Scripture Alone Bible
Private, offline Bible study
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now with the NASB 2020. Find what the Bible says about what you're going through and study offline with commentary, maps and timelines. No ads, no accounts.
Scripture Alone is a Bible for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, built for one thing: studying God's word without anything in the way. No ads. No trackers. No accounts. The Bible lives on your device, so it works anywhere, with or without a connection.
Read the whole Bible, offline
The New American Standard Bible — NASB 2020 is on your device from the moment it installs. The NASB 1995, American Standard Version, Berean Standard Bible and King James Version download once, when you first choose one. Full-text search, the words of Christ in red, poetry set as poetry, and footnotes a tap away.
What the Bible says about what you're going through
Topics gathers passages for 72 themes — anxiety, grief, loneliness, fear, marriage, waiting and more — in the translation you read. Type a feeling like "anxious" in Go To and its topic comes up. In English, Nave's Topical Bible is there too, A to Z.
Bring your own Bibles
Import a DRM-free ePub, a Bible PDF with a text layer or a USFM file you own, or browse the openly licensed translations on eBible.org. A study Bible brings its notes, introductions, essays and maps; the words of Christ carry over in red; and your imports reach your other devices through your own iCloud. The ESV, CSB and NKJV can be read with your own publisher key, or from a copy you've imported.
In your language
Also in Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese and Italian, each with a whole Bible of its own.
Make it comfortable
Seven typefaces, adjustable size and spacing, five themes, paragraphs or verse by verse, full Dynamic Type, two columns on a wide screen, and auto-scroll into the next chapter.
Go straight there
Type "jn 3 16" or "rom 8:28-39" to jump to a passage, or search any word or phrase.
Highlight, note and favorite
Highlight in five colors, favorite the verses you return to, and attach notes to one or more passages — a Sunday sermon on Romans 8:1–17, say. The Highlights list gathers every marked verse in Bible order, and Notes, Highlights and Favorites narrow to one book or chapter. Export notes as PDF, Markdown or text, or bring years of them in from Life Bible (formerly Tecarta) or a CSV.
Snap the sermon slide
Photograph the slide at church and Scripture Alone starts your note: titled, linked to every passage on the slide, its points ready to fill in. The photo is read on your device, never uploaded.
Listen
Hear any chapter read aloud with your device's voices, the spoken verse marked as it goes — or in Studio voices with a Mi Speaks Premium subscription (a separate app).
Study mode, a toggle away
Ranked cross-references, commentary from Calvin, Gill and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, the Hebrew and Greek word by word with parsing, Strong's numbers and a lexicon in every translation, and Context for every chapter: an overview, a map of the places it names, its era on a timeline, and charts of the kings, Paul's journeys, the tribes and the feasts.
Share beautifully
Design a verse image from eight templates, or share a link that rebuilds it in any browser — nothing is stored on a server.
On your wrist and Home Screen
Verse of the Day and Favorites widgets, and an Apple Watch app with the NASB 2020 built in and a complication. It reads offline, follows your iPhone's translation and carries your highlights, favorites and notes, in the accent color you chose on your iPhone.
A Bible to hand down
Make a Keepsake Bible: a file of your highlights and notes, with a dedication, that your family can open and read as you marked it — a digital "Dad's Bible".
Private by design
Your highlights, notes and favorites sync across your devices through your own private iCloud. No server, no account, and the developer never sees your data. Scripture Alone is open source under the AGPL, so anyone can read exactly what it does.
Built to help people study God's word and grow closer to Christ.
NASB 2020 and NASB 1995 © The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org
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1.1.2 — A new illustrated User Guide, in your language, covers everything Scripture Alone does. The app draws it itself, so it fits your screen and follows your text size — no pinching and zooming around a PDF. It downloads the first time you open it (Aa › User Guide), so the app stays small, and on first launch a welcome card offers it, with a Skip button. Also: small translation fixes, including the auto-scroll speed names in Japanese, Korean and French.
The developer, Blaine Miller, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Provider
- Blaine Miller
- Size
- Up to 73.7 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 8 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Blaine Miller