Scriptorium

Why Scriptorium?

When a page refuses to open for lack of a connection, the browser only shows an error page. Scriptorium replaces it with an invitation to open the Bible, which the extension carries with it and which you can read without any internet access.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

Psalm 119:105

Scriptorium is free, with no ads, no account to create and no tracking.

Features

• 📖 Several built-in Bibles: Louis Segond 1910 (French), American Standard Version 1901 (English), Reina-Valera 1909 (Spanish) and the original text, Hebrew and Greek — read straight from your device, with no network
• 🧭 Simple reading: Testament › group › book menu, one chapter at a time, the ← / → arrow keys to move to the neighbouring chapter, last position restored when you come back
• 🔤 Choice of Bible, by default the one that matches your browser’s language; books carry the name the chosen Bible gives them
• 🔀 A 2nd Bible under each verse (interlinear reading), by default the original text: Hebrew, written right to left, or Greek
• 🔥 Marking the verses that speak to you: “The Holy Spirit is speaking to me about this verse”
• 💬 Personal comments on verses (up to 5,000 characters), which you can reread, edit or delete whenever you like
• 📋 Copying a quotation (text, book, chapter, verses and Bible) to the clipboard
• 🌐 Offline page: an invitation to read in place of the connection error, with a button to try again
• 🎨 Light, dark or system theme; text alignment, font and size of your choice
• 🌍 Interface in French, English and Spanish

The offline page

When a page cannot load because of an internet access problem (network down, site not found, timeout, failing proxy), Scriptorium replaces the browser’s error with a page that invites you to spend a few minutes in the Bible, with a button to try again and another to go back to the previous page. Local sites and security errors are never touched. This feature can be turned off in Settings.

Browsers

Chrome, Edge and Opera, as well as Firefox (desktop and Android).

Privacy

No data is collected or transmitted: no account, no analytics, no remote code. The Bibles are read from your device, your notes and comments stay there, and the clipboard is never read. The extension asks for only two permissions: storage, to save your preferences, your reading position and your notes, and webNavigation, to detect that a page failed to load. The details are in the privacy policy.