Lux Bible vs Deep Study Bible (No Ads)

Lux Bible brings in-depth Bible study into a calm, modern reading experience. Read Scripture, take notes, explore Greek and Hebrew, dig into study notes, maps, and videos, and follow reading plans without ads, subscriptions, purchases, or an account. Powerful enough for serious study and clean enough for everyday reading. READ Choose from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), Majority Standard Bible (MSB), Christian Standard Bible (CSB), King James Version (KJV), American Standard Version (ASV), and World English Bible (WEB), available offline. AMP, NIV, NASB95, NLT, and NKJV are also available online. Additional Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Romanian, Russian, and Tagalog translations are available. Read the original texts offline with the Greek Septuagint, Textus Receptus, Byzantine Textform, Statistical Restoration Greek New Testament, and Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible. Listen to the BSB or KJV with playback speed controls, a sleep timer, and background playback. Begin each day with Verse of the Day, also available as a Home Screen widget, and set daily reminders for it or any active reading plan. Choose an included plan or create your own from passages or selected books and a duration. Import and share plans as files, follow more than one plan, and track your progress. NOTE Highlight verses, words, or phrases with color, an outline, or one of several underlines, and mark them with icons. Add notes, create your own highlight styles, and organize everything into notebooks you can share as files. Filter your annotations or hide a notebook when you want a cleaner reading view. STUDY THE TEXT Tap any word to see its Greek or Hebrew root, Strong's number, morphology, and inflection. Lux makes original-language study approachable without making the rest of the app feel like academic software. - Explore a full Greek and Hebrew interlinear - Search words, phrases, or Strong's numbers - Compare translations side by side - Follow cross-references powered by OpenBible - Look up Greek and Hebrew words in Strong's Lexicon EVERYTHING ON THE PASSAGE Open Linked Resources on any chapter or verse to see what connects to it: the people and themes it involves, dictionary articles, maps, videos, and the creeds and catechisms that cite it. Pin it as a study panel and it follows along as you read. - Read Tyndale Study Notes, with book introductions and "at a glance" summaries, alongside commentary from Matthew Henry, John Calvin, and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown - Look up people, places, and topics in the Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary - Zoom into 70 Bible maps of journeys, battles, and regions - Watch 264 BibleProject videos, each linked to the passages it explains - Read 35 historic creeds, confessions, and catechisms with their Scripture proofs MAKE IT YOURS Start with a Reader, Note-taker, or Studier setup, then customize your toolbars and shortcuts. Keep parallel Bibles, interlinear study, commentary, cross-references, and notes open in swipeable study panels while you read. On iPad, panels sit right beside the text. FREE, PRIVATE, AND OFFLINE-FIRST Bundled Bibles, original-language texts, notes, and study resources work without a connection, while BibleProject videos stream online. Your content stays on your device. Lux has no ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases, or accounts. Privacy-respecting analytics and crash reports help improve features and reliability, and are never used for ads, personalization, or cross-app tracking. Lux is free and committed to staying that way.

Deep Study Bible puts the original Greek and Hebrew beneath every verse of the King James text — a true interlinear, on the very page you're already reading. Pronunciations sit above each word, and the meaning of any word is a single tap away. Everything lives on your device, so it all works offline. THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES, BUILT IN • The Greek of the New Testament and the Hebrew of the Old, beneath every verse • Hebrew rendered right-to-left with transliterations above each word • Tap any word for its lexicon definition — word study without leaving the chapter • Show or hide the original languages with a single tap STUDY TOOLS FOR A DAILY HABIT • Unlimited annotations, organized with colored labels you define • Unlimited bookmarks in eight colors — whole chapters or individual verses • The words of Jesus in red, a classic red-letter edition (toggle it off if you prefer) • Reading goals — the whole Bible, the Old Testament, or the New — with progress on your Home screen • Copy and share any verse, or create a shareable link that imports your notes and bookmarks straight into a friend's app LISTEN, OFFLINE • Download narrated audio bibles and build a listening playlist of whole books • Auto-advances chapter to chapter and keeps playing with your screen locked EVERY TRANSLATION, TO READ OR TO HEAR • KJV is bundled and ready the moment you open the app • Hundreds of available versions like NKJV, NLT, NIV, ESV, ASV, AMP, GNV, BSB and more • Browse and download more text and audio versions in the built-in store; some premium translations are available as one-time purchases • Swipe between chapters with a real page-turn feel PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No ads. No tracking. • Everything is stored on your device and works fully offline — the internet is only used when you choose to download a version.