# Lensightful: Bible Explained — Understand stories & verses > Understand stories & verses (iPhone/iPad app by Antoine Riendeau.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lensightful-bible-explained/id6772068201 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Antoine Riendeau](https://appshunter.io/developer/6772068203) - Category: Reference, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 122 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-06-21 - Data updated: 2026-10-04 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lensightful-bible-explained/id6772068201/reviews.md ## What is Lensightful? Read the Bible. Finally understand it. Lensightful is a Bible reader that opens any verse three ways: what it meant in its own time, the story around it, and what it can mean for your life today. Maybe you grew up with the Bible and drifted. Maybe you opened it again and it just didn't land. We believe the problem was never you. Most of us were handed the surface of the text and never shown what lies underneath. That's the name: a lens doesn't change what you see. It helps you see it. WHAT YOU GET • Understand any verse: its story, its setting, and what it can mean for you, in plain words. • Word by word: tap a word to see the original Greek or Hebrew and what it meant before translation. • Study decks: illustrated studies you can finish in ten minutes, from the Sermon on the Mount to the Ten Plagues. • Verses for what you're walking through: stress, anxiety, grief, purpose, loneliness. • Guide: ask the questions you'd never ask in church. • Is this changing the Bible? No. Every reading starts from the text and what it meant in its own language and time. The lenses show how other careful readers saw the same words. You decide what rings true. ALSO INSIDE • A verse each morning, picked for what you're going through • Home screen widget • Reading plans that survive busy weeks • Save and share the lines that stay with you • Pray privately or with friends WHO IT'S FOR Word studies draw on the standard Hebrew and Greek lexicons, and every reading starts from the text, not from an opinion. Made by one independent maker, with no church and no agenda behind it. For Catholics, Protestants, the Orthodox, and anyone finding their way back. FREE WHILE WE GROW The whole Bible is free to read, always. Everything else is free for now too. We're building a small community of readers, and we want to hear from you: what helps, what doesn't, and how Lensightful can help more people hear the Word and let it change their lives. Terms of Use: https://lensightful.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://lensightful.com/privacy ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.12 — 2026-10-02 New Saved scrapbook: your highlights, notes, bookmarks and saved readings in one place. Explore is now a swipe deck with a picture on every card. A new verse of the day card on Today, refreshed home screen widgets in Light, Black and Blue, and softer buttons across the app. ### 1.0.11 — 2026-09-28 A fresh new look across the app. New Path tab to walk through lessons step by step. Onboarding now lets you pick several struggles, a 3, 7 or 21 day rhythm, and how many reminders you want. ### 1.0.10 — 2026-09-28 A new welcome: a few quiet questions shape the verses you see first. Every picture in the app is repainted in a calm mid-century style, and buttons, cards and Search are redesigned to match. Study plans now lead the Home screen, 352 chapter headings open on a painting, and new studies include the Sermon on the Mount through the Presence lens and John 15 and 16. Tap a verse for a cleaner menu. Community activity now reaches your lock screen. Plus smaller fixes. ### 1.0.9 — 2026-09-18 Six new studies on the Plans board: The Ten Plagues, The Odyssey (a three part pack), The Rock, the Staff and the Water, Jung and the Garden of Eden (seven parts), Jung on Jonah and the Whale, and the Sermon on the Mount through Eckhart Tolle's lens. Study cards now open on a painting, with the title set beneath it. New studies arrive on their own from now on, without an update. Plus smaller fixes. ### 1.0.8 — 2026-09-17 New study: The Father. One word Jesus uses for God, read three ways: Eckhart Tolle, A Course in Miracles, and Advaita, with the Bible lines each reading leans on. New in Explore: Interpretations, a library to browse every lens verse by verse. 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