Bible Seek vs Colophon

Bible Seek is a tool to help build your relationship with Christ from your phone — aiming to deliver a clean reading experience and the kind of thoughtful study tools a disciple would need. Everything is on-device. No account to create, no sign-in, no cloud sync. READER: Four offline translations — *King James Version*, *American Standard Version*, *Berean Standard Bible*, and *World English Bible*. Verse-by-verse or flowing paragraph options. Red Letter edition available. Adjustable font size, themes, and auto night mode for after sunset. MARK ANYTHING: Highlight in the color of your choice. Add notes; a subtle dotted underline shows where each note lives– tap it to edit. Tag notes (prayer, promise, question, anything you like). Tap a verse for quick actions: change color, remove, or add a note. STUDY: Greek/Hebrew Word Study. Select any word within the inline wordstudy screen or the separate menu, and see the definition, transliteration, and gloss. Biblical name meanings — look up a name for the Hebrew or Greek behind it, what it means, who bore it in Scripture, and the verses where it appears. Cross-references on tap. Each verse has its own "Related" sheet if applicable. Compare versions side-by-side. See your annotations from the other translation surfaced as a badge so nothing gets buried after a version switch. KEEP A JOURNAL: Every bookmark, highlight, and note lives in the Journal. Notes show the source verse alongside your writing. Save the whole journal as a PDF for sharing or keeping. JSON backup + restore so you can move between devices safely. Recently-deleted entries linger for 7 days for easy recovery. READING PLANS: Three built-in plans: Bible in a Year, Gospels in 30 Days, New Testament in 90 Days. Build your own custom plan from any combination of books and a duration you choose. A "Continue plan" card on the home screen surfaces today's reading. Daily notification reminders at the time you choose. A celebration screen when you finish. MEMORIZE BY DOING: Memory Verses uses active recall, not passive reading. The verse appears as blanks; its words appear in a shuffled bank. Tap them in the right order to fill it in. Only when you've actually completed it does the app mark it memorized. EVERYDAY HABIT: Verse of the Day on the home screen, plus an optional iOS home-screen widget. Topics — themed verse collections on prayer, faith, grief, gratitude, forgiveness, and more. SHARE CAPABILITIES: Generate image cards of any verse or note in a range of themes — Parchment (flat/textured), Slate, Sage, and Gold — ready to drop into chats Plain quoted text with the reference attached also available. OFFLINE & PRIVATE: The full text of both translations ships inside the app. Reads anywhere — plane, mountain, basement. Your highlights, notes, and bookmarks stay on your device. No account, no analytics, no cloud. Annotations are searchable from iOS Spotlight (your data, your phone, your search). I hope this helps someone know Christ for themselves.

Colophon is an offline study Bible built on one idea: there are older words under your English. Read the King James Version (KJV), Berean Standard Bible (BSB) and World English Bible (WEB) offline. No account, no feed, no ads. Keep your notes and highlights on your device. INCLUDED WITHOUT A PURCHASE • All three Bible translations, fully offline • Scripture search, notes, highlights, bookmarks, tags and Markdown note export • The plain reading page, with your device's text size • Word of the Day widget: an English headword and verse reference COLOPHON PRO — ONE-TIME IN-APP PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION The following featured tools require Colophon Pro: • Word Study: tap tagged words in KJV or BSB for the Greek or Hebrew behind them — Strong's entries, Abbott-Smith (Greek) and Brown–Driver–Briggs (Hebrew) entries where available, roots and word families, translation renderings and occurrences. Resize the study sheet while keeping the text above it. WEB has no word tagging; open the same verse in KJV or BSB to study its words. • Lexicon search: English, Strong's number, transliteration, Greek or Hebrew • Cross references: ranked connections between Bible passages • Your Words: a local history of the words you have studied • Listen: BSB narration by Barry Hays, downloaded per book from GitHub and kept for offline playback. KJV and WEB use your device's speech voice. The page follows the reading. • Word of the Day widget: Greek or Hebrew, transliteration and a link into Word Study; verse text on supported larger widgets • Study Desk: compare two translations, verse by verse; side by side on wider screens • Notebooks and backlinks, print-ready PDF Study Sheets, and note import from Markdown or CSV • Backup & Restore: your study in a portable file you control • Additional reading backgrounds and the in-app text-size control. Previously retained background and text-size choices remain available to eligible existing readers; word study has no such exception. YOUR STUDY, ON YOUR DEVICE Notes, highlights and word history stay on your device unless you export them. Colophon runs no servers and includes no analytics or advertising SDK. Optional BSB audio downloads contact GitHub, which can see your IP address and requested files. During continuous listening, the next book can download automatically. Installed speech voices work on your device. Purchases are handled by the App Store. The texts and study sources are public-domain or openly licensed, with credits in the app. The words under the words.