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Gospify is a daily companion for studying Scripture. Designed to help you build a consistent Bible-study habit, the app combines bite-sized lessons, memorization tools, and a rich study companion called Lumen — all woven together with a gentle progression system that rewards faithfulness.

Think of it as a seminary in your pocket: structured enough to guide you, flexible enough to meet you where you are, and beautiful enough to make the journey a joy.

1. Open the app and you'll land on Today — your daily dashboard with progress, streaks, quests, and the daily verse.
2. Tap Continue your journey to start your first lesson. Each lesson takes 3–5 minutes.
3. After completing it you'll earn Manna (XP) and watch your Daily Bread meter fill.
4. Open the side menu to discover Quests, Lumen, Reading Plans, Library, and the Shop.
5. Come back tomorrow to keep your Ember alive.

On iPhone & iPad, tap the menu icon in the top-left. On Mac, use the sidebar or ⌘1–⌘8. From either you can reach:

• Today — daily dashboard and progress
• Path — your lesson journey through Scripture
• Quests — daily and weekly challenges
• Ask Lumen — your AI-powered study companion
• Reading Plans — guided multi-day paths
• Library — browse all available content
• Shop — spend Mites on cosmetics
• Knowledge Center — this, offline
• Settings — customize your experience

Gospify is built to serve all Christians. When you select a tradition in Settings, the app tailors your experience:

• Lesson content may include tradition-specific theology and practices.
• Cross-references in Lumen highlight denomination-relevant insights.
• Some units are tradition-specific, covering topics unique to your faith journey.

Choosing a tradition doesn't limit you — it enriches your study. You can change it any time in Settings.

The Catholic tradition emphasizes:

• The authority of Scripture alongside Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium.
• Seven sacraments as means of grace.
• Devotion to Mary and the saints as intercessors.
• The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist (transubstantiation).
• A rich liturgical calendar with feast days and the seasons of Lent and Advent.
• The Deuterocanonical books — Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 & 2 Maccabees.

Selecting Catholic unlocks units on the sacraments, Marian theology, apostolic-age Church history, and liturgical practices.

The Protestant tradition emphasizes:

• Sola Scriptura — Scripture alone as the ultimate authority.
• Sola Fide — justification by faith alone.
• Sola Gratia — salvation by grace alone.
• The priesthood of all believers.
• Two ordinances — Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
• The 66-book Protestant canon.

Selecting Protestant focuses on Reformed theology, evangelical practices, the Five Solas, and the Reformation.

Choosing Both gives you the fullest Gospify experience:

• Access to all lesson units — Catholic, Protestant, and shared.
• Cross-references show insights from multiple theological perspectives.
• Holy-day celebrations from both traditions.
• A broader view of how different Christians interpret the same Scripture.

Recommended for anyone who values learning from the whole Body of Christ.

Your daily hub. It shows:

• A time-aware greeting that changes through the day.
• A context banner with your most important status update.
• A Continue your journey button to resume your current lesson.
• Upcoming holy days and liturgical events.
• Your Daily Bread progress ring showing today's Manna.
• A preview of your active quests.
• A daily verse from a pool of 365 carefully chosen passages.
• Evening Vespers — available after 8 PM, a quiet contemplative reading.

A structured journey through Scripture, organized into units with multiple lessons. Lessons include interactive exercises — fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, verse ordering, and matching. Each takes about 3–5 minutes and earns Manna based on performance. You can earn up to 3 stars per lesson. Bible text uses the World English Bible (WEB).

Your comprehensive study companion. Thirteen surfaces in one:

• Topics — 30+ biblical themes: Grace, Faith, Love, Redemption, and more.
• Cross-references — deep dive into verse context, historical background, and related passages.
• Word studies — Greek and Hebrew origins with audio pronunciation.
• AI chat — ask any Bible question (uses daily credits).
• Flashcards — SM-2 spaced-repetition.
• Bible navigator — browse by book and chapter.
• Saved verses — bookmark your favorites.
• Collections — themed verse groupings.
• Timeline & Maps — biblical history and geography, offline.
• Reading plans — guided multi-day study paths.
• Verse comparison — KJV, NIV, ESV, NASB side-by-side.
• Reflections — personal study journal.

Every topic, verse, and word you explore earns +2 Manna.

Gospify weaves AI directly into the learning experience:

• "Why was I wrong?" — after an incorrect answer, get an AI explanation. Costs 1 AI credit.
• Reflection follow-up — after saving a reflection, Lumen generates a thoughtful follow-up question. Free.
• "Ask Lumen" pills — teaching cards include a teal button that takes you to Lumen's chat with the verse pre-filled. No credit is spent until you send.

Daily and weekly challenges that reward you with Mites. Daily quests reset at midnight with goals like "Earn 20 Manna today" or "Complete 2 lessons." Claim before they reset.

Guided multi-day paths focused on specific themes:

• Grace in 7 Days
• Names of God (5 days)
• Fruit of the Spirit (9 days)
• Key Words of Paul (7 days)
• Psalms of Comfort (5 days)

Completing a day earns +3 Manna. Finishing an entire plan earns a +10 bonus. You can also generate a custom plan on any theme with Lumen.

After 8 PM, an Evening Vespers card appears on your Today page. A brief, contemplative Scripture experience with a calming reading and reflection prompt. Completing Vespers earns +5 Manna. The tradition of evening prayer dates to the early Church and is observed across denominations.

Spend earned Mites on cosmetics: avatar emojis, avatar colors, path themes, titles, and frames. Rarities run Common → Rare → Epic → Legendary. Nothing is pay-to-win — every real feature is free. The Shop exists so your streak has somewhere to cash out.

Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German inflect adjectives and participles by grammatical gender. If you're female, a greeting rendered as "Estás listo" instead of "Estás lista" is a small daily wrong note — Gospify addresses that.

Settings → How We Address You offers three choices:

• She / Her — feminine agreement everywhere (UI + Lumen).
• He / Him — masculine agreement everywhere.
• Prefer not to say — the default; uses the translator's neutral form.

Your choice applies to two places: inflectable UI strings (powered by Apple's Foundation Morphology type) and Lumen AI responses (your preference is passed into Lumen's system prompt so generated text agrees with you grammatically). English speakers see no visible effect — English doesn't inflect by gender.

Privacy: the setting is stored locally on device. Only the broad category — feminine, masculine, or unset — is ever referenced. No profile data, no identifier.

Settings → Notifications has a master "Daily Reminder" switch (one-tap silence everything), and below it eleven independently-toggleable categories so you can silence what doesn't serve your practice without losing what does:

• Daily verse — morning verse-of-the-day push.
• Streak warning — evening nudge before midnight if you haven't studied.
• Review due — flashcards waiting in the review queue.
• Level close — "just 20 Manna from your next milestone."
• Welcome back — re-engagement after 2+ days away.
• Weekly summary — Sunday-evening recap.
• Quest rewards — unclaimed weekly quests.
• Reading plan — daily nudge if a Bible reading plan is active.
• Verse of the week — Monday-morning new focus verse.
• Holy days (new) — eve-before + morning-of for the next feast on your tradition's calendar.
• Pilgrim journey (new) — daily 10 AM reminder during an active Pilgrim pack.

Holy Days alerts follow the full liturgical calendar filtered to your Tradition setting: Advent, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, plus Catholic-only days (Assumption, Immaculate Conception, All Saints, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart) and Protestant-only days (Reformation Day, Transfiguration Sunday, World Communion Sunday).

Flipping a toggle off cancels any already-scheduled notification for that category immediately — no waiting for the next one to "skip." Settings stay device-local on purpose, so silencing on your phone doesn't silence your iPad.

Manna is your spiritual experience points (XP), earned through nearly every activity:

• Completing a lesson · +5
• Reviewing a memorized verse · +2
• Exploring a Lumen topic / verse / word · +2 (first time)
• Flashcard correct · +1
• Completing a flashcard set · +5 bonus
• Reading-plan day · +3
• Completing a full reading plan · +10 bonus
• Evening Vespers · +5

"Give us this day our daily bread." — Matthew 6:11

Your Daily Bread is your daily Manna target — default 20. The progress ring fills as you earn Manna; reaching 100% counts as a study day for your streak. Choose 10, 20, 30, or 50 in Settings.

Gospify's gamification is designed to help you build a habit, not to keep you chasing points forever. After you reach Level 10, the app gradually reduces gamification prominence — XP counters, level-up celebrations, and game chrome become subtler as the habit takes root.

The idea is simple: training wheels serve their purpose, then come off. Your daily study becomes its own reward. If you ever want the full gamification experience back, you can re-enable it via the Study Mode toggle in Settings.

During Scripture Reading and Reflection exercises, the app enters Contemplative Mode. XP counters, oil displays, hints, and other game chrome are hidden to preserve the spiritual moment.

When you're reading a passage of Scripture or journaling a reflection, the focus should be on the text and your response to it — not on your score. Game elements return seamlessly when you move on to interactive exercises like multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank.

As you accumulate Manna, you level up and earn spiritual ranks — each with a unique icon and Scripture verse:

• 🔍 Seeker · Lv 1–5 · "Seek and ye shall find" — Matt 7:7
• 📖 Student · Lv 6–14 · "Study to show thyself approved" — 2 Tim 2:15
• ✝️ Disciple · Lv 15–24 · "Follow me" — Matt 4:19
• 🎓 Scholar · Lv 25–34 · "Meditate on these things" — 1 Tim 4:15
• 🦉 Sage · Lv 35–44 · "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" — Prov 9:10
• 🕊️ Prophet · Lv 45–50 · "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts" — Isa 6:3

A streak is a consecutive run of days where you reached your daily Manna goal. Each completed day adds one Ember. Your current streak and your longest-ever streak are both tracked and displayed.

Studying in any surface counts — lessons, Lumen, reading plans, flashcards. Anything that earns Manna counts.

Missing a day is human. The grace period gives you a short window the following morning to complete yesterday's goal without losing the streak. Beyond that, the streak resets.

Enabling a Sabbath rest day in Settings automatically preserves your streak on your chosen day of the week — a built-in rest, not a missed day.

Gospify frames streaks as a spiritual discipline, not a competition. You won't find loss-aversion language like "Don't lose your streak!" or guilt-inducing countdowns. Instead, the app encourages you with phrases like "Your daily discipline continues" and "A fresh start — your growth is never lost."

A missed day is human, not a failure. Your longest-ever streak is always remembered, and every fresh start preserves all the knowledge you've accumulated. The streak is a tool for building consistency, not a source of anxiety.

Lumen AI is live and fully deployed. Most AI chatbots will cheerfully invent a Bible verse. Lumen's system prompt explicitly forbids that. It's also designed to present multiple interpretive traditions fairly — so asking "what is baptism?" gets you a Catholic view, a Reformed view, and a Baptist view, each sourced.

Lumen also isn't only a chatbot. Most Lumen features don't use AI at all — they use curated offline content that's been reviewed for accuracy. Topics, word studies, cross-references, maps, timelines, flashcards, quizzes, and the Bible navigator all work offline, for free, without credits.

The AI chat is powered by a Cloudflare Worker proxy that routes your questions to Anthropic's Claude. You get 5 free AI messages per day. Lumen can answer Bible questions, explain why you got a lesson answer wrong, and provide tradition-aware responses tailored to your Catholic, Protestant, or Combined setting.

Look up any verse and see it side-by-side across KJV, NIV, ESV, and NASB. Great for quick comparison when a word is unclear or when you want to sense the translation's personality. The default throughout the app is the public-domain World English Bible (WEB).

Type a theme and a length — "a five-day plan on peace" — and Lumen generates a custom multi-day plan with a passage, a reflection prompt, and a cross-reference for each day. Costs 1 credit to generate; the plan itself is free forever once created.

Memory verses and key-word flashcards use SM-2 spaced repetition — the same algorithm used by medical students to memorize complex material (and the same algorithm that powers Anki). Cards you find easy appear less often; cards you get wrong come back quickly. Over weeks it reliably converts short-term recognition into long-term recall.

When you review a card, SM-2 calculates the optimal next review date based on your performance. Get it right and the interval grows (1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 2 weeks...). Get it wrong and it comes back the next day. The result: you spend your time on the verses you're still learning, not the ones you already know.

Free-tier users get 5 AI chat messages per day. Credits reset at midnight in your local time. Every other Lumen feature is unlimited. A credit is consumed only when you actually send an AI message.

Every AI message costs real money — $0.001 to $0.01 in API fees depending on length and complexity. Gospify has no ads, no paywalls, no analytics, and no premium tier. The developer pays out of pocket for every conversation. The 5-credit daily limit keeps this sustainable while still giving everyone real access.

We also optimize aggressively — prompt caching, lightweight-model routing for simple questions, and offline-first answers for anything Lumen's curated library can handle — which reduces per-message cost 60–90%.

Lumen tries to answer offline first. If your question matches a curated topic, word study, or cross-reference, it never hits the AI. If it does, the request is classified — simple factual questions go to a lighter, faster, cheaper model; complex theological questions go to the full-strength model. System prompts and reusable context are cached so you pay for them once per 5-minute window, not per message.

Found something that doesn't work right? There are three ways to report a bug:

• Shake your iPhone — a bug-report email composes automatically.
• Press ⌘⇧B on Mac — same thing, keyboard shortcut.
• Settings → Report a Bug — always available from the settings screen.

The report pre-fills your email client with device diagnostics: device model, OS version, app version, available storage, and locale. You can add a description of what went wrong, then review and send. Gospify doesn't store or transmit the report — your email app handles it.

Gospify uses Firebase Crashlytics to automatically detect and report crashes. When a crash occurs, an anonymous report is sent the next time the app launches. The report includes the device model, OS version, app version, and a stack trace showing where the crash happened.

No personal data is included — no name, no email, no journal entries, no lesson content. Crash reports help the developer identify and fix stability issues quickly, often before most users even notice.

On iOS, Apple's MetricKit provides additional OS-level diagnostics (crash logs, hang reports, performance metrics) through Apple's standard pipeline. These are forwarded to the developer automatically.

On iOS, Firebase Performance Monitoring collects anonymous performance data — app startup time, screen rendering speed, and network request latency. This helps identify slowdowns and optimize the experience for all devices.

No personal data is included in performance reports. The data tells us things like "startup takes 1.2 seconds on average," not anything about you personally.

Native SwiftUI, requires iOS 17+ / macOS 14 Sonoma+. Shared code for business logic; separate UI idioms (tab bar + drawer on iOS, NavigationSplitView on Mac). iCloud CloudKit sync. Home-screen widget on iPhone. Siri Shortcuts. Face ID / Touch ID journal lock. Mac app supports ⌘1–⌘8 keyboard shortcuts.

Kotlin + Jetpack Compose, Material 3 design tokens, same Renaissance palette and typography. Room database for local persistence. Supabase (Auth, Postgres, Edge Functions) for sync and the Lumen proxy. kotlinx.serialization for wire-compatibility with iOS's CloudSyncState. WorkManager + Hilt-Work for background sync. Targets API 35.

The app is offline-first on every platform. Progress is written locally; sync is a background layer that reconciles with the cloud when online. Conflicts resolve deterministically — last-writer-wins per field, with XP and streaks using a monotonic ceiling so they never regress. Without sync, the app is fully functional and your data stays entirely on your device.

Gospify is designed and built by Honorius M. Neogy. One person, one vision: a beautiful, honest, respectful daily Scripture companion with no ads and no dark patterns. Every email to support is read by the same person who wrote the code.

Christian art was for centuries a way to draw the heart upward — illuminated manuscripts, ceiling frescoes, gilded altarpieces. A screen is now where most of us spend our day. It seemed worth trying to make that screen, for at least a few minutes each morning, feel like a chapel rather than a feed. The palette, typography, and ornaments are pulled from Coypel, Ricci, Conca, and the Palace of Versailles — rendered as atmospheric washes rather than literal reproductions.

For support, bug reports, feature requests, kind words, or theological questions — see Contact or email honorius@neogy.dev. A real human replies within 48 hours.