Now on the App Store

Scripture First.
Then everything else.

Now on the App Store for iPhone. The apps you pick stay locked until you read a little Scripture.

Two iPhones showing the Scripture First lock screen over Instagram and today’s Bible reading in the King James Version.
How it works

Pick the apps you open too much. When you try to open one, Scripture First shows you today’s Bible reading first. Finish the reading, and the app opens.

Download on the App Store
Is this for you?

How long are you on your phone each day?

That’s about 15 days a year.

About two weeks.

What’s your Bible goal?

What Scripture First will do for you.

3 hrs on your phone every day

15 minutes of Scripture First

In only 30 days you’ll read

5

books of the Bible

With just 15 minutes a day.

Scripture First makes the trade for you. Before you know it, you’ve read the whole Bible.

Mission

Scroll less. Read the Bible more.

You pick up your phone. You scroll. The Bible stays closed. That’s most of our days.

Scripture First flips it. Pick the apps you open too much. They won’t open until you read a bit of the Bible first - even just a few verses.

Do it every day and things start to change. You scroll less. You know the Bible more. It becomes the first thing you see, not the last.

Platform
iOS 17+
Translations
KJV · NLT · NKJV
Download on the App Store
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Scripture First

Scripture First. Then everything else.

Available on the App Store
iPhone · iOS 17+
FAQ

Questions, honestly asked.

  • Maybe at first - and that’s okay. Scripture First isn’t about earning anything with God. It’s just a tool you choose to put in your own way, because most of us would rather scroll than open the Word. It’s a trade you set for yourself, not a rule from us.

  • Nothing. You’re an adult. The whole point is that you want the Bible in front of you before Instagram - Scripture First just makes that easier to stick to on the days you don’t feel like it.

  • You choose which apps to put behind Scripture First. Most people pick the two or three they open too much (social, games, news). Everything else opens normally.

  • As short or long as you want. Pick a Proverb a day (under a minute) or work through the whole Bible in a year. Available in the KJV, NLT, and NKJV.

  • Yes. Honest answer - the servers, App Store fees, and Bible translation licenses aren’t free. We’re not trying to get rich off Scripture. The price just keeps the lights on and the app alive. Download it on the App Store. You’ll see the price before you pay.

  • Yes - all of it. Your name, the apps you choose, what you read, when you read it, how often you open the app - none of it gets sold, rented, or handed to advertisers. Ever. Your reading activity stays on your phone. We don’t need to know what you read, and we don’t want to.

  • Not yet. Scripture First is on iPhone, and it needs iOS 17 or later.

Download on the App Store (side effects may include accidentally reading the Bible)