Kerygma · About

A note from the maker.

Kerygma was built by one person, over six months, on nights and early mornings around a real life and a real faith. The app is small in scope on purpose — it does one thing and tries to do it well: help you spend a few minutes a day with Scripture in a way that doesn't feel like another productivity tool dressed up in religious clothing.

Why Bible trivia

Trivia, used carefully, is one of the few formats that can pull both the new reader and the long-time student into the same conversation. The new reader gets a question they can actually answer; the long-time student gets a passage they may not have read in years; everyone ends up looking at the same verse. That's the whole game.

The questions in Kerygma are written by AI in real time for whatever topic you've picked. There's no fixed bank that runs out, no recycled set of "100 Bible questions" that you'll memorise after a couple of nights. Every round is fresh. The verses, on the other hand, aren't generated — they're pulled from the actual ESV text. So the right answer always opens to the real passage, with a one-paragraph commentary tying it back to the question.

What I tried not to build

Kerygma deliberately doesn't have:

• A streak system. Miss a day, miss a week — pick it back up whenever. The Word doesn't go anywhere.
• Engagement-bait notifications. No "you're about to lose your streak!" guilt prompts. The only notification Kerygma sends is one optional daily verse with a short commentary — opt-in, easy to turn off, and never about the app itself.
• Ads or third-party analytics. Nothing tracking you between sessions. No data sold to anyone, ever.
• Liturgical calendars or saint-of-the-day features. Plenty of Christian apps already do these beautifully. Stay narrow; do the one thing well.
• Group / institution accounts. No church plans, no school tiers. Kerygma sells to individuals; if your group uses it, every person has their own subscription.

What I did try to build

A round you can run in five to ten minutes, alone or together, that leaves you with a verse open in front of you and a small piece of context you didn't have before. That's it. Whether you're a new Christian working through Acquainted-difficulty rounds on the New Testament, a small group leader looking for a warm-up tool, or a longtime Bible reader testing yourself on the Reformation or eschatology — the goal is the same: more time with the actual text.

Outside the rounds themselves there's one quiet feature: an optional daily push notification with a Bible verse and a short commentary. One a day, off if you don't want it, and not asking you to come back to the app — just the verse, in the notification.

About the name

Kerygma is a Greek word meaning "proclamation" or "preaching" — the early church's term for the message itself, the announcement that Jesus is risen Lord. C.H. Dodd wrote a book about the kerygma in 1936 that's still worth reading. The name felt right for an app whose entire reason for existing is to make a little more space, in a quieter way, for the message at the centre of everything.

About the technology

Questions are generated fresh by an AI model on the server every time you start a round. Verses come straight from the canonical text of Scripture; commentary is written by AI alongside each question. Multiplayer rooms keep names and scores just long enough to power the leaderboard and are then cleared. There's no analytics platform, no tracking SDK, no ad framework, no marketing automation tool wired into the app. What gets stored is what's needed for the feature you're using; nothing more.

About the price

Seven days free, no credit card required to try. After that, $3.99/month or $29.99/year through Apple's standard subscription system. There is no other revenue model. No ads now or planned. No corporate version. No upsell tiers. The subscription is what keeps the lights on; anything more felt like a betrayal of the product's whole reason for being.

If you have feedback

The fastest way to reach me is the support page — every email goes directly to my inbox. Kerygma is small enough that you'll get a real reply, usually within a day. If something feels broken, off, or just wrong for your tradition or context, I genuinely want to hear about it.

— Christian
Founder, Kerygma