A Bible reading plan app where you set the pace and see your progress
Choose what to read and when, and Scripture Deck keeps the schedule. Build a plan a book at a time or reading by reading, start each day from the next reading on Home, and see your progress as you mark chapters read. Log each book as you finish it, however many times you read it.
Create a reading planSee a 21-day plan for John
Scripture Deck is free, with no subscription or card. An account is needed to save your plans, progress, and reading log; once you have registered, open Reading and choose New reading plan. Sign in if you already have an account.
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See a 21-day reading plan for John
Here is a plan you could make for the Gospel of John, one chapter a day:
- Title and translation: John in 21 days, in the World English Bible (WEB).
- How it is built: in Schedule a book, choose John and Finish in 21 days. The preview reads “21 chapters over 21 days · 1 a day” and gives the first and last dates. A plan with no title yet is named for you.
- Readings: John 1 on the start date, John 2 the next day, and so on to John 21 on day 21.
- Day four: with John 1–3 marked read, Home shows John 4 under Today’s reading, and the plan’s page shows 3 of 21 readings complete.
- The last chapter: at John 21, the reader asks “Finished John?” and links to your reading log.
Want weekends free? Turn off Sat and Sun under Reading days, and the 21 readings fall on weekdays. For a faster pace, choose Read 3 chapters a day, and the builder lays out John in seven days.
Start where the plan does: read John 1 in the World English Bible.
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Create your own Bible reading plan
- Open Reading from the menu and choose New reading plan. If Reading is not in your menu, turn it on in Settings → Study tools.
- Enter a Plan title, an optional Description, the Start date, and the Plan translation.
- To lay out a book, use Schedule a book. Pick the Book, narrow it with From chapter and To chapter if you like, and set the pace: Finish in a number of days, or Read a number of chapters a day. Choose your Reading days, check the preview, and choose Build schedule.
- To pick passages yourself, fill in Your readings with a chapter such as John 3, or a range within one chapter such as Romans 8:28–39, and give each one a Reading date. Add reading adds another, and several readings can share a day.
- Choose Create plan, and the plan opens on its own page.
To read Romans after John, choose Romans in Schedule a book and then Add after current readings; Romans starts the day after John 21. Replace readings swaps the whole schedule instead, after asking first.
A plan holds up to 366 readings, and each reading stays within one chapter. Every reading opens in the plan’s translation, so a plan in the King James Version opens John 4 in the KJV.
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Catch up, reschedule, or change a plan
Missed a day? The reading waits for you. A reading you have not finished stays on the list: the Reading page shows “Ready when you are” beside its date, and Home starts with the oldest unfinished reading under Continue your reading.
To move the whole schedule, open the plan, choose Edit plan, and change the Start date. Every reading moves by the same number of days, and readings you have finished stay finished. Choose Save plan to keep the change.
The same editor lets you change any passage or date, remove a reading, or add more. Delete plan removes the plan and its scheduled readings once you confirm with Delete permanently. Chapters you marked read, your reading log, and your notes, maps, and cards stay in your study.
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Start from Home and keep your place
Home opens when you sign in. Its reading panel shows one reading at a time, the earliest unfinished reading due across your plans: the plan’s name, the passage and its opening words, Continue reading, and View plan. Continue reading opens the passage in the plan’s translation with the reading selected. A count shows how many of your scheduled readings are complete.
The panel’s label tells you where you are: Today’s reading, Continue your reading when the next one is from an earlier day, or Up next when nothing is due yet. The day follows the study timezone in Settings → Profile.
Select a verse in the reader, and Scripture Deck saves your place. Home’s Last opened card takes you back to it, and so does Bible in the menu.
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Mark chapters read and track your progress
Scripture Deck tracks your Bible reading by chapter. In the reader, Mark read records the chapter you are on, and the button then shows Read. Marking John 4 read also completes the John 4 reading in your plan.
You can tick a reading on the Reading page or the plan’s page without opening it. A reading that covers a whole chapter marks that chapter read too. A narrower one, such as John 3:1–21, is finished on its own and leaves the chapter unmarked until you mark it in the reader.
The Reading page brings this together. Next readings lists what comes next across your plans, with each reading’s plan and date, and every plan shows how many of its readings are complete. Your progress through the Bible gives the share of chapters marked read in the Whole Bible, the Old Testament, and the New Testament, with the books complete in each. Open Every book, chapter by chapter to see each book’s count: with John 1–3 marked read, John shows 3/21. The figures count chapters marked read and are never estimated.
Reading often leads to study. When a chapter raises a question, write a note linked to the passage from the same reader, or follow the guide to a first Bible study session.
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Keep a Bible reading log of every book you finish
At the last chapter of a book, the reader asks, for example, “Finished John?” with a link to your reading log. You can also choose Open reading log on the Reading page. Pick the Book, the date it was Finished on (today, unless you change it), the Edition if you want it recorded, and an optional Note of up to 500 characters. Then choose Log it.
Log a book as often as you read it. Finish John a second time, and the log shows John 2× with the date of your latest finish. From your entries, it counts:
- What you have read: books read at least once, in the whole Bible and in each testament, and complete read-throughs: one for each time every book in the group has been logged.
- Totals: books finished all time, this year, and re-readings.
- Over the last year: books finished in each of the last twelve months, with a count for each year and your most-read books.
- Every book: how many times you have logged each one, and when last.
- History: every entry, newest first, with its date, edition, and note. Removing one takes a second press.
The log is separate from chapters marked read: logging a book does not tick its chapters, and ticking chapters does not log the book.
Questions
Bible reading plan app questions
Is Scripture Deck free?
Yes. There is no charge to create an account, build reading plans, track your progress, or keep a reading log, and no subscription or card. If optional paid features are added later, the tools you use today will stay free.
Can I plan a whole year of reading?
Yes. A plan holds up to 366 readings, enough for a chapter a day for a year, and Schedule a book can add one book after another. Each reading stays within one chapter, so the Bible’s 1,189 chapters need more than one plan. Home and the Reading page show the readings of all your plans together.
Which Bible translations can a plan use?
Any of the eleven free editions in the reader: the World English Bible, American Standard Version, King James Version, Berean Standard Bible, Literal Standard Version, Free Bible Version, Young’s Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster’s Bible, World English Bible (Catholic), and Douay-Rheims 1899. Choose one as the Plan translation, and change it later with Edit plan if you like.
Can I follow a plan in a Catholic Bible?
Yes. Choose the World English Bible (Catholic) or the Douay-Rheims as the plan translation, and Schedule a book lists Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch with the Old Testament books. When a Catholic edition is the one you read in, your progress and reading log count the 73 books of the Catholic canon.
Can I use it on my phone and computer?
Yes. Scripture Deck runs in a web browser, and on supported devices you can install it as a web app. Your plans, progress, place, and log are saved to your account, so they match on every device where you sign in. Reading needs a connection; the offline option covers notes only.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a free one, to save plans, progress, and your reading log. Reading the Bible needs no account: the World English Bible is free to read on scripturedeck.com.