Holy Bible (வேதம்) is a comprehensive bilingual Tamil and English Holy Bible desktop application.
Features:
- Protestant (1871 Tamil Old Version Public Domain + 1769 KJV Public Domain) and Catholic 73-Book (Tamil IRV CC BY-SA 4.0 + 1752 Douay-Rheims Public Domain) dual-corpus support
- 100-Day Read-Along Audio Bible with Microsoft Neural TTS & Deep Bass modulation
- Church projector and presenter mode with fullscreen slides
- 100 bilingual interactive scripture trivia and AI Scripture Quiz generator
- AI Scripture Study with historical context, chapter overviews, and verse exegesis
- Custom reading plans, progress checkoffs, offline bookmarks, and in-app auto-update notifications
README
Holy Bible — வேதம் (ElroiTheCreator.HolyBible)
A fast, offline-first bilingual Tamil & English Holy Bible web and Windows desktop application featuring parallel scripture study, 100-day audio read-along plans, church projector/presenter slides, interactive scripture trivia, and Tamil Christian hymnals.
All scripture corpora bundled in data/bible.sqlite.db are either in the Public Domain or openly licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0):
Corpus
Column / Scope
Copyright & Provenance
License
Tamil Old Version (1871 Bower)
verses.text_ta (Books 1–66)
Translated by Rev. Henry Bower (d. 1885), Madras Auxiliary Bible Society (1871)
Revised by Bishop Richard Challoner (1749–1752, d. 1781) (eBible.org engDRA)
Public Domain
See NOTICE.md and LICENSE for complete attribution notices and license terms.
Privacy & Data Controls
Offline-First by Default: Reading history, bookmarks, verse highlights, custom reading plans, and theme/font preferences are stored locally on your device (localStorage).
Optional Cloud Sync: Users may optionally sign in with an email magic link via Supabase to synchronize progress across devices, and can permanently delete their cloud data at any time via Settings (⚙️) → Cloud Sync → Delete Cloud Data.
Text-to-Speech (TTS): Audio playback transmits only the selected scripture verse text to Microsoft Edge Neural TTS (edge-tts) with Google gTTS as fallback.