SCRIPTURES
Sacred Scripture Study
A beautiful, offline-first desktop app for studying sacred texts across nine scriptural traditions. 54,500+ verses, AI-powered research, multi-language translation, and illuminated manuscript design.
The world’s sacred texts have never existed in one place—not in a way that treats each tradition with equal reverence and beauty. From the Book of Mormon to the Dead Sea Scrolls, from the Apostolic Fathers to ancient Roman witnesses of Christ, these writings span millennia and continents.
Scriptures brings them together in a single, illuminated interface. Nine volumes, 54,500+ verses, all searchable, all annotatable, all available offline. No subscriptions, no cloud dependency—just you and the text, rendered in the warm glow of EB Garamond on parchment tones, as scripture was meant to be read.
9 Scripture Volumes
Book of Mormon, Holy Bible (KJV), Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Coptic Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Russian Orthodox, Ancient Witnesses, and Hymns.
AI Scripture Assistant
Ask questions, get answers with citations. Ollama-powered local LLM with RAG retrieval across all volumes—entirely on your machine.
Study Tools
Highlight with 5 colors (doctrine, covenants, prophecy, commandments, personal). Take notes on any verse. Track reading progress.
Multi-Language Translation
Translate any chapter to 10 languages on the fly using Ollama AI. Cached for instant re-access.
Read Aloud
System TTS with multiple voice selection. Listen to chapters while you study.
My Journey
AI-powered personal study summary analyzing your highlights, notes, and themes across all scripture.
Beyond the scriptural canon, history itself testifies. Josephus recorded Christ in the Antiquities of the Jews. Tacitus documented the execution under Pontius Pilate in his Annals. Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan about early Christians singing hymns to Christ “as to a god.” Suetonius noted the expulsion of Jews from Rome over disturbances at the instigation of “Chrestus.”
The Apostolic Fathers stand as the earliest post-biblical witnesses—the Didache, a first-century manual of Christian practice; 1 Clement, written from Rome to Corinth around 96 AD; and the Gospel of Thomas, preserving sayings of Jesus in Coptic. Scriptures brings these voices together, searchable and annotatable alongside the sacred canon.
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