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The Bible, on a bookshelf.把圣经放上书架。

A quiet Bible reader for iPhone. Sixty-six books you can see and take down from a shelf, a sky that keeps the hour with a verse for it, and English and Chinese read side by side. 一款安静的 iPhone 读经应用。六十六卷书摆在书架上,伸手就能取下;首页的天空随时辰变化,每个时段配一节经文;中英文可以并排对照阅读。

Free免费 No ads or in-app purchases没有广告和内购 No account needed不需要账号 Reads offline可离线阅读 In development for iPhoneiPhone 版开发中

Core functions基本功能

Everything a daily reader needs每天读经需要的,都在这里

Library书架

All 66 books shelved by division, from the Torah to the Letters, each with its reading progress. Type two letters to find a book or jump to "john 3".六十六卷按类别上架,从摩西五经到书信,每卷都显示阅读进度。输入一两个字就能找到书卷,或直接跳到「约 3」。

Reader阅读

Clean pages with section headings and translators' notes as quiet markers. Four reading faces in each language, with size, spacing and bold.页面干净,有段落标题,译者注以小标记呈现。每种语言四款阅读字体,字号、行距、粗细都可调。

Compare对照

Two translations verse by verse, English beside Chinese or two of the same language, scrolling together.两个译本逐节对照,可以中英并排,也可以同语言两个译本,一起滚动。

Highlights, notes, bookmarks高亮、笔记、书签

Mark a verse in one of eight colours, write a note, or keep a bookmark. Everything you mark is gathered on Home and in your profile.用八种颜色高亮经文、写笔记、加书签。标注的内容会汇集在首页和「我的」页面。

Search搜索

Search the whole text and your own notes, or type a reference in English or Chinese to go straight there.搜索全部经文和自己的笔记,或输入中英文章节直接前往。

Share分享

Copy or share any verse with its reference. The verse of the moment can also go out as an image, set on its sky.复制或分享任何经文都附带出处;首页的经文还能做成图片,背景就是当下的天空。

What makes it different独特之处

Made to be picked up every day让人每天都想打开

A sky that keeps the hour随时辰变化的天空

Home opens on the sky as it is now: first light, clear noon, the glow after sunset, the moon rising through haze and the stars at night. Under it stands a Verse Moment, one for the morning, the afternoon and the evening.首页是此刻的天空:破晓、正午的晴空、日落后的余晖、在薄雾中升起的月亮、夜里的星星。天空下是「经文时刻」,早晨、午间、晚间各一节。

1,471 references chosen for the time of day, so no moment repeats a verse within a year. Sundays and the church's days have their own.按时段挑选的 1,471 处经文,一年之内同一时段不会重复。主日和教会节期另有专属经文。

Home in the morning
Home at dusk
Home at night, in Chinese

Every book has its own cover每卷书都有自己的封面

The Bible is a library, and the app shows it as one: 66 covers, titled in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, grouped as the Bible groups them.圣经本是一座图书馆,应用也这样呈现:66 本书各有封面,英文、简体、繁体各有一套书名,按圣经本身的分类排列。

The Library in English
The Library in Traditional Chinese

English and Chinese, verse by verse中英逐节对照

Built for readers who live in two languages. The interface speaks English, Simplified or Traditional Chinese, and any two translations can be read against each other, each set in its own script's type.为在两种语言之间生活的读者而做。界面有英文、简体和繁体;任意两个译本都能逐节对照,各自用本身文字的字体排版。

English and Chinese side by side
The reader

Your marks, kept like real things把标注当作实物来收藏

Notes are letters on lined paper, highlights are colour chips, bookmarks are paper bookmarks, each in its own folder on Home. A gentle weekly rhythm and small awards keep the habit without shaming a missed day.笔记是横线信纸,高亮是色卡,书签是纸书签,各自收在首页的文件夹里。温和的每周节奏和小小的奖章陪你养成习惯,漏掉一天也不会被责备。

Home: reading rhythm, awards and folders
Sharing a verse as an image

Privacy隐私

What you read stays yours你读的,只属于你

No account没有账号Open it and read. Nothing to sign up for.打开就能读,无需注册。
Nothing collected不收集资料No analytics, no advertising, no tracking.没有统计分析、广告或追踪。
On your device存在你的设备上Notes, highlights and progress are kept on your iPhone and never sent to us.笔记、高亮和进度只存在你的 iPhone 上,从不发送给我们。
Free免费No purchases or subscriptions, and no donation prompts.没有内购、订阅,也不索取奉献。

For publishers致出版方

How the app carries a translation应用如何承载译本

Chapter offers a translation only as its publisher allows. Public-domain and openly licensed texts are available now; others are added once their publishers grant permission.Chapter 只在出版方许可的范围内提供译本。公有领域和开放授权的译本现已提供,其他译本在出版方授权后才会加入。

Translations available now现已提供的译本

KJVKing James VersionPublic domain公有领域
ASVAmerican Standard VersionPublic domain公有领域
WEBWorld English BiblePublic domain; "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org公有领域;“World English Bible”是 eBible.org 的商标
CCB当代译本 · 當代譯本Biblica® Open Chinese Contemporary Bible, CC BY-SA 4.0Biblica® 圣经当代译本开放资源,CC BY-SA 4.0

How the text is handled经文的处理方式

  • A reader adds a translation from inside the app. Its text downloads from Apple's servers into the app's private storage and can be read offline.读者在应用内添加译本,经文从 Apple 的服务器下载到应用的私有空间,可离线阅读。
  • There is no way to export a book or the whole text. A reader can copy or share a single verse, always with its reference and the translation's abbreviation.无法导出整卷或全本经文。读者只能复制或分享单节经文,并始终附上出处和译本缩写。
  • Each translation's copyright notice appears on its page in the app and in Settings › Copyrights, in the wording its publisher specifies.每个译本的版权声明按出版方指定的字句,刊于应用内的译本页和「设置 › 版权声明」。
  • The app is non-commercial: free, with no advertising, purchases, subscriptions or accounts, and it collects no personal data.应用为非商业用途:免费,没有广告、内购、订阅或账号,也不收集任何个人资料。

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