Everything in Berea
Tools for working the text.
Reader
Read closely.
A calm page in Gentium Plus, with Greek and Hebrew in the same voice.
- Parallel translations
- Up to four Bibles side by side, or prose mode with verses running together.
- Marks on the word
- Highlight, underline, strike, spotlight, circle, or draw an arch from one word to another.
- Notes with categories
- Notes on a verse or a single word, coloured by category, shown as dots in the margin.
- Compare and search
- Compare wordings, search every installed Bible and your own work, jump anywhere with Cmd-K.
Ask the Bible
Follow a question.
Type a question and walk from verse to verse. Every stop offers doors, and the map keeps every fork.
Browse community journeys- Doors from real data
- Cross-references, the Hebrew word, people and places, topic trails and the verses that follow.
- A guide, not a preacher
- With AI on, the guide suggests doors and background facts. Every reference is checked.
- Journeys and walks
- Walk a story on a map with photos and places, or build your own journey.
- Share the road
- Turn your adventure into a journey for your group, publish it, or save it as a Path.
Study
Dig deeper.
Everything about a passage in one place, with sources named.
- Original languages
- Tap a word for its Greek or Hebrew lemma, meaning and every other place it appears.
- Passage dossier
- Your notes, marks, cross-references and commentary for a passage, side by side.
- Commentary
- Verse-first entries from classic public-domain commentaries, each with its attribution.
- Guided study
- Gather, observe, compare and conclude. Berea asks; you write the answer.
For pastors
Prepare with sources.
Research threads that keep every claim tied to its evidence.
- Research threads
- Claims, evidence, questions and voice notes in one thread per sermon.
- Source library
- Keep your books, articles and attachments with the passage they belong to.
- Reports
- Export a clean research report for your elders or your own archive.
- Sermon manuscript
- Write the sermon beside the text, with history you can restore.
Sermons and presenter
Present the text itself.
Put the chapter on the room screen and mark it while you speak.
See how presenting works- Slides and builds
- Verse, passage, text and list slides, staged builds, layouts and gentle motion.
- Presenter console
- Current, next, notes and timer, with a live preview of the room screen.
- Phones follow along
- One QR code: the room opens the passage on their phones, no app needed.
- Stream Deck and hotkeys
- Next, previous, blank, marks and a quick verse, from the pulpit.
- Reading plans
- Four built in, or write your own. A plan is one file you can share.
- Today and practices
- A calm daily page with your reading, prayer and the next step on your journey.
- Circles
- Read together with a small group or family and talk it through.
- Insights
- What you read and preach over time, and how texts connect across the canon.
Everywhere
Yours, on every device.
Mac, phone and browser, in English or Afrikaans. Your files stay yours.
- Mac, phone and web
- The Mac app works offline; the phone reads offline; the web app opens anywhere.
- Optional sync
- Marks, notes, plans and journeys move between your devices only when you sign in.
- English and Afrikaans
- The whole app speaks both languages. Bible book names can follow either.
- Content packs
- Signed packs add translations, dictionaries, topical indexes and commentaries.