A unique approach to Bible reading that helps you immerse in Scripture across languages and translations.
Listen to each verse in multiple languages sequentially. Build your own reading pipeline with any combination of translations and pauses.
Read and listen to any book in one language with professional narration. Configurable pauses between verses, paragraphs, or sections for contemplative reading.
Visual progress for every book of the Bible. The app automatically tracks what you've listened to, scrolled through, or marked manually.
Bible Garden is open source under the GPL-3.0 license: the app and server code is on GitHub. We believe that tools for reading Scripture should be free, transparent, and community-driven.
iOS app, API, and admin tools — all open source
GPL-3.0 — free to use, modify, and share under the same terms
API access by application key
BibleGarden/
iOS-App/ — SwiftUI
Bible-API/ — FastAPI, read-only
Dashboard-API/ — FastAPI, admin
Dashboard-Web/ — Vue 3
Architecture/ — docs
$ git clone BibleGarden/iOS-App
$ open BibleGarden.xcodeproj
License: GPL-3.0
All rights belong to God.
"Create a space where free text and audio versions of the Bible are created and made available to everyone, in multiple languages, in a convenient format."
"Freely you have received; freely give." We don't even accept donations.
Anyone can contribute translations, vote for the best options, and improve quality together.
Only texts and audio with clear legal status. All copyrights belong to God.
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Download free BSB, WEB, and KJV audio Bible MP3s from sources that explain their permissions. Compare recordings, file sizes, and online listening in Bible Garden.
Build your own audio Bible sequence in Bible Garden: multiple translations verse by verse, pauses, and separate speed and text size settings. Five setups to try.
