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About Bless
Bless: Scroll Catholic Bible is an iPhone app by Funn Apps that puts all 73 books of the Catholic Bible in a feed you scroll, one verse per screen, with sourced quotations from the saints in the comments.
What Bless is
Bless is a Bible you scroll. Each verse gets the whole screen, set large under a gold drop cap, and the next one is a swipe away: in order from Genesis, or shuffled from anywhere in the 73 books.
Beside each verse are the saints who prayed the Scriptures before us. Open the comments and you find quotations from saints and Church Fathers, each naming the work it comes from or marked “source unconfirmed”; Bp. Challoner’s notes where he wrote one; and links to the Catechism. Study sets the verse in its chapter and its book, and Today follows the Church’s year: the season, the day’s Mass readings and the saint of the day.
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Why it exists
Most of us reach for our phones dozens of times a day, and most of those minutes go to a feed. Bless keeps the feed, the swipe and the endless next, and puts Scripture in it. In the app’s own words: “You’ll scroll either way. Bless exists so some of it can be Scripture.”
What’s inside
Every number below is printed from the same database the app ships, so this site can never claim more than the app has. The texts it is built from.
| Books | 73: 46 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New |
|---|---|
| Chapters · verses | 1,334 · 35,804 |
| Translations | The CPDV (the default) and the Douay-Rheims, with the Clementine Vulgate in Latin |
| Hebrew & Greek | 29,201 verses: 92.9% of the verses in the 66 books of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament |
| Saints | 368, one for every date of the year |
| Quotations | 192 from 59 saints, 18 of them marked “source unconfirmed” |
| Bp. Challoner | 1,306 chapter summaries · 1,894 notes |
| Catechism links | 3,928, to 1,177 paragraphs |
| Calendar | The US liturgical calendar and Mass reading citations through December 31, 2028 |
The texts
Bless and this website are built from these texts:
- Scripture on this website: The Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV), translated from the Clementine Vulgate by Ronald L. Conte Jr. and placed in the public domain in 2009 (sacredbible.org). It has no imprimatur.
- Latin: The Clementine Vulgate (1592), in the public domain.
- Hebrew: The Westminster Leningrad Codex, in the public domain, with word data licensed under CC BY 4.0: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at github.com/openscriptures/morphhb.
- Greek: The Byzantine Majority Text (Robinson–Pierpont), in the public domain.
- Glosses: James Strong’s Hebrew and Greek dictionaries (1894 and 1890), in the public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA (github.com/openscriptures/strongs).
- Bp. Richard Challoner: His chapter summaries and his notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750), in the public domain.
- Catechism: The Catechism of the Catholic Church is linked on vatican.va by paragraph number and its own section heading. It is never quoted.
- Mass readings: The US Mass reading citations are as published by the USCCB through May 31, 2027; after that, through December 31, 2028, they are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle.
The rules we keep
Bless is built on a few rules about honesty. They shape the app, and this website follows them too, with the one difference the last rule notes.
- Every quotation names who said it, and where.In the comments, each saint’s words carry the work they come from, and a popular saying whose source couldn’t be traced says “source unconfirmed”. Only 14 of the 192 quotations were written about a particular verse; the rest are linked by theme or drawn from the whole collection, and the app doesn’t mark which. On this website’s chapter and saint pages, each quotation shown is labeled “On this verse” or “On this theme”.
- The Catechism is linked, never quoted.Bless shows the paragraph number and the Catechism’s own heading, and sends you to the full text on vatican.va.
- No invented numbers.Amen is your own tap, not a count of anyone else’s. Bless shows no likes, ratings, follower counts or “readers today”, and this site makes no claim it can’t count.
- The Bible is free. Always.All of Scripture, every comment, search and Today are free, with no ads and no limit on how much you read. Premium adds study depth and a few extras; it never unlocks the text itself.
- Your reading is yours.The app has no account, no tracking and no analytics: what you read, save and write stays on your iPhone. This website uses Google Analytics to count visits (see Privacy).
What you’ll never find in the app
- No ads.
- No account to make.
- No tracking in the app, and nothing in it that measures how you read.
- No selling of your data.
- No invented quotations, counts, ratings or reviews.
- No paywall in front of the Bible.
Purchases are handled by Apple. Apart from the App Store itself, the only thing that leaves your iPhone is the app’s check with RevenueCat, which confirms subscriptions: an anonymous ID, your purchase history if you have one, and basic technical details. The privacy policy has the details. This website uses Google Analytics to count visits (see Privacy).
Who makes it
Bless is made by Funn Apps (Funn Apps LLC), from FunnMedia, the studio behind WaterMinder. funnmedia.com.
Bless is an independent app. It isn’t published by, affiliated with or endorsed by the Holy See, the USCCB or any diocese, and its study notes are a reading aid, not the teaching of the Church.
Contact
Questions, ideas, or a mistake you’ve spotted in the text: write to us.
privacy (at) funnmedia (dot) com
Help with a purchase or the app is on the support page.