Translations

BibleCast ships with one translation preinstalled and lets you install any others — either from the online catalog, or from a USB stick for Macs without internet.

Bundled translation

  • KJV 1769 — King James Version, English, public domain.

Dozens of other translations, across several languages, install in seconds from the Translations Manager once the app is open.

Translations Manager

In the left panel, next to the Bible Version heading, click the Manage button. The Translations Manager modal opens with two sections: Installed (top) and Available online (bottom).

Install from the catalog

With internet on, the Available online list auto-loads the BibleCast catalog (hosted on Cloudflare R2). Click Install on any module — the download takes a few seconds (modules are zipped, ~2-3 MB each). The module appears in the Installed list and is available immediately in the translation dropdown.

BibleCast doesn't collect metrics on which translations you download. Your IP is visible to Cloudflare for the duration of the request, like any HTTPS download, but we don't keep custom logs. See the privacy policy for details.

Sideload from disk

For a Mac without internet (or for a translation not in the catalog), you can load a .pack file from a USB stick. In the Translations Manager, click Install from file… — the native macOS dialog prompts you for the file. BibleCast validates it and moves it into the modules folder.

You can download modules directly from the Translations page on this site, put them on a stick, and sideload onto the offline Mac.

Uninstall

In the Installed section, every row has a menu with Uninstall. The action removes the file from disk. If the active translation was the one you removed, BibleCast falls back to KJV (or the first available translation).

Search

The Search field in the left panel uses FTS5 (full-text search) with accent normalization — search for "dragoste" and you get "dragoste", "dragostea", "dragostei", even if you type without diacritics. Verse search works too: type "Search me and know" and Psalm 139:23 appears. Narrow results with the OT / NT / Gospels / Epistles chips.

Reference parser

Below the Reference field, type freely: "joh 3:16" → John 3:16, "1 cor 13" → 1 Corinthians 13, "mt 5:3" → Matthew 5:3. A live hint shows the recognized book name. Under a Romanian translation, standard Romanian abbreviations work; under an English one, English ones. Jump there with Enter or click View.

Browse

The touch Book → Chapter → Verse browser gives you a grid of chips instead of typing. Books are color-coded by section, and the OT / NT / DT and Canonical / A→Z filters narrow the list; an All verses chip opens the whole chapter, and translation chips switch between your installed modules. It opens via the Browse button, ⌘B, or Esc.