Everything people ask before they start — pricing, privacy, the Bible inside, and what's coming next.
Pen & Psalm is a Christian Bible-journaling app. Each morning it gives you a Bible verse chosen for the season you're in, a quiet prayer timer, and a private journal to write what God is stirring — with the complete King James Version built in. It also offers guided Scripture reading plans. A companion line of physical journals and pens is coming soon.
Yes — free to start and free forever. The free tier includes the daily verse, prayer and reflection, journaling with 30 days of history, free reading plans, and the full KJV Bible. Premium is $3/month or $30/year, or $111 once for lifetime access, and adds unlimited journal history, all nine reading plans, streak recovery, and one family invite. See pricing.
Bible journaling is the practice of writing your response to Scripture — a prayer beside a promise, a date beside a verse that arrived on time, a reflection on what a passage means for your life. It slows reading down into meeting with God. Pen & Psalm is built around that practice: read the Word, reflect in prayer, write it down.
Three ways. First, it is journaling-first: the center of the app is the page you write on, not a feed — there are no ads, no social features, and no noise. Second, it is beautiful on purpose: every day the interface is set against a custom classical painting of a scene from Scripture. Third, it extends to paper: physical journals and pens are being designed alongside the app — coming soon — so the practice can live on paper as well as glass.
The complete King James Version (KJV), bundled into the app, with reading progress tracked book by book.
Nine guided plans: Finding Peace in Anxiety (free), Standing on God's Promises, Learning to Pray, Forgiveness & Freedom, Your Identity in Christ, Trusting God in Trials, The Fruit of the Spirit, Miracles of Jesus (35 days), and Resisting Evil. Most are 7 days; each day pairs Scripture with historical context, cross-references, a prayer, and journal prompts. Browse all plans.
Yes. Your entries belong to you alone — private by default, synced to your account, and encrypted at rest. You can export a full backup anytime.
Yes. Pen & Psalm is an installable web app: open the app at penandpsalm.app/app and add it to your home screen or dock. It installs like a native app and keeps working offline — verses and journal included. No app store download is required.
Soon. The Shop will offer The Psalm Journal, The Margin Pen, and The First Page Set — the journal and pen together, for gifting. Product names are tentative and may change, and you can join the email list on the homepage to be notified when The Shop opens.
Every active Premium subscription includes one family invite — that person gets full Premium for as long as your subscription stays active. To cover more people, purchase additional subscriptions from your account and share each one by text or email.
Anytime, in a couple of taps, and you keep access through the period you've paid for. There is no card required to start.
The scenes are custom classical paintings made for Pen & Psalm — the Good Shepherd, the Sermon on the Mount, the Crucifixion, the empty tomb at dawn, the Ascension, and more. A different scene greets you each day, and on days when Christ is at the center of the canvas the interface is arranged so nothing overlaps His figure. See the art.
Open it, read today's verse — it takes less than a minute, and it's free.
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