A Bible chat that runs fully on your iPhone. Type the doubt you'd never post. Get a real passage back — verse-cited, on-device, offline after setup. Always free. No ads. Nothing leaves your phone.
Everyone has these. Nobody types them into an app that ships their words to a server. Pocket Gospel runs the model on your iPhone, so you can type the real question and get a real passage back.
Every answer cites chapter and verse. Tap any verse to jump into the full reader. And none of these prompts ever left the iPhone — there's no server to leave for.
Tap a mood and Pocket Gospel pulls the passages that speak to it. No typing a "good" prayer. No scrolling through verse lists trying to find one that fits.
It's the fastest path from "I don't know how to pray about this" to the actual Scripture that does.
Every answer cites chapter and verse from the World English Bible. Tap any verse to jump straight into the reader. When the question is heavier than a passage alone can hold, the app says so, and points you toward a real person.
Pocket Gospel is free. No subscriptions, no ads, no in-app purchases, no unlocked "pro" features, no paid tiers hiding the real answers. There's nothing to upgrade to.
Questions don't go to a server, an API, or a training pipeline. The model lives on your device. No analytics on what you type. Nobody — including us — sees what you ask.
After setup, the app runs with airplane mode on. The Bible is bundled, and your chosen model stays stored on your iPhone. No signal required.
Answers pull from the World English Bible with the passage attached. Tap any verse to jump into the reader and keep going.
Install Pocket Gospel from the App Store. No account required.
Download a local model during setup. After that, the internet is optional.
Type any question, pick a mood, or start today's study. Get a Scripture-grounded answer. Tap the verse to read it.
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Yes. Always. The core app is free forever — no subscriptions, no ads, no upsell tiers, no "premium features" hiding the real answers. The model runs on your iPhone, so there's no per-message server cost for us to pass along.
We'd rather keep it simple than invent a way to charge you.
After a one-time setup — where you download the Bible text and a small language model to your device — Pocket Gospel works with airplane mode on. Subway, flight, camping trip, signal dead: still works.
The internet is only needed on first launch.
No. Your prompts never leave your iPhone. There is no server we could store them on, no analytics capturing what you type, no logging, no training pipeline. That's why the app can be honest about hard questions — there's literally nobody else in the room.
The World English Bible (WEB) — a modern, public-domain English translation. The full text is bundled with the app, so the reader works offline too.
A recent iPhone. The chat runs on Apple's on-device MLX framework, so newer devices are noticeably faster — but the app is built to stay usable across the current iPhone lineup. During setup you pick a model size that fits your device.
Not yet. On-device chat relies on Apple's MLX framework, which is iOS-only. An Android build would need a different on-device tech stack, so it's not on the short list.
No. Pocket Gospel is a study companion. It cites the passage and gets out of your way. It is not a counselor, not a spiritual authority, and not a substitute for a real person when you need one. When a question is heavier than a passage can carry, the app says so and points you toward actual help.
Pocket Gospel is free forever — no ads, no subscription, no tiers. If it's helping you, you can chip in so it stays that way for everyone else.
Pay what feels right, one time, minimum $1. Handled by Stripe. We never see your card, you get nothing extra for giving — that was the whole point.
No account, no subscription, no waitlist. Install Pocket Gospel from the App Store and you're set up in two minutes — then it works in airplane mode, forever.
