Android · Java
Promises
A verse a day, set over photography, with everything it quotes in the public domain — the World English Bible in English and സത്യവേദപുസ്തകം in Malayalam.
- Promise of the Day, browsing by topic, favourites and sharing
- A daily notification at a time you pick, rescheduled across reboots
- World English Bible and Malayalam സത്യവേദപുസ്തകം, both public domain
- Light, dark and system themes, with a built-in feedback screen
Java · Android Views · AlarmManager
Screens
Captures from the app itself. Select any one to see it full size.
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Promise of the Day, over photography
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Topics, each with its verse count
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Topics expand where they sit
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Favourites lead the list
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Malayalam, down to the reference
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Notification, theme and translation
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Text size and face, previewed live
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Suggest a verse from inside the app
How it works
The verse, and a way past it
The Promise of the Day sits over a photograph with its reference and translation credited underneath. Next Verse moves through the collection; Browse opens the topics. The heart saves it, and the share button sends the text on.
Topics that open where they sit
Verses are grouped under topics — Addiction & Freedom, Anxiety & Worry, Children, Comfort & Grief, Depression and the rest — each tile carrying its own image and the number of verses it holds, so the list tells you how much is behind it before you tap. A topic expands in place rather than pushing you onto another screen. Anything you have saved gathers into a Favorites group pinned to the top of the same list.
Two translations, all the way down
Switching the Bible version changes the verse, the book name and the credit line together, so the Malayalam reading is a whole screen in Malayalam rather than an English frame with the verse swapped out. Both translations are public domain: the World English Bible, and സത്യവേദപുസ്തകം (Malayalam O.V.).
Made readable
An accessibility screen sets the verse text size and face — serif, sans-serif or monospace — and previews the result live above the controls that change it, so you are choosing by looking at the thing itself. Themes follow light, dark or the system.
A notification you set, that survives a reboot
The daily verse arrives at a time you choose. Scheduling goes through AlarmManager and is re-registered after a restart, so a reboot does not quietly end the habit.
Suggesting a verse
A feedback screen inside the app takes bug reports, feature requests and suggestions for verses to add, without sending anyone to an email client.