Lamp & Line – Bible Reader

Lamp & Line is a calm place to read the Bible. The complete Bible, free and offline: no account, no feed, no advertisement, no interruption. The Bible text is in English: the Berean Standard Bible.

It opens to Scripture. The complete Berean Standard Bible is stored on your device, so it works on a plane, in a basement, and with every network switched off.

Typeset, not dumped on screen. Poetry keeps the lines the translators set, with wrapped lines hanging beneath them the way a printed psalter does. Prose flows as paragraphs rather than a stack of numbered cards. Verse numbers are there when you want them and quiet when you do not. Footnotes are set apart, so a note can never be mistaken for Scripture. Light by day, warm at night, and every text size iOS offers without a word clipped.

Find the verse. Type "John 3:16", "Jn316", "Psalm 23", "Romans 8:28-32", a phrase in quotation marks, or just the words you half remember. References resolve instantly. Everything else is searched across the whole Bible in a fraction of a second, offline.

A small daily rhythm. One Psalm, one short reading, one prayer. One card a day, not a feed. It is the same on your iPhone, your iPad, your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, and your Apple Watch. One reminder a day, at a time you choose — or none at all.

A plan that waits for you. Take a book, a testament, or the whole Bible a few chapters at a time. A plan divides what you have chosen into readings you take one at a time, and there are no dates in it: miss a week and it is exactly where you left it, with nothing to catch up on and nothing broken.

On your wrist, properly. Today comes to your Apple Watch for nothing — the day's Psalm, its reading, and its prayer, with your phone switched off. Full opens the whole Bible there too: all 66 books on your wrist, offline, not a subset and not a companion screen.

Yours, and private. Bookmarks, highlights, and notes stay on your device. Nothing you read, search for, or write is sent anywhere. There is no analytics of any kind. You can export everything you have written, read it back in on another device, and delete it, at any time.

Where you left it, however you come back. Ask Siri for today's Lamp, put it in Control Centre or on the Action button, or find any book — or a verse you kept — straight from the Home Screen search field. All of it free, and all of it on your device.

One passage leads to another. Tap a verse and follow its threads — the passages that speak to it, with their words in front of you, one tap away and one gesture back.

A verse, set to send. Choose any verse — or just the words you mean — and set it as a card: four looks, three shapes, and the reference and translation always on it. Nothing is screenshotted; the card is typeset from the text itself.

On iPad, the same book. One purchase covers both; there is no separate app and no second price. The page keeps a comfortable measure rather than stretching a line of Scripture across thirteen inches, Today, Read, Search, and Library move into a sidebar, and it turns whichever way you are holding it.

Free means free. On iPhone and iPad: the complete Bible, search, your bookmarks and notes, Today, a reading plan (the New Testament, or the whole Bible in a year), a Home Screen widget, and every accessibility feature cost nothing, for good. Marking a whole verse is free too, and so is copying or sharing any verse as text. On Apple Watch, Today is free, with a complication to open it. Lamp & Line Full is one purchase — no subscription — that adds word study (the Hebrew and Greek behind every verse, each word's dictionary entry, and everywhere else the translation meets it), every reading style, every widget size, every complication, the whole Bible on Apple Watch, threads between passages, highlighting the exact phrase rather than the whole verse, every share-card design, and as many reading plans as you like.