The Anselm Project Is Coming to iOS

The Anselm Project iOS app is in review with Apple right now. It should be available any day.

This has been a long time coming. I mentioned a mobile app as far back as mid-2025, and it kept getting pushed because the web platform kept needing attention first. I'm glad I waited. The app I'm submitting now is a much better product than what I would have shipped then.

The Bible Reader

The Anselm Project Bible is the center of the app, same as on the web. All five translation modes are present: Final, Clear, Raw, Original, and Interlinear.

For anyone new to the APB, the Original mode shows the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament exactly as they were fed into the translation engine. Interlinear goes further — every word in the original language is displayed with its English gloss, part of speech, lemma, transliteration, and frequency data across the entire canon. It's the kind of tool that used to require a separate reference volume.

Full-text search works across the entire canon with Old and New Testament scope filtering, and concordance lookups are built in. Bible chapters are cached locally, up to 100, so the reader works without a connection. That was a priority from the beginning — I didn't want the app to be useless on a plane or in a location with poor signal.

Reports

All seven report types are available, generated asynchronously with real-time progress tracking so you're not staring at a spinner wondering if anything is happening.

The seven types are Devotional, Teaching, Scholarly, Character Study, the Synod, Biblical Topic, and Apologetics. Devotional, Teaching, Scholarly, Character Study, and the Synod each cost one credit. Biblical Topic and Apologetics cost three credits each because of the token volume involved — I wrote about how the Apologetics report works in a recent post if you want the details.

Reports are cached locally for instant re-reading and can be shared to the community gallery, same as on the web.

Organization

Collections let you group reports into named folders — something like "Lent 2026" or "Romans Series" — and filter by type, reference, or collection. This was one of the most-requested features from web users, and it feels more natural on mobile than I expected.

Accounts and Subscriptions

Sign-in works with Google, Apple, or email and password. Apple's Sign in with Apple is fully integrated, which was a requirement for App Store approval anyway, but it works cleanly.

Subscriptions run through Apple In-App Purchase. There are three monthly tiers — Basic at 30 credits, Scholar at 60, and Fellow at 100 — plus one-time credit packs at 5, 12, 25, or 50 credits if you'd rather not commit to a subscription. Restore purchases is supported.

If you already have a web account, your credits and reports carry over. Everything is tied to your account, not the device.

A Few Notes

I've been testing this for a while and I'm happy with where it landed. It is a genuinely focused study tool — not a devotional app with a daily verse, not a Bible app with a reading plan. It's for people who want to do serious work with a passage or a question and need the AI tools to do it.

The web platform isn't going anywhere. Everything the app does, the web does too, and the web will always be where new features land first. But for reading and report generation while away from a desk, the app is the better experience.

I'll post the App Store link as soon as it clears review. Keep an eye on the blog.

God bless, everyone.

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