Using this site

• Bible — fifteen complete Bibles: nine in English, five in Spanish, and the Septuagint in Greek. Tap any verse to highlight it in one of five colours, add a note, compare it across translations, copy it with its reference, or share it as an image. Parallel shows two translations side by side.
• Go straight to a verse — type a reference in the search box at the top, in English or Spanish: John 3:16, Juan 3:16, Sal 23, 1 Co 13, even Jn 3 16.
• Home — a verse for every day (in both languages), your reading streak, and where you left off.
• Reading plans — twenty-three plans, from a week in the Sermon on the Mount to the whole Bible in a year, with Advent, Lent, Holy Week, and Scripture read with Chrysostom and Augustine. Mark each day as you go; your progress stays in your browser.
• Library — 239 works, from the Didache and Irenaeus to Augustine, Francis, Teresa, Luther, Calvin and the Spanish classics. Filter by collection, search inside any work, and see how far you have read.
• Study tools — flashcards, a historical-theology glossary, the classic heresies with the church's answers, the creeds, the councils, the Fathers and saints, a timeline and an eight-course curriculum.
• Lexicon — Strong's Greek and Hebrew dictionaries. Search by number (G26, H7225), transliteration (agape), original script (λόγος), or meaning (love).
• Maps — the world of the early church on real public-domain coastlines. Drag, scroll or pinch to zoom, filter places by era, and open a place to see the councils, fathers and events connected to it.
• Personalize — light or dark, any accent colour, banner style, corners, text size and reading font. Every colour is checked so text stays readable.
• Works offline — on most phones and browsers you can "Add to Home Screen"; pages and texts you've opened stay readable without a connection, including after the site updates. A book's page says Saved on this device for offline reading once its text is stored. Clearing your browser's site data (or the browser freeing space when the device is nearly full) removes these copies; they download again next time you're online.
• No account needed, no cookies, no tracking. Signing in with Google to sync between browsers is optional.

Installing the Windows app

The desktop app adds the full research environment: import your own PDFs and books, full-text search across everything at once, verse annotations, Markdown notes with backlinks, research projects, verified quotations, citations in Chicago/MLA/APA/SBL, an eight-course historical theology curriculum with progress tracking, automatic backups, and an optional AI assistant — all offline.

1. Download NicaeaLibrary-Setup.exe from honestapologist.com (Windows 10/11, 64-bit).
2. Run it. If Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen, that is SmartScreen reacting to an unsigned independent app — not a virus report. Click More info, then Run anyway.
3. First launch takes a few seconds while the Bibles install, then the bundled books finish importing in the background over a minute or two. You can use the app immediately.
4. Press Ctrl+K and type guide — the full user guide is built into your Library, searchable like everything else.

Does the AI assistant cost anything?

No. Out of the box it works in retrieval mode: it finds the most relevant passages in your library and cites them — no model, no internet, no cost. For generated answers, it connects to free local AI you run yourself:

1. Install Ollama (free).
2. In a terminal: ollama pull llama3.2
3. In the app's Settings: Provider Ollama, Endpoint http://localhost:11434, Model llama3.2. Save.

Answers are grounded in your library and cite their sources. Nothing leaves your computer, and a privacy setting (on by default) blocks any remote transmission.

Your data

Everything lives in one local folder (shown in Settings) — never in the cloud, never phoned home. Validated ZIP backups run automatically on your schedule; to move to a new computer, install the app and restore your newest backup. The database grows to roughly 250 MB once the full library is indexed for instant search — that's normal.

On this site, your highlights, notes, bookmarks, plans and streak are kept in your browser, and also in your account if you sign in with Google to sync. Use Saved → Download backup to keep a copy of everything.

Quick fixes

• Search finds nothing after a restore → Settings → Rebuild search index.
• Bundled books missing → Settings → Starter library → Install or repair.
• A document says "Missing file" → the linked original moved; restore it or re-import.

Sources and support

Every text is public domain or openly licensed, from eBible.org, the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, Wikisource, and OpenScriptures — each work names its translator, edition, and license. The app and this site are free (MIT license). If they help your study, you can support the project ♥.