Miktam Bible — An Offline Bible Study App with On-Device AI
What is Miktam Bible? Miktam Bible is a Bible study app that works without a connection once your translations and the AI model are downloaded. Read, search, follow a reading plan, look up the original Greek and Hebrew
What is Miktam Bible?
Miktam Bible is a Bible study app that works without a connection once your translations and the AI model are downloaded. Read, search, follow a reading plan, look up the original Greek and Hebrew, and ask an AI study assistant questions, all on your phone.
Your offline Bible study companion.
GitHub: github.com/AI2TH/miktam_bible
Why offline?
A lot of people read Scripture where the network is poor or expensive: on the commute, while travelling, in rural areas, or in places where Bible apps are watched. Most Bible apps assume you are online, and most AI features send your questions to a server.
Miktam Bible keeps the text, the search, your notes and the AI on the device. The only network traffic is the one-time download of translations and models; nothing you read or ask is sent anywhere.
What you get
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| 📖 Reading | Book, chapter and verse navigation; book names in 19 major languages |
| 🌍 Translations | KJV built in; 2,600+ translations in about 1,200 languages to download once |
| 🤖 AI study assistant | Ask about context and meaning; runs a small language model on the phone |
| 🔍 Strong's concordance | Greek and Hebrew word, transliteration, definition and every occurrence |
| 🔎 Full-text search | Whole-Bible search with ranked results, one tap to the chapter |
| 📅 Reading plans | Navigators 4-track, 90-day, 6-month and New Testament plans with reminders |
| ⭐ Highlights and notes | Per-verse highlights, bookmarks and study notes |
| 🎙️ Voice memos | Notes tagged with the book, chapter and verse you were reading |
| 🌓 Light and dark | A gold-on-dark theme built for long reading |
The stack
Expo SDK + React Native (TypeScript)
├── expo-sqlite Bible text, concordance, notes (FTS5 search)
├── llama.rn on-device GGUF inference (SmolLM2-135M, 4-bit)
├── expo-notifications reading-plan reminders, Verse of the Day
├── expo-audio voice memos
└── Zustand + MMKV app state and fast key-value storage
The series
- Part 1: offline-first, with SQLite, FTS5 and the open Bible data behind it
- Part 2: an AI study assistant that runs on the phone
- Part 3: reading plans and reminders that follow your progress
📥 Get Miktam Bible
Miktam Bible is in Google Play closed testing:
- Join the AI2TH Google Group with the Google account on your phone. Members are testers for every AI2TH Play app.
- Opt in at play.google.com/apps/testing/miktam.bible.
- Install from Google Play.
Different Play account? Request access here.
- 🐙 GitHub: github.com/AI2TH/miktam_bible
- 🌐 Website: ai2th.github.io/miktam.html
Originally published by Dev.to AI. Aggregated on AIWithGhost for educational purposes — full credit and traffic to the original publisher.