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. You can also choose which translations each Word Lock or Verse Lock applies to, and group saved chapters into named Bookmark Collections.

Composite, Published, and Interlinear reading are live for supported passages. The AI Translation tab currently shows a development notice while the replacement AISE, AIRE, and AIDE Bible editions are researched, translated, aligned, reviewed, and certified. The earlier experimental AI renderings have been withdrawn.

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.

Colour 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 in TestFlight testing and Android is in internal testing. This week you can download the free translations for offline reading without signing in first, and brand-new installs open straight to a chapter. When account syncing has to pause, the app now explains why in plain English and picks up again by itself once you're back online. Earlier rounds made offline downloads fast, reliable, and easy to pause, resume, or cancel, with every downloaded translation checked verse by verse before the app will trust it. 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. You'll now find them in the app under "Translations we want to add", with a Share button right beside them. 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 new, independent editions are being designed: the AISE Bible (Study Edition), which shows its sources, the accessible AIRE Bible (Reader Edition), and the literary AIDE Bible (Dynamic Edition). The earlier experimental text has been withdrawn and is not available in the reader, comparison view, search, or downloads. Publication begins only after source research, translation review, word alignment, apparatus, and release certification are complete.

No AI Bible wording is currently published in the reader, comparison, search, personalised-Bible, or offline-download surfaces. AI Translation mode shows a development notice instead of substituting a published English base text.

Use a published translation while the new editions complete source research, translation review, word alignment, apparatus review, and publication certification.

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; the Orthodox Septuagint's Greek word data has now passed its first full quality check, with the deuterocanonical books' word data rebuilt directly from that Greek text, and Catholic coverage keeps expanding. 1 Enoch has no original-language data. Douay-Rheims and the Catholic Public Domain Version both show the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate a word was translated from, linked through to the underlying Greek and Hebrew, and the historic Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary behind the word study card now covers essentially every Old Testament word, complete with each word's root, related forms, and its Hebrew or Aramaic equivalent where one exists.

The reader is usable, but we are still checking word-by-word links across the whole Bible.

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 Verse 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. Publisher study notes and translator commentary now sit in separate lanes in the comparison view, so you can scan each on its own.

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. Choices that repeat across a chapter are collected into one summary rather than repeating the marker on every verse, and the chapter summary opens from every reading mode. Coverage reaches every book of the Protestant and deuterocanonical canon; person-by-person review continues book by book, with Galatians the latest to be checked, and notes not yet 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, notes, and Personalised Bibles. Everyone who signs in gets Premium free until 3 March 2027; subscribing before then supports the project and locks in the founding price. 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 — most recently, VoiceOver users on iPhone can now pick any chapter and verse from the book picker.