Learning a verse by heart, made gradual. And the original languages, a tap away. LEVELS The quiz no longer blanks a whole verse at once. Only some words go missing, and the rest stay as context: five at the start, then eight, thirteen, twenty-one — each level about as much again as the last two. Easier and Harder sit at the foot of the screen, and each verse remembers its own level. Every press brings different words and a fresh shuffle, so a verse is never learned by where the chips sat. Repeated words share a chip: three "the"s are one "the³", its count falling as you place them. The blank to fill next is lit, so the eye goes straight to it. And the words of Christ are in red, as they are on the page — the words still standing, the ones you place, and the blanks waiting for them. STRONG'S NUMBERS Tap any word and its Strong's number is there, with the Hebrew or Greek word behind it, its transliteration and pronunciation, and Strong's definition — above Webster's 1828, on the same sheet. When a number belongs to a phrase rather than one word, the sheet says which. THE SPEED READER The words of Christ in red here too. Play stays in place while the settings scroll beneath it, and the last setting no longer hides behind the phone's buttons. ALSO Rate this app, from the menu. Still no account, no network, nothing collected.

A speed reader, for reading without moving your eyes. SPEED READER Open it from the reader's menu. One word at a time comes to the middle of the screen, stays for its moment, and gives way to the next — so the eyes never travel and the text comes to them. Or two or three words at a time, which is still one glance. Set the pace with a slider, in words a minute, and the size with another; both can be moved while the words run. Read a single verse, a range of verses or the whole chapter, and have it come round again until you stop it. No verse numbers, no marks — only the words, as the King James has them. Two switches to try against the same verse. "Longer words stay longer" holds a word in proportion to its length and pauses at the end of a sentence, where the plain pace gives every word the same moment. "Skip hidden words" leaves out the words on your hidden list, so the exercise of supplying them from memory runs at speed. Your pace, size, range and switches are kept, and the range with the chapter you chose it in. Still no account, no network and nothing collected.

Two new things, both for learning a verse by heart — and a third for the verses that run long. BUILD THE VERSE FROM ITS OWN WORDS Tap the quiz button on the reader's bar and the verse breaks into its own words, shuffled, beneath a line of blanks. Put them back in order. A word goes in only where it belongs, so the verse is rebuilt the way it reads rather than assembled loosely and marked at the end. Words that repeat are handled properly. A verse with two "the"s in it takes either of them wherever one belongs, which sounds obvious and is the thing that makes a verse playable at all. Your place is kept. Leave off in the middle of a verse and the words already placed are still there when you come back. Finishing one is logged, and "Start this verse again" blanks the verse without touching the history it has already earned. PROGRESS A calendar of the days you practiced, and a list of the verses you have not come back to. Two questions and no more: whether you are keeping it up, and what to do next. What is deliberately not there is as much of the design as what is. No percentage of the Bible, because 31,102 verses makes fifty learned look like failure when it is an achievement. No streak with a loss condition, because a broken run of forty days is how people stop altogether. And nothing is timed, because recalling faster is not recalling better. LONG VERSES A verse of sixty words puts sixty chips on the page. They now size themselves to the room they have — shrinking only as far as that verse needs, and never below what reads — and the verse itself always keeps its place above them. The chapter bar steps aside while you build, so a long verse gets the whole page. All of it is reached from the reader, and all of it is worked out from the log on your own phone. There is still no account, no network and nothing collected.

Two new things, both for learning a verse by heart. BUILD THE VERSE FROM ITS OWN WORDS Tap the quiz button on the reader's bar and the verse breaks into its own words, shuffled, beneath a line of blanks. Put them back in order. A word goes in only where it belongs, so the verse is rebuilt the way it reads rather than assembled loosely and marked at the end. Words that repeat are handled properly. A verse with two "the"s in it takes either of them wherever one belongs, which sounds obvious and is the thing that makes a verse playable at all. Your place is kept. Leave off in the middle of a verse and the words already placed are still there when you come back. Finishing one is logged, and "Start this verse again" blanks the verse without touching the history it has already earned. PROGRESS A calendar of the days you practiced, and a list of the verses you have not come back to. Two questions and no more: whether you are keeping it up, and what to do next. What is deliberately not there is as much of the design as what is. No percentage of the Bible, because 31,102 verses makes fifty learned look like failure when it is an achievement. No streak with a loss condition, because a broken run of forty days is how people stop altogether. And nothing is timed, because recalling faster is not recalling better. Both are reached from the reader, and both are worked out from the log on your own phone. There is still no account, no network and nothing collected.