Project Status

The app is live in preview at app.openscripture.io. Compare translations, explore original languages, and see where and why translations differ — all in your browser. Recent rounds of route hardening and adjacent-chapter prefetch make page-to-page reading noticeably snappier.

Composite, Published, AI Translation, and Interlinear modes are all working. Switch modes instantly to see the same passage from different angles.

Search across translations with advanced query syntax. Find a phrase, a Strong's number, or verses in a range.

Personal study tools: color highlights, multiple notes per verse, bookmarks, and Word/Verse Locks. Verse Locks pin full verses; Word Locks tie a source-language word (by Strong's) to your chosen rendering — Greek, Hebrew, transliteration, or any English word — across aligned Composite verses. Word Lock copy was just refreshed to make the language-learning angle clearer.

The web app works great on phones today. Native apps with offline reading and better performance are on the roadmap.

KJV, YLT, ASV, DRA, Brenton's LXX, and JPS TaNaKH 1917 are available in the reader. JPS 1917 is the public-domain Jewish translation already in OpenScripture; modern NJPS is a separate licensing target.

The full NASB 2020 is now in the app, all 66 books, along with more than eighteen thousand publisher study notes. Licensed by The Lockman Foundation through their Free Distribution Permission Agreement, which means NASB is permanently free in OpenScripture — no paywall, ever.

The full NET Bible Second Edition is live across all 66 books, including the famous Translator Notes — a scholar's commentary on almost every verse. Licensed through Biblical Studies Press / bible.org. The Translator Notes are surfaced inline alongside the text.

The REV ships as the default translation in the app, with extensive commentary integrated. Permission granted by Spirit & Truth Fellowship; we are now fetching their official structured data feed to keep the text and notes in sync with their latest revisions.

Applications are in progress for ESV, NLT, CEB, NRSVUE, The Message, and CEV. Each one broadens the Protestant, ecumenical, and accessibility-focused options in the comparison view.

Licensing is in progress for the New Jewish Publication Society Tanakh, the definitive modern Jewish English translation. JPS 1917 already covers the Tanakh in public-domain form; NJPS is the modern complement Jewish readers most often ask for.

The Standard English Version of 1 Enoch is in the app — a single-book translation outside the standard canon, drawn from the Ethiopic. Free distribution per Winter Publications. Important for readers studying the apocalyptic background of the New Testament.

These publishers currently require an established user base before they will license to a new app. Every person who shares OpenScripture helps us cross that threshold. If these are your preferred translations, spreading the word is the single most effective thing you can do.

Future targets include NABRE, CSB, TLV, NJB/RNJB, ISV, EOB, and DBH. These matter for broader Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, academic, and evangelical coverage, but they are not the current licensing queue.

Three translation styles (formal, dynamic, paraphrase) × three emphases (accuracy, readability, devotional) = nine distinct renderings of every verse, generated directly from the original Hebrew and Greek. The nine-way grid is now serving across the full published canon, with gold-aligned word links so you can tap from any rendering back to the source language. Dynamic/Readability remains free; the full nine open up on Premium.

Tap any word to see the Hebrew or Greek root, Strong's number, part of speech, and how often it appears in Scripture. Coverage is solid across the Protestant canon and is being extended into the Catholic and Orthodox additional books.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references — showing how verses echo across the canon — are integrated for the Protestant canon. Scholarly cross-references for the deuterocanonical books are being generated.

Tap a verse to read its publisher commentary directly. NET Translator Notes and the NASB study notes surface in a side drawer, loaded a chapter at a time so they appear instantly. The source tabs now pulse and auto-scroll to the verse you tapped, so the right note is easier to find.

OpenScripture indicates how confident scholars are in the underlying manuscript reading at the word level. No other mainstream Bible app puts this kind of textual-certainty signal directly into the reader. We hope to add UBS 6 apparatus material when licensing allows, putting gold-standard scholarly certainty ratings directly into your hands.

Circled-numeral markers show exactly where translations part ways — distinct from publisher footnote markers, so you always know what you're looking at.

Listen to any translation. Planned for after the core text rollout is further along.

Sign in with email or Google. Highlights, notes, bookmarks, and preferences sync across devices.

Core features — translation comparison, original-language tools, commentary — will always be free. Premium unlocks unlimited Word Locks, unlimited Verse Locks, and the full nine AI translation combos. Launch coupons (share freely): ALPHABETABABY gives 3 months of Premium free, and ALPHABETABOOYA gives 50% off annual Premium. Both are valid until 30 Nov 2026. Join the newsletter for the official launch email, when paid checkout opens.

Typography controls, theme options, and density settings are live. Screen-reader polish is ongoing.