Catena Bible and Commentaries

Catena

About this app

The Bible with 10,000's of commentaries at your fingertips, to help you understand any verse! Use Catena as your daily Bible reader, and get the most out of your time reading the Bible!

WHY USE CATENA?
Have you ever read a verse and weren't sure what it meant?
The Bible was written over 2000 years ago, and with Catena you can read commentaries from the early church fathers!

Catena (from Latin meaning “a chain”): brings the faith that was taught by Christ, preached by the Apostles and kept by the fathers. Contains homilies of the early church fathers whose teachings have enlightened our minds and our hearts. Commentaries from the original Church perspective speaks to the deeper experience in the roots of the authentic faith.

If you are looking for authoritative guidance in interpreting Scripture, understanding the early church, and learning how to apply the Word of God to your spiritual life, Catena will be a treasured resource for you

God Bless!

Ratings and reviews

This app is a great resource. The only reason I am not giving it five stars is that there is a flickering line that occurs on the left side of the screen whenever you open the menu to select a book. Once you open that menu, the line doesn't go away. I had the same issue on my old phone too (both phones are androids). Unfortunately, it is preventing me from spending longer sessions in the app. If this gets fixed I would gladly give this app five stars.

Excellent application for easy access to verses. I would be nice though, if verses could be highlighted, with the options of color highlights, copy, save to folder, etc. Word search? Also, if the app could expand it's services to incorporate different languages, such as Spanish, Greek, Amharic, Arabic, etc. it has the potential to become the most popular Bible app out there!

Very Good Bible app. I use it in my daily routine. Quick access to the liturgical readings, commentaries from the church fathers, daily quotes to keep in mind throughout the day. There are some typos and occasionally confusing text in the commentaries. Largely the commentaries work well though. This is a very solid app. It's free. It's my go to app for Bible study. Thank you to everyone who worked on this app. It's helped me quite a bit!

What’s new

Catena 7.0: a whole new Catena, rebuilt from the ground up.

• See what the Church Fathers said about every verse
• Over 220 Bible translations and a Hebrew/Greek interlinear
• Daily Coptic, Ethiopian, Catholic and Greek lectionary with the Synaxarium
• Fathers, books, videos, and Desert Fathers quotes
• Search everything at once
• Highlights and collections, carried over from the old app
• English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese