The Bible, beautifully. 21 translations in 15 languages, fully offline. No ads, no account, no tracking. Highlights, notes, plans, audio and devotionals.

Lectern is a calm, beautiful Bible app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. No ads. No account. No tracking. Just Scripture.

FULLY OFFLINE Every translation is on your device: Berean Standard Bible, World English Bible, King James Version, Douay-Rheims (Catholic), Luther 1912, Reina-Valera 1909, Louis Segond, Chinese Union, Korean, Arabic and more. 21 translations in 15 languages, ready in church, on a plane or anywhere without signal.

MADE FOR READING • Beautiful typography with paragraphs, poetry, headings and footnotes • Light, Sepia, Dark and true Black themes, ten fonts including dyslexia-friendly ones, adjustable spacing • Words of Jesus in red, verse-by-verse or paragraph layout • Swipe between chapters; Lectern always opens where you left off

HIGHLIGHT & TAKE NOTES • Highlight whole verses or just a few words, in eight colors you can name ("Promises", "Prayer") • Notes with formatting, tags, and Bible references that turn into links • Highlights and notes follow you across every translation • Export to Markdown, CSV or JSON anytime. Your notes are never locked in.

EVERY DAY • Verse of the day and widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen • Spurgeon's Morning and Evening devotional • "How are you feeling?" Verses for anxious, lonely, grieving or thankful days • A private prayer list that remembers answered prayers • Guided morning and evening prayer with a private journal • For Catholics: daily Mass readings, the liturgical calendar and a guided Rosary

PLANS WITHOUT GUILT 24 reading plans: Bible in a Year, Chronological, New Testament in 90 Days, Psalms, Proverbs, plus short plans for anxiety, grief, loneliness, marriage, new faith and Holy Week. Fall behind? Tap Catch Up and continue, with no broken streaks and no shame.

LISTEN Every chapter read aloud on your device, offline and private. Lectern Voice, a modern neural voice that sounds human, speaks English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese after a one-time download; other languages use Apple's Premium voices. Listen through a whole plan day, loop a passage for memorizing, add soft rain or ocean sounds, pause after each verse to reflect, or queue up passages to hear back to back. Follow along as each verse is highlighted, with speed control and a sleep timer.

FIND ANYTHING • Instant full-text search in any language that forgives typos and finds related words • Type references however you like: "jn 3 16", "Ps 23", "Joh 3,16", "1kor13" • 5,300 topics from Nave's Topical Bible and Easton's Bible Dictionary • Bible places on an offline map

MORE • Compare a verse across translations • Memorize verses with spaced repetition and six practice modes, including reciting aloud • Auto-scroll for hands-free reading, underline or highlight • Beautiful verse images to share • Private iCloud sync between iPhone, iPad and Mac, plus automatic daily backups • Siri and Shortcuts, iPad multitasking, Mac keyboard shortcuts

LECTERN PLUS: ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Hebrew & Greek word study and interlinear: every original word with meaning, grammar, pronunciation and every occurrence • Nine classic commentaries beside the text, including Matthew Henry, Spurgeon's Treasury of David and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown • Parallel translations side by side, scrolled in sync • 300,000+ cross references • All reading plans, custom plans, unlimited memory verses, premium verse images, Sepia & Black themes • Family Sharing included

Lectern will never show ads, never sell your data and never put Scripture behind a paywall.

All Bible texts are in the public domain. Cross references by OpenBible.info (CC BY). Lexicon and interlinear by STEPBible.org (CC BY). Places by OpenBible.info (CC BY), maps by Natural Earth. Commentary, devotional, dictionary and topical index are in the public domain (CrossWire).