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- Now accepting payments from the United States! If you’d like payment support for your country, let us know — we’ll make it happen.
- Theology Library — read classic theological works from 11 authors with paragraph-level tagging, notes, bookmarks, text highlighting, and study integration. Share library passages in your studies with the community.
- Community portal is live — create groups, share studies, connect with fellow disciples, and receive email notifications
- Unified study system — verses, commentary, and library passages side by side in one draggable workspace
- 15+ Bible translations with original Hebrew OT & Greek NT, full Strong’s Concordance, BDB, and Thayer’s lexicons
- 16 commentary sources across all 66 books — and growing as our community grows
- Tag and index verses your way — build a personal map of Scripture that grows with your understanding
- Perfect for small group leaders, worship leaders, pastors, and anyone who wants to go deeper into God’s Word
- Professional-grade tools at a fraction of the cost — works seamlessly on desktop and mobile
- Community portal is always free — no paid subscription needed to benefit from shared studies
- May 18, 2026 — The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) joins the book intros. Open any book and tap “About this book” — ISBE is now there alongside Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, John Gill, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, and Keil & Delitzsch. One consistent encyclopedic voice across all 66 books, edited by James Orr with contributions from over 200 scholars: authorship, date, historical setting, structure, contents, outline, significance. Fills coverage gaps too — books like Ezekiel and Nahum that had no overview from the other 5 sources now have one. Long entries (Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah, Hebrews, etc.) open with a clickable table of contents at the top — click any section heading to jump straight there instead of scrolling through tens of thousands of words. New back-to-top arrow in the overlay header works for every book and chapter intro from every source. The book and chapter intro nav buttons also picked up proper outline icons to match the rest of the navigation.
- May 13, 2026 — About this book / About this chapter. A new icon pair in the top of the Bible reader opens an overlay with the book or chapter’s introduction from any commentary source that has one — Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, John Gill, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, and Keil & Delitzsch (OT). Same layout you already know from the verse commentary panel: source tabs at the top, gold-underlined active source, and inline tag / note / pin buttons on each entry. Tag intros with your own colors (separate namespace from verse or study tags), take permanent notes on any intro (separate from study notes), pin a whole intro to your study as a content card alongside your verses and commentary. Select any portion of intro text and right-click to send just that snippet to your study as a quote. The intro card in the Content panel comes with full tagging, notes, and a “→ Text” button to drop the whole intro into your study text. Shared studies carry intro cards through to recipients with proper attribution. On mobile, a new down-chevron menu collapses the bookmark-all and intro buttons so the nav fits in one row. Plus: clicking “Send to Study” in the library now flashes a green “✓ Added to Study” confirmation on the button.
- May 11, 2026 — Dictionary stays in sync everywhere. Click a Strong’s number anywhere — Bible reader or inside a study — and it appears in your active study’s Dictionary panel right away. Delete from either the sidebar “My Dictionary” or the study’s Dictionary and it’s gone from both. One list, one source of truth, behaves the same wherever you look. Also: the Tyndale Study Notes commentary source has been removed after confirming it was under copyright; the other 15 public-domain commentaries (Matthew Henry, JFB, Adam Clarke, John Gill, Keil-Delitzsch, Calvin, Geneva, Pulpit, and more) are unchanged.
- April 29, 2026 — Bookmark the same verse from multiple translations independently. BSB, KJV, and any other version you read are saved as separate bookmarks, each tagged with the translation in your bookmarks list so you can scan at a glance. Highlights are now translation-specific too — mark the wording you love in the version you love. The cross-reference toggle moved up into the verse action bar for a cleaner look.
- April 27, 2026 — Group invites are live. Admins can now invite disciples directly to private or public groups — pick from your friend list or search for any disciple on the platform, multi-select, send. Invitees get a notification and an email, and can accept or decline right from the group page. Also fixed a Create Group glitch that was throwing an error on the icon picker.
- April 26, 2026 — Conversations are no longer one-sided. Reply to any comment on a post and the original commenter is notified by bell and email. Reply to a reply — threads stay tidy at one indent with a “reply to <user>” label so everyone can follow who’s talking to whom. Every comment now also has the same amen / pray / lion reactions that posts have, and hovering any reaction shows who reacted.
- April 22, 2026 — Word Study panel cleaned up. The Hebrew and Greek text of Scripture is now displayed as given — removed the drag-to-rearrange, right-click delete, Reset, Reverse, anagram-injection, and gematria-value display from the interactive tiles. Added a clear “← Read right to left” / “Read left to right →” hint per language. Fixed a bug where the Hebrew word was being copied to study notes in reversed letter order.
- April 22, 2026 — “Via private message” on direct shares. When someone sends you a study or post as a private message, the post header now reads “via private message” so you know at a glance it’s just for you. RLS keeps it locked down at the database level — only the recipient and the sender can see it.
- April 18, 2026 — The top 5 theologians of Christian history now fully represented. Luther complete with 8 works. Augustine’s City of God in all 22 books. Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion complete (91 chapters). Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica — all 322 Questions across 3 parts, 22,890 paragraphs. The library now holds over 1,500 chapters of foundational Christian theology.
- April 17, 2026 — John Owen expanded to 15 works — 5 new titles including Cases of Conscience, Eshcol, Evidences of Faith, Liturgies, and Pastors and People. Free lifetime memberships now available for early adopters.
- April 16, 2026 — Free lifetime memberships now supported for early adopters and contributors. Source credits cleaned across all published library works. Updated Sources & Credits page with all live commentary and library content.
- April 15, 2026 — Theology Library expanded to 13 authors and 34 works. New authors: A. W. Pink, J. C. Ryle, R. A. Torrey, Thomas Watson, G. K. Chesterton, and Charles Spurgeon. Chesterton’s apologetic trilogy complete — Orthodoxy, Heretics, and The Everlasting Man. Andrew Murray expanded to 9 works. John Owen now has 10 works. Library passages now appear in shared studies with “View Passage” popup. Notification clicks now navigate to the relevant post, group, or disciples page. Hover any reaction to see who reacted.
- April 13, 2026 — Theology Library launched! Read works by 6 authors — Anselm, Augustine, John Owen, John Bunyan, Thomas à Kempis, and Brother Lawrence — with full paragraph-level tagging, notes, bookmarks, text highlighting, and study integration. 10 works available including Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, à Kempis’ Imitation of Christ, and 4 of Owen’s theological works. In the Library, bolded authors have works available now — all other authors are coming soon, representing entire lifetimes of theological writing on the way.
- April 12, 2026 — Five new commentary sources added: Calvin’s Commentaries (13,600+ verses, 45 books), Ryle’s Expository Thoughts (3,766 verses, all 4 Gospels), Spurgeon’s Treasury of David (2,453 verses, all 150 Psalms), Poole’s Annotations (31,091 verses, entire Bible), and The Pulpit Commentary (25,764 verses, entire Bible). That’s 16 commentary sources now available side by side.
- April 11, 2026 — Tag Sets: create multiple named collections of Bible tags. Organize your verse tagging by theme — switch between sets instantly and see different dot overlays across Scripture.
- April 11, 2026 — US billing support: country selector in checkout, zero Canadian tax for US customers, approximate USD pricing displayed.
- April 11, 2026 — Hebrew rendering fix: Hebrew characters now display correctly across all desktop browsers.
Coming Soon: 22 more works by John Owen being prepared, plus classic works from Calvin, Spurgeon, Edwards, Aquinas, Chesterton, the Church Fathers, and many more.
