Features
A quiet, complete companion.
Everything below is in the app today, works with no connection once you've installed it, and stays on your device. Where something needs the internet — or isn't built yet — you'll find it said plainly further down.
Today
A verse to start with, your streak, and a single tap to bring a prayer or write down a thought. It's the first thing OurFold shows you, and it's meant to take a minute, not an hour.
Works offline · on your deviceThe whole Bible, offline
Two complete public-domain translations — the World English Bible and the King James Version — carried on your device with no connection needed. Clean typography made for long sittings, six highlight colours, a saved-verse list, and your place remembered.
A read-aloud voice reads a chapter to you hands-free, using your device's own voices at a pace and warmth you set. It reads while OurFold is open on screen; listening with the phone locked in your pocket needs the Android app, which is still on the way.
Works offline · on your deviceA private prayer life
Bring a need or a praise, and mark I prayed as the days go by. When something is answered, write down how — and it becomes a testimony you can look back on. Over a season you can see God's faithfulness laid out plainly.
Your prayers never leave your phone. No one reads them — not us, not an advertiser.
Works offline · on your deviceA rhythm you can keep
Short reading plans through Scripture, with your progress kept when you switch between them. Gentle streaks, weekly goals you set yourself, and milestones as you go — encouragement, not a scoreboard.
Add a journal entry as reflection, gratitude or testimony. Turn on a daily reminder at the hour that suits you. And back the whole thing up to a file you keep — no cloud involved.
Works offline · on your deviceYour own calendar
Keep the things you don't want to miss — a visit, a fast, a plan, someone to call. It's personal and offline, and it stays that way; a shared congregation calendar is a separate, opt-in thing we're still building.
Works offline · on your deviceWhat needs the internet
Three things, and that's the whole list:
- Your first sign-in. OurFold asks for a username and a PIN before it opens, so your account can be restored on a new phone. Creating or restoring that account needs a connection once. After that OurFold opens offline, every time.
- Accepting the terms. The first time, your acceptance is recorded on our side with a date — that's a privacy-law requirement, and it's disclosed on the screen where you accept it.
- Loading the app itself. Which is exactly why installing matters: once installed, the app and both Bibles are on your device and none of this is needed again.
Everything else — reading, praying, journalling, plans, highlights, the calendar, backups — happens entirely on your phone.
What isn't built yet
Marked in development inside the app, and worth being clear about here:
- Church connection — a shared prayer wall, message board, sermon summaries, directory and congregation calendar. Opt-in when it lands.
- Find a church nearby — an OpenStreetMap search by denomination, behind its own consent step.
- OurFold Assistant — a small model that downloads once and runs entirely on your phone. Android app only.
- Screen-locked listening and the Google Play release — both need the native Android build.
Install it in about ten seconds.
Straight from your browser — no app store — and then it's offline and yours.
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