An offline Bible, because the moment you need it rarely has signal
A plane, a subway, a hospital basement, a dead battery on the last bar — the app treats all of these as normal, not as an error state. The full text of the King James Version, the Berean Standard Bible and the World English Bible is carried on your device from the moment you install it.
Works with the network off
- Every book, chapter and verse in KJV, BSB and WEB
- Keyword search across the whole translation, instantly
- Topic collections for anxiety, hope, healing and encouragement
- Verse compare, side by side across all three translations
- The 7-day starter plan
- The verse of the day, in whichever translation you have chosen
- The daily reminder notification
- Your reading position, remembered exactly
Needs a connection
- Explain — the plain-words explanation of a verse
- Ask — a question, and the follow-ups in a conversation
- A prayer written for the verse in front of you
That is the whole list. These run on a server because the answer is generated, not looked up. When a request fails on a bad connection the app says so rather than waiting forever, and a failed request is never charged against your daily allowance.
Nothing to download, nothing to manage
Some Bible apps are readers with a download manager attached: you pick a translation, wait for it, and discover on the plane which ones you forgot. All three translations here are bundled in the app itself. There is no per-book download, no cache to warm and nothing to expire.
Instant search, because it never leaves the device
Type a word or a half-remembered phrase and every verse in your selected translation that contains it comes back immediately. This is a plain string search, not an AI feature, and saying so is the stronger claim: it is deterministic, it is fast, and it works with the radio off. Tap any result and you land in the reader at that exact verse rather than staring at a list.
Your place is kept
Open the Bible tab and you are back on the exact chapter you last read, so returning to the app costs no navigation. Switching translation keeps you on the same verse, so you can read a passage in another wording without hunting for your place again.
What leaves your device
Only what you send to Explain or Ask, or a verse you ask a prayer for, and only when you ask. Nothing about your reading — not the chapter, not your searches, not the topics you open — is sent anywhere, because none of it needs to be. The privacy policy sets this out in full, and there is no account and no advertising attached to any of it.
Questions
Does the Footlamp app work without internet?
Yes. Reading any book, chapter and verse, keyword search, the topic collections, verse compare, the verse of the day and the daily reminder all run on the device and need no connection. Explain, Ask and prayers for a verse are generated, so they are the features that require one.
Do I have to download the Bible text first?
No. All three translations ship inside the app, so there is nothing to download after installing and nothing to manage.
Does search work offline?
Yes. Keyword search is a plain string search over the translation you have selected, running entirely on the device, which is also why it is instant.
Will the daily reminder fire in airplane mode?
Yes. The reminder is scheduled on the device itself and does not depend on a push server.
The whole Bible, with the radio off
Free to download on iOS and Android. KJV, BSB and WEB bundled, nothing to download afterwards.
Free. No ads, no sign-up, no account. Android and iOS.