Oakseed Bible vs Critica

Oakseed Bible puts the great teachers of the church on every page. Tap a verse and read what Matthew Henry, Calvin, Spurgeon, Charles Hodge, J.C. Ryle, Poole and Trapp said about it — side by side, in a study Bible that is genuinely free. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. Everything below is included. STUDY WITH THE CLASSICS • Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the whole Bible • John Calvin's Commentaries — Genesis to the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistles • Charles Hodge on Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians • J.C. Ryle's Expository Thoughts on the Gospels • Matthew Poole's Annotations and John Trapp's Commentary • Spurgeon's Treasury of David on the Psalms, plus thousands of his sermons as a free in-app download • Over 67,000 commentary entries, cross-references on every verse A WORD FOR EVERY DAY • Spurgeon's Morning & Evening — two readings a day, all year • F.B. Meyer's Through the Bible Day by Day • The Upper Loft — Dr. Ed Bradley's daily devotional • 49 reading plans — M'Cheyne, chronological, the Gospels, the Psalms, the Horner system and more — with a gentle daily reminder if you want one READ AND DIG DEEPER • 11 Bible translations built in, including KJV, WEB, ASV and the Berean Standard Bible — plus ESV, NIV, NLT and NKJV streamed from their publishers • Touch any word for its Greek or Hebrew — Strong's lexicon, 14,000 entries • Search every verse and every commentary in an instant • Clean, book-like pages: adjustable type, serif or sans, and warm, white, dark or match-your-device themes MAKE IT YOURS • Highlights in four colors, bookmarks, and verse notes • A private prayer journal with categories and answered-prayer tracking • A free account backs up your notes and syncs across your devices — export everything, or delete your account and data, any time IN YOUR LANGUAGE Read in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Bengali, Burmese, or Amharic — each with its own Bible, and the commentaries and devotionals translated too (Hodge is English-only). Oakseed Bible is built by Oakseed Ministries and supported by donors so it can stay completely free. No ads today, no ads ever.

Critica is a critical-edition reference covering the full primary sourcebase of Islam across five tabs: • QURAN — All 114 surahs, grouped Meccan / Medinan, with section-by-section annotations. • HADITH — The six Sunni books (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah) and the Twelver Shia al-Kafi, with the most consequential and most-cited narrations. • SIRA — Muhammad's biography by event cluster — Mecca, Hijra, Badr, Uhud, the Jewish-tribe encounters, Khaybar, the conquest of Mecca, the Farewell Sermon. • FIQH — Classical jurisprudence on contested topics across the four Sunni madhabs (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali) and the Twelver Ja'fari school: apostasy, marriage age, hudud, polygamy, jizya, FGM, and more. • TAFSIR — Major classical exegetes (Tabari, Ibn Kathir, Qurtubi, Razi, Tabarsi, Zamakhshari) with their distinctive readings of famous verses. Every flag is sourced. Each section cites a specific ayah (Q surah:verse), a hadith number (Bukhari 5134), a sira page (Ibn Hisham 2:240), or a madhab manual (al-Mughni 9:486) so a curious reader can verify the claim in any translation. The eleven flag categories: • Violence • Misogyny • Slavery • Hostility to unbelievers • Anti-LGBTQ teaching • Harm to children • Scientific errors • Historical errors • Contradictions • Moral problems • Logical issues Filter by flag to focus on one kind of issue at a time. Tap any flag to expand its full annotation. The reading level is middle-school to high-school. The tone is editorial, not polemical — the reader assumed throughout is someone who was told the tradition was perfect and noticed otherwise, and wants substantive engagement with what mainstream critical scholarship has actually said. SOURCES Patricia Crone, Michael Cook, John Wansbrough, Gerd-R. Puin, Christoph Luxenberg, Tom Holland, Robert G. Hoyland, Fred Donner, Joseph Schacht, G.H.A. Juynboll, Ignaz Goldziher, Jonathan Brown, Wael Hallaq, Ibn Warraq, and the Skeptic's Annotated Quran. Classical sources cited directly include the Six Books of Sunni hadith, al-Kafi, Ibn Hisham's recension of Ibn Ishaq, al-Tabari's history, and the classical tafsirs of Tabari, Ibn Kathir, Qurtubi, Razi, Tabarsi, and Zamakhshari. Critica is the Islamic-tradition companion to Decanon (the same critical-edition treatment applied to the Protestant Bible).