Immerse Research

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 a complete 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. Everything anchors to the exact text you selected.

EXPORT YOUR WORK
Share any compilation as a Word document, PDF, spreadsheet, or Markdown file, complete with your notes and cross-references. Ready to send, publish, or study from.

A COMMUNITY OF READERS
Make any compilation public, and other readers can find it. Browse what everyone else has published in Discover — preview their passages, then import a 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.

FREE, 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
• 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 — PDF, DOCX, CSV, or Markdown
• 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.

Recent changes:
• Brand new “Daily Readings” quote cards — A curated list of quotes on a beautiful card each morning and eve, activated in the Settings screen.
• Google and Discord sign-in added — If your Google or Discord email matches your existing account, they'll sync.