Many Bible translations
Berean Standard Bible, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation and many german versions – also side by side for comparison. Save your favorite Bible for offline reading.
Your collections
Collect Bible passages with your own notes. Share collections with a group or through a public link.
Make Bible verses stick
Practice with fill-in-the-blanks, typing or a classic recall quiz. See which verses are due and track your progress; SRS or optional FSRS schedules reviews.
See where your verses are
Counts and bars show how your entries are spread across testaments, books and chapters. Select an area to see matching passages and search results.
Your PDFs as a study source
Upload PDFs privately and continue on another device from your last-read page. HeartWord detects Bible references in PDFs with a text layer and shows matching pages as a study source beside the verse.
Take notes during sermons
Capture passages and thoughts during a sermon or Bible study. Return to your notes later and keep them organized.
Learn more →Through the ear into the heart
Have passages read aloud to you — with prepared computer voices in good quality, or simply record your own memory verses yourself. You can share read-aloud links with others.
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”Romans 10:17 (King James Translation)
Everything about a verse
One click on a verse shows everything in one place: your notes, collections and tags, your learning status, a comparison of translations and read-aloud.
Learn more →Your own reading plans
Generate a reading plan from one or more Bible sections in just a few clicks — with a schedule, chosen weekdays, and saved either as a file or directly in your account.
Explore verses in depth
Explore word meanings, commentaries and related passages right beside the Bible verse.
Learn more →Words of Jesus highlighted
Show the words of Jesus in red, bold or any style you like – and gather them in a smart list if you wish.
Learn more →Biblical units converted
Cubit, talent, ephah or denarius: biblical lengths, weights, volumes and coins are marked in the text and converted into modern units with one click.
Learn more →Support HeartWord
HeartWord is a personal project. I'll be greatful for any support — in all kinds of ways.
Financially
Cost for server and services keep running. This site intentionally does not show adverts and does not monetize your clicks - it relies on donations (i.e via GitHub Sponsors)
Prayer
For wisdom on the next steps and endurance along the way.
Contacts
Do you know rights holders of Bible translations? A friendly introduction would help a lot.
Coffee & chocolate
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Thanks
HeartWord can only exist because many people and organizations make their Bible translations, lexicons and tools available for free or with kind permission. Heartfelt thanks to:
Bible translations
- Schlachter 1951 — © 1951 Geneva Bible Society, published under CC BY 4.0.
- Schlachter 2000 — © 2000 Geneva Bible Society. Used with kind permission.
- Menge Bible — translated by Hermann Menge, public domain.
- Luther 1912 — public domain, provided via eBible.org.
- New Evangelistic Translation (NeÜ) — © Karl-Heinz Vanheiden, non-commercial distribution permitted.
- Volxbibel 4.0 — © Martin Dreyer & the Volxbibel Community, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Elberfelder (edition by bibelkommentare.de) — © 2019 Verbreitung des christlichen Glaubens e.V., CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
- Berean Standard Bible, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Revised Literal Translation, Zürcher Bibel 1931 — provided via the open-source project scrollmapper/bible_databases (MIT/GPL).
- Free Bible Version (FBV) — © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Free Bible Ministry, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Grünewald Bible (1924) — public domain, provided via Beblia.
- Bibel Heute — © Christliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Dillenburg; source: Beblia.
- Hoffnung für Alle — © Biblica, Inc., used with permission; source: Beblia.
- Biblica® Open Nueva Biblia Viva™ — © 2006, 2008 Biblica, Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Offene Bibel – Studienfassung, Lesefassung and Leichte Sprache — source: offene-bibel.de; CC BY-SA 3.0. Prepared as JSON for HeartWord.
Study resources
- Calwer Bible Lexicon — Calwer Verlag, provided via crossload.org.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (TSK) — public domain, provided via bible-cross-reference-json.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary (JFB) — Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown (1871), public domain, provided via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL).
- Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (MHCC) — Matthew Henry (1706), public domain, provided via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL).
- Strong's Lexicon — OpenScriptures BDB & Hebrew Lexicon, MyBible BDB/Thayer, and the Greek-German Strong's Lexicon by Gerhard Kautz.
- German–KJV verse mapping — CrossWire Bible Society / JSword, created by Jens Grabner and the DIB team for STEP Bible, LGPL-2.1.
- Herrnhut Daily Watchwords (Losungen) — provided by the Moravian Church (Herrnhuter Brüdergemeinde), used under their terms for the current year.
Full copyright & usage details for every translation are available in the app under Settings → Bible translations.
Sources of ideas & inspiration
The following brothers and sisters influenced (without knowing it) the design and functionality of HeartWord in the early stages of development and gave important pointers. Thank you!
- Daniel Exler - emphasized the importance of listening, in a personal conversation during a seminar break.
- Maria Prean - one of her videos inspired me to add "callouts" for proclamations...
- Pastors Florian & Pam Treutel of Charity Church Hanau, because during Bible study it became clear to me that we need a dedicated mode for taking notes during Bible study (or a sermon). And also for many answers and most important: pastoral care.
Contact
There's no team behind HeartWord, just me — Michael. Feel free to reach out, whether with a question, a translation contact, or just to say hi.