# Penned Grace — Handwrite the Bible daily

> Handwrite the Bible daily (iPhone/iPad app by YI HSUAN YEN.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/penned-grace/id6815144120 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [YI HSUAN YEN](https://appshunter.io/developer/6815144765)
- Category: Reference, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 105 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-30
- Data updated: 2026-10-23

## What is Penned Grace?

Slow down a busy day by writing one verse by hand.

Penned Grace is a Bible you write yourself. Choose a passage, write it one character or word at a time, and what you write stays on the page as a journal in your own hand.

■ Write by hand, or type
Trace, copy, or type. Works with Apple Pencil and with your finger, and the ink thins and thickens with your pressure. A fountain pen and black ink are free. When you are short on time, typing counts toward the day too.

■ The whole Bible, offline
The Berean Standard Bible and the Chinese Union Version 1919 (Traditional and Simplified) are built in, so you can write without a connection. Download the World English Bible when you want it.
Search by reference or by keyword. Word stems are matched, so "loving" finds "loved", and Traditional and Simplified Chinese find each other.
Open a second translation beside the text.

■ A page in your own hand
Finished writing takes its place in the passage and becomes a page you wrote yourself. Replay the whole session stroke by stroke, export a PDF, or make a card to share.

■ Marks, not streak pressure
A few words is enough to leave today's mark. Twelve milestone marks stay once earned — even if the streak breaks, the road you walked is still yours. No leaderboards, no points, no red warnings.

■ Reading plans and a verse a day
Five plans are free: Meeting Jesus in 7 Days, Psalm 23 Slowly, Promises of Peace in 14 days, The Sermon on the Mount in 34 days, and Psalm 119 in 60 days. Follow one at your own pace. The home screen offers a new verse each day, with separate readings for Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost and Thanksgiving. Change translation or switch to typing and your progress still counts.

■ Quiet by design
A short pause with a prayer before writing is available, and easy to turn off entirely. The daily reminder is scheduled on your phone alone and never goes through a server.

■ Three languages
English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. The interface language and the translation are chosen separately.

■ Your writing is yours
Everything stays on your phone, and we cannot see it. There is no account and no sign-up. Your iPhone's iCloud device backup includes it, so it comes back when you restore a new phone.

■ Writing scripture is always free
Every translation, the whole Bible, all three writing modes, four guide styles, a fountain pen and black ink, the daily verse, streaks and milestones, share cards and the five plans above cost nothing. There are no ads.

Premium unlocks: a brush pen and a ballpoint, six ink colours and gold ink, a palette of 65 colours, five line weights, export a piece of writing as an A4 PDF, replay it stroke by stroke and save that replay as a square video to share or keep in Photos, five papers (Xuan paper, kraft, vellum, pale blue letter, cream grid), and four plans (Proverbs in 31 Days, Philippians Selections, All of Philippians, Psalms in 30 Days). The first three days of any premium plan are free.
The subscription is monthly or yearly. Both start with a 7-day free trial, and you can cancel any time under Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions.

Scripture is in the public domain or used under its licence, all fonts are open source, and the sources are listed in the app.

Terms of Use: https://pennedgrace.com/privacy/#terms
Privacy Policy: https://pennedgrace.com/privacy/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Penned Grace Premium Monthly | $2.99 | per month |
| Penned Grace Premium Yearly | $24.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Support the developer: generous | $9.99 | one-time |
| Support the developer: a meal | $2.99 | one-time |
| Support the developer: coffee | $0.99 | one-time |


## Is Penned Grace safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Penned Grace.

## Is Penned Grace legit?

Penned Grace has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Penned Grace is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.7 — 2026-10-19

· The brush pen is retuned: it lands with weight, no longer pools at the end of a stroke, and corners are solid.
· Fixed missing characters when writing with the Simplified Chinese interface.
· Fixed English letters crowding together, and handwriting stretched vertically in PDFs.
· "My Bible" no longer cuts off the bottom lines of a page.
· Fixed share cards that could save as an image with no text.
· Fixed a payment that succeeded but showed as failed, and Restore Purchases overwriting an active subscription.
· Writing streaks no longer shift when you change time zones.
· Replay now has a draggable progress bar, and the verse follows the pen.

### 1.1.6 — 2026-10-17

· New "My Bible": what you have written, laid out where it sits in the Bible.
· Read any book page by page, with your own handwriting in place.
· Turn a book into a PDF in your own hand.
· Milestones, from your first verse to the whole Bible.
· Share your progress as an image.
· Set your own reminder time and write your own reminder wording.

### 1.1.5 — 2026-10-15

· A Chinese character you have written now appears the same size as the printed text beside it.
· Replay videos are three times faster. A single verse takes about 8 seconds, short enough to watch all the way through, and it takes less time to make.
· Typing an English passage is fixed. The passage now reads with its spaces, and when you type, spaces are optional and a half-typed word is no longer marked wrong.
· Opening the app no longer starts with the subscription screen. It is in Me whenever you want to look.
· When typing, finishing before you have typed anything now asks first, so you will not be left with an empty record.
· VoiceOver now says that a locked pen or ink is a Premium feature.
· Saving your writing is faster, including on pages with many strokes.

### 1.1.4 — 2026-10-09

• Bigger, sharper stroke replay videos
• All writing settings together in Settings: pen, ink, auto-advance, pad size
• A brush practice pad in Settings
• Even letter sizes when writing in English
• Reflection notes removed

### 1.1.3 — 2026-10-09

• Choose how big the writing pad is
• Set your pen and ink colour in Settings
• A practice pad in Settings — every pen is free to try there
• Copy and stability fixes

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