Press kit
Everything here may be republished freely — the text, the figures, and the images — without asking and without attribution beyond naming Biblion. If something you need is missing, write and say so.
In a line
Biblion is a Bible reader with its own commentary on all sixty-six books, four complete translations read aloud, seventeen hand-drawn maps, and a camera that can tell which chapter of a printed Bible you are holding. It works offline, carries no advertising, asks for no account, and is bought once.
In a paragraph
Biblion began as a website and became an app. The commentary was written before the app existed — 3,031 comments across the whole Bible, in one voice, each one saying plainly how firmly its reading is held. The app carries that commentary, the text of four translations with 327 hours of narration, the maps, and Strong’s numbers on the King James text, and it keeps all of it on the phone so that none of it needs a signal. It is bought once, for $4.99, and everything is in it — no subscription, no free tier, nothing sold separately and nothing to unlock afterward. There is no account either: nothing to register, nothing to sign in to, and nothing of a reader’s kept on the server. It shows no advertising, and it counts nothing that could say who did the reading. A separate Mac app is on the App Store, on the same terms, at $19.99, a Windows one is on the Microsoft Store, at $19.99, and an Android one is being built.
Facts you can quote
- Original commentary on all 66 books — 3,031 comments, written for Biblion and published nowhere else.
- 327 hours of narration across four complete translations, plus 66 book introductions read aloud.
- Four translations: the World English Bible, the King James Version, the American Standard Version, and the Bible in Basic English. All four are complete, and every chapter of each is recorded.
- 17 hand-drawn maps, made for this project rather than licensed.
- Strong’s numbers on the King James text, with the lexicon entry and every other verse the same word stands in.
- Works entirely offline — text, audio, commentary and search, with no request to a server.
- The camera reads a page of a printed Bible and works out the chapter, on the phone. No photograph is kept, nothing is written to storage, and nothing about the page is sent anywhere.
- No account — there is nothing to register, nothing to sign in to, and nothing kept on a server. What a reader writes stays on the device.
- $4.99 once, everything included. No subscription, no free tier, no in-app purchase, no advertising, no tracking.
- A Mac app is on the App Store — a separate application, not a stretched phone one: eight texts on disk — six English translations with the Hebrew and the Greek — study panes that follow the reading, a comparative view, a New Testament interlinear, and a sermon builder that exports to Word. $19.99 once, bought outright. It is on the App Store, listed as Biblion Bible Study — plain Biblion belongs to another developer.
- A Windows app is on the Microsoft Store — native to Windows rather than the Mac one stretched to fit, and the same in kind: the whole library kept on the machine, study panes that follow the reading, and the same search. It is on the Microsoft Store at $19.99 once, on the same terms as the others.
- An Android app is being built — the phone app again rather than the desktop one shrunk: the same four narrated translations, the same commentary, the same word study, and the same camera that reads a printed page. Everything it needs is kept on the phone. It is the newest of the four — not on Google Play yet, and no date.
The camera, since it is the unusual part
Point the phone at an open printed Bible and the app names the chapter, then offers to take you to it — to the commentary, the cross-references, or the recording. It does not need to recognize which translation you are holding: it matches on the rare words a passage uses, which survive translation, so it works with a Bible the app does not carry. Recognition happens on the device, against a list that ships inside the app; there is no server for it to ask.
Images
Screenshots from the app, free to use. Each links to the full-size original.
The Mac app
Captures of the real application running, at their full 3108 × 1564.
The Windows app
The same six views, captured from the Windows application at 2518 × 1267.
The Android app, which is not out yet
Six views from the Android app, free to use. Each links to the full-size original. It is not on Google Play yet, and no date should be implied.
The icon
Free to use alongside anything written about Biblion. The full-size original is 1024 × 1024 and square, with no corners applied — iOS masks it, and so should any layout that shows it as an app icon; round it rather than asking for a rounded file.
The website’s own mark and the rest of the colophon are on the About page. For anything at a size not offered here, ask.
The story, if you want one
Biblion started as a website for reading Scripture without being watched or sold to, and the commentary was written into it book by book before any app was planned. The app came afterward, for the same reason the website did: a Bible that behaves like a book rather than a service — no notifications asking you back, no feed, no account required to read, and nothing recorded about what you read.
It is published by Mint Labs, s. r. o., in Kosice, Slovakia.
What it deliberately does not do
No advertising inside the text, and none of any kind in any of the apps. No subscription. No tracking, no profiles, no third-party analytics. No account is needed to read the website, and none of the apps has one at all. The website counts how many chapters are opened, with no column anywhere for who opened them; the privacy policy sets that out in full and is worth reading if the claim is the story.
Contact
The apps’ page has the store links. For questions, review copies, or anything not here, use the contact form — it reaches a person, and Biblion sends no email of its own.