Memorize The Bible

Memorize The Bible teaches a verse the way that people actually learn one, which is that you read it aloud a few times, and then you say it back as the words disappear, a quarter of them at a time, until you can recite the whole verse with nothing left on the screen.

It ships with the whole Berean Standard Bible, which is 66 books and 1,189 chapters and 31,086 verses, and it needs no account, and no network, and no subscription. There is nothing to sign up for and there is nothing sent anywhere.

How it works

A verse is shown in full and it is read aloud 3 times. Then a quarter of its words turn to blanks, and then half of them do, and then three quarters, and then all of them. Tapping a blank peeks at the word underneath it for a couple of seconds, and the peeking is free until the last pass, where the whole point is to have it.

The words never move. A blank is the same word drawn invisibly over a highlight, so that a line breaks in exactly the same place at every level of masking and at every text size. Nothing reflows as you go, which means that the shape of the verse on the page becomes part of how you remember it.

After each verse you recite everything up to that point all together, so that a chapter ends up as a passage rather than as a pile of separate verses.

Plans

Alongside the books and the chapters, verses can be grouped into plans, and those are the Roman Road, and the Sermon on the Mount, and the Lord's Prayer, or any other set that you assemble yourself. Mastery belongs to the verse rather than to the plan, so that a verse learned inside a plan is already learned in its chapter, and the same verse sitting in 2 plans is learned only once.

Custom plans can be shared with a link that carries the whole plan inside of it. There is no server involved at all, because the plan is encoded into the URL, and the recipient's app reads it and then asks whether to save it.

Built for reading

The reading surface is plain, and it is a serif face with generous leading, and a measure capped at about 40 characters, and a palette of 6 colors with no gradients on them and no shadows. It supports Dynamic Type all the way up to the accessibility sizes, and it supports VoiceOver, and it supports Reduce Motion.

Offline by design

There is no account, and no analytics, and no tracking, and no ads, and there are no in-app purchases. Progress lives in a single file inside the app's own container, and it rides along in the device backups. The only frameworks it uses are Apple's own.

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