Sword Drill vs Examine

Remember "Sword Drills" in Sunday School? The teacher whould announce a verse and see who could find it and read it to the class first. This app was built from that concept. It provides an expedited view of bible chapters/verses from BibleGateway.com. It add quick buttons to select the last several verses/passages most recently retrieved which enhances Bible study cross referencing. This was my first app first published when the App Store was barely a month old back in 2008. It was pulled from the store when the original 32 bit apps were disallowed because at the time I didn't have the time to update it. With the advent of AI, I was able to feed my old project and have AI turn it into a modern SwiftUI version in just a few minutes. There are other Bible Reading apps out there but this one is lightweight and agile in ways that are helpful. Sword Drill is a focused, native front-end for Bible Gateway. Pick a book, enter a chapter or verse, choose a translation, and read — without ads, banners, or site navigation getting in the way. FEATURES • Distraction-free reading — Ads, banners, and page chrome are automatically filtered out so you see only the passage text. Ad network requests are blocked to save bandwidth. • Three translation buttons — Tap KJV, NKJV, NASB, or customize the buttons in Settings with any version Bible Gateway supports. • Recent passages — Your five most recent lookups appear as quick-access buttons for fast reference. • Keep screen awake — Toggle the screen lock so your device stays on while you read or study. • Designed for accssibility. Every control has been enabled for voice over and color scheme updated for those with color discrimination issues. Sword Drill is not affiliated with Bible Gateway.

Examine is a quiet, scripture-first Bible reader for people who want to read closely and think carefully. Named for the Bereans of Acts 17:11 who "examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so", Examine is built for that kind of reading, and it holds one firm line: the AI never writes or paraphrases Scripture. Every verse comes straight from a published translation, shown exactly as published. READ • NIV, NLT, The Message, and ESV • A calm, typographic reader that opens any verse in its full chapter, never stripped of context • Highlight verses in four colors; highlights follow the verse across translations • Everything saved on your device with no account required STUDY • Ask: pose a question and get a grounded answer that points to the passages it rests on • Weigh: test any teaching, lyric, sermon, or quote against Scripture; Examine surfaces the passages for and against, and lets you judge • Trace: follow a phrase across the whole canon, Genesis to Revelation, verified verse by verse • Greek interlinear: read the New Testament word by word, with lemmas, parsing, and every place a word appears PRINCIPLES • Scripture is never generated, paraphrased, or summarized by AI • No ads, no tracking, no account • The reading, and the conclusions, are yours Examine points you to the Word. The rest is between you and it.