Bookshine: The Bible Up Close

Bookshine is a Bible reader made for reading. Scripture is set as continuous prose, the way a well-printed book reads, and study help is one tap away: an explanation of every book and chapter, explanations of the people, places and terms in the text, cross-references, facts and reading plans. Study • An explanation of every book and every chapter of the Bible. • Tap a verse for its cross-references, word explanations (many with the Strong's number of the Hebrew or Greek word behind them) and facts. • A verse of the day and a fact of the day on the home screen. • Search the translation you are reading, or type a reference such as John 3:16 to go straight there. Read • The World English Bible is built in, so the app works offline from the first launch. • Download more than 30 other translations in 18 languages, among them the King James Version, the Berean Standard Bible, Luther 1912, Reina-Valera 1909, Almeida and the Ohienko Ukrainian Bible. • Compare two translations chapter by chapter. • Choose the typeface, text size and line spacing, show the words of Christ in red where the translation marks them, and read in light or dark mode. Plans • Start a reading plan: the New Testament in 90 days, the Gospels in 30, Psalms and Proverbs, the Bible in a year, or the Chronological Bible, which reads every chapter once in the order the events happened. • Pick a pace, or a number of days of your own. Home shows a card for each plan you are on; tap Done to tick a chapter off. Keep • Highlight verses and write your own notes. • Find everything you saved in one place, and search it. • Export your highlights and notes as plain text, or share a verse, a passage or a fact with any app on your phone. • A quiet reading streak shows the days you read this week. Private by design No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your highlights, notes and reading history are never sent to us: they stay on your phone, and in your own Android backup if you use it. The app uses the internet only to fetch the list of downloads and to download the translations and study content you choose. Languages The app is available in English, Ukrainian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Czech, Serbian, Vietnamese, Tagalog and Russian. Explanations of books and chapters and most facts are available in English, Ukrainian, German and Spanish, and word explanations in English and Ukrainian. In a language without them they are not shown (there are none yet in Portuguese or in the eleven languages after it), and the few texts not translated yet are shown in English. Credits Cross-references: OpenBible.info, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Changed: links with fewer than 10 votes removed, at most 15 per verse, reverse links added. Strong's numbers: James Strong's dictionaries (public domain), matched using the Open Scriptures Strong's dictionaries (CC BY-SA). The Holy Bible, translated by Ivan Ohienko: © Ukrainian Bible Society, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0). The other translations are in the public domain (the King James Version outside the United Kingdom, where the Crown holds its rights; the Bible in Basic English in the United States); details are in the app under Settings › About Bookshine. Questions and problem reports: hello@bookshine.app