Bible in Basic English Offline

The complete Bible in Basic English (BBE), offline. Free forever. No ads. No tracking.

Read the entire Old and New Testament anywhere — on a flight, in a remote area, in a hospital, on the bus. The full BBE text lives on your device the moment you install. No internet ever required.

PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY

We don't track you. We don't collect data. We don't have a centralized server to leak. It is physically impossible for us to touch your data — the app has no network calls.

• No ads, ever
• No tracking
• No personal information saved or shared
• No account, login, or sign-up
• Works completely offline after install

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Complete Bible in Basic English — all 66 books, Old and New Testament
• Full-text search across the entire Bible
• Highlight verses in five colors
• Personal notes on verses, with tags to find them again
• Bookmarks for chapters and passages
• Favorites for verses you want to keep
• Reading history, reading stats and daily reading streaks
• Back up highlights, notes and history to a file — and restore them, even on a new phone
• Daily Bible verse — in the app, as a notification or as a home-screen widget
• Theme options — light, dark, sepia, high contrast, or follow the system
• Adjustable font size and text style (serif, sans-serif or monospace)
• Easy verse sharing

DESIGNED TO BE LIGHT

• Small APK — minimized download, lean storage footprint
• Runs on older Android phones (Android 5.0 and up)
• No background services draining battery

FREE TO USE, FREE TO SHARE

We believe everyone should have access to the Bible regardless of internet connectivity, device, or income. This app is free forever, with no ads or in-app purchases — and easy to share with anyone.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

This app is part of Offline.Bible — a small effort to make Bible translations available wherever people go, especially where internet doesn't. The Bible in Basic English (BBE) was produced by Samuel Henry Hooke and a small team of scholars and first published in 1949. It uses a vocabulary of around 850 simple, common English words, making the Bible especially accessible to non-native English speakers and readers with limited reading vocabulary. Public domain.

Non-denominational. We just want people to be able to read.

Recent changes:
What's new in 4.0:

• Highlight verses in five colors.
• Tag your notes and filter them by tag or text.
• Back up highlights, notes, bookmarks and history to a file — and restore them, even into another Offline.Bible app.
• Reading stats and daily reading streaks.
• Daily verse widget for your home screen.
• Choose serif, sans-serif or monospace text.
• Many crash fixes.