Questions about Rightly

Yes. Reading the Bible, the Greek and Hebrew word study, the commentaries and your notes are free, with no ads and no trial period.

Some planned features cost real money to run, such as reading scanned books or voice study. If any of those become paid, the price will be shown before you use them, and the core of the app stays free.

Not yet. Rightly is in development, and it is not in the App Store yet. A TestFlight beta for iPhone opens first.

Email hello@studyrightly.com (or use the button at the bottom of this page) and we will write when the beta opens.

Not yet. Rightly is iPhone first. Android and the web are planned after the iPhone app. The account page at app.studyrightly.com exists today for signing in, not for reading.

Rightly is made by Maranatha Technologies. The name comes from 2 Timothy 2:15, which the King James Version renders “rightly dividing the word of truth.” The Greek verb there, ὀρθοτομέω (Strong’s G3718), is defined first in Thayer’s lexicon as “to cut straight.”

The Berean Standard Bible (BSB), a modern English translation that its translators dedicated to the public domain in 2023. It is the only translation in the first release.

Because the BSB is published with a word-for-word interlinear, every English word in Rightly can be linked to the Greek or Hebrew behind it.

Yes. That is who the word sheet is for. Tap an English word to see the Greek or Hebrew word behind it, its dictionary form, a short gloss, and a parsing written in plain English, such as “Verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular.”

From there you can read the full entries in Brown-Driver-Briggs, Thayer’s and Strong’s, and see every other place the same word occurs.

Four public-domain commentaries, anchored to the verse you are reading: Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (both covering the whole Bible), Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament, and Calvin’s Commentaries (48 books).

Yes, for reading and word study. The Bible text, the Greek and Hebrew texts and the lexicons are stored on your iPhone, so they work on a plane or anywhere without a signal.

Notes are saved on the phone first and sync when you are back online. Commentaries load when you open them, and the ones you have opened recently stay available offline.

Yes, when you are signed in with an email link or Sign in with Apple. Notes and highlights are attached to a verse or a passage and sync across your devices. No ads or third-party trackers, and your data is never sold.

From open and public-domain scholarship: the Westminster Leningrad Codex with Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology, the SBL Greek New Testament with MACULA Greek morphology, the Berean interlinear, STEPBible versification data, the unabridged Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew lexicon, Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon, and Strong’s Hebrew and Greek dictionaries.

Each source’s licence and attribution is recorded, and credited on this site.

It is built for reading closely and nothing else. There are no ads, no streaks and no feed. Every parsing comes from tagged Greek and Hebrew data and every definition from a published lexicon, so if the data does not say it, Rightly does not either. And the original-language tools, commentaries and notes are free.

Not for word study. Parsings, glosses and lexicon entries are looked up from published data, never generated.

A planned feature, “ask your library,” will answer questions using only the books in your library, cite the book and page for each claim, and say so when nothing in your library addresses the question.