Roadmap
Where the work stands — what’s done, what’s being worked on, and what comes later. Future stages are undated: they ship when they’re ready. The program is free at every stage, with nothing held back behind a price.
Development stages
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The Storehouse & Study Apparatus
One 83-book Ethiopian Tewahedo superset — the broadest canon still in use — with 91,553 study notes gathered into one place and organized into families you can turn on or off. A large set of free study material, stored once, in plain text.
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The Customizable Bible Builder
Choose your canon and tradition, toggle the notes you want, add original-language verse popups (Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Arabic), design your cover and title pages, and export a clean EPUB 3 — validated to zero errors and zero warnings. Nine starting editions build today, entirely on your own computer.
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Customization Down to the Verse
Choosing which notes and original-language popups appear at every level of the Bible — the whole, a book, a chapter, or a single verse. The builder’s navigator lets you walk your edition like a Bible and tune it anywhere, with the most specific choice winning. Live now.
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Your Cover, and the “Your Edition” Page
Twenty-five cover designs — five styles in five colours — with your title lettered onto them, or your own art imported, even for a single book. And a first “Your Edition” page that counts what is actually inside your build — totals, books, and the symbol legend, drawn from your real choices.
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The First Public Release (Beta)
The first public beta of the desktop program is live — v0.1.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux, free for everyone, with feedback wanted. See downloads & releases →
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A Standalone Geʽez Bible from the Manuscripts
Transcribing a complete Bible in classical Geʽez directly from the original manuscripts, witness by witness, with a faithful English back-translation after each book. 1 and 2 Samuel are complete; the books of Kings are underway.
Where it stands today
Today nine English study editions build end to end. The standalone Geʽez and Amharic Bibles are still being transcribed from the manuscripts and become buildable as the books complete. Note coverage varies across books and traditions, and each edition reports its own exact counts on its “Your Edition” page. AI-drafted commentary stays switched off unless you deliberately opt in. The program is complete and working, and it keeps growing — free at every stage.
What comes next
Planned, not promised — these stages are undated, and they ship as time and support allow.
- All the manuscripts, rendered online — so the original pages can be read freely by anyone, not only transcribed into the text.
- A standalone Amharic Bible — alongside the Geʽez, in its own right.
- More public-domain source texts — deepening the storehouse further.
- Public-domain audio — curated human-narrated readings (from LibriVox), embedded natively in the ebooks.
- Broader reading plans — more ways to journey through the text.
Whatever comes, the program stays completely free. A sponsorship helps keep it alive and growing — it pays for development time, manuscript digitization, and the hosting and domain for this site — but it never buys anyone a feature others don’t get.