Believers Sword About
About Believers Sword
I started Believers Sword in 2019 as a simple desktop app for reading and studying the Bible. I kept building it because I found out people were using it, and it is free to use.
No install needed to try it. The web app opens in a tab.
The mission
Put Scripture on the devices people already carry, so the Word of God stays part of an ordinary day.
A phone and a PC are where most of us spend our hours. If the Bible is on them, a tap away and working offline, it stays within reach instead of becoming something you keep meaning to get back to.
That is what I am building toward: not another app to collect, but the Gospel close at hand on the screens already in front of people.
How it started
2019
A simple desktop app
I built it as a portfolio piece: a desktop app for reading and studying the Bible. That was the whole of it at the time.
2025
The web and mobile apps
Six years in, the desktop build stopped being the only way in. I started the web app and the Android app so the same reader and the same study tools would follow you off the desk.
Today
Still being built
Desktop, web, and Android, and still a work in progress. I keep adding to it and fixing it as I go.
Why I kept going
It has been a long ride, and most projects this old get quietly abandoned, plenty of mine included. What changed this one was realising there were people actually using it.
Not someone reviewing my work: people opening the app to read Scripture. A portfolio piece is where it began, but it stopped being the point a long time ago. So I kept working on it, and I still am.
Free to use
Believers Sword is free to use, and it stays that way. Reading the Bible, studying it, and keeping your notes and highlights costs nothing on every platform it runs on, online or offline.
Optional paid tiers cover extras such as cross-device sync. The reading and studying is free, and there is no trial to run out.
Who builds it
I am Jenuel Oras Ganawed, a developer. I design, build, and maintain Believers Sword: the desktop app, the web app, the Android app, and this site.
Start reading
Free on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and the browser. Pick whichever is nearest.