Guides to the text

Straight answers about the text itself: who may reprint which translation, how the numbering on the page got there, and what you give up and gain by reading without an account. Written to be useful whether or not you ever install this app.

• Which Bible translations are in the public domain

  Why a free offline app carries the King James Version and the Chinese Union Version and not the NIV — and how the free translations actually differ from each other and from the modern ones.

• Who added the chapter and verse numbers

  Nobody who wrote the Bible put numbers in it. The chapters are medieval and the verses are from the 1550s — and knowing that changes what you do when a chapter ends mid-argument.

• Reading the Bible offline, without an account

  Why most Bible apps want you signed in, what they actually sync, and the honest list of what a purely local app can and cannot do for you.