# BibleText — Read and study Scripture > Read and study Scripture (iPhone/iPad app by Willow Noonan.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bibletext/id6784567351 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Willow Noonan](https://appshunter.io/developer/6784567353) - Category: Reference, Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 36 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-10 - Data updated: 2026-08-30 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bibletext/id6784567351/reviews.md ## What is BibleText? A clean, fast, distraction-free way to read and study the Bible. • Distraction-free reading — the World English Bible (including a Catholic edition), the Berean Standard Bible, and the New King James Version — words of Christ in red, light and dark themes. • AI study — select any passage and have it explained, its context unpacked, or its translation discussed. Bring your own AI key; entirely optional. • Share — any verse as a clean, typeset image card, or as text with a Bluebook-style citation. • Notes from friends — send a verse with a short note carried inside the link. Public-domain passages open with the note in the app or browser; licensed-translation links show the note and a licensing notice on the web, with a route into the app. No account, no server. • Narration — complete human-recorded audio, with read-along verse highlighting and on-device read-aloud. Audio keeps playing with the screen locked. Free and open source. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.4 — 2026-08-28 Fixes for cross-references, shared notes, and audio. • Cross-references now work on the Romans doxology (16:25-27). They were missing entirely on that passage, in every translation, and references pointing at it showed a blank preview. • A shared note can no longer reserve a screen-height blank band around the passage it belongs to. • Windows and Linux: chapters recorded at a different sample rate no longer silence the rest of the session. Playing one chapter could leave the whole Old or New Testament unable to play. • Android: downloaded scripture is stored where the system will not copy it off the device. Your notes and settings still back up as before. • Translators' footnotes anchored in verses a translation omits are kept, so the note explaining the omission can still be read. ### 1.2.3 — 2026-08-27 Red-letter text now follows each translation's own publisher markings instead of borrowing another edition's decisions. • WEB, WEB Catholic, BSB, and NKJV now use their own marked spans, including partial verses. • NKJV restores four sayings its publisher marks as Christ's words: Mark 5:31, Matthew 27:63, Luke 17:36, and Luke 24:7. • A source-text revision can no longer silently colour the wrong words; a mismatched span safely degrades within that same edition. ### 1.2.2 — 2026-08-23 The iPad now works the way the iPhone does, and the book list has been rethought. IPAD • One app, one set of controls. The sidebar is gone; Read, Books and Search sit where they do on iPhone, so moving between your devices no longer means learning two layouts. • Turn the iPad on its side and those three move to the left edge, where there is room for them. Turn it back and they return to the bottom. BOOKS • The book list is now a grid, grouped under Old Testament and New Testament, so most of the canon is on one screen instead of sixty-six rows of scrolling. TRANSLATIONS • The translation list now shows only what you can actually read: the three public-domain translations and the New King James Version. Two copyrighted translations that were never selectable have been taken out rather than left sitting there greyed. • The New King James Version sits at the top of the list whether or not you have added a key, with a line saying how to unlock it — it used to sink below the others until you had one. SETTINGS • The two key boxes now behave alike: the same buttons in the same order, and the same wording when a key is tested. • The API.Bible box no longer sits empty asking you to paste a key when the included one is already working — it says so. READING • Cross-references and Gospel parallels now follow the numbering of the translation you are reading. A few references used to land on the wrong verse in translations that divide chapters differently — Daniel 3 and the closing of Romans among them. • A note you wrote yourself now has one control for putting it away, not two that did the same thing. • On Windows and Linux the passage is no longer drawn inside a box; it sits on the page as it does everywhere else. • On a wide screen, lists keep to a comfortable width rather than stretching across the whole window. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-08-20 Refinements for shared notes, and some fixes worth having. NOTES • Notes you wrote yourself now appear on the passage when you tap them in your notes list, marked "Note from you" — and tapping your own link no longer files a copy of your note back to you as if a friend had sent it. • Every note in the list has a small bin for deleting it on the spot, and the reading page's controls now say what they do: a bin deletes; X simply puts a note away. • On iPad, a note about a chapter's opening verses no longer sits over them, and the notes list is set to a comfortable reading width. READING • The words of Christ in the New King James Version are now complete. They had been cut short wherever the NKJV italicises a supplied word — most visibly in Matthew 11:28–30. • Moving between several notes on one passage no longer makes the page flash. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-19 Someone can now send you a verse with a note attached. Tap their link and BibleText opens the passage with their message beside it, in the translation they were reading. A passage can carry more than one note — the note says so ("1 of 3 on this passage") and tapping the count steps through them. Your notes are kept like a scrapbook on the Search tab: everything you have received and sent, searchable, sorted, and never thrown away. Notes travel inside the link itself — no account, no server, nothing collected. Sharing is more careful throughout: the citation now names exactly the verses you selected, even when the same words appear twice in a chapter, and shared poetry keeps its lines. The New King James Version is available and works as soon as you install the app. Settings has been rebuilt around what you actually change, and reading is tidier: the words of Christ keep their red when a verse is highlighted, and controls that were hard to make out in dark mode are now clearly drawn. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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