For sitting down to study
Gospel Library
The Church's own app, with the scriptures, general conference talks and lesson materials. Keep it for personal and family study.
The Standard Works, one verse per screen
Scroll without
the doom.
It's the swipe your thumb already knows from Instagram and TikTok. Every screen is the next verse, and the app keeps your place, so each spare minute picks up where the last one stopped.
For iPhone · Free to read · No ads
People online spend about 2 hours 20 minutes a day on social media.
Give a few of those minutes to the scriptures instead.
Global average daily time on social media, about 2h 20m. Source: DataReportal.
Why this app
Built for the moments you'd open Instagram.
You pick up your phone without thinking: in line at the store, on the couch after dinner, in bed before the lights go out.
For the scroll
Scroll the Standard Works
Swipe up for the next verse, tap the heart on the ones you want to keep, and watch your streak count the days.
Keep both on your phone. Put this one on your home screen, in the spot TikTok used to have.
Same swipe, different feed
What it does for you
Open it for a minute.
Close it a chapter later.
The four things you'll use most, each playing just as it does in the app.
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01 · The feed
Read every day
without planning it.Open the app whenever you'd open a social feed. One verse per screen, straight through the Standard Works.
Tap the olive wreath under the share button for study notes, collections, a snapshot card or auto-scroll.
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02 · Reading plans
Finish the book
you keep restarting.A chapter a day takes you from 1 Nephi to Moroni in 239 days. The app keeps your place, so a busy week doesn't send you back to the start.
Reach the end of today's chapter, tap Mark Chapter as Read, and today's flame lights up on your week.
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03 · Study
Understand what
you just read.Short study notes explain well-loved verses in a minute or two, written to stay true to Church doctrine.
Each card on the Study tab holds the verse, what it means and one thing you might not know. Tap it for the full notes, which end with one small thing to try today.
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04 · Find a verse
Find the verse
you half remember.Type a word you recall, like “Jesus”, or a reference like “eth 12 27”. Handy when a friend needs that one verse right now.
Verses with that word come up from all four volumes, with the word in bold. Tap one and it opens in your feed.
Small and simple things
Details you can try right here.
They're the same in the app.
Tap the heart
Favorite a verse
When a verse answers something you've been praying about, tap the heart. It waits for you in Your Library.
The olive wreath
The app's mark grows leaf by leaf from the stems up, after the olive tree in Jacob 5.
Chapter complete
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DAY STREAK
Chapter complete
Finish a chapter and the seal turns into place. Your streak ticks up by one, so you can see the days add up.
Auto-scroll · 3s
Auto-scroll
Pick a pace and keep reading while you eat breakfast or hold a sleeping baby. The next verse slides up on its own. A Supporter extra.
Find a verse
Short forms like “al 32 21” and typos like “moronie 10 4” still land on the right verse.
Give a few of those minutes to the scriptures.
Ink underline
Once a headline settles, a hand-drawn stroke runs under the words that matter.
What you can count on
Read anywhere, undisturbed.
41,995
verses, stored on your phone
All four volumes, offline
The Book of Mormon, the Bible, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price come inside the app, so you can read on a flight, at youth camp or anywhere the signal drops.
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ads in the feed
No ads, ever
Every screen in the feed is a verse or the end of a chapter. Nothing in it is trying to sell you something.
Support the app
We keep it free.
Supporters keep it going.
All 41,995 verses are free to read. So are notes, bookmarks, reading plans, streaks and the night theme, and they stay free. If the app has helped you, here are three ways to help it back.
Monthly · Yearly · Lifetime
Become a Supporter
Pick a monthly, yearly or one-time lifetime plan. The monthly and yearly plans start with 7 days free. As a thank-you, you get a few extras: your Year in Scripture, unlimited talk collections and memorizing, more reading looks and fonts, verse cards with your own photos, widget styles and auto-scroll.
Become a Supporter in the appA simple thank-you
Give a one-time gift
Send a small thank-you from the Supporter screen in the app. It goes toward the costs of keeping the app available, like the yearly App Store fee.
Costs nothing
Help for free
Leave a rating on the App Store, or show the app to your family, friends or ward. Each new reader is one more person scrolling scripture.
Supporter extras
Try the extras here first.
They're a thank-you for helping keep the app going.
Snapshot cards
Turn a verse
into a card.
Send a friend the verse that helped you today. Pick a background or a photo of your own, a layout and a size, then share it from your phone.
Background
Layout
Size
And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto me, saying: Blessed art thou, Nephi, because of thy faith, for thou hast sought me diligently, with lowliness of heart.
1 NEPHI 2:19
Reading looks and fonts
Eight looks.
Six verse fonts.
Read in the colors and type you like best. The widget can match.
Look
Verse font
Light and Night with Lora are free for everyone. The other six looks and five fonts are Supporter extras.
Your Year in Scripture
Story pages that count up your year: the days you opened the scriptures, your longest run, chapters read and the book you favorited most.
Memorize
Learn a verse well enough to say it without looking. More words hide each round, then only first letters, and reviews come back after 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 30 and 60 days. Three verses at a time are free.
Talk and lesson collections
Asked to speak on Sunday? Gather your verses and notes for the talk or lesson as you find them, then share or print the outline. One collection is free.
Widget styles
Dress the home-screen widget in Sepia, Sage, Winter, Linen, Charcoal or Olive Night. Paper is free.
Free for everyone, always
- Every verse in the app
- Notes, bookmarks and favorites
- Night theme, plans and streaks
- Verse cards with the app's name
- One collection and three verses to memorize
Supporter extras
- Your Year in Scripture, page by page
- Unlimited talk and lesson collections, ready to share
- Memorize as many verses as you like
- Six more reading looks, like Sage and Winter
- Five more verse fonts
- Verse cards with your own photos, story size and no watermark
- Widget styles for your home screen
- Auto-scroll at your own pace
Helps an independent developerKeeps the app free for othersCancel anytime
Questions
Before you download
How is this different from Gospel Library?
Gospel Library is the Church's official app for studying the scriptures, general conference talks and lesson materials. Keep using it to study. Scroll the Standard Works takes the place of your social feed: one verse per screen and a swipe for the next, for the minutes in between.
Why does it look like a social media app?
Those apps are where the spare minutes in a day usually go. We borrowed the full-screen feed, the heart and the streak on purpose, so opening the scriptures takes the same thumb movement as opening Instagram.
Which scriptures are in the app?
All four volumes of the Standard Works: the Book of Mormon, the Holy Bible (King James Version), the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. They're stored on your phone, so you can read offline.
Is it free?
Yes. Every verse, notes, bookmarks, reading plans, streaks and the night theme are free for everyone. If you'd like to help keep the app going, you can become a Supporter or send a one-time gift. Supporter plans are monthly or yearly (both with a 7-day free trial) or lifetime, and come with extras like your Year in Scripture.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. Scroll the Standard Works is on iPhone for now, and an Android version is on the way.
Do the study notes follow Church doctrine?
Yes. We write every note to stay true to the doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and every scripture reference cited in a note is checked by hand. The notes are personal reflections, not official Church teaching, and the app is independent of the Church.
Where does the verse text come from?
Every volume uses a public-domain edition. The Book of Mormon follows the Project Gutenberg edition, which differs from the Church's 2013 edition in a few small places. The Bible is the King James Version. Our Copyright & Sources page lists them all.
How can I support the app?
Become a Supporter (monthly, yearly or lifetime), send a one-time gift from inside the app, or rate the app and share it with someone. Reading stays free whichever you choose.
At a chapter a day, you'll finish the Book of Mormon in eight months.
Start with the next minute you'd give a feed.
Free to read on iPhone, with no ads.