Bible First for iPhone & iPad

Study Scripture, don't just read it.

224 guided studies across sixteen pathways. Read the passage, answer the questions, follow a theme, and finish what you start.

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224guided studies
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Bible First on iPhone: the Home screen with an Up Next card and the sixteen pathways

How a study works

Four steps, every time

Reading is where it starts. The rest is what makes it stay with you.

1Read

Scripture comes first

Every study opens with the passage itself, set as one flowing column the way a Bible reads, with the words of Jesus in red. The reflection follows the text, never the other way round.

  • Tap any verse to highlight it
  • Pick up exactly where you stopped
  • Light and dark, with text that scales to your eyes
The Prodigal Son in Bible First, with Luke 15:20 highlighted

2Respond

Answer the questions, note the verse

Each study ends with reflection questions, and you can answer them right there. Your answer stays beneath its question. A thought about one line? Tap that verse and write a note on it.

  • Written answers under every reflection question
  • Notes attached to a single verse
  • Everything you write is saved as you go
Reflection questions with written answers beneath them
The menu on a tapped verse: Highlight or Write a Note

3Follow

One theme, across all of Scripture

Every study shows the themes it touches and the studies related to it, in any pathway. Finish the Unmerciful Servant and you are pointed to Forgiveness, Psalm 51 and Love Your Enemies.

  • Sixty themes, from Anger to Worship
  • Related studies at the end of every study
  • Tap a theme to see every study on it
The Grace theme page: 29 studies across 10 pathways

4Finish

Pathways with a beginning and an end

Each of the sixteen pathways opens with a short introduction and lays its studies out as a route, with your place marked. Finish the last one and you are shown what you covered and everything you wrote along the way.

  • “You are here” on the next study
  • A summary when you complete a pathway
  • Milestones and a reading streak, kept quietly
Jesus' Parables as a route, 12 of 21 read, with You Are Here marked
The summary shown when a pathway is complete

Also inside

Quietly useful

Built to help you keep a habit, and to stay out of the way.

Your study, in one place

Highlights, verse notes and answers are collected together, each beside the verse or question it belongs to.

A prayer list

Keep the people and needs you are praying for, mark each time you pray, and look back on the ones answered.

Search everything

Search every study, its Scripture and your own writing at once. Each result shows the matching line.

Gentle reminders

An optional daily reminder to read, and a weekly nudge when a prayer has gone quiet. Both are off until you turn them on.

Syncs through your iCloud

Your notes, highlights, prayers and progress stay current across your iPhone and iPad, in your own private iCloud.

Private by design

No account, no ads, no tracking. The app makes no network requests of its own, and works fully offline.

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Sixteen pathways into God's Word

224 studies in all, from the parables of Jesus to the names of God.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105 · ESV

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