A digital scriptorium for Biblical study.
Most Bible apps are built for reading. Toshokan is built for the people who write about what they read — teachers preparing a study, students working through a text, anyone who takes notes in the margins. Read closely, write carefully, and share the result.
darash — Hebrew, to seek, to inquire, to study something out. The word behind midrash: not skimming a text, but working it.
toshokan — Japanese, library. A quiet room with everything in it.
Put together: a library you go to in order to seek. Toshokan is made by Darash.
Ten public-domain translations, side by side with the original languages. Tap any word in the KJV to open its Strong's entry — the Hebrew or Greek behind it, its definition, and every other verse where it appears.
A proper writing surface for study notes. Embed passages by typing a reference, and they resolve into formatted scripture blocks. Autosaves as you go, works offline, exports to PDF.
Publish a study and it lands in the Library, where others can read, follow you, and collect pieces into series. Or keep everything private — that is the default.
Share a verse or a finished study and it travels as a typeset card, not a naked link — the passage itself, set in the same serif you read it in.
The King James text ships inside the app. Download any other version for offline reading.
We don’t sell your data or your notes. Your studies are private until you publish them.
Yes. Every translation in Toshokan is free, and there are no ads. We do not sell your data or your notes.
The ten versions here — KJV, ASV, YLT, WEB, BBE, Darby, Geneva, Douay-Rheims, and the Berean Standard Bible — are public domain or freely licensed, so we can ship them to you, let you download them for offline use, and never charge for them. Modern translations like the NIV and ESV are commercially licensed, which would mean fees or restrictions we would have to pass on to you.
The King James text ships inside the app, so it reads with no connection at all. Any other version can be downloaded to your device from Settings, and your study notes save locally and sync when you reconnect.
Yes, from Settings → Account, and it is a real deletion — your account and the studies you own are removed, not merely hidden.