Exegesis vs Verse

Exegesis is a quiet, beautiful Bible reading tracker — a candlelit checklist for working through all 1,189 chapters of Scripture at your own pace. CHOOSE YOUR PATH • Straight Through — Genesis to Revelation in canonical order • Guided Chronological — the story of Scripture in the order it happened Your progress is shared between both plans: a chapter read is a chapter read. TRACK WITH DELIGHT • Tap a chapter to gild it gold — satisfying, glanceable progress • Overall, Old Testament, and New Testament stats at the top of every visit • Mark a whole book read (or clear it) in one tap • A full history of every chapter, with timestamps READ WITHOUT LEAVING • Read the English Standard Version (ESV) right in the app • Prefer the NIV? One tap opens your chapter on Bible Gateway • "Continue" always knows the next unread chapter in your plan YOURS, WITH OR WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT Exegesis works completely offline with no account — your progress lives on your device. Create a free account only if you want to sync with the Exegesis web app and read alongside family and friends. You can delete your account (and all its data) from inside the app at any time. No ads. No analytics. No subscriptions. Just you and the text. Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Verse is a Bible reader built around the idea that scripture is worth slowing down for. Every chapter is paired with an original watercolour illustration using AI, so a passage arrives with a sense of place rather than as a wall of text. Alongside it sit short, plain-language notes: the geography of where something happened, who the people were, what a word meant in the original language, and how a passage connects to the rest of the book. Reading is page by page rather than verse by verse, and your place is kept automatically. A reading plan tracks progress across chapters and books, and any passage can be shared as a designed card. There is no account, no sign-up, and no onboarding. Open it and read. All 66 books are included, and the complete set of notes is stored on your device, so they work without a connection. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public domain translation.