Handwrite the Bible
on your phone or tablet.
Slow down a busy day by writing one verse by hand. Open the app, choose a passage, and write it word by word with your finger, Apple Pencil or a stylus. What you write stays on the page, and over time it becomes a Bible in your own hand.
Try the last one
Free download · Start writing right away · Works offline · English and Chinese
Available now on the App Store and Google Play, for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
Your handwriting stays in the passage
How it works
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Get the app
Search “Penned Grace” on the App Store or Google Play. Free, no signup.
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Choose a passage
Pick today’s verse, a reading plan, or anywhere in the Bible.
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Write it by hand
With your finger, Apple Pencil or a stylus. Your handwriting stays in the passage.
Free to download. Writing is always free, on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Three ways to write in the app. All of them count.
You can also type when you are short on time.
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GodGod
Trace
Follow faint letters stroke by stroke. The easiest way to begin.
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lovelove
Copy
Look at the verse and write it yourself. Pause for 1.2 seconds and the next word comes up.
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world
Type
No pen needed. Pasted text is not counted; only what you type is.
Your handwriting stays in the passage
Write with your finger, Apple Pencil or a stylus. Choose a fountain pen, a pencil or a ballpoint and five line weights. With Apple Pencil or a pressure-sensitive stylus, the ink thins and thickens with your pressure; with a finger, it follows your writing speed. Finished words take their place in the passage and become a page you wrote yourself.
Replay it. Export it.
Every stroke is kept. A share card with just the verse and your handwriting is free; with Premium you can also replay the whole session from the first line or export a one-page PDF.
The whole Bible on your shelf
Find a passage by reference or keyword and keep favorites close. Switch the writing language between English and Chinese, and see how much of each book you've written.
A mark for every day you write
A few words is enough to leave today’s mark. Twelve milestones stay with you once earned.
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Quiet by design
Just you, and today’s verse.
Writing is always freeEvery translation and the whole Bible are free to write, with no ads. Just the verse and your handwriting on the page.
Your writing stays on your phoneEvery word you write is kept safely on your own device.
Start writing right awayOpen the app and begin, no signup. Your writing is included in your device backup (iCloud on iPhone and iPad, Google backup on Android).
A quiet startA short quiet moment and a prayer before writing, or go straight to the verse.
The whole Bible in the app, offline
Built-in translations work without a connection. Add one more when you want it.
- BSB
- Berean Standard BibleEnglish, built in
- 和合本
- Chinese Union Version 1919Traditional and Simplified, built in
- WEB
- World English BibleEnglish, download when needed
Search by reference or keyword. Word stems are matched, so “loving” finds “loved”.
Ten writing plans built in
Six are free and four are part of Premium, and the first 3 days of a Premium plan are open to everyone. Change translation or switch to typing and your progress still counts.
- Meeting Jesus in 7 Days7 days
- Psalm 23, Slowly6 days
- Promises of Peace14 days
- The Sermon on the Mount34 days
- Psalm 11960 days
- Advent in 28 Days28 days
- Psalms in 30 Days30 days · Premium
- Proverbs in 31 Days31 days · Premium
- Philippians Selections16 days · Premium
- All of Philippians38 days · Premium
The home screen offers a new verse each day, with separate readings for Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost and Thanksgiving.
Free scripture writing printables
Or print a page and write with a pen
Free lined scripture writing pages and SOAP devotional pages in US Letter and A4. Print as many as your small group needs.
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Penned Grace runs on iPhone and iPad (iOS 16.4 or later) and Android phones and tablets (Android 7.0 or later), in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.