# Miktam Bible — An Offline Bible Study App with On-Device AI

> Source: <https://dev.to/ai2th/miktam-bible-an-offline-bible-study-app-with-on-device-ai-186p>
> Published: 2026-11-15 16:11:43+00:00

**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](https://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**:

Different Play account? [Request access here](https://forms.gle/jdLxXPVhDYm5ubpQ7).