Immerse Research vs Via Patrum

Immerse is a sacred-text reader built for research: read every tradition side by side, collect and annotate passages as you go, and turn them into organized, exportable compilations. It's an offline library of 400+ sacred texts — and a set of tools for building your own thematic compilations from across every tradition in it. BUILD COMPILATIONS Long-press any passage to select it, then add it to a compilation. Compilations are your collections: gather passages from the Qur'an, the Bible, the Upanishads, the Buddhist sutras, the Bahá'í writings and more under a single theme — Prayer, Justice, The Nature of the Soul. Your compilation grows one passage at a time, across every tradition in the library. ANNOTATE AS YOU READ Add notes to any selection. Create cross-references linking a passage in one book to a passage in another — the connections you notice, kept where you found them. When you build a cross-reference, tap Suggest a match to get AI-ranked related passages from across the whole library, each with a one-line reason. Everything anchors to the exact text you selected. EXPORT AND SHARE Export any compilation — or a set of cross-references, laid out side by side by tradition — as a Word document, PDF, spreadsheet, or Markdown file, complete with your notes. Or share your compilations or cross-references with a private link: anyone with the link can open them or save a copy into their own library. Ready to send, publish, or study from. A COMMUNITY OF READERS Make any compilation public and other readers can find it in Discover — preview its passages, then import the whole collection into your own library with one tap, and follow the readers whose work you want to keep up with. A living body of interfaith study, built by the people using it. THE LIBRARY 400+ complete sacred texts, all offline. Full-text search across every one of them at once — type a whole question and AI finds the passage that answers it, right alongside your keyword matches. Listen to any passage read aloud. Your reading position is saved automatically. Also available in Spanish, French, Persian, Chinese, Turkish, and Russian, with full right-to-left support for Persian. GUEST, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Read and search the entire library offline, and share quotes. FREE WITH AN ACCOUNT • Compilations — group passages from across the library under your own themes • Notes — comment on any passage • Cross-references — link passages across the whole library • Suggest a match — AI-ranked related passages when you build a cross-reference • Quick compilation from search — add many passages to a compilation at once • Listen — tap the headphones to hear any passage read aloud • Daily Readings — follow a reading plan through any book, or get random verses from traditions you choose, with morning and evening reminders and a streak • Recently viewed — pick up where you left off • Export — compilations and cross-references as PDF, DOCX, CSV, or Markdown • Share links — send a compilation or cross-reference set by private link • Publish — make any compilation public for other readers to find • Discover — browse and import compilations other readers have published • Sync across all your devices IMMERSE PRO — $0.99/month, 30-day free trial Pro helps cover the running costs of the app. It adds: • AI summary — select a passage and get its meaning explained in the context of the book it comes from • Premium voices — natural, expressive narration for Listen, in your choice of voice • Import your own books — bring in EPUB, PDF, DOCX, or TXT files to read, search, and annotate* *Not every file imports cleanly. DOCX files with images or unusual formatting, and scanned (non-text) PDFs, may import unreliably or not at all.

Via Patrum means "the way of the Fathers": how the Church Fathers spoke, acted, argued, lived and died. This free library gives you their own words in fresh English translations, made from the original Greek and Latin. TODAY opens with a passage from the Fathers and the Bible verse behind it, the same one viapatrum.org shows that day. Tap to read the passage, see what the other Fathers said, or read the chapter. READ whole works, from Clement of Rome and Ignatius to Origen and beyond, in a clean reader built for long reading. The whole library downloads once and works offline. LISTEN with read-along audio. The sentence being read is highlighted, and playback continues with your screen locked. Narration is computer-generated. SCRIPTURE AT A TAP. Every Bible citation opens the verse in the Berean Standard Bible, NET Bible, World English Bible or King James Version, all on your device. With a connection you can also read the NIV, NASB, NIrV, Amplified Bible, ASV and Geneva Bible. Browse any chapter to see which Fathers cite it. TOPICS gather what the Fathers taught on one question, earliest first. The TIMELINE shows who wrote when. SEARCH covers every work and topic. Free, with no account, no ads and no tracking. The app shows the same library as viapatrum.org and updates as more works are translated. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/