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The app is live in preview at app.openscripture.io. Compare translations, explore original languages, and see where and why translations differ — all in your browser. This week's polish made long-press drag-selection reliable on the first try, kept multi-verse notes attached to every verse they cover, sped up highlights so they appear the moment you tap, tightened the REV reader so paragraph-ending verses no longer drift into a block-quote indent, and gave the Word Study drawer readable lexicon entries with full BDB depth so untranslated words show their real definition. Reading settings have been consolidated into a single Reading & Study hub with clean drill-in layers, the back button now reliably dismisses verse overlays before leaving the page, and the search box runs immediately when you tap a recent history item.

Composite, Published, AI Translation, and Interlinear modes are live for supported Bible passages. 1 Enoch remains published-only because OpenScripture does not have original-language alignment for that text.

Search across translations with advanced query syntax. Find a phrase, a Strong's number, or verses in a range. A recent refresh added concept-based semantic search across the full 79-book canon — the deuterocanon and 1 Enoch included — and brought commentary into the same index, so plain-English questions surface scholarly notes alongside the verses they discuss. The syntax box is unified: quoted phrases, AND/OR/NOT, and wildcards just work without picking a mode, the default search scope follows the translation you are reading so the same verse no longer multiplies across your enabled translations, and result categories collapse into expandable groups with hit counts. On the native shell, search now races your local offline index against the network and shows whichever returns the authoritative answer first.

Personal study tools: color highlights, notes, universal chapter bookmarks, and Word/Verse Locks. Verse Locks pin full verses for translation-aware customisation; Word Locks tie a source-language word (by Strong's) to your chosen rendering so repeated vocabulary becomes easier to learn. By default, Word Locks still apply inside a verse-locked verse; readers can switch to verse-first wording in Profile → Account → Lock appearance. Free and Guest mode include two active Word Locks and five Verse Locks — guest locks stay local, while signed-in Free accounts sync the same allowance. Notes spanning multiple verses now stay attached to every verse in the span, and highlights appear instantly when you tap. Everything syncs across devices when signed in.

The web app works well on phones today. Native iOS builds are now uploading to TestFlight and Android builds are in active internal testing. This week's mobile polish hardened Android offline downloads to match the iOS safety bridge, kept the minimised download chip clear of the top-left corner, replaced the toast's minimise button with a swipe-down gesture, added a standardised download-size badge to every offline content row, made downloads cancellable mid-flight, and fixed an iOS chunk-recovery loop that could push the shell into a reload cycle. Native installs now stream straight to disk, cutting cold-start by the 31MB study-data bundle. Public app store releases will follow once the testing rounds settle.

KJV, YLT, ASV, BSB, BLB, WEB, LSV, ULT, the New Heart English Bible, the World Messianic Bible, DRA, the Catholic Public Domain Version, Brenton's Septuagint, and JPS TaNaKH 1917 are available in the reader. The Berean Standard Bible, Literal Standard Version, World English Bible (Protestant edition), New Heart English Bible, World Messianic Bible, and Catholic Public Domain Version round out a free-reader catalogue spanning Protestant, Messianic Jewish, and Catholic traditions. JPS 1917 is the public-domain Jewish translation already in OpenScripture; modern NJPS is a separate licensing target.

The full NASB 2020 is in the app, all 66 books, along with more than eighteen thousand publisher study notes and the supplementary front-matter articles and appendices. Licensed by The Lockman Foundation through their Free Distribution Permission Agreement, which means NASB is permanently free in OpenScripture — no paywall, ever.

The full NET Bible Second Edition is live across all 66 books, including the famous Translator Notes — a scholar's commentary on almost every verse. Licensed through Biblical Studies Press / bible.org. The Translator Notes are surfaced in the verse drawer alongside other study material.

The REV ships as the default translation in the app, with extensive commentary integrated. Permission has been granted by Spirit & Truth Fellowship, and structured-data sync work keeps the text and notes aligned with their latest revisions. A recent layout fix prevents paragraph-final verses in REV from drifting into a block-quote indent.

Applications are in progress for ESV, NLT, CEB, NRSVUE, The Message, and CEV. Each one broadens the Protestant, ecumenical, and accessibility-focused options in the comparison view.

NJPS is a tracked licensing target for modern Jewish English coverage. JPS 1917 already covers the Tanakh in public-domain form; NJPS would be the modern complement Jewish readers most often ask for.

The Standard English Version of 1 Enoch is in the app — a single-book translation outside the standard canon, drawn from the Ethiopic. Free distribution per Winter Publications. Important for readers studying the apocalyptic background of the New Testament.

These publishers currently require an established user base before they will license to a new app. Every person who shares OpenScripture helps us cross that threshold. If these are your preferred translations, spreading the word is the single most effective thing you can do.

Future targets include NABRE, CSB, TLV, NJB/RNJB, ISV, EOB, and DBH. These matter for broader Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, academic, and evangelical coverage, but they are not the current licensing queue.

Three translation styles (formal, dynamic, paraphrase) × three emphases (accuracy, readability, devotional) = nine renderings generated from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek rather than by paraphrasing copyrighted English translations. The full corpus is being rebuilt directly from the source languages and generation is running steadily — the Hebrew Dynamic / Readability combo is nearly through the Old Testament, with the remaining combos progressing alongside. Chapters not yet regenerated show a brief holding notice instead of stand-in text, and on the native shell completed AI translations now appear without a redundant placeholder. AI mode shows only AI footnotes, numbered cleanly by chapter. Dynamic/Readability remains free; Premium unlocks all nine. AI translator notes collect in their own comparison-drawer tab. Source-word links follow the same alignment contract as the rest of the reader where coverage exists; 1 Enoch is excluded from AI generation.

Chapters not yet regenerated may still show the older AI rendering until this pass reaches them.

Use the published translations and the comparison drawer as the primary reading surface while regeneration completes.

Tap supported words to see the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek root, Strong's number, part of speech, and frequency data. Coverage is strongest across the Protestant canon, is expanding into Catholic and Orthodox additional books, and is not available for 1 Enoch. The underlying word-link pipeline has been moved onto a measurable, statistically-validated alignment foundation: a new correctness gate guards every change, segmented Hebrew morphology lifted English word-tap coverage by roughly seventeen percentage points in early measurements, and Greek-article handling has been rebuilt so common little words like 'the' no longer swallow the surrounding phrase. A full-Bible word-link certification pass continues alongside — see the progress row below for how far each translation has been reviewed.

The reader is usable, but the full-Bible certification pass for word taps, glosses, and interlinear alignment is still active.

In passages that have not completed the latest review pass, an original-language word link or gloss may occasionally be corrected later.

Use the verse text and comparison drawer as the primary reading surface, and send feedback from the reader if a word link looks surprising.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references — showing how verses echo across the canon — are integrated for the Protestant canon. Scholarly cross-references for the deuterocanonical books are being generated.

Tap a verse to read its publisher commentary directly. NET Translator Notes and the NASB study notes surface in a side drawer, loaded a chapter at a time so they appear instantly. The supplementary NASB front-matter articles and appendices now ship with structured paragraphs so they read like the published edition. The source tabs pulse and auto-scroll to the verse you tapped, so the right note is easier to find.

OpenScripture brings scholarly manuscript-certainty data into the reader where imported scores exist. A sensitivity slider lets you dial how much variation is highlighted — stable readings stay quiet, more debated readings surface at the level you choose. Certainty underlines now join across inter-word spaces so multi-word readings read as one unit. We hope to add UBS 6 apparatus material when licensing allows.

Circled-numeral symbols show where generated and reviewed translation-difference data identifies meaningful variation between renderings. Coverage now reaches every book in the Protestant and deuterocanonical canon, manuscript-evidence variants are populated across the New Testament, and a focused enrichment pass reworked explanations for major famous variants so they lead with a plain-English summary and deeper scholar's note. A continuing regeneration sweep is currently tightening entries across the historical books — 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, and Isaiah — so the existing notes hold to the same evidence standard as the newest ones. Each difference note still carries a quiet 'Unverified' badge when it has not yet been through human review, and a visibility toggle lets you dial markers up or down.

Listen to any translation. Planned for after the core text rollout is further along.

Sign in with email or Google. Highlights, notes, bookmarks, and preferences sync across devices.

Core features — translation comparison, reader-visible Scripture text, source-language tools where data exists, and commentary — will always be free, with two Word Locks and five Verse Locks in Free/Guest mode. Guest locks stay local; signed-in Free accounts sync the same allowance. Premium unlocks unlimited Word Locks, unlimited Verse Locks, and the full nine AI translation combos. Everyone with an account receives free Premium automatically until December 12, 2026 after signing in. After that, an early-supporter founding annual rate of A$40 a year on the web is grandfathered for anyone who joins before paid checkout opens — the first charge runs on 12 December. Join the newsletter for the official launch email when paid checkout opens.

Typography controls, theme options, and density settings are live. Screen-reader polish is ongoing.