As Written

iPhone app · Free · 2026


Bible facts, sourced

The forbidden fruit wasn’t an apple

Genesis 3 describes a forbidden fruit but never specifies what kind. The Hebrew uses a generic word for fruit. The apple arrived through medieval Latin, where malum meant both evil and apple tree, and commentators and painters leaned into the pun until Milton locked it in.

Scholarly consensus Alter, Robert. The Five Books of Moses. W. W. Norton, 2004.
Scholarly consensus Kugel, James L. How to Read the Bible. Free Press, 2007.

Coming to the App Store in 2026. No price, no account, no ads.

Every fact is sourced, and the source is rated

Each fact rests on the documented record: the manuscripts, the archaeology, the languages the texts were written in, and published scholarship. Every quotation is verbatim from a licensed translation and names its reference and its translation.

Where scholars disagree, the fact says so and names which versions and which readings go which way. Sources carry a rating of scholarly consensus, majority view, or contested. Interpretation and tradition appear where they matter and are labelled as such, never rated as evidence.

It tells you what the record says and where that comes from. The whole idea

Not a devotional app

No verse of the day. No reflection prompt. No application question. Nothing that tells you what to believe about the text.

Reads without a network

Every fact and the full King James text ship inside the app, so reading uses no connection at all. There is no account and no sign-in.

What is in it

The app collects nothing

There is no account, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind. Reading happens entirely offline.

The one exception is sending feedback, which happens only when you tap send. It carries no device identifier and nothing derived from one. The only thing that could identify you is an email address you choose to type, and that field is optional. The privacy page is the long version.