AndBible - Bible Study Tool & Resources

Powerful Bible Study Tool

"AndBible: Bible Study" is a robust and user-friendly offline Bible study application designed for Android devices. This app aims to be more than just a Bible reader; it serves as an advanced tool for in-depth, personal Bible study.

This application has been created by Bible enthusiasts for fellow readers. Its purpose is to make your Bible study experience both convenient and enjoyable while allowing for deep exploration of the text. One of the best aspects of this community-driven project is that it is open-source, completely free, and devoid of advertisements.

The app includes several popular Bible translations among its many options, such as KJV, NASB, NET, as well as renowned commentaries like those by Matthew Henry and John Gill.

Features of the Powerful Bible Study Tool

This application provides numerous insightful features that enhance the complexity and depth of Bible study, making the experience smoother than ever. The following features stand out:

* Split text views allow for side-by-side translation comparisons and commentary consultations.

* Workspaces facilitate multiple Bible study configurations, each with personalized settings.

* Strong's integration supports analysis of Greek and Hebrew words.

* Linked cross-references, footnotes, and documents enable easy navigation; just tap a link to jump to cross-references and footnotes, and delve into Scripture studies using hyperlinked commentaries (such as Gill and Matthew Henry), collections of cross-references (Treasure of Scripture Knowledge), and additional resources.

* Advanced text-to-speech functionality with spoken bookmarks creates a seamless listening experience for Bible passages.

* Versatile search capabilities.

* Enhanced bookmarking and highlighting options, accompanied by personal study notes.

* Study Pads to take notes and reference Bible passages while engaged in sermons.

* Reading plans help set goals for Bible engagement.

* An extensive library contains over 1500 documents, including Bible translations, theological commentaries, dictionaries, maps, and Christian texts, legally shared through Crosswire and various SWORD repositories, available in over 700 languages.

* Native support for MyBible, MySword, and EPUB formats allows users to expand their library further.

Join us in creating the best Bible application!

AndBible operates as an open-source community initiative. 

* developing new features

* testing features that haven’t been released yet

* updating translations of the user interface, and

* expanding the module library by securing permissions from copyright holders or converting documents to the SWORD format.

If you are a skilled software developer or tester, we invite you to consider contributing to the project.

Support the project by purchasing development time!

If you lack the time or skills for direct contributions, another way to support the initiative is by purchasing professional developer time to aid in the project's progress.

Financial report for Q1 / 2025

Background

Tuomas Airaksinen Consulting, company of the lead developer, is providing a way to sponsor AndBible development. You can support AndBible development financially via the webshop.

I am reporting in monthly basis the significant numbers in this google sheets document.

See also: financial report for Q4/2023, Q1/2024, Q2/2024, Q3/2024 and Q4/2024.

Q1 / 2025, during this period, the pricing for sponsored work was 60€ / hour. In the table below, I am summarising Q3 hours and as a comparison also earlier months. What I consider eligible as payable development hours is discussed in this blog post.

Same in graphic form:

Note: We were moving with my wife in March so in Feb-March period so most of my excess time was going to related tasks. I was receiving more funding than I was able to work for. So after March, I have 11.34 hours of sponsorship left, not yet used. This will be used in April, Lord willing.

Observations: Support has been increased significantly in last 3 months. I feel blessed about this development, and very happy to see that there are other people sharing the (financial) burden of AndBible development with me! New cool features that sponsorship has enabled me to do: NextCloud support for device sync and custom icons for bookmarks. Total support has still room for improvement (goal is 4 full working days per month) Breakdown of tasks (2024-2025)

Breakdown of tasks (2024-2025)

 Here is the breakdown how paid hours were used:

In other words, in Q1 statistics look like this:

Support (help.andbible@gmail.com email mainly): 3.0 hours = 7.5%

Maintenance tasks (bug fixing etc): 6.9 hours = 17.2 %

New feature development: 30.3 hours = 75.4 %

Reviewing contributor’s code: 0 hours = 0 %

Same in graphic form:

Some analysis/remarks:

Due to special period (moving etc.) I was not having a lot of time for almost anything. Still because of some significant sponsorships, I wanted to spend some time in feature development. During this period I was clearly neglecting support (in fact, people are still waiting for replies when I’m writing this).

I believe that things from my point of view are normalizing in Q2/2025. Though feature development is having priority as I think that’s what sponsors want me to do most.

Closing words

I want to thank every AndBible sponsor for making it possible to keep the app well maintained, supported and developing. I am very happy to see that there are other people sharing the (financial) burden of AndBible development with me!

Best regards & blessings,

Tuomas Airaksinen

Lead developer of AndBible Open Source Project

Comments

This is my all time favorite app! I use it more and more as I get more familiar with it. Being able to add my own epubs and the scripture references auto hyperlink is wonderful! the TTS, Read aloud option is well done too. I notice that I can't search within other books, only the bible. Can this feature be added?

Among the very best Bible apps for Android in existence. This app is so full of helpful features that facilitate Bible study I'm amazed it's available to us for free. At first, the sheer number of functionalities and utilities dazzles you that you only slowly realize how they can be efficiently harnessed to take to make a rich-featured, powerful Bible tool. God bless the developers of this app. I deeply appreciate it. Definitely recommend it to everyone.

This is by far the best open source mobile Bible app available - and its free - as the Bible should be! It is feature packed and can even be run on a desktop machine via Waydroid (requires a bit of technical experience). If you are able, please support the developer!

Hands down my favorite Bible app. Has LOADS of features, and without needing an internet connection (after a resource has been downloaded), or taking up a lot of space. At first it can seem a little odd, but once you get to know it, you won't want any other Bible app (at the very least I didn't). Highly recommend. Great job AndBible developers!