Bible Library vs Lantern

Bible Library is a beautifully crafted Bible app for reading, listening, and growing in faith — completely free, with no ads and no subscriptions. READ • Multiple Bible translations in five languages • Old and New Testament, organized for effortless navigation • Highlight verses in four colors, add notes and bookmarks • Five hand-crafted themes — Morning, Night, Sepia, Joy, and Blossom — applied consistently on every screen LISTEN • Natural text-to-speech that follows along verse by verse • A redesigned audio player that never covers the text you're reading • Optional background music for a peaceful reading atmosphere DAILY GOSPEL • The Gospel and daily readings every day, with reflections • A bell with your unread count, so you never miss a day • Feast days and liturgical events at a glance BIBLE STUDIES • Multi-day guided studies with day-by-day progress • Featured studies and your personal study list • Study schedules and gentle reminders that respect your time GROW • My Journey: a map of every book you've visited, a garden that grows as you read, and your annual reading report • Daily reading streaks, with shields that protect your progress • More than 100 badges celebrating your walk through Scripture MADE FOR EVERYONE • Designed for iPhone and iPad, with layouts that make the most of a larger screen • Fully localized in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese • Works offline — your Bible is always with you • Free forever: no ads, no subscriptions, no paywalls Download Bible Library today and make Scripture part of your every day.

Lantern reads the Bible aloud. Open it, press play, and listening begins from exactly where you stopped — chapter after chapter, book after book, for as long as you want to listen. No account. No subscription. No paywall. We do not think anyone should have to pay to read or hear the Bible. LISTEN ANYWHERE Every translation is stored inside the app, so Lantern works with no signal at all — on a plane, on a commute, in a basement. Nothing to download first, nothing to buy. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Lantern remembers your place automatically. Close the app mid-verse, come back days later, and it resumes on the same line. A VOICE THAT IS EASY TO LISTEN TO Choose a reading voice and speed, then pick a tone. Soothing slows the pace and lengthens the pauses between verses and clauses, so it sounds like someone reading to you rather than a machine reciting. SLEEP TIMER Set it to stop after a chosen number of minutes, or at the end of the current chapter, and fall asleep to scripture without the app running all night. THREE TRANSLATIONS INCLUDED - King James Version - Bible in Basic English — plain, simple wording - Reina-Valera (1909) — in Spanish, with a Spanish reading voice Switch translation mid-chapter and Lantern keeps your exact place. ALSO INSIDE - The complete Old and New Testaments, all 66 books - A verse of the day - Reading plans that track your progress - Bookmarks and a daily listening streak - Shareable verse images PRIVATE BY DESIGN Lantern has no accounts and no trackers. Your reading position, bookmarks and settings are saved on your device and never sent anywhere. We cannot see what you read or listen to, because we collect nothing. All included translations are in the public domain.