Why another Bible app
Most of them are built to keep you coming back. They count your streak in red, they send a notification that starts with “Don’t forget”, and the day you miss is the day the app finally has something to say. Reading the Bible is not a thing you should be losing at.
So this one keeps a record instead of a score. It doesn’t contain the Bible — you read whichever one is already on your shelf or your phone — it just remembers which chapters you read and when, and draws everything else from that: how far through the canon you are, which divisions you’ve barely touched, what pace you’re actually keeping and where it leads. One list of chapters is the truth, and every number on every screen is a view of it.
The record has to be worth keeping for years, which decided most of what the app doesn’t do. There is no account to lose. There is no subscription to lapse. Your reading is never behind a purchase, and it never will be — the only thing on sale is the wardrobe. And there is no server, which is why Circles, the one social feature, is still a preview: the honest version of an unfinished thing is to say so on the screen.
The daily note is written on the device, and it leads with today, never with a number you could lose.
How it is built
SwiftUI and SwiftData, for iOS 26 and up, on iPhone and iPad. The design system is small and stubborn: three typefaces split by what a thing is — a serif for the names of books and the headlines about them, a rounded face for every figure, the system face for everything functional — one brass accent for the chrome, and eight colours that belong to the eight divisions of the canon and to nothing else. Springs, never ease curves. Five haptics, each with a meaning. Nothing red.
The widgets read a projection the app writes and never compute anything themselves. The reminder learns the hour you read at rather than asking for one. The photographs behind the app are from Unsplash and will always be free, because the licence says a photograph can’t be the product — so the Supporter unlock only ever sells the painted covers, which are ours.