Faith Companion
Now on iPhone, iPad & Android
Scripture, hymns and study — with the signal off.
Eight libraries in one calm app. Everything is bundled at install: no account, no adverts, no connection needed, and nothing you read ever leaves your device.
Free. Listed on the App Store as Faith Companion Study.
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
Psalm 119:105 · King James Version
What's inside
Eight libraries in one app
Everything ships with the app. Nothing is downloaded, and nothing needs a signal.
Bible
King James, American Standard, World English, Berean Standard, Shona and Ndebele — side by side or one at a time.
Christ In Song
The multilingual hymnal, including the Shona edition Kristu MuNzwiyo. Every verse followed by its chorus, with a full-screen presentation mode.
SDA Hymnal
The complete Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal in English, searchable by number or by words, reflowing at any text size.
Bible Doctrines
The 52-lesson baptismal study course in four quarters of thirteen, reproduced as printed — aims, memory verses, numbered questions and notes.
Sabbath School
The Adult Bible Study Guide, week by week and day by day, with the standard edition and the Teachers Edition comments.
28 Fundamental Beliefs
The voted statements of the world church, each with its supporting Scripture, in English and in Shona.
E. G. White Library
Sixty-nine books by Ellen G. White, plus the daily devotionals Our High Calling, Our Father Cares and Be Like Jesus — reproduced verbatim.
Reading Plans
The whole Bible in one year or two, the Old Testament, the New Testament in 90 days, the Gospels in 40, Psalms in 30 — and plans through the Ellen G. White books.
In the reader
Tap a word, and the text opens up
The apparatus of a study Bible, on a phone, with no connection.
Original languages
- Strong's numbers on the King James text, with a bundled Greek and Hebrew dictionary
- Every other place a word appears, from the same index
- Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
- Ellen G. White's commentary beside the passage
The page as it was printed
- Words of Christ in red, in the King James and World English texts
- The King James translators' supplied words in italics, as a printed KJV sets them
- Two versions side by side, or search across all of them at once
- Type a reference and go straight to it
A look inside
Built for reading, not for scrolling
Light and dark, three reading typefaces including Atkinson Hyperlegible, and text that scales with your system setting.
Yours to mark up
Bookmarks, highlights and personal notes on any verse, hymn or lesson — and a reading history that remembers the page you stopped on.
Made to be shared
Share a verse as text or as a picture, and put a hymn on a screen with the full-screen presentation mode for group singing.
Correctable
Found a typo in a hymn or a lesson? Fix it on your own device. Your correction stays yours, and the original is one tap away.
Languages
English throughout, multilingual where it counts
The app speaks English
Menus, buttons and settings are in English, everywhere and always.
The content does not have to
The Bible in Shona and Ndebele beside four English versions; Christ In Song in 23 languages; Bible Doctrines and the 28 Fundamental Beliefs in English and Shona.
Privacy
It collects nothing
Not "we value your privacy" — nothing. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking, and the app contains no code that sends or receives data over a network at all. Your bookmarks, notes, highlights, reading progress and settings are written to your device and stay there, where not even we can reach them.
Support
The app is free, and it stays free
There is nothing to unlock and nothing behind a paywall. If Faith Companion has been useful to you, a voluntary gift helps cover development and hosting — and changes nothing about the app either way.
Make a donationCredits & licences
Where every word came from
The same notices the app carries on its own licences screen.
- Scripture — English
- King James Version, the 1769 Blayney edition in eBible.org's 2006 public-domain rendering (eng-kjv2006). American Standard Version (1901), public domain. World English Bible, public domain. Berean Standard Bible, made freely available by its publisher and produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.
- Scripture — Shona (ChiShona)
- Translated from the Greek Textus Receptus (Scrivener). © 2003–2012 Zororai Mazvabo, © 2003–2018 Trycot Mwedzi, © 2013–2018 Kerin Mapiye. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3.
- Scripture — Ndebele (isiNdebele)
- IBhayibhili Elingcwele. Scripture text © Biblica, Inc., used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Reformatted for display in the app; provided without the Biblica trademark and not endorsed by Biblica.
- Cross-references
- The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (expanded edition, by Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott and others, about 1880). Public domain, from the module distributed by the CrossWire Bible Society.
- Strong's
- Numbering from James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. The Hebrew dictionary is the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project's transcription, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence — credited here as that licence requires. The Greek dictionary is Ulrik Petersen's XML edition of Michael Grier's e-text, marked public domain.
- Ellen G. White writings
- The bundled books, the daily devotionals and the commentary notes from The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, volumes 1–7 (1953–1957), are published by the Ellen G. White Estate, Inc. Titles first published before 1929 are in the public domain in the United States; the later titles are compilations prepared by the White Estate. Reproduced verbatim.
- Sabbath School
- The Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide, content © General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists®, all rights reserved, reproduced for study use. Lesson data compiled by the Adventech Sabbath School project.
- Bible Doctrines
- Reproduced verbatim from the Manual of Bible Doctrines, the Seventh-day Adventist baptismal and membership study course, and its Shona edition, Zvidzidzo zveBhaibheri. Rights in the manual remain with its compilers and publishers; the passages quoted throughout are Ellen G. White's.
- 28 Fundamental Beliefs
- The voted statements of the world church, © General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists®, reproduced verbatim in English and in Shona.
- Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal
- © 1985 by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists®, published by the Review and Herald® Publishing Association. Many individual texts and tunes are in the public domain, but the collection, its selection and its numbering are not; copyright in each hymn remains with its author, composer or publisher.
- Christ In Song
- Built from the open data set compiled by Tinashe Mzondiwa, released under the Apache License 2.0. The copyright of each hymnal translation belongs to its respective publishing house.
- Fonts & icons
- PT Serif and Lato — SIL Open Font License 1.1. Atkinson Hyperlegible — Braille Institute, Open Font License. IBM Plex Sans and IBM Plex Mono, used on this website — © IBM Corp., SIL Open Font License 1.1. Phosphor Icons — © 2020–2021 Phosphor Icons, MIT License.
- Software
- Faith Companion is a Flutter application. The notices of every open-source package linked into the build are listed inside the app, assembled from the shipped binary.
Faith Companion is an independent app. It is not an official publication of, nor endorsed by, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists®, the Review and Herald® Publishing Association, or the Ellen G. White Estate, Inc.