Coexist: Bible, Quran, Torah
World Scriptures Side by Side
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
See what the world's scriptures say to each other. Twelve traditions in one library, with Connections between them, now with Book view on iPhone Duo.
Read the world's sacred texts side by side. Coexist brings the Bible, the Quran, the Torah and the scriptures of nine more traditions into one quiet library, and shows you where they speak to each other.
ONE VERSE, MANY VOICES
Long-press any verse to open its Connections: the closest passages in other traditions, found by meaning rather than by matching words. Open the graph to follow the threads from one scripture to the next, or keep Compare beside the text and the nearest parallel follows you verse by verse.
TWELVE TRADITIONS, ONE LIBRARY
• Christianity: the Bible (World English Bible)
• Judaism: the Tanakh (JPS 1917)
• Islam: the Quran (The Clear Quran, Talal Itani)
• Hinduism: the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata and Ramayana
• Buddhism: the Dhammapada, Sutta-Nipata, Lotus Sutra and more
• Taoism: the Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu
• Confucianism: the Analects, Mencius and the Book of Odes
• Jainism, Sikhism, Shinto, Zoroastrianism and the Bahá'í Faith
More than 134,000 passages in public domain or freely licensed English translations, all stored on your device. Every translation is credited in the app.
THE ORIGINAL BESIDE THE TRANSLATION
Read Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, Gurmukhi and more next to the English, or on their own.
TODAY
Every day brings a reading from each tradition you follow: the Psalm of the day, the week's Torah portion, a juz of the Quran, a chapter of the Gita or the Dhammapada, and more. A home screen widget brings a verse to your day, with a StandBy layout for your nightstand.
THEMES AND SEARCH
Browse 30 themes, from compassion and forgiveness to light, water and liberation. Search every scripture at once and filter by tradition.
YOUR OWN STUDY
Highlight, underline, add notes and bookmark passages, with optional iCloud backup. Find your highlights in Spotlight, and ask Siri to read today's passage aloud.
INSIGHTS ON YOUR DEVICE
If you wish, ask for a short reflection on a passage, or on the thread between two passages from different traditions. Insights are written on your device by Apple Intelligence or by a small open model you download once.
MADE FOR IPAD AND IPHONE DUO
On iPad, the library, the reader and Compare share one screen. On iPhone Duo, fold it like a book and turn real pages in Book view, read one scripture on each half, or stand it in tabletop and let it read aloud.
RESPECTFUL BY DESIGN
Coexist does not rank, merge or interpret the traditions. It sets their own words next to each other, so you can read, compare and reflect for yourself.
The interface is available in 12 languages. Scripture texts are in English translation, alongside their original languages.
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Coexist 1.4 is our biggest update yet.
• A better library: many texts are now taken from their printed editions and proofread, with new additions such as all 305 odes of the Book of Odes, the complete Mencius, the Norito prayers for Shinto, the 1927 Tibetan Book of the Dead and the 1931 Kitáb-i-Íqán. The JPS Tanakh is corrected against its 1917 print, and the Guru Granth Sahib now comes from Macauliffe's 1909 translation.
• Your highlights, notes and bookmarks move to the new library automatically.
• Daily verses are now chosen by hand, one by one.
• iPhone Duo: fold it like a book and Book view turns the pages across the fold. Read Compare or Connections on the second half, or stand it in tabletop for read-aloud controls. Closing the phone pauses the narration and opening it resumes.
• Widget: a StandBy layout, and an extra-large size with a parallel from a second tradition.
• Apple Intelligence can now write insights on your device.
• Spotlight and Siri: find passages and your own highlights and notes in Spotlight, ask Siri to read today's passage aloud, or search the scriptures from Shortcuts.
• Tradition names, themes and Today's readings now appear in your language.
• Reduce Motion is respected throughout the app.
The developer, AJA Digital LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- AJA Digital LLC
- Size
- 144.6 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 11 more
- English, Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © AJA Digal LLC
