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Simple Study Bible
Bible study made simple, beautiful, and deep.
Read Scripture in a calm, intuitive space—and reach for word studies, historical context, maps, commentaries, translation comparison and narrated chapters whenever you want to go deeper.
Available now on Google Play and the App Store.
- Scripture-centred
- Private and offline-first
- Built for deeper study
- Clear enough for everyday use
Inside the app
Three ways to spend time in the text.
Read with clarity
A distraction-free reader with a calm, editorial layout — the words come first, everything else stays out of the way until you ask for it. Switch on Read Mode and study markers, highlights and word links are hidden too. When you do study, highlight a whole verse or just the specific words you care about, and keep your notes tied to the text.
Understand the passage
Context Gateway stories unpack the history and culture behind the passage, Atlas maps ground its places, and a Study Hub overview gathers the chapter's key idea, why it matters and its themes — with commentaries and book introductions close at hand.
Study more deeply
Greek and Hebrew tools, interlinear data and Strong's references sit right alongside the text — including curated word studies, currently available in the KJV, WEB, WEBB and the online NKJV and ESV. The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge links each verse to the cross-references long gathered for it.
See it for yourself
Real screens, not renders.
Every screenshot on this site is captured directly from the app — nothing staged, and nothing fabricated.
Built for substance
Depth without unnecessary complexity.
Simple Study Bible brings substantial study resources into a reading experience that remains calm, clear and centred on Scripture. Nothing is hidden — but nothing is forced on you either.
- Passage Compare
- Read a passage side by side across your translations — differences numbered, lined up and explained.
- Context Gateway
- Editor-written historical and cultural background for the passage you're reading.
- Scripture Memory
- A daily review queue and curated collections make memorising a habit.
- Study Spaces
- Gather verses, word studies and commentary into dashboards you can return to.
Audio Bible & Be Still
A quieter kind of study.
Some passages aren't meant to be studied so much as sat with. Be Still pairs recorded Scripture with quiet ambient sound made for lingering in one place rather than moving on to the next thing. And when you want the whole chapter, the Audio Bible reads the Bible aloud in your choice of two British narrator voices — with reflection pauses that hold the space open, and a sleep timer for when the day ends.
Simple Study Bible Pro
Go further, when you want to.
An optional upgrade that adds a further layer of study and devotional tools — and directly funds the Free Bible Mission below.
Pro opens the deeper study layer: curated word studies and verse-by-verse exegesis, the full Context Gateway library, person and place studies, doctrinal threads, creeds and confessions, reading plans, and Study Spaces — plus unlimited commentary downloads, the 21-volume Church Fathers collection, Notebooks and the Audio Centre's atmospheres.
Our commitment
The Free Bible Mission
Helping place Bibles into people's hands—freely.
After applicable fees and the costs of operating and maintaining the app have been accounted for, 50% of the remaining net proceeds from Pro upgrades will be used to purchase Bibles for free distribution.
The initiative will begin in the United Kingdom. As funds and practical distribution arrangements allow, the hope is to extend it into other countries in the future.
Beginning in the United KingdomWhat's inside
Resources & translations
A mix of public-domain texts, approved online translations, and study resources you add as you need them.
Translations
The World English Bible and the Majority Standard Bible come bundled and ready offline. Ten further English translations — including the King James Version, the Berean Standard Bible and the British-edition WEBB — download once and stay offline, while the NKJV, NASB 2020 and English Standard Version are available through secure online access. WEBB is also the translation behind the app's narrated Audio Bible.
UK users may not be able to download the King James Version, due to Crown copyright restrictions.
* Online version — opens over the internet; recently read chapters stay available offline.
View all 15 English translations
Commentaries & cross-references
A 65-volume commentary library, from contemporary study notes to 19th-century classics — download any of them on demand; the free edition keeps up to ten at a time, and Pro lifts the limit and adds the 21-volume Church Fathers collection. The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge gathers each verse's cross-references in one tap.
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Context, people & places
More than 1,500 editor-written Context Gateway stories surface the history and culture behind the passage you're reading, and each chapter's Study Hub opens with its key idea and themes. Deeper study adds around 400 Bible-person biographies and 500 place studies, with archaeology along the way.
Original languages
Greek and Hebrew interlinear data, Strong's references, and pronunciation audio for reading the text closer to its source — plus the Nestle 1904 and SBL Greek New Testaments, and Brenton's English Septuagint for the Old Testament, for direct original-language reading.
Curated word studies
Hand-curated word studies with verse-specific insight — 1,500 of them so far — currently supported for the KJV, WEB, WEBB and the online NKJV and ESV, with more coverage planned.
Books & classics
My Books is a proper bookshelf: scan a barcode or ISBN to add books, photograph your covers, lend and borrow, and keep a durable record of your read-throughs. A Classics library of public-domain Christian books sits alongside it — the first already narrated in full.
Full source and licensing details for third-party data are listed on the Attributions page.
Why this app exists
Built for the reading, not the scrolling.
Simple Study Bible is for the ordinary believer working through a passage before bed, the Bible teacher preparing a lesson, and the ministry worker who needs real study tools without a cluttered interface standing in the way. It's built around a simple bet: that a Bible app can be genuinely deep and genuinely calm at the same time.
Take it with you.
Free to start, with a Free Bible Mission behind every Pro upgrade.