Bible App — AI-powered Bible reader and study app for Windows: verse of the day, study courses, classroom, memorization drills and a local-AI study assistant.
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
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
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
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
Progress tracks your meditation streak, verses known by heart, lessons finished, and 34 badges.
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
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.
