Your Apple TV becomes a clock that reads scripture back to you — John 3:16 at 3:16, Philippians 4:13 at 4:13 — over paintings from the public domain.
Each minute has a curated shortlist, so the best-known pairings come round often and other days bring a different one. At the top of the hour, a short reflection from a Christian writer of the past, or a fact about the Bible.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and Wikimedia Commons — all public domain — and thirty-two Shema Originals painted for this app. Portraits are matted like a museum wall; landscapes fill the screen.
Five sizes each for the clock, the verse and the date. The clock where you want it; the verse where the painting allows.
Where a translation marks them, the words of Christ can be set in red, in italic, or both — or left as they are.
The local weather and today's date can ride with the clock or take an edge of the picture of their own.
Chimes on the hour and quiet ambient sound — rain, ocean, a piano — both optional, both off by default.
Living gradients and drawn motion scenes — a sky, a night, a flame — for when you want the words alone.
No account, no analytics. The only thing that leaves your Apple TV is a weather request, and only if you turn the weather on.
Free, always: the clock, all thirty-five translations, the Biblical Art collection of 1,000+ paintings, every layout and typeface, favourites, and the weather. Nothing in scripture is sold.
Not for the clock. The King James Version and thirty other translations are built in and work offline, and so are the thirty-two Shema Originals. Museum paintings are fetched as they are shown, and four licensed translations — ESV, NASB, NKJV, NLT — load over the network.
One from a curated shortlist for that chapter and verse. The best-known pairing for a minute — John 3:16 at 3:16 — comes round on about half of days, and the others take turns. On a twelve-hour clock, three o'clock draws on chapter 3 and chapter 15, so the evening keeps its own chapter too.
A different app, made for the television. Shema: Sermon Notes & Bible Study turns sermons into study notes on your iPhone; Bible Clock keeps time in scripture. Each has its own privacy policy and terms.
There is no account and no sign-up, and nothing about you leaves the Apple TV except a weather request if you turn weather on. See the Privacy Policy.