Glean - Bible Study

Glean is a Bible reading and study app for iPhone and iPad. You read, mark up the text, write notes and keep your prayers in the same place.

Read Read from the KJV, NKJV, NASB or ESV one chapter at a time. Scroll, turn pages like a book, or use two columns on iPad. Change the typeface, size, spacing and page colour until it suits you. Words of Jesus can show in red. Bookmark a chapter or a verse and come back to it.

Follow Robert Murray M'Cheyne's reading plan. The plan keeps its own progress, and today's reading is the first thing you see when you open the app.

Mark up the text Tap a verse, or press and hold a word, to highlight or underline it. There are five colours. On iPad you can switch on markup mode and mark words with the Apple Pencil. Everything you mark is listed with your notes, and you can filter it by colour.

Write study notes Attach a note to a verse or write one on its own. Notes can have headings, bold and italic text, bullets, numbered lists, quotes, photos and passages pulled in from the Bible. On iPad the note sits beside the text while you read. Your notes show up in Spotlight and Shortcuts.

If you would rather write by hand, use the Apple Pencil. Glean reads your handwriting on the device so you can search it, and it can turn a handwritten page into a typed note with headings and lists.

Study a verse Open any verse to see its original-language words with Strong's numbers and definitions, plus cross references. Search by reference, by a story such as David and Goliath, or by a word.

Pray Keep prayer points organises under areas. Turn a verse into a prayer point. Start a prayer session and Glean picks a balanced set to pray through. Set a daily reminder if you want one.

Keep a habit Glean tracks your reading and prayer streaks and shows the week at a glance. Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen show the verse of the day and your streaks.

Your data Notes, highlights, bookmarks and prayers sync between your devices through your own iCloud account. There is no Glean account, no advertising and no tracking.

Sources Bible text: King James Version. Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY). Original-language definitions: bolls.life.