Miktam Bible is a Bible study app that works with no connection at all. Read, search, follow a reading plan, look up the original Greek and Hebrew, and ask an AI study assistant questions, all on your phone.
Your offline Bible study companion.
GitHub: github.com/AI2TH/miktam_bible
A lot of people read Scripture where the network is poor or expensive: on the commute, while travelling, in rural areas, or in places where Bible apps are watched. Most Bible apps assume you are online, and most AI features send your questions to a server.
Miktam Bible keeps the text, the search, your notes and the AI on the device. Nothing you read or ask leaves the phone.
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| 📖 Reading | Book, chapter and verse navigation; book names in the translation's own language |
| 🌍 Translations | KJV bundled; a catalog of 5,600+ translations to download once |
| 🤖 AI study assistant | Ask about context and meaning; runs a small language model on the phone |
| 🔍 Strong's concordance | Greek and Hebrew word, transliteration, definition and every occurrence |
| 🔎 Full-text search | Whole-Bible search, grouped by book, one tap to the chapter |
| 📅 Reading plans | Navigators 4-track, 90-day, 6-month and New Testament plans with reminders |
| ⭐ Highlights and notes | Per-verse highlights, bookmarks and study notes |
| 🎙️ Voice memos | Notes tagged with the book, chapter and verse you were reading |
| 🌓 Light and dark | A gold-on-dark theme built for long reading |
Expo SDK + React Native (TypeScript)
├── expo-sqlite Bible text, concordance, notes (FTS5 search)
├── llama.rn on-device GGUF inference (SmolLM2, 4-bit)
├── expo-notifications reading-plan reminders, Verse of the Day
├── expo-audio voice memos
└── Zustand + MMKV app state and fast key-value storage
Miktam Bible is in Google Play closed testing:
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source & further reading
dev.to — original article
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Miktam Bible | Part 2 — An AI Study Assistant That Runs on the Phone