A unique approach to Bible reading that helps you immerse in Scripture across languages and translations.
Listen to each verse in multiple languages sequentially. Build your own reading pipeline with any combination of translations and pauses.
Read and listen to any book in one language with professional narration. Configurable pauses between verses, paragraphs, or sections for contemplative reading.
Visual progress for every book of the Bible. The app automatically tracks what you've listened to, scrolled through, or marked manually.
Bible Garden is fully open source under the AGPL license. Every line of code is available on GitHub. We believe that tools for reading Scripture should be free, transparent, and community-driven.
iOS app, API, and admin tools — all open source
AGPL license — free to use, modify, and share
API available for any application, including commercial
bible-garden/
iOS-App/ — SwiftUI
Bible-API/ — FastAPI, read-only
Dashboard-API/ — FastAPI, admin
Dashboard-Web/ — Vue 3
Architect/ — docs
$ git clone bible-garden/iOS-App
$ open BibleGarden.xcodeproj
License: AGPL-3.0
All rights belong to God.
"Create a space where free text and audio versions of the Bible are created and made available to everyone, in multiple languages, in a convenient format."
"Freely you have received; freely give." We don't even accept donations.
Anyone can contribute translations, vote for the best options, and improve quality together.
Only texts and audio with clear legal status. All copyrights belong to God.
Compare KJV, NIV, ESV, NLT, BSB, WEB, and other English Bible translations. Choose one for reading or study, then hear two versions verse by verse.
Compare free Bible apps with audio, from YouVersion and Bible.is to Bible Garden. Find a fit for offline listening, daily reading, or two languages.
Who reads the audio Bible in English: Bob Souer, David, and Winfred Henson. Hear each narrator read John 1:1–5 and find an audio Bible without music.
