Bible Explorer: Read & Study

Read, listen and explore: walk the Bible’s journeys on the map, meet the people and places of every verse, art and manuscripts. 36 Bibles, offline once added. No ads.

Read, listen to and explore the Bible from many angles. No ads, no tracking.

EXPLORE EVERY VERSE • Chapter overview: the people, places, times and connections of the chapter, checked against the text, and where Josephus tells the same story. • The original: the Hebrew or Greek words of any verse, their meaning and grammar. • Echo: 241 Old Testament quotations in the New, linked both ways. • Bible in art: paintings beside the verses, or one artist at a time: Dürer, Rembrandt, Blake, Tissot, Doré and more. Verse cards to share.

LISTEN • The Berean Standard Bible read by Bob Souer and the Spanish Reina-Valera read by narrators, also offline; other translations in your phone’s voice, with the phone locked too. • Listening collections: chapters for the night, the morning and hard days, with a sleep timer. • Music for reading: calm piano or sounds of nature. Slow reading for language learners. • Audiobooks: Josephus, travelers in the Holy Land and the novel Ben-Hur.

MAPS • Walk any of 36 journeys stop by stop: the verse, the distance, days on foot, the height of the road. • My Bible map lights up the places you have read; see where each book takes place. • Empires by century, ancient shores, the Holy Land over your own city, 30 old maps, photos of the places in the 1890s and from space.

THE WORLD AROUND THE TEXT • An encyclopedia of 24 topics, from animals, food and money to the Temple, the sky, the seven deadly sins and the virtues, travel and the sea. • 320 museum objects, 11 illuminated Gospel books, six family trees, a timeline. • The Gospels side by side, What the Bible says about… 85 themes of daily life, and 51 prayers of the Bible.

PILGRIMS AND SAINTS • 10 pilgrims’ routes by days and stops, from the Holy Land to Rome, Santiago and Athos. • Saints of the day, Orthodox and Catholic, with short lives, icons and a map. • Feasts, pilgrimages and exhibitions around the world, with reminders.

READ ANYWHERE • 36 Bibles in 34 languages, offline once added. • Verse by verse, as a book, or Line by line; a parallel translation under every verse. • Themes, the Mono Dark style, app icons, your own wallpaper; screens arranged your way. • Search by word, by reference (“John 3:16”, “Jn 3:16”), or for people and places.

READ WITH A PLAN • 15 reading plans and 5 study plans, Bible in a year with notes among them; 50 Bible Stories. • Read together: a plan with friends or family. • Church calendar, Orthodox or Catholic: readings, feasts and fasts. • Reminders, a streak with Sabbath rest, Holy Week hour by hour, widgets.

YOUR JOURNEY • Quotes with notes and, if you like, the place, on a map only you can see; a Notebook with PDF export. • By heart: learn a passage in five steps. • Progress, 26 awards and Year in Scripture. • Sign in by email to sync your devices; no account is needed to read.

LANGUAGES The app speaks 35 languages, from Spanish and Swahili to Korean, Hindi, Tamil and Chinese.