Bible App is a free desktop Bible for Windows. It opens like a real book, keeps the whole Bible on your machine, and turns reading into a habit: a verse for each day, guided courses, reading plans, and a memorization room that brings each verse back just before you would forget it. An optional AI study companion answers questions using the bundled scripture only.
“Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.” — Psalm 119:105
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Features
📖 Read
- All 66 books, offline, in four translations: World English Bible, Louis Segond 1910, and kids editions in English and French. References carry across languages, so a verse saved in French opens in English too.
- A real book: a leather cover that remembers your last chapter, and a two-page paper spread with Prev / Next and book, chapter and verse pickers.
- Listen to any chapter or verse read aloud.
- Search the full text, highlight, save verses and keep notes on them.
- Gospel music search for worship while you read.
☀️ Study
- Verse for today: the same verse all day, chosen from the date, so it is still there when you come back.
- Classroom: 24 courses and 124 lessons (Life of Christ, The Parables, Psalms for Hard Days, Romans, Job, and more). Each lesson has teaching text, the passages it covers, and a short quiz built from those verses. You can also generate a course on any topic.
- Reading plans: John in 21 days, a month of Proverbs, fourteen psalms for hard weeks, and more, with day-by-day progress.
🧠 Remember
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The Lab is a spaced-repetition drill room using a 5-box system. A verse moves up a box each time you recall it, and each box asks a bit more of you:
| Box | Drill |
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| 1 | Choose the real verse from four |
| 2 | Fill in the missing word |
| 3 | Recite from first letters only (F__ G__ s_ l____ t__ w____) |
| 4 | Put the scrambled phrases back in order |
| 5 | Type the whole verse from memory |
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Progress tracks your meditation streak, verses known by heart, lessons finished, and 34 badges.
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Verse constellation: a force-directed graph of everything you have saved, clustered by book. Press play to watch it build in the order you saved each verse.
Download & install
- Download
Bible-App-<version>-Setup.exe from the latest release, or from the website.
- Run it and choose where to install. No admin rights are needed.
- The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may show “Windows protected your PC”. Click More info → Run anyway.
The app checks GitHub Releases on startup, downloads new versions in the background, and installs them when you quit.
Requirements: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
AI study companion
Use Ask in the reader to ask a question. The app searches the bundled Bible for relevant passages and passes only those to the model. The model is told to quote nothing else, to cite every verse as [Book 1:2], and to say so plainly when the passages don't answer the question. Answers come back in the language you're reading in.
The companion runs on Ollama — free, no API keys. Install Ollama and pull any chat model, e.g. ollama pull llama3.2.
- Every model you've pulled is used: the app ranks them (models already loaded in memory first, then mid-size local models, then Ollama
:cloud models, then very small or very large ones) and falls through the list until one answers.
- Free Ollama cloud models (e.g.
ollama pull gpt-oss:20b-cloud) work too, after ollama signin.
- Pin a specific model by setting
"ollamaModel" in ~/.bible-app/settings.json.
Everything else in the app works without AI.
Build from source
Web edition
Run npm run web:dev to use the full reader and study app in a browser, or npm run web:build to generate a static website in dist-web/. The web edition includes browser saving, JSON backups, read-aloud, and offline Scripture after its initial download. See web setup and deployment for hosting and optional local AI setup.
Prerequisites: Node.js 20+ and npm.
git clone https://github.com/pitchiluxe/bible-app.git
cd bible-app
npm install
npm run dev # launch with hot reload
| Script | What it does |
|---|
npm run dev | Start Electron with the Vite dev server on localhost:5173 |
npm run build | Compile main, preload and renderer into out/ |
npm run preview | Run the compiled build |
npm run package | Build and create the Windows installer and zip in dist/ |
Project structure
bible-app/
├── src/
│ ├── main/ Electron main process: window, storage, AI, updater
│ ├── preload/ Safe bridge exposed to the UI as window.electronAPI
│ └── renderer/src/
│ ├── assets/bible/ Bundled scripture (WEB, LSG, kids editions)
│ ├── components/ Reader, study desk, classroom, lab, verse graph
│ └── services/ Bible lookup, quiz builder, spaced repetition, speech
├── landing/ Static download site (deployed to Vercel)
├── resources/ App icons
├── scripts/ Icon generator and README banner source
└── docs/ README images
Stack: Electron 44 · React 18 · TypeScript · Vite (electron-vite) · Tailwind CSS · Zustand · Framer Motion · d3-force · electron-builder / electron-updater
Releasing
- Bump
version in package.json.
- Build and upload to a draft GitHub Release:
GH_TOKEN=$(gh auth token) npx electron-builder --win --publish always
- Publish the draft. Installed apps pick it up through
latest.yml.
The website at landing/ deploys to Vercel on every push to main. Its download buttons point to releases/latest, so they need no change for a new version.
Privacy
Your highlights, notes, saved verses, study progress and settings are stored as JSON files in %USERPROFILE%\.bible-app. There is no account and no telemetry. Network access is used only for update checks, gospel music search, and the AI provider you choose.
License
MIT © My Digital Solutions
