Pilgrim vs Scripture Memory

A Bible-first companion for thoughtful Protestants. Pilgrim brings daily reading, deeper study, and shared plans into one place — and lets you bring anyone along. Free. No ads. No subscription. Prayer lists now live in a separate app called Prayer. Your prayers are still here until you move them. EIGHT TRANSLATIONS, FREE Read in ESV, CSB, NIV, NLT, NASB, KJV, ASV, or WEB. Modern translations stream from the Pilgrim proxy. KJV, ASV, WEB, and the Berean Standard Bible are bundled for full offline reading — on a plane, in the woods, anywhere. SHARE WITH ANYONE Send a reading plan to a friend and walk through it together. Tap any verse to share it as a route.bible link. No closed networks, no follower counts. You decide who's in. READING PLANS THAT GO SOMEWHERE Bible-in-a-Year, your way: chronological, canonical, or both at once. The Heidelberg Catechism over 52 weeks. The Westminster Shorter and Larger. MacArthur's 30-day mastery method. Plus thirteen shorter plans — Psalms, the Gospels, Genesis through Joshua, and more. CATECHISM BROWSER The Heidelberg Catechism, Westminster Shorter, Westminster Larger, and Luther's Small Catechism — every question, every answer, every proof text. Read straight through or jump by question number. Tap any reference to open it in the Reader. MEMORY Verse cards and catechism cards in one rhythm. Spaced review at your pace. No leaderboards. No streak shaming. NOTES Sermon notes auto-link Scripture references back to the Reader. FREE BY DESIGN ESV is licensed from Crossway for non-commercial use. CSB, NIV, and NLT come through the same non-commercial channel. NASB ships via the YouVersion Platform under Lockman's terms. Pilgrim stays free with no in-app purchases. CONTACT Bug? Feature request? https://everlight-digital.com/support — or email brendan@everlight-digital.com.

Every memory app carries its own Bible. This one carries none. That sounds like less, and it is the whole point. If the translation you memorize in is missing from an app, or locked behind a subscription, that app is closed to you no matter how good the drill is. Here you paste the passage in yourself, from your own translation, and the drill works on exactly those words. Paste any passage. Copy a verse, a paragraph, or a whole chapter out of whatever Bible you use — printed, or the app already on your phone — and paste it in. Pick the book, chapter and verses from a table of all 66 books, so a reference that does not exist cannot be entered. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is looked up. The words you miss. Every drill records each word separately: how many times you were asked for it, and how many times it broke. The hidden words are chosen from that record, hardest first, with ties going to the earlier word so the screen does not shuffle on you. Most apps hide words at random or in order; the difference shows up around the fourth or fifth pass, when you keep landing on the same five words. Five stages, and a clean run moves you on. Each stage hides one fifth more of the passage. Finish a stage without a single miss and you move up and the passage comes back later: 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, then 30 days. Miss one and the interval goes back to the start — not as a punishment, just as an honest reading of where you are. Any length. A chapter is split into segments of about sixty words, so a long passage works the same way a single verse does. Nothing here is built for one verse at a time. Where it breaks, in a list. The words that keep failing are listed with the count beside them: five of seven tries, four of seven. That list is what you take back into the drill. No account. No sign-in. No server. Everything is on this phone, including the text you pasted. It is never uploaded, and it is never put into the card you share — that card carries the reference and the numbers, nothing else. Languages: English, 한국어, 日本語, 繁體中文, Deutsch, Français, Español