Project Status

The app is live in preview at app.openscripture.io. Compare translations side by side, tap words to explore the Hebrew and Greek behind them, and see where and why translations differ — all in your browser, free. Recent updates let you choose exactly which translations each Word Lock or Verse Lock applies to, and added named Bookmark Collections for organising your saved chapters.

Composite, Published, AI Translation, and Interlinear modes are live for supported Bible passages. 1 Enoch is available in Published mode only, since no original-language alignment exists for that text.

Search every translation from one box — quoted phrases, wildcards, Strong's numbers, and verse ranges all just work. Concept search covers the full 79-book canon and the commentary library, so you can ask a question in plain English and get verses and scholarly notes together. Tap the Strong's number in the Word Study drawer to find every verse that uses the same source-language word, and a new book-by-book frequency chart on the results shows at a glance which books lean most heavily on it.

Color highlights, notes, chapter bookmarks organised into named collections, and Word and Verse Locks — all syncing across your devices when you sign in. Word Locks tie a source-language word to your preferred English rendering so recurring vocabulary becomes familiar; Verse Locks pin a whole verse to your chosen wording; and both can now be scoped to exactly the translations you choose. Free accounts include two Word Locks, five Verse Locks, and a small collection allowance — Premium removes the limits.

The web app already works well on phones. Native iOS builds are on TestFlight and Android is in internal testing. The iOS reader mode bar now rides on Apple's new Liquid Glass material for a truly native feel, and recent rounds have focused on making offline downloads fast, reliable, and cancellable — including splitting AI translations into per-edition packages so you only download the ones you use — plus a wave of Android WebView polish (no accidental page zoom, cleaner focus behaviour) and tighter typography controls on both platforms. Public app store releases will follow once the testing rounds settle.

Fourteen free translations are in the reader: KJV, Young's Literal, ASV, the Berean Standard and Berean Literal Bibles, World English Bible, World Messianic Bible, New Heart English Bible, Literal Standard Version, unfoldingWord Literal Text, Douay-Rheims, Catholic Public Domain Version, Brenton's Septuagint, and the JPS 1917 Tanakh — spanning Protestant, Catholic, Messianic Jewish, and Jewish traditions.

The complete NASB 2020 is in the app — all 66 books plus more than eighteen thousand publisher study notes and the supplementary articles and appendices. Licensed through The Lockman Foundation's Free Distribution Permission Agreement, which means NASB is permanently free in OpenScripture — no paywall, ever.

The full NET Bible Second Edition is live, including its famous Translator Notes — a scholar's commentary on almost every verse, shown right alongside the text. Licensed through Biblical Studies Press / bible.org.

The REV is the app's default translation, with its extensive commentary fully integrated. Licensed from Spirit & Truth Fellowship and kept in step with their latest revisions.

Applications are underway for ESV, NLT, CEB, NRSVUE, The Message, and CEV — each one broadening the Protestant, ecumenical, and easy-reading options in the comparison view.

NJPS is a tracked licensing target — the modern Jewish translation readers ask for most. The public-domain JPS 1917 already covers the Tanakh in the meantime.

R. H. Charles's 1912 translation of 1 Enoch is in the app in its standard 108-chapter arrangement, from a public-domain edition. Valuable background for the apocalyptic imagery of the New Testament.

These publishers require an established user base before they will license a new app. If the NIV, NKJV, or Orthodox Study Bible is your translation, sharing OpenScripture with a friend is the single most effective thing you can do to bring it here.

Future targets include NABRE, CSB, TLV, NJB/RNJB, ISV, EOB, and DBH — broader Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, academic, and evangelical coverage for later licensing rounds.

Three translation styles (formal, dynamic, paraphrase) times three emphases (accuracy, readability, devotional) — nine fresh renderings translated directly from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, never paraphrased from copyrighted English translations. All nine editions are already in the reader; a fresh quality-improvement pass has just kicked off, and the bars below track its live progress chapter by chapter. Dynamic · Readability is free for everyone; Premium unlocks all nine.

Chapters not yet regenerated may still show the older AI rendering until this pass reaches them.

Use the published translations and the comparison drawer as the primary reading surface while regeneration completes.

Tap a word to see its Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek original, with Strong's number, part of speech, and how often it appears across Scripture. Coverage is strongest in the Protestant canon and expanding into the Catholic and Orthodox books; 1 Enoch has no original-language data. Douay-Rheims readers get something special: tapping a word shows the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate it was translated from, linked through to the underlying Greek and Hebrew.

The reader is usable, but the full-Bible certification pass for word taps, glosses, and interlinear alignment is still active.

In passages that have not completed the latest review pass, an original-language word link or gloss may occasionally be corrected later.

Use the verse text and comparison drawer as the primary reading surface, and send feedback from the reader if a word link looks surprising.

Cross-references showing how verses echo across Scripture are live for the Protestant canon, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Coverage for the deuterocanonical books is being generated.

Tap a verse to read its publisher commentary — NET Translator Notes and NASB study notes open in a side drawer and jump straight to the note for the verse you tapped.

Where scholarly manuscript-certainty data exists, a sensitivity slider lets you choose how much textual variation is highlighted — stable readings stay quiet, debated ones surface at the level you pick. We hope to add further scholarly apparatus material as licensing allows.

Circled numbers in the text mark where translations meaningfully differ, each with a plain-English explanation of why — a manuscript difference, a translation choice, or a numbering difference. Recurring choices that repeat across a chapter (a favourite rendering of a divine name, for instance) sit behind a single grouped Policy chip rather than a marker on every verse, so the page stays readable, and the chapter's difference summary now opens from every reading mode — Composite, Published, AI Translation, and Interlinear — with a small count in the header telling you how many markers are visible at your current settings. Coverage reaches every book of the Protestant and deuterocanonical canon, and a plain-English voice review has now swept the whole corpus of explanations, so every note reads in the same clear register. Notes not yet human-reviewed carry a quiet 'Unverified' badge, and a visibility toggle lets you dial markers up or down.

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 all your devices — and your reading position now travels with you too, so opening the app on another device drops you exactly where you left off.

The heart of OpenScripture is free forever: translation comparison, Scripture text, original-language tools, and commentary. Premium adds unlimited Word and Verse Locks and all nine AI translation editions. Everyone who signs in gets Premium free until December 12, 2026. Web plans are A$3 a month or A$24 a year. The founding first year is about 50% off: exact 50% on web (A$12) and Google Play (currently A$12.50 in Australia), and Apple's closest local price point (currently A$12.99 in Australia).

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