We are building Bible Anvil — a private, offline-first Bible study app that treats you the way a paper Bible does. No ads. No tracking. No streaks keeping score. No AI telling you what the text means. And everything you build in it stays yours — to keep, to export, forever. If that’s the Bible app you’ve been waiting for, reserve your founding place while we forge it.
First notice when it’s ready — one email, nothing else. Confirmation delivered by Resend; no tracking, no marketing, no sharing.
We plan to finish Bible Anvil before the end of 2026.
“Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”Jeremiah 23:29
We are building the Illustrated Bible — curated, theologically vetted images accompanying the text as you read, fully offline. One day this page will show you.
Nine things we are building.
Open the network ledger any time: a plain, human-readable page of every request the app has made — normally empty. Privacy you can inspect, not just believe. No account required.
Decades of your margins, typeset with your chosen translation into a bindable heirloom — the margins left generous for your children to write beside your hand. And if our servers ever fell silent, the app would unlock itself on your device, permanently, with everything exportable.
Photograph a parent’s marked-up paper Bible and carry those margins into the digital page. Bring your notes from Obsidian, Notion, or Logseq. Export everything, always, free — Markdown, PDF, open formats.
In the pulpit, his natural reading pace drives the congregation screen — no clicker, no operator, no presentation software. And that is one piece of a suite that runs from Monday’s first thought to Sunday’s delivery.
One library built on readers, not languages — including the Ethiopian Tewahedo canon (~81 books) with honest provenance notes, and the King James line traced Wycliffe → Tyndale → Geneva → 1611.
Reading will be free — hundreds of translations, no account, no payment.
Tap a word and meet the original: a real reverse interlinear, grammar you can search, rarity you can see. Depth without gatekeeping.
Every tag you make quietly becomes a living, filtered view of the whole Bible — months of ordinary notes becoming a research library with zero setup. And the Heatmap shows you your years in the Word — where you’ve dug deep, where you’ve never been. Curiosity, not guilt.
Scripture read aloud, beautifully, in your heart language — and an eyes-free mode for the road and for readers who listen. Audio is a first-class way in, never a footnote.
Fully offline — no degraded mode, no hidden calls. At home on a five-year-old budget Android: if it stutters on a $150 Samsung, we have failed our mission. First-class on de-Googled phones and e-ink readers.
Before the features, we built a room called You Were Heard: the words of everyday readers, pastors, and missionaries — kept in the app, read-only, grouped by the people who said them. It ships with the app. Have something you’d want built? Join the waitlist — your confirmation email invites your ideas by reply, and a person reads every message.
AI may show you what is already there. It may not tell you what is meant by it.
We will never sell, rent, or share your data. We will never show you ads. We will never trap your work — export is free, unlimited, offline, always.
The full covenant is versioned, dated, and public, with every change logged. Read the covenant.
We are building a pastor’s whole week into Bible Anvil. Sermon preparation for pastors — from first thought to pulpit.
A Bible app that leaves you alone with the Word — and leaves everything you build in it yours. First notice when it’s ready.