Koine vs Sacred Scriptorium

Koine is a Koine Greek vocabulary and Bible (NT) study app for anyone looking to deepen their knowledge of the language that backs the Word of God. Moreover, and I think more importantly, this app aims to enlighten the berean around the two streams of Greek texts, the differences between them, and how they have shaped the translated Bibles we have today. All features are available offline, no internet connection required. Build custom vocabulary decks and study with FSRS — a modern spaced repetition algorithm that adapts to your actual retention rate, scheduling cards at the optimal moment for long-term memory. It outperforms older Leitner-style systems by modeling forgetting curves per card. Add any word to a deck directly from the reader — no switching between apps. Search all 5,000+ Greek NT words by lemma, transliteration, or English definition. Filter by part of speech, frequency, and more. See every inflected form, its parsing, and all NT verses where it occurs. Start your deck with structured vocabulary paths instead of building from scratch (premium): • Frequency tiers — the 100, 200, 300, or 500 most common NT words • Theme, grammar, and word-familial deck presets • Mounce Basics of Biblical Greek chapter-by-chapter vocabulary • David Alan Black's Learn to Read New Testament Greek • Passage-based decks — generate a deck from any NT book or chapter to study before reading it Read the Greek New Testament and tap any word to instantly see: • Lemma, transliteration, Strong's • Full parsing (tense, voice, mood, case, number, gender) • Abbott-Smith lexicon definition • Thayer's Greek Lexicon entry • Strong's definitions • NT occurrence count and frequency • All inflected forms found in the NT Comes with four bible texts for reference, all available offline: • Textus Receptus (TR) — Stephanus/Elzevir/Scrivener collation • SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT) • King James Version (KJV) • Lexham English Bible (LEB) Switch between editions at any time. Greek editions support full tap-to-parse; English editions are included for side-by-side reference. The core app is completely free — no subscription, no ads. A one-time Premium unlock ($8.99) adds: • Unlimited decks (free tier: up to 3) • Compare Greek / English interlinear tool • Compare Greek texts side-by-side • Passage-based deck generation • Frequency-based, theme, category based preset decks • Study statistics dashboard Sources (more detailed in the app): • Lexicon and morphology data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). • Bible texts from eBible.org. • Definitions from Abbott-Smith • Definitions from Strong's and Thayer's Greek lexicons.

Every day, Sacred Scriptorium sets a small portion of Scripture on your desk — the next few untranslated verses of the book you've chosen, in the original Greek or Hebrew. You render them in your own words. That's the whole practice: ten minutes, most days, and verse by verse the Scriptures become your own translation. MADE FOR REAL PROGRESS • Today's portion picks up exactly where you left off — no syllabus, no falling behind • Tap any word for its dictionary form, meaning, and full parsing; help when you want it, silence when you don't • Optional transliteration under the Greek while your alphabet confidence grows • A daily streak, and Stats that show how much of the New Testament is in your own words • Peek at the Berean Standard Bible on demand — hidden by default, so the rendering stays yours THE COMPLETE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT All 27 books of the SBL Greek New Testament ship in the app, with word-by-word morphology and the SBLGNT's own critical apparatus for readers who want to see the textual variants. THE HEBREW BIBLE, BOOK BY BOOK Hebrew Bible books (Westminster Leningrad Codex) with morpheme-level analysis — prefixes, suffixes, and stems each explained, with qere/ketiv notes. YOUR TRANSLATION, ACCUMULATING • The My Translation shelf fills in verse by verse, book by book • Revise any verse; keep parallel translation sets (a literal pass, a colloquial one) • Write chapter notes right from the translation desk • Study any chapter in side-by-side panes: original, your translation(s), the Berean Standard Bible, and your notes — two panes on iPhone, up to four on iPad and Mac • Compose and share any span of verses as clean prose, with your own paragraphing VOCABULARY THAT STICKS A spaced-repetition trainer built from New Testament frequency tiers quietly grows what you can read unaided — and everything you translate feeds what the app knows you know. FREE TO START, ONE PURCHASE FOR EVERYTHING John, Philippians, and 1 John in Greek, and Jonah and Ruth in Hebrew, are free forever — months of daily practice. A single small one-time purchase unlocks every other book of the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Bible. No subscription, ever. QUIET BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your translations sync privately through your own iCloud, visible to no one but you. Works fully offline. For pastors keeping a promise to their Greek, students who want daily contact with the text, and curious readers ready to meet the Scriptures in their original languages. Privacy Policy: https://stevenhovater.com/scriptorium-privacy Offered under Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/