Scripture, one verse at a time.
Hold Fast is a still, small feed of scripture. It shows one King James Bible verse at a time, set on a calm photograph, and you scroll it the way you already scroll, except you land on the Old and New Testaments. Stay with the verses that speak to you, open the whole chapter in a tap, and save or share the ones you want to keep.
The feed learns what you linger on, save and share, and that learning happens on your device only. Hold Fast shows no ads and has no analytics, no tracking SDKs and no separate account. The optional community notes and streak-board name use your iCloud account through Apple's CloudKit, and everything else stays on your devices.
It's for anyone who wants a quieter daily scripture habit in place of doomscrolling, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Download Hold Fast on the App Store. No subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
Features
- A calm vertical feed of King James Version verses (Old and New Testament). Open chapter reads the whole chapter, and Full verse jumps to the verse, highlighted.
- Browse by Topics, plus Today, Bible, Library and Saved sections. Save verses and share any card as an image.
- Related films and hymns play in YouTube's embedded player in the app, and talks open from ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
- A gentle daily reading streak, optional reminders, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and an Apple Watch app with complications.
- Optional, kind community notes on a verse, checked on the device before posting, with Report, Hide and Block, and a Delete my shared data option.
- Looks (color themes and backgrounds), and layouts that adapt to the largest accessibility text sizes. The iPhone and iPad interface is in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Simplified Chinese. Scripture text is English (KJV).
On iPad
