Blue Letter Bible
A Bible study app with various tools and features for reading and understanding scripture.
iPhone · iPad
Quick verdict
- What it is
- The Blue Letter Bible app provides a personalized Bible reader with over 30 Bible versions, audio Bibles, and study tools. Users can customize their reading experience, highlight and underline verses, and take notes. The app also allows for offline reading and has a cloud backup feature.
- Best for
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- someone who studies the Bible
- Christian readers
- At a glance
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- Free to download
Categories and search queries
Official categories
- Reference
- Education
AppCorpus categories
Key functions
| Function | Availability | Access | Scope | Evidence |
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| Free app | Yes | Free | — | Store published |
Screens
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15 store screenshots
Pricing & paywalls
App Store
- Free
Ratings & reviews
App Store
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5/5This is the ultimate bible online study
Totally awesome! and without ads :This is Tremendous bible resource in every way, just start exploring and be sure to click on a verse and click the one in the middle of menu and you will be able view Greek and Hebrew and explanation of all words (that choice is: Concordance/Interlinear); and so much more, all ad free. It is truly amazing. I started using this app over 7 years ago. The desktop edition is also great. For this app:They keep improving on what is already great. Example: choice for you to have the chapter read aloud for you, or the whole of the book within the 66 books of the Bible. Just about every translation of the many English translations are available. Also includes Thayer’s in depth original and amazing words in Bible I continue to learn about the root meanings through this tremendous resource that the brilliant geniuses of the development team make available when you go to a verse in linear concordance and tap any word you will get Hebrew and Greek of word it even pronounces it for you and click at bottom of that page for the Thayer selection which opens up a whole realm of authentic text Insight- when you see it you’ll get what I mean - hard to describe depths of this and for each word. I’m not an employee of this remarkable non profit, may I recommend supporting it. Also fully available on your web browser. iPad version is also dynamic and outstanding as well.
blueBibleReader · 30 Aug 2026
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5/5BLB... SHARING BIBLICAL RESEARCH TOOLS GODS WAY
I had been purchasing pricey software when through a Chuck Missler teaching I learned about this amazing software which did as much and perhaps more than that which I decided was worth the hih purchase price, but was always dismayed when once on the PC... there were separate offers to provide the “key” to “open” up the “available modules” adding to both the true cost to have he tools desired as well as the questions those ways of marketing and judeo/christian ethics in business. I realize the costs of producing the bible software need to be covered... the overhead... but God’s word though freely given, is a well of water, springing up within those who receive it into eternal life to which their is no amount of earthly stuff that can even come close to the hope knowing that when I pass... within the time it takes for an eye to blink... I have the great hope... through faith... that so rapidly I will e with my Lord and Savior in His heavenly kingdom... forever! BLB has given all the ability to have every tool necessary to adequately do our bible homework. It is easy to use and has enabled me a retired man with a wonderful life, to be able to explore the depths of God’s Word for no cost. Though free, I presume it is not cheap to give us this foundational website. For us who rely on it, I ask that we include it in the rotation of our tithes. If we be honest we who DO rely on it have a moral duty to help keep it alive and available in perpetuity. How tragic it would be to lose this great tool. Right?
xmagma1 · 30 Aug 2026
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5/5Amazing study feature removed with latest update
Hello. I’ve been using your app for years and it’s one of the best study tools available on iOS. I was extremely surprised to see in the latest update released this week that in the interlinear you NO LONGER can see where a Strong’s number is used for the corresponding Hebrew or Greek word you want to study. For instance there are several words used for wisdom in proverbs. I used to could pick a verse, click on the word for wisdom and see all verses where the word was used. That I can still do but it NO LONGER shows in the list of scriptures where the Strong’s word I’m researching was actually used. Sometimes the word wisdom can be used twice in the same verse but 2 different Hebrew words are used. Well I no longer can see which is used for the word I’m currently studying! I just know it’s one of them but I can’t tell which one unless I actually go into that verse and study it separately. This is a major feature loss and I’m shocked this was removed. Please let us see the Strong’s numbers in the list of usage verses again. Thanks! Update: Thanks for your response. You can see the Strong’s numbers for all verses using a word AS LONG as you go to interlinear in the KJV version. I wish it was with any translation like before but at least you can still access it. This is still the best bible study app on the store!
Tony&ChrisNM · 30 Aug 2026
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5/5Sola Scrriptura • Solus Christus • Soli Deo Gloria
The Word of God is my barometer for life; for spiritual life. The Blue Letter Bible enables me to have His Word available at times I don't have my Bible. It is truly a "user friendly" App. Blue Letter Bible also has a great website. I've been blessed with the opportunity to meet some of the Blue Letter Staff on a couple of occasions and from them, learn much more about the App and about Blue Letter's ministry. It is obviously to make God's Word available to more souls. It is a God honoring ministry • Soli Deo Gloria. The App contains many wonderful features: a) Search; b) Ability to highlight text; c) Background color/text color change; d) Audio read; and e) Scroll feature to name a few. I have found the App's features to be consistently reliable. The Blue Letter App doesn't contain a lot of extraneous, options (or programs) to distract from the pure Word of God as do some Bible Apps. In essence, The Blue Letter Bible provides one with the opportunity to have The Word in an unclouded format. In a format in which one needn't be concerned with the potentially misleading opinions of man. I love the purity of The Word of God and, with the assistance of The Holy Spirit, drawing nigh Him through His precious Word. When I consider The Blue Letter Bible App, I am made mindful of the monicker "Sola Scriptura"! Thank you Blue Letter Bible for your wonderful App! ~WyoKid
TheWyoKid · 30 Aug 2026
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2/5Glitches
Often I find in your search engine when looking for a verse by using a word or phrase inconsistent. When the verse won’t appear in my search but the word or words do appear in the verse very frustrating. Also because I really love and use your Cross Reference to get parallel scriptures to further my understanding I’ve found inconsistencies there too. For instance in Revelation 3:10 where Christ is saying He will keep the Church of Philadelphia from the hour of trial that will come upon the whole world to test those who “dwell on the earth”. In your TSk portion, you don’t even reference “dwell on earth” in your categories of search. Notice the long list direct references and even a couple of indirect references as an example: Revelation 6:10,11:10,13:8,14,14:617:8 with direct quotes “who dwell on earth”. Revelation12:10 “inhabitants of the earth’; 13:12 “... and those who dwell in it” are indirect references. I have used the BLB for the last 15+ years and it was originally recommended to me by the late Chuck Missler and I especially love the # of Bibles available for cross references and the easy to use format of seeing them at a glance. Over the years the above mentioned discrepancies have frustrated me and I thought you could use this feed back to make BLB even better. Thanks for all that you’ve done and will continue to do to make Bible illiteracy a thing of the past.
Praise 2 · 30 Aug 2026
Privacy & accessibility
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Accessibility
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Versions
App Store
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2.79.10
Update: • New: AMP Bible • Bugfix: UI on Bible Comparison • Bugfix: App crashed with specific search queries • Bugfix: Display issue on the Bible Translations • Copyright Updates • Internal Database Updates
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2.79.9
Update: • New: AMP Bible • Bugfix: UI on Bible Comparison • Bugfix: App crashed with specific search queries • Bugfix: Display issue on the Bible Translations • Copyright Updates • Internal Database Updates
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2.80.1
Update: • Bugfix: LSB Styling
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2.80.2
Update: • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.80.3
Update: • Added Brenton's English Septuagint (BES) • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.80.4
Update: • Added Brenton's English Septuagint (BES) • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.80.5
Update: • Bug Hotfix • Added Brenton's English Septuagint (BES) • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.80.6
Update: • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.80.7
Update: • TSK: Improved phrase highlighting • Display BLB Footnotes • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.80.8
Update: • TSK: Updated improved phrase highlighting • Added Bible Prefaces • Updated App Icons • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.80.9
Update: • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.81.0
Update: • Added Bible Copyrights • Option to enable visible touches, to view screen taps • Fixed Highlight Renaming Bug
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2.81.1
• Download the NIV Bible • Update: BLB Footnotes • Bugfix: TSK Chapter Range Entries • Bugfix: TSK Data Formatting
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2.81.2
• Download the NKJV Bible • Bible Comparison Bugfixes • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.81.3
• New notification system for news and updates • Easily access notes related to verse • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.81.4
• UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.81.5
• Bugfix: Displaying footnotes • Bugfix: Displaying related notes • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.81.6
• UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.81.7
• UI and Internal Bugfixes • ESV Copyright
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2.81.8
• UI and Internal Bugfixes • AMP Poetry Formatting Improvement
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2.81.9
• Updated Default and BLB Themes • Updated Help • Updated Splash Screen • UI and Internal Bugfixes
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2.82.0
• Download the NLT Bible • UI Bugfixes • TSK Update
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2.82.1
• Download the NLT Bible • UI Bugfixes • TSK Update
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2.82.2
• NLT Parallel Fix • Footnote Bugfix • UI Bugfixes
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2.83.0
· 2 Jul 2026
• New Audio Player • New way to access audio Bibles • Internal Database Update
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2.84.0
· 25 Aug 2026
Added browsable text and audio commentaries. To access tap the BLB button in the middle of the bottom toolbar.
Alternatives
- Strong's Concordance — Same category + similar ratings
- Bible Gateway — Same category + similar ratings
Availability by market
- US
Data quality & evidence
- Page completeness
- Independent summary published
- Last verified
- 30 Aug 2026
- Sources
- App Store