Lamp & Line is a calm place to read the Bible. The complete Bible, free and offline: no account, no feed, no advertisement, no interruption. The Bible text is in English: the Berean Standard Bible.
It opens to Scripture, stored on your device: on a plane, in a basement, with every network switched off.
Typeset, not dumped on screen. Poetry keeps the lines the translators set, with wrapped lines hanging beneath them the way a printed psalter does. Prose flows as paragraphs rather than a stack of numbered cards. Verse numbers are there when you want them and quiet when you do not. Footnotes are set apart, so a note can never be mistaken for Scripture. Light by day and dark at night, by the system or a schedule you set, at every text size iOS offers without a word clipped.
Find the verse. Type "John 3:16", "Jn316", "Psalm 23", "Romans 8:28-32", a phrase in quotation marks, or just the words you half remember. References resolve instantly. Everything else is searched across the whole Bible in a fraction of a second, offline.
A small daily rhythm. One Psalm, one short reading, one prayer. One card a day, not a feed. It is the same on your iPhone, your iPad, your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, in StandBy, and on your Apple Watch. One reminder a day, at a time you choose — or none at all.
A plan that waits for you. Take a book, a testament, or the whole Bible a few chapters at a time, or begin the year's plan on January 1. Miss a week and nothing is broken: no streak, nothing marked missed, and nothing moves unless you ask. Your next reading waits on the Lock Screen too.
On your wrist, properly. Today comes to your Apple Watch for nothing — the day's Psalm, its reading, and its prayer, with your phone switched off. Full opens the whole Bible there too: all 66 books on your wrist, offline, not a subset and not a companion screen.
Yours, and private. Nothing you read, search for, or write is sent to us, and there is no analytics of any kind. Bookmarks, highlights, notes, and plans are kept on your device and, if you turn on iCloud sync, in your own private iCloud database with every field encrypted, so your iPhone and iPad match; your place in the text is offered, not imposed. Searches and settings never go to iCloud. You can export everything you have written, read it back in on another device, and delete it, at any time.
One passage leads to another. Tap a verse and follow its threads — the passages that speak to it, with their words in front of you, one tap away and one gesture back.
A verse, set to send. Choose any verse — or just the words you mean — and set it as a card: four looks, three shapes, and the reference and translation always on it. Nothing is screenshotted; the card is typeset from the text itself.
On iPad, the same book. One purchase covers both; there is no separate app and no second price. The page keeps a comfortable measure rather than stretching a line of Scripture across thirteen inches, and it turns whichever way you are holding it.
Free means free. On iPhone and iPad: the complete Bible, search, your bookmarks and notes, Today, a reading plan (the New Testament, or the whole Bible in a year), a Home Screen widget (in StandBy too), and every accessibility feature cost nothing, for good. Marking a whole verse is free too, and so is copying or sharing any verse as text. On Apple Watch, Today is free, with a complication to open it. Lamp & Line Full is one purchase — no subscription — that adds word study (the Hebrew and Greek behind every verse), iCloud sync, every page color, typeface and layout (on your widgets and share cards too, and your page on Apple Watch), every widget size, every complication, the whole Bible on Apple Watch, threads between passages, highlighting the exact phrase rather than the whole verse, every share-card design, and as many reading plans as you like.
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