A Mac app for studying Scripture closely

Scripture, set to be read.
A whole research desk,
one click beneath it.

Dialogue on its own rails, poetry in its own lines. Click a verse number and twelve commentaries answer; double-click a word and the Greek appears. All of it offline, in one window.

$59  $19 launch special  ·  one-time purchase  ·  King James Version  ·  macOS 14+  ·  works fully offline
John 8
John 8 in Wellspring Study: speaker rails, red letter, and topic tags in the marginJohn 8 in Wellspring Study: speaker rails, red letter, and topic tags in the margin
A real window, not a mockup. The app renders its own screenshots.
The dialogue format

Scripture is a conversation. It should look like one.

A wall of numbered verses hides who is speaking to whom. Wellspring gives every speaker a labelled rail, sets poetry on its own lines, and prints the words of Christ in red, only His, and only in the Gospels.

Speaker rails. Every line of dialogue is named and colour-coded, so a crowd scene reads like a script.
Poetry keeps its shape. Hebrew parallelism is set line by line instead of run together as prose.
2,295 quiet glosses. Where a word has drifted since 1611, the old sense sits in the margin.
The same chapter in the other appearance — the whole app follows light and dark modeThe same chapter in the other appearance — the whole app follows light and dark mode
Poetry keeps its lines · Psalm 23
1 The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Hebrew parallelism is set line by line, the way a poem is set, instead of being run together as prose. Topical chains run down the margin beside it.

▸ SHEPHERD ▸ PROVIDENCE
The study loop

Twelve commentators, one verse-number away.

Click any verse number and your commentator answers right where you are reading. Switch voices from a dropdown, or open all twelve side by side. Nothing scrolls away; nothing loses your place.

Every reference is alive. All 199,869 commentary entries link every verse they mention — click one and the passage previews in place, stacked on what you were reading.
Copy with citation. Any commentary passage pastes into your notes as a quote block, attributed to its author and verse.
Back, like a browser. Follow a rabbit trail five jumps deep, then retrace it — back and forward arrows remember every verse you visited.
Commentary — Psalms 16:5
Barnes’ Notes ▾

The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance — in contradistinction from idols. The word properly means “lot, portion, part;” applicable to the portion of booty that fell to anyone; or to the portion of land in the division of an estate, 2Ki 9:10, 2Ki 9:36-37…

2 KINGS 9:10
Open in Reader

And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her…

Click a reference inside the note and the verse stacks on top — dismiss it and you are exactly where you were.
Reads like a scroll

Chapters flow continuously in both directions — read from Malachi back into Zechariah without turning a page.

Only who speaks here

The commentator dropdown lists just the voices with a note on that verse — and remembers your favorite.

Your type, everywhere

Pick a reading face — Georgia, EB Garamond, Palatino, Baskerville and more — and one size; every pane and popover follows.

Reverse interlinear · John 8:32
and
καί · G2532
the truth
ἀλήθεια · G225
shall
 
make
ἐλευθερόω
you
ὑμᾶς · G4771
free
G1659
One Greek word, split by English word order. The app shows both halves as one.
ἐλευθερόω eleutheroō G1659
Thayer's: to make free; set at liberty from the dominion of sin.
Original languages

Greek and Hebrew, a double-click away.

Double-click any English word and the original behind it appears, with every word sharing that lemma illuminated across the verse. Because the alignment follows the KJV's own renderings, what you see is the translators' actual base text, never a modern critical edition swapped in behind their backs.

14,299
Strong's entries, with Thayer's and Brown-Driver-Briggs in full
313,270
tagged occurrences you can scope to any single book
Word Workbench
The Word Workbench showing agape with Thayer's Greek Lexicon and every occurrenceThe Word Workbench showing agape with Thayer's Greek Lexicon and every occurrence
The Word Workbench: the full lexicon article, then every occurrence, scoped to one book or the whole Bible.
Notes

A writing room, not a text box.

Write beside the passage in a quiet, centred column with the same typography as the text you are studying. Reading mode hides the syntax so a finished note reads like a page, not a draft.

·Your files, forever. Plain Markdown in a folder you choose, readable in any editor, app or no app.
·Tags and backlinks. Follow a theme across everything you have written.
·Today's Note. One keystroke captures a verse and a thought into a dated study log.
The light of the world
A note in reading mode: concealed Markdown, a blockquote, tags, and an auto-linked verse referenceA note in reading mode: concealed Markdown, a blockquote, tags, and an auto-linked verse reference
Reading mode hides the Markdown, and a reference like Isaiah 9:2 links itself back into the text.
Panes

One window, as many desks as the question needs.

Split the window however the study runs. Every module (Scripture, commentary, dictionaries, the Atlas, notes, word study) opens in any pane, as a tab or a split, and the arrangement is still there when you come back.

John 8 · four panes
Four panes at once: John 8, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on the same chapter, Easton's on the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Atlas showing the mount of OlivesFour panes at once: John 8, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on the same chapter, Easton's on the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Atlas showing the mount of Olives
One passage, four angles

Above: the chapter, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on the same verses, Easton's on the feast it happens during, and the mount of Olives on the map.

Tabs where you want them

Drag a tab to any edge to split, or stack several in one pane and flip between them.

Panes follow the reader

Turn on sync and the commentary, map and notes all move with the chapter you are in.

The research desk

Everything else, already inside.

No connection, no account, no subscription. The whole library ships with the app.

Atlas

1,335 mapped places on a terrain basemap, with Paul's voyages, the Exodus, and five historical eras overlaid. Journeys draw themselves stop by stop.

The Atlas: the biblical world on a terrain basemap, Jerusalem to BabylonThe Atlas: the biblical world on a terrain basemap, Jerusalem to Babylon
Eighteen commentaries

Henry, Barnes, Clarke, JFB, Wesley, Vincent and more, verse by verse. Gill, Calvin, Poole, Scofield, the Geneva Bible Notes and others download in a click.

199,869 entries
Bible dictionaries

Easton's, Smith's, Fausset's, Hitchcock's and the ISBE, cross-linked to every verse they cite.

24,612 articles
The classic library

Josephus and Foxe's Book of Martyrs ship with the app; Spurgeon's 63 volumes of sermons download in a click.

3,541 sermons
Threads & cross-references

Walk a theme from Genesis to Revelation with thread tags in the margin, or follow the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge out of any verse.

343,609 cross-references
People & places

Profiles for everyone and everywhere named in Scripture, each linked to every verse they appear in.

3,085 people profiled
One-time purchase

$19 during launch — $59 after. No subscription, no account, and every update included.

Entirely offline

Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is collected. No account, no telemetry, no subscription. The app talks to one address, only to check for updates.

Actively developed

Version 0.3.1, with releases shipping weekly. The built-in updater delivers each one quietly.

Signed & notarized

Apple-notarized, sandboxed, and quietly self-updating.

Read it closely.

One purchase, the whole desk — every commentary, lexicon, map and update included.
$59  $19 during launch

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Scripture and reference data are public domain or Creative Commons, credited in the app’s About panel.