Tov: a Bible without noise 4+
Just you and God's word
Trent Cowden
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Read Scripture in its purest form with Tov, a Bible app that brings focus and depth to your reading with its minimalist design and insightful cross-references.
Tov’s not just another Bible app. See why it’s different:
- Just you and God's word: In a world of endless digital noise, Tov creates a quiet sanctuary for Scripture with its beautiful, minimalist, and distraction-free design.
- Never lose your place: As you jump around the Bible through quiet time, sermons, or studying cross references, Tov's reading history allows you to always return to where you left off.
- Discover new connections: Easily explore over 30,000 cross-references that reveal the beautiful connections woven throughout Scripture.
- Interruption-free: No feeds, ads, notifications, paywalls, popups, or other interruptions.
- A reliable translation: Tov uses the Berean Standard Bible; authentic, accurate, and elegant.
"Most Bible apps try to emulate all the latest apps. Tov emulates the simplicity of God's word." - Adam (5/5)
"Seamless usability combined with a minimalist aesthetic. I highly recommend this app." - Samuel (5/5)
What’s New
Version 2.0
Welcome to Tov 2.0! Here's what's new:
- Bring up cross references by clicking on the whole verse, not just the number
- Switched to the Berean Standard Bible
- Verse numbers are now in the margin and removed Bible scroll bar
- Ability to hide verse numbers
- Updated colors and typography
- Better animations
- Chapter selector now hides when reading
- Restarting the app will save your place in your current chapter
- Many many bugs and bible formatting errors fixed
- Capitalized Tov
Ratings and Reviews
Simple & Intuitive
The feature I love most is the reading history. It makes it so easy to see where I was reading on previous days or to jump between passages of scripture being referenced in a sermon. I don’t have to navigate though a massive table of contents to get back into the passage I was reading. The cross references are also so handy & remind me that the whole Bible is referring itself!
Bible App Upgrade
I love this app! It has seamless usability combined with a minimalist aesthetic. The biggest plus for this app is the way it incorporates references- instead of having to flip tons of pages or scroll to another chapter, this app can show the verses referenced by what you are reading right in that section. I highly recommend this app.
Great app, but missing one feature…
As a developer myself, I appreciate this app due to it being free, open source, and committed to putting God’s Word into the hands of ordinary people for free.
I love the NET for the same reasons the developer does: no copyright red tape. However, the biggest benefit of the NET are the translator notes, which are strangely omitted from this app. I would love to see these added in the future!
Developer Response ,
Hi Phillip! Thanks so much for your review and feedback--it's so valuable to me!
I learned while adding the NET that the translator's notes are actually not open-source. While you can use the text of the NET for free, you can't include the translator's notes without a license. That's why I didn't include them. On another note, I decided to switch to using the Berean Standard Bible (BSB) instead of the NET as I actually like it better among the open-source translations.
Hope you're enjoying using the app!
App Privacy
The developer, Trent Cowden, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Trent Cowden
- Size
- 28.7 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Trent Cowden
- Price
- Free