Built-in plan
The plan is on the page
Open the app and your next day’s reading is waiting, with about how long it will take. Any chapter you open shows where it sits in your plan, and one tap marks the day done.
Ribbonby Burystack · our first app
Read the whole Bible, one well-paced day at a time.
Ribbon is a J.N. Darby Bible app, with the reading plan built into the page you read. Pick a finish date, and Ribbon balances every reading day by words, not chapters.
- Google PlayComing soon
J.N. Darby’s New Translation (1890), Old and New Testaments. No account and no adverts.
Why Ribbon
Open Ribbon and today’s reading is ready waiting for you.
Your finish date
Days balanced by words
Choose when you want to finish and which days you read. Ribbon gives each reading day about the same number of words, always ending on a whole chapter.
Two orders
Chronological or front to back
Read the Bible in the order events happened, with short notes on why passages sit where they do, or straight through from Genesis to Revelation.
Read ahead
Read ahead, finish sooner
Mark a chapter read whenever you read it. If it’s ahead of your plan, choose whether to finish sooner or keep your date. Fall behind, and Ribbon can spread the rest, or you can push your finish date back.
Search and look up
Find any verse
Search for words, a phrase or a reference such as John 3:16, all on your phone. Select a verse and tap Look up for Easton’s Bible Dictionary and what Darby’s words mean, old senses included.
Read your way
Verse per line
Each verse on its own line, numbered, like a printed Bible, or as paragraphs. Choose Literata or Sans at the size you like, in light or dark, and let the page scroll for you or listen to the day’s reading.
Speed reading
One phrase at a time
An optional speed reader shows the text phrase by phrase, word by word or as a moving line, at the pace you set. Start it from the top of the day’s reading or from any verse.
Save and share
Bookmarks, highlights and notes
Tap a verse to bookmark it, highlight it in one of four colours, add a note or share it as a picture. Everything you save is listed in one place, and stays on your phone.
Verse of the day
A verse for each day
A short verse sits below your reading each day, the same for everyone on that date. Tap it to read it in its chapter, or add it to your home screen as a widget, along with today’s reading or your plan’s progress.
How it works
Set it up once. Then just read.
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Choose an order
Chronological or front to back, from the beginning or from the chapter you’re up to.
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Set your days and finish date
Read every day, six days a week or on weekdays, pick when you want to finish, and Ribbon works out each day’s reading.
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Read, then tap Done
Your next reading is waiting when you open the app, and when you tap Done the next day is ready.
The translation
J.N. Darby’s New Translation, complete.
Is the Darby Bible accurate?
Darby translated as closely to the Hebrew and Greek as English allows. He writes God’s name as Jehovah, marks the Hebrew names El and Eloah, and puts words he had to add in square brackets, so you can see what is in the original.
Is there a Darby Bible app for Android?
Ribbon is coming to Google Play for Android phones, with the whole of Darby’s 1890 translation. There’s no iPhone version yet.
Is the whole Bible included?
All 66 books, Genesis to Revelation, on your phone with no connection needed to read or search. Darby’s text is in the public domain.
Free reading plans
Plan your reading, free, without the app.
Make a plan for your own dates and print it, see how long each plan takes, or read the Bible in the order events happened.
- Free toolReading plan generatorPick a finish date and your reading days. Get every day’s reading, balanced by words.
- GuideReading the Bible chronologicallyThirteen eras, from Creation to the early church, and why Job comes after Genesis 11.
- GuideHow long does it take to read the Bible?About 64¾ hours. Here is what that means a day, for every plan length.
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