{"slug": "miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai", "title": "Miktam Bible — An Offline Bible Study App with On-Device AI", "summary": "A developer built Miktam Bible, an offline Bible study app for Android that bundles scripture, Strong's concordance, full-text search, reading plans and notes entirely on-device. The app runs a small language model locally via llama.rn (SmolLM2, 4-bit GGUF) so its AI study assistant answers questions without sending data to a server, with Expo SQLite FTS5 handling search and MMKV/Zustand managing state. It is currently in Google Play closed testing.", "body_md": "**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.\n\n*Your offline Bible study companion.*\n\n**GitHub:** [github.com/AI2TH/miktam_bible](https://github.com/AI2TH/miktam_bible)\n\nA 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.\n\nMiktam Bible keeps the text, the search, your notes and the AI on the device. Nothing you read or ask leaves the phone.\n\n| Feature | Details | \n|---|---|\n| 📖 Reading | Book, chapter and verse navigation; book names in the translation's own language | \n| 🌍 Translations | KJV bundled; a catalog of 5,600+ translations to download once | \n| 🤖 AI study assistant | Ask about context and meaning; runs a small language model on the phone | \n| 🔍 Strong's concordance | Greek and Hebrew word, transliteration, definition and every occurrence | \n| 🔎 Full-text search | Whole-Bible search, grouped by book, one tap to the chapter | \n| 📅 Reading plans | Navigators 4-track, 90-day, 6-month and New Testament plans with reminders | \n| ⭐ Highlights and notes | Per-verse highlights, bookmarks and study notes | \n| 🎙️ Voice memos | Notes tagged with the book, chapter and verse you were reading | \n| 🌓 Light and dark | A gold-on-dark theme built for long reading | \n\n```\nExpo SDK + React Native (TypeScript)\n  ├── expo-sqlite      Bible text, concordance, notes (FTS5 search)\n  ├── llama.rn         on-device GGUF inference (SmolLM2, 4-bit)\n  ├── expo-notifications  reading-plan reminders, Verse of the Day\n  ├── expo-audio       voice memos\n  └── Zustand + MMKV   app state and fast key-value storage\n```\n\nMiktam Bible is in **Google Play closed testing**:\n\nDifferent Play account? [Request access here](https://forms.gle/jdLxXPVhDYm5ubpQ7).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/ai2th/miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai-186p", "published_at": "2026-11-15 16:11:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-15 16:19:46.971841+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Miktam Bible", "Google Play", "Expo", "React Native", "llama.rn", "SmolLM2"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai.jsonld"}}