A Mac app for reading Scripture closely

The King James Version,
set the way it is meant
to be read.

Dialogue steps onto its own rails. Poetry keeps its lines. And a full research desk waits one click beneath the English, offline and free.

Free  ·  macOS 14 or later  ·  140 MB  ·  no account, works fully offline
John 8
John 8 in Wellspring Study: speaker rails, red letter, and topic tags in the margin
A real window, not a mockup. The app renders its own screenshots.
The dialogue format

Scripture is a conversation. It should look like one.

A wall of numbered verses hides who is speaking to whom. Wellspring gives every speaker a labelled rail, sets poetry on its own lines, and prints the words of Christ in red, only His, and only in the Gospels.

Speaker rails. Every line of dialogue is named and colour-coded, so a crowd scene reads like a script.
Poetry keeps its shape. Hebrew parallelism is set line by line instead of run together as prose.
2,295 quiet glosses. Where a word has drifted since 1611, the old sense sits in the margin.
The same chapter in light mode, with speaker rails and topical chains in the margin
Poetry keeps its lines · Psalm 23
1 The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Hebrew parallelism is set line by line, the way a poem is set, instead of being run together as prose. Topical chains run down the margin beside it.

▸ SHEPHERD ▸ PROVIDENCE
Reverse interlinear · John 8:32
and
καί · G2532
the truth
ἀλήθεια · G225
shall
 
make
ἐλευθερόω
you
ὑμᾶς · G4771
free
G1659
One Greek word, split by English word order. The app shows both halves as one.
ἐλευθερόω eleutheroō G1659
Thayer's: to make free; set at liberty from the dominion of sin.
Original languages

Greek and Hebrew, a double-click away.

Double-click any English word and the original behind it appears, with every word sharing that lemma illuminated across the verse. Because the alignment follows the KJV's own renderings, what you see is the translators' actual base text, never a modern critical edition swapped in behind their backs.

14,299
Strong's entries, with Thayer's and Brown-Driver-Briggs in full
313,270
tagged occurrences you can scope to any single book
Word Workbench
The Word Workbench showing agape with Thayer's Greek Lexicon and every occurrence
The Word Workbench: the full lexicon article, then every occurrence, scoped to one book or the whole Bible.
Notes

A writing room, not a text box.

Write beside the passage in a quiet, centred column with the same typography as the text you are studying. Reading mode hides the syntax so a finished note reads like a page, not a draft.

·Your files, forever. Plain Markdown in a folder you choose, readable in any editor, app or no app.
·Tags and backlinks. Follow a theme across everything you have written.
·Today's Note. One keystroke captures a verse and a thought into a dated study log.
The light of the world
A note in reading mode: concealed Markdown, a blockquote, tags, and an auto-linked verse reference
Reading mode hides the Markdown, and a reference like Isaiah 9:2 links itself back into the text.
Panes

One window, as many desks as the question needs.

Split the window however the study runs. Every module (Scripture, commentary, dictionaries, the Atlas, notes, word study) opens in any pane, as a tab or a split, and the arrangement is still there when you come back.

John 8 · four panes
Four panes at once: John 8, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on the same chapter, Easton's on the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Atlas showing the mount of Olives
One passage, four angles

Above: the chapter, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on the same verses, Easton's on the feast it happens during, and the mount of Olives on the map.

Tabs where you want them

Drag a tab to any edge to split, or stack several in one pane and flip between them.

Panes follow the reader

Turn on sync and the commentary, map and notes all move with the chapter you are in.

The research desk

Everything else, already inside.

No connection, no account, no subscription. The whole library ships with the app.

Atlas

1,335 mapped places on a terrain basemap, with Paul's voyages, the Exodus, and five historical eras overlaid. Journeys draw themselves stop by stop.

The Atlas: Paul's voyage to Rome across the Mediterranean with numbered stops
Twelve commentaries

Henry, Barnes, Clarke, JFB, Wesley, Robertson and more, verse by verse. Gill, Calvin, Keil & Delitzsch and Poole download in a click.

172,878 entries
Bible dictionaries

Easton's, Smith's, Fausset's, Hitchcock's and the ISBE, cross-linked to every verse they cite.

24,612 articles
The classic library

Josephus and Foxe's Book of Martyrs ship with the app; Spurgeon's 63 volumes of sermons download in a click.

3,541 sermons
Chains & cross-references

Walk a theme from Genesis to Revelation with chain tags in the margin, or follow the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge out of any verse.

343,609 cross-references
People & places

Profiles for everyone and everywhere named in Scripture, each linked to every verse they appear in.

3,085 people profiled
Verbatim KJV

All 31,102 verses, word for word. Typography never edits the text.

Entirely offline

Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is collected. No account, no telemetry, no subscription. The app talks to one address, only to check for updates.

Honestly sourced

Public-domain and Creative Commons scholarship, credited in full inside the app. The word alignment derived from the MetaV dataset stays available under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Signed & notarized

Apple-notarized, sandboxed, and quietly self-updating.

Read it closely.

Free, offline, and yours. Download once and the whole desk comes with it.

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© 2026 Anthony D’Andrea · A companion to Wellspring
Scripture and reference data are public domain or Creative Commons, credited in the app’s About panel.