Patristics Reader
A study environment built deepest where the Fathers wrote most — Greek, Latin, and Syriac — with interlinear texts, a 187,000-entry patristic lexicon, and full learner courses. Six more ancient languages are already in the library, and growing.
01 — Languages
Greek, Latin, and Syriac each have full interlinear reading, deep lexicon coverage, and a 100-lesson course running from the alphabet to real patristic text. Everything else is honestly labeled as what it is: real, and growing.
Athanasius, Basil, Chrysostom, the LXX & NT — the largest interlinear library in the app.
Augustine, Ambrose, Tertullian, Benedict's Rule — interlinear depth growing text by text.
Ephrem and Isaac of Nineveh in the Estrangelo script, with a full learner course.
Fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te.
“Thou hast made us for thyself, and restless is our heart until it comes to rest in thee.”
Augustine, Confessiones I.1 — read in the app, Latin and English side by side
02 — The app
Real screenshots — parallel and interlinear reading, the full patristic library, synaxarion, and liturgical services in one study environment.
03 — Features
Tap a word, see the gloss, save it to flashcards, drill the morphology, then open the Father who used it — without leaving the app.
English, original, parallel, and interlinear views. Tap any word for definitions drawn from a patristic lexicon tuned to Church Fathers usage — not a generic classical dictionary. Track vocabulary with a word-familiarity heatmap. Highlight, annotate, and share passage cards.
Lemmas, morphology, glosses, and corpus-aware lookups — deepest in Greek, Latin, and Syriac.
100-lesson Greek, Latin, and Syriac courses from the alphabet to real patristic text, with morphology drills from words you actually tapped in the reader.
Curated paths through dogmatic, ascetic, exegetical, and scriptural corpora — from daily goals to Lent-through-Pascha and seminary-scale courses.
Synaxarion, feast-day readings, Octoechos tones, saint canons, akathists, and parish reading groups with shared weekly texts.
Bookmarks, passage notes, vocabulary decks, and reading progress — stored on device, synced when signed in, exportable as JSON or Markdown anytime.
Download texts for travel. 31 works free to start; premium unlocks the full corpus, every plan, and cloud sync across iPhone and iPad.
For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.
Irenaeus, Against Heresies IV.20.7 — read in the app
04 — Corpus
Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzus, Augustine, Chrysostom, Ephrem, Severus, Theodore Abu Qurrah, the Philokalia, councils, LXX, NT, and more — with 103 full interlinear editions, concentrated in Greek, Latin, and Syriac.
05 — Readers
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344 works, deepest in Greek, Latin, and Syriac — interlinear reading, parallel views, and a lexicon tuned to the Fathers.
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Seminary reading plans, exportable notes, morphology drills, and corpus-aware lookups across every language.
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Synaxarion, daily services, feast-day readings, akathists, and the church calendar woven into your study.
Patristics Reader launches soon on iOS and Android. Built for the lamp and the lexicon.
App Store — coming soon