Rooted Bible
On the App Store as Bible: Offline Audio & Reading. The complete Berean Standard Bible, narrated verse by verse — follow along word by word, keep it all offline, and study the original Hebrew and Greek.
On the App Store · Android in betaFree · no account, no ads, no tracking
Get Rooted Bible
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. On Android, it's in its final testing round before the Play Store release. Pick your phone:
Get it on Android
Rooted Bible isn't in the Play Store yet, so the full app installs directly — Android calls this sideloading. It's a normal, safe way to install an app; your phone will just ask a couple of extra questions the first time. Prefer to skip all that? The web app works beautifully on Android too — no install questions at all.
Install steps
- Download the app on your phone (about 13 MB).
- When the download finishes, tap the notification — or open Files ▸ Downloads and tap the file.
- Your phone may say "For your security, your phone is not allowed to install unknown apps from this source." Tap Settings, switch on Allow from this source, and go back.
- If Google Play Protect asks, choose Install anyway. The warning appears for any app outside the Play Store, not because anything is wrong.
- Tap Install, then Open. On first search the app offers everything as downloads — take what you want.
Updates install the same way, right over the top — your downloads and place in the text are kept.
Or: the everything edition
One big download with the entire narrated Bible already inside — every chapter of audio, all text and read-along, ready the moment it opens. Best on Wi-Fi; it's about 1.5 GB.
Download the everything edition
Same app, same install steps as above — it just arrives full. You can also install the small version and tap “Get all” in its Library instead.
The web app — iPhone, iPad & Android
Rooted Bible also runs entirely in the browser: same text, same narration, same word-by-word read-along, same original-language study tools — and it works offline once you save books to your device. Nothing to sideload, nothing to approve.
On iPhone or iPad
- Open rooted.mcnairmedia.net/app in Safari (it must be Safari, not Chrome).
- Tap the Share button — the square with the arrow pointing up.
- Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.
- Open Bible from your home screen. iOS only allows offline storage and full-screen reading for apps installed this way.
On Android
- Open rooted.mcnairmedia.net/app in Chrome.
- Tap the ⋮ menu in the top corner, then Add to Home screen (on some phones it says Install app), then confirm.
- Open Bible from your home screen and save books in its Library for offline.
Choosing between the two on Android? The full app above adds background playback with lock-screen controls, one-tap download of the entire Bible, and AI answers on phones that support them. The web app is the fastest way to start — and you can install the full app later without losing anything; they share the same account-free content.
Press kit
Everything you need to write about Rooted Bible. Images are free to use in coverage of the app.
Rooted Bible · on the App Store as Bible: Offline Audio & Reading
Free · iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later · two-page book on iPhone Duo · by Erik McNair, McNair Media
Rooted Bible is a free iPhone and iPad Bible from independent developer Erik McNair. It pairs the Berean Standard Bible with verse-by-verse narration that highlights each word as it's read, and it all works offline. Readers can open interlinear Hebrew and Greek with Strong's numbers, search by verse, subject, original word or Strong's number, and build listening playlists with a sleep timer. On iPhone Duo it unfolds into a full-screen two-page book. No ads, no account, no data collected.
App Store: apps.apple.com/…/id6823669672
Press contact: contact@mcnairmedia.com
iPhone Duo: turning the page
Recorded in the iPhone Duo simulator (Xcode 27.1). Full-resolution video
Screenshots
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Download the press kit (.zip, 11 MB) App icon (1024 px)
The zip has every screenshot at full resolution, the iPhone Duo video, the app icon and the 1200 × 630 share card.
What's new
Questions
Is it free?
Yes.
Which translation is this? (BSB)
The Berean Standard Bible — a modern, accurate public-domain translation — lightly prepared for listening as the Rooted edition.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Download a single book or the whole Bible, and the audio, text and search all work with no connection.
Does it work on iPhone Duo?
Yes. Unfold it and the Bible opens as a two-page book.
Where can I get it?
It's out now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Android is in Google's required closed-testing period; when that completes, it goes up on the Play Store too.