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

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.

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 .