Everything you can do in FaithStash

👋 Welcome to FaithStash

FaithStash is a free place to read the Bible, understand it, and make it a daily habit — with study tools, notes, prayer, community and a few games along the way.

Think of it as a “stash” of everything that helps you grow: Scripture in 24 Bible versions, short insights worth keeping, devotionals, guided studies and reading plans, your own notes and journal, and people to walk with. Everything is free — there are no paid plans and no locked features.

🚀 Getting started

Creating an account takes a minute, and a four-question welcome shapes the app around you.

Create your account

1. Tap Start Growing (top right, or in the menu on a phone) and fill in your name, email and a password.
2. Open the verification email we send you and tap the link. You can use most of the app straight away, but verifying lets us reach you for password resets and reminders.
3. Already registered? Use Log In. Forgot your password? Choose Forgot password on the login page and follow the emailed link.

The four-question welcome

• What brings you here? — grow spiritually, understand the Bible, build a daily habit, read Christian books, strengthen prayer, or memorize Scripture.
• What would you like to learn about? — pick as many topics as you like; they shape your personalised feed.
• How much time can you spend each day? — we size your daily rhythm to it.
• How would you describe your Bible experience? — from “new to the Bible” to “Bible teacher / student”, so we recommend the right depth.

You can change your answers any time in Settings.

Put FaithStash on your phone

FaithStash is a web app that installs like a normal app — full screen, with its own icon, and no app store needed.

• iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. This is also required before phone notifications can work on iPhone.
• Android (Chrome): tap Install on the banner FaithStash shows, or use the browser menu → Install app.
• Computer: in Chrome or Edge, click the install icon at the right of the address bar.

🏠 Your Dashboard

The Dashboard is your home base. It always answers one question: what should I read next?

The “today” card

• Your streak — how many days in a row you’ve read, with a reminder when today is still open.
• Where to read next — the day of your active reading plan, or where you left off, or a friendly first book (the Gospel of John) if you’re new.
• Continue reading — one tap to the passage. Beside it, a 5-min read short chapter for busy days, and Open in Study Center to read with notes.
• Your weekly goal — a ring that fills as you read on more days this week, with seven dots for the days. Choose your goal (3, 5 or 7 days a week) in the picker beside it.

Everything else on the page

• Verse of the day — a banner with today’s verse; tap it to read, share or turn it into a picture.
• Your 10-Minute Growth — five small steps: Scripture, Insight, Reflect, Pray, Apply. Tap Mark Done as you finish each one.
• Today’s devotional, your active reading plans, and a feed of insights chosen from your interests.

📖 Reading the Bible

A distraction-free reader for all 66 books, in 24 versions, with everything you need one tap away.

Open a passage

Go to Bible, choose a book and chapter, and read. Use the arrows at the end of a chapter to keep going. Bible Search finds verses by word or phrase.

Choose your version

FaithStash includes 24 public-domain and freely-licensed versions: English — KJV (and the KJV with Strong’s numbers), ASV, BSB, NHEB (New Heart English Bible), YLT, Darby, Webster, UKJV, Geneva (1599), BBE and Rotherham; and other languages — Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909), German (Luther 1545), French (Martin 1744), Dutch (Statenvertaling), Swedish (1917), Polish (Biblia Gdańska), Czech (Kralická), Hungarian (Károli), Filipino (Ang Biblia), Vietnamese (1934), Korean (KRV) and Chinese (Union Version). Pick your default in Settings → Preferences, or switch on the page.

Read the original words — Strong’s numbers

Choose King James Version with Strong’s numbers and every word is linked to the Hebrew or Greek word behind it. Tap a word (or Tab to the words, use the arrow keys and press Enter) to see the original word, how to say it, what it means, and a link to every verse that uses it. The Strong’s button turns tapping on and off — it remembers your choice — and your highlights, underlines, notes and bookmarks work on this version like any other. Look any number or word up directly at Strong’s numbers (try H430, G26, “love” or “agape”).

Some sites also offer copyrighted versions such as The Message, the Amplified Bible and the NKJV. They appear in the version list only when the site has added them, you need to be signed in to read them, their copyright notice shows under each chapter, and they are not saved offline.

Make the text yours

• The Aa button changes the font (Elegant, Classic, Clean or Friendly) and the text size (14–34 px). It’s remembered on that device.
• Switch between light, dark or system theme in Settings → Preferences.

Tap a verse

Tapping any verse opens a toolbar. From there you can:

• Highlight it in one of six colours, or underline it. To underline just some words, select them first — drag across them, or on a phone press and hold a word and drag the handles — and the button becomes Underline selection. A selection can run across verses, and selecting underlined words again takes that part off. Tap 🎨 beside it to choose the underline colour (eight colours): it colours the words you selected — a whole verse, or just part of one, and you can recolour part of an underline — and the Underline button keeps using that colour. ✕ in the colour row takes the underline off.
• Choose the underline colour with the 🎨 button — eight colours, remembered on your device. Painting a new colour over part of an underline recolours just that part.
• 🏷 Topics shows the subjects the verse is filed under in the topical Bible (Nave’s Topical Bible and the OpenBible topics) — tap a subject to see every verse on it, or study this topic to start a note from it.
• Stash (bookmark) it to My Stash.
• Add a note to the verse — or, with words selected, pin the note to those words: they are shaded in the text, and tapping them opens the note (or takes it off the words again). In the Study Center, 📝 New note does the same and opens the note beside the Bible. You can send a verse to your Journal too.
• Memorize it (adds it to Scripture Memory), or turn it into a prayer.
• With words selected: 🔎 Search the whole Bible for them, 📚 Lookup what the Bible dictionary, people and places say about them (and about the verse), or 📖 Define a word — the Bible dictionary entry plus an ordinary English definition, with old forms like “killeth” understood. With nothing selected, a box lets you type the word.
• 📌 Start page makes the chapter you are reading the place the Bible opens from now on (tap it again to remove it, or use All books to see every book).

Listen

Tap 🔊 Listen to hear the chapter read aloud, verse by verse, by your device’s own voice. Adjust speed and voice, let it carry on into the next chapter, and follow the highlighted verse. Nothing is downloaded or stored.

Read offline

Tap ⬇ Offline to save a book — or the whole Bible — on your device and keep reading with no connection. Only public Scripture text is saved. When you’re offline, FaithStash shows a friendly offline screen with your saved books one tap away — instead of your browser’s error page.

Finishing a chapter

Reach the end of a chapter (or listen all the way through) and FaithStash counts it for today, moves your streak and weekly goal, and offers a short reflection you can save to your journal.

🧠 The Study Center

The Bible and your notes, side by side — the heart of serious study. On a phone the two panes sit behind a Bible | Notes switch.

Open it from the account menu (📖 Study Center), from the Dashboard, or from any passage. Drag the divider between the panes to give either more room.

Find your way around the toolbar

The bar above the Bible has three groups. The passage — book, chapter and version in one picker. Reading tools — compare versions, recent passages, today’s reading and study sets. Study tools — undo and redo, 🔎 search the Bible, the reference shelf, listen, the Passage Guide, text size, and the previous and next chapter arrows.

• 🔎 Search opens a box where you type any word or phrase and see every verse that has it — no need to select anything first. Results open in a new tab so your study stays where it is.
• ↶ Undo and ↷ redo take back (and bring back) the highlights, underlines and Stashes you make in the Bible pane — exactly as they were, even a split or recoloured underline. Ctrl/⌘+Z does the same. The note editor has its own ↶ ↷ buttons and the same keys, covering the title and text — each pause in typing, each bit of formatting and each added passage is one step.

Mark up a verse

Tap a verse to select it and a floating bar appears with everything you can do. To mark just part of a verse, drag across the words — or tap ✂️ Pick words, which shows the verse as tappable words: tap the first, tap the last, and tap Underline these words. That works anywhere, including phones where dragging text is fiddly. Choose an underline colour with the 🎨 button (eight colours); a colour you choose is remembered.

Notes that know the Bible

• Type a reference like Mk 1:17 or 1 Cor 13:4-7 in a note and it becomes a tappable link that opens the passage in a pop-up — you never lose your place.
• Notes autosave. Choose a note font (six styles, including Typewriter and Handwritten) and size with the note’s own Aa button — separate from the Bible text.
• Add #tags to organise notes; filter the list by tag, or search — search looks inside notes and at tags.
• Link notes together with [[Another note’s title]]. The linked note shows what links back to it.
• Select verses and quote them straight into the open note.

Tools in the Bible pane

From a verse into your habits

• 📁 Collect adds the selected verses to one of your collections.
• 🧠 Memorize adds them to Scripture Memory.
• 🙈 Test me hides words so you can check that you know the verse by heart.

Write like in a word processor

• The strip above a note — in the Study Center and on the full Notes page — works like Word’s ribbon — paragraph styles (Normal, Heading 1–4, Quote), 14 fonts, sizes from 8 to 72, bold / italic / underline / strikethrough, sub- and superscript, text and highlight colours, bullets and numbers (Tab indents), alignment, line spacing, indents, links (Ctrl+K), tables (Tab moves between cells), a horizontal line, and Clear formatting. Find and replace (Ctrl+H), a word count, and a Page view that shows the note on a sheet of paper are on the same strip. Shortcuts: Ctrl+B / I / U, Ctrl+K link, Ctrl+H find, Ctrl+Shift+L / E / R / J align, Ctrl+Shift+7 / 8 numbers / bullets, Ctrl+Alt+1–4 headings, Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] smaller and larger. Pasting from Word or a web page keeps what a note can hold.

Share your notes

• 🔗 Share → link: anyone with the link reads the note (references still tappable) — no account needed. Logged-in readers can save a copy. Stop sharing ends the link immediately.
• 🔗 Share → a group: only members of that group can read it.
• Export: download one note or a whole filtered set as a Word document (opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice with the fonts, colours, headings and tables kept) or Markdown, or a printable page (Save as PDF) that includes the full text of every passage the notes mention.

📜 Dictionary, places, commentary & threads

A free reference shelf you can use without logging in.

• Bible Dictionary — about 6,000 entries from Easton’s and Smith’s, searchable and A–Z, with the verses each one appears in.
• Bible Places — more than 1,200 places, each with a map link and the verses that name it.
• Commentary — Matthew Henry, book by book and chapter by chapter.
• Giving — the ♥ Give button at the top of every page. Choose an amount (or type your own), one time or every month, and pay on Paystack’s secure page — cards, bank transfer, USSD or mobile money. Paystack emails your receipt; signed in, you can see your own giving on the Give page.
• Strong’s numbers — choose King James Version with Strong’s numbers in the Bible reader or the Study Center, then tap any word to see the Hebrew or Greek behind it: the original word, how to say it, what it means, and every verse that uses it. The Strong’s button turns tapping on and off. You can also look a number or word up directly (H430, G26, “love”, “agape”).
• Topical Bible — pick a subject (faith, anger, shepherd… more than 5,000 of them) and see every verse on it, from Nave’s and Torrey’s classic topical Bibles. Tap a reference to read it, or Show the verses to read a whole point in place; Study this topic starts a Study Center note with the points and verses. Type a verse (like John 3:16) to see the subjects it is under — or tap 🏷 Topics in the verse toolbar.
• Topic Threads — short chains of verses with a note on each, on themes like forgiveness, anxiety and prayer. Open one in any version, or start a Study Center note from it.
• Topics — browse insights, studies and devotionals by theme.

🔥 Building the habit

Small, gentle nudges that help reading become something you do every day.

Streaks

Each day you finish a chapter, your streak grows. Life happens, so a streak survives one missed day each week — a “streak freeze” is used for you automatically. Milestones at 7, 30, 100 and 365 days are celebrated.

Weekly goal

Pick how many days a week you’d like to read. The ring on your Dashboard fills as you go, and on Monday you can get a short recap of the week before.

Reminders

• Daily reminder at the time you choose, by in-app notice, email and/or phone notification.
• Evening nudge — if your streak would end tonight, a gentle reminder between 7 and 10 pm.
• Monday recap of last week.

Set all of this in Settings → Notifications and Phone & browser notifications. On an iPhone, add FaithStash to your Home Screen first.

Your Progress page

Progress shows your reading counts, streaks and completions. It’s a record of your activity — never a measure of your walk with God — and streaks can be turned off there.

✦ Discover, studies, devotionals & books

Short, meaningful content worth keeping.

• Discover — a feed of bite-size Christian insights. Tabs: For You, Bible, Books and Quotes. Tap + Stash to save one, ♡ to like it, comment, share, or Go Deeper → to jump to the related passage, study or devotional.
• Bible Study — structured lessons: the passage, its context, explanation, key lessons, important words, cross references, questions, application and a prayer. Mark a study complete when you’re done.
• Devotionals — a short daily reading with a reflection, application, prayer and an action step. Today’s devotional is always one tap away.
• Christian Books — a library of book details and original summaries (never copyrighted text). Set a book to Want to Read, Currently Reading or Completed.

🎙 Podcasts

Short, encouraging audio you can listen to anywhere — on the site or in your favourite podcast app.

1. Open Podcasts from the menu and choose a show, then an episode.
2. Press play. Use the 15-second buttons to skip back or ahead, the slider to jump around, and the speed button for 0.75× to 2×.
3. Log in and FaithStash remembers where you stopped — on any device. Your unfinished episodes appear under Continue listening on your Dashboard and on the Podcasts page.
4. Tap ＋ Follow on a show to get a notification (and a phone alert, if you have those switched on) whenever a new episode is out.

Chapters, transcripts and video

• Chapters — when an episode has them, tap one to jump straight to that part. The one playing now is highlighted.
• Transcript — open it under the episode to read along. If it is timed, tap any line to jump there; use Find in the transcript to search for a word, or download it.
• Video version — some episodes also have a YouTube or Vimeo video. Nothing loads from them until you press Watch the video version.

Notes, up next, sleep timer and sharing

• 📝 Take notes (logged in) — type while you listen and press Save note. Each note is stamped with where you were when you started typing, and goes into one Study Center note for that episode; tap a time in the note to jump back to that moment.
• ＋ Up next — add episodes to a queue (from a show page or an episode). When one ends, the next starts by itself; reorder or remove items under the player. The queue lives on this device.
• 🌙 Sleep timer — stop after 5 to 60 minutes (the sound fades out) or at the end of the episode.
• ✂ Share a clip — pick a start (and an optional end), then share the link, copy it, or save a picture. Whoever opens the link starts at that moment, and a clip stops where it ends.
• Scripture in this episode — tap a passage to read it; on any Bible chapter, a Listen box lists the episodes about it.

Listen without internet

On an episode, tap ⬇ Save for offline. FaithStash keeps the audio on your device, and the episode then plays with no connection — handy for flights and areas with poor signal. Everything you have saved is listed under Saved for offline on the Podcasts page, where you can remove it to free up space.

Listen in your podcast app

Open a show, expand Listen in your podcast app, and copy the RSS link (or tap Open in Apple Podcasts). Paste the link into Overcast, Pocket Casts or any podcast app and new episodes arrive by themselves.

🗓 Reading, Bible & Study plans

Guided journeys through Scripture, one day at a time — alone or with friends.

1. Open Reading Plans or Bible Plans and choose one.
2. Tap Start. Each day shows the passages to read; tick Complete when you’re done and the progress bar moves.
3. Prefer another version? Switch the plan’s Bible translation at any time.
4. Marked a plan complete by mistake? Use Reopen and carry on.

Bible Study Plans

A Bible Study Plan is a plan whose every day is a short, structured study — any length (a week, 30 days, a year), on any theme or book. Each day opens with a Verse to memorize (with an Add to my Scripture Memory button), then the Scripture reference, then Context, Explanation, Key Lessons, Important Words, Cross References, Reflection Questions, Practical Application and a Prayer. Bible references inside the study are tappable. Use the arrows to move between days and Mark Day Complete when you’re done; invite friends with a code like any other plan.

Read a plan with friends

On a plan you’ve started, tap Get Invite Code and share the 8-character code. Friends who join with it appear on the plan’s Circle Progress page, where everyone can see each other’s current day. No group is needed. Group leaders can also start a plan for a whole group.

🙏 Journal, prayer & Scripture Memory

Your private spiritual life. Only you can see any of it.

• Journal — write reflections after reading. Chapter reflections from the end of a chapter land here automatically.
• Prayer — keep requests, gratitude and answered prayers, each with a status you control.
• Scripture Memory — add any verse and review it with spaced repetition: words are hidden so you can practise recall, and the next review is scheduled by how well you remembered.
• Notes — every note you’ve written in the Study Center, in one searchable list.

🗂 My Stash & Collections

Everything you’ve saved, in one place.

My Stash (account menu) collects your saved insights, verses, books, studies, devotionals, collections, highlights and notes, organised by tab.

Build your own themed Collections — like “Verses for Difficult Days” or “Marriage” — for insights, verses, books and studies. Make them public to share, or keep them private. Verses collected in the Study Center show with their full text on the collection page.

👥 Community & groups

Grow alongside other believers.

• Follow people and topics, like and comment on insights, and see what’s most loved on Community.
• Join a group from Groups — browse public groups, or enter a group code someone gave you.
• Start a group with + New Group: a name, description, photo, type (Church, Bible Study, Youth, Men’s, Women’s, Small Group, Organisation) and whether it’s public or private. You can create as many as you like.

Inside a group

• Post updates and questions; leaders can post announcements and share insights, devotionals, studies or books with the group.
• Group study — a leader sets the passage the group is studying (with an optional question to discuss); members open it in the Study Center with the verses marked.
• Shared notes — members can share study notes with the group, readable only by its members.
• Group reading plans — start a plan for everyone and see the group’s progress.
• Live calls — a leader pastes a Telegram invite link and ticks “We are live”; the group shows a pulsing 🔴 LIVE badge and members get Join the live call on Telegram →.
• Invite others with the group’s share link (/join/…) — copy it or share it from the group page; a leader can make a new link at any time to retire the old one.

Studying together

Everything here is for group members only, opt-in, and never ranks people.

• Verse discussions — a leader pins a question to a verse; members answer and react (🙏 💡 ❤️), and the Bible reader shows a 💬 beside that verse for people in the group.
• Prayer wall — post a request, tap I prayed on others’, and everyone who prayed is told when a request is marked answered.
• Encouragement stickers — 🔥 🌱 🙌: one tap sends a friend in the group a note of cheer.
• Weekly reading ring — a leader sets a chapters-a-week goal; members who choose to count their reading fill the ring. It shows totals, never names.
• Weekly quiz — six questions, one go each, and the group sees how it did together. Challenges (such as “30 days in Psalms”) earn a badge at 80% of the days, and the verse relay hands each member a verse to memorise until the whole passage is done.
• Read along — switch it on in the Bible reader to see which people in your groups are reading the same chapter right now (they see you only if you share too).
• Study nights — a leader schedules a live session with questions; members say “I’m going”, and on the night everyone follows the shared question and can raise a hand. Listening parties let a group comment on a podcast episode at the moment they hear it.
• Study buddies — pair up with one person in a group, see each other’s reading days and send a daily nudge.
• Send to group — with a verse selected in the Bible reader, send it to a group as a verse card.

Invite friends

Open Invite friends from the menu for your personal link and code. When someone joins through it you are credited, and you can see how many friends you have brought along.

See something wrong? Use Report on any post or comment — our moderators review every report.

🎮 Bible Games

Friendly competition that quietly teaches Scripture.

Games has three eight-question timed modes: Bible Trivia 🕊️, Heroes of Faith 👑 (“who am I?”) and Sword Drill ⚔️ (name the book from the verse). Faster answers earn a speed bonus, every answer shows its Scripture reference, and you’ll see your personal bests and a weekly leaderboard.

A fourth mode, Name That Passage, shows a verse and asks which book it comes from, with four choices from the same testament — a different round every time. And Verse Bingo is a weekly 3×3 card that ticks itself from what you do that week (read a Psalm, write a note, highlight a verse…), the same card for everyone.

💬 StashGuide AI

A study helper — never a replacement for Scripture, your pastor or your church.

Open StashGuide from the account menu and ask it to explain a passage, suggest verses on a topic, draft a short study or give reflection questions — for example, “What does the Bible teach about forgiveness?” or “Create a 7-day Bible study about faith.” Every answer clearly separates Scripture, context and suggestion, and it never claims special authority.

🔎 Search

One search across the whole app.

Use the search page to look through the Bible, insights, books, studies, devotionals, topics and people at once, or Bible Search for verses only. In the Study Center, the notes search also looks inside your notes and tags.

✍️ Creators Hub

Share what God is teaching you.

Members with the Creator role see ✍️ Creators Hub in their account menu, where they can write insights, Bible studies and devotionals. Every submission is reviewed by a moderator or administrator before it appears publicly; you’ll get a notification either way, with feedback if it needs changes. To become a creator, ask an administrator — or use Support.

💛 Giving

FaithStash is free for everyone. If it has been a blessing, you can help keep it free.

Tap the gold ♥ Give button at the top of any page, or open Give. Choose an amount (or type your own), choose one time or monthly, and continue to the secure Paystack checkout. Giving never unlocks or locks anything — everything in FaithStash stays free.

• Your card details are entered on Paystack’s page; FaithStash never sees or stores them.
• You receive a thank-you after your first gift, and a monthly gift renews on its own until you cancel it with Paystack.
• If a particular appeal is running (for example a project or a special need), the Give page says so and your gift goes to it.

⚙️ Settings & privacy

You’re in control of your account.

Find everything under Settings in the account menu:

• Profile — your photo, name, bio and interests, and whether your profile is public.
• Preferences — theme (system, light or dark), reading font size and default Bible version.
• Notifications — which emails and reminders you want, and the time of your daily reminder.
• Phone & browser notifications — turn push on for this device, and send yourself a test.
• Reading habits — streaks, weekly goal and reminders.
• Change password and Email verification.
• Two-factor sign-in — add a code from an authenticator app to your password, with recovery codes in case you lose your phone. Required for admins.
• Email updates — opt in or out of occasional news from FaithStash.
• Delete my account — permanently removes your account and data (under Danger Zone).

Read our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for the details.

🛟 Help & troubleshooting

Most problems have a quick fix.

Still stuck? Contact support — we’re glad to help.