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Catena: Bible & Commentaries is #183 in Reference Free in Australia and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperAD30 Inc.
CategoryReference
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.9 (713)
Version7.1.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
26 Sep 2026
26 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Catena: Bible & Commentaries update history & changes
Last change · 8 events since 5 Apr 2017Full timeline ↓✏️New screenshots📦Updated to version 7.1.1📦Updated to version 7.0.1📈Charting in a new country🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 8 events
- ✏️Catena: Bible & Commentaries: new screenshots6 screenshots (was 4) · AU
- ✏️Catena: Bible & Commentaries: app got bigger81 MB → 168 MB (+108%)
- 📦Catena: Bible & Commentaries updated to version 7.1.1This update fixes a problem that stopped Catena from opening on iPhones running iOS 16 and 17, along with other bug fixes and performance improvements.
- 📦Catena: Bible & Commentaries updated to version 7.0.1Catena 7.0.1 adds the Arabic Van Dyck Bible with the deuterocanonical books, new church calendars, and faster reading.
New
- Added the Arabic Van Dyck Bible with the deuterocanonical books: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, the Maccabees, Baruch, and more.
- Added new church calendars: the Byzantine Old Calendar, the Greek order, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and the pre-1955 Roman Missal.
- The verse panel now also shows commentary and talks on parallel passages, such as the same story in another Gospel.
- Each commentary now shows the years its author lived.
- Choosing your Preferred Commentator now shows every Father on a timeline, with search.
Improved
- Chapters open faster and scroll more smoothly.
- The Fathers and eras you hide in Settings are now hidden on every verse, and left out of the commentary count.
- Related verses now open in full, with a link to their chapter.
- You can turn the daily quote reminder on or off from the Quote of the Day in the Library.
- You can now remove the NKJV and RSV to save space. If no Bible is left, Catena reinstalls them automatically, even offline.
- Video shelves now mix speakers, so one series no longer fills a whole row.
Fixed
- Fixed a freeze when tapping a verse. Back now returns you to the verse you came from.
- Fixed commentary cards freezing or selecting text by accident.
- Setting your Deuterocanonical Version to "None" now saves correctly.… more - 📈Catena: Bible & Commentaries charting in a new countryAustralia
- 🆕Catena: Bible & Commentaries first spotted by AppInsider#16 in Top Free · Reference · Canada
- 📦Catena: Bible & Commentaries version 7.0.0Introducing Catena 7.0. An all-new Catena with 3x more commentary, from 1,500 complete patristic works.
The Bible has been changing lives for thousands of years. Throughout the Old and New Testaments, its writers, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, have recorded, prophesied, taught, and revealed the love, mercy, and hope of God for mankind. We rebuilt Catena from the ground up so that you can read with the understanding of 2,000 years of writings from the most influential Christians.
A LIBRARY OF COMPLETE WORKS
For the first time, the writings of the Fathers are here in full, not only the passages that touch a verse.
These were bishops, monks, teachers, and martyrs who read these same pages within a few generations of the apostles.
- Athanasius's On the Incarnation
- Augustine's Confessions and City of God
- Life of Antony
- Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew and John
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke and John
- Basil, Gregory, Origen, Ambrose, Ephrem, the Apostolic Fathers, and many more.
Over 1,500 complete texts, chapter by chapter, and every Scripture reference inside them opens the verse.
BIBLE STUDIES AND SERMONS, TAGGED BY VERSE
The largest library of verse-tagged video and podcast Bible studies and sermons, so you can hear the same passage preached by priests and teachers today.
Thousands of talks, every one transcribed and tagged to the verses it teaches on.
Open a verse and jump to the moment it was preached.
Read the transcript beside the video, and keep watching in picture-in-picture while you read.
A REDESIGNED CATENA
A cleaner reader, a new home screen, and the Fathers' words a tap away instead of a screen away.
OVER 220 BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
Read in 71 languages, including the Van Dyck Arabic and the Bohairic Coptic New Testament. Go deeper with the Hebrew and Greek interlinear, parallel passages, related verses, footnotes, and cross-references.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Catena is now available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese, with full right-to-left support and numerals in your own script.
THE DAILY READINGS, EVERY DAY
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Catholic, and Greek lectionaries, with the Synaxarium, the feasts, and the fasting seasons.
FIND IT IN SECONDS
One search across Scripture, commentary, the Fathers, their books, and talks.
MAKE IT YOURS
Highlight in the colors you choose, take notes, and gather verses and commentary into collections. Your highlights and collections from the old Catena come with you when you sign in, and everything stays in sync across your devices.
ALSO NEW
- Read offline: save books of the Bible and their commentaries to your device.
- A Quote of the Day from the Fathers and the early monks of the desert, with a home screen widget.
- Share a verse, a passage, or a Father's words with a link that opens in Catena or on the web.
- Old commentary links from the previous app and website open in the new one.
All of it for one purpose: to help you see the love, joy, mercy, and forgiveness of God that is woven through Scripture from the first page to the last.
We pray that Catena may be an edifying resource in your relationship with God, to whom is due all glory, honor, and dominion. Now and forever, and unto the ages of all ages, Amen.… more - 🆕Catena: Bible & Commentaries released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.9 ★
713 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#183
Reference FreeMeasured
Catena: Bible & Commentaries on the App Store
App details
App ID
1218663640
Publisher
AD30 INC
On the store since
Apr 2017
9 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
168 MB
Also listed in
Education
Catena: Bible & Commentaries downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Catena: Bible & Commentaries's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | ReferenceFree | #183 |
Apps near Catena: Bible & Commentaries on the chart
Reference Free, around #183.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.9 ★
713 ratings
Measured
Ratings
713
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.9★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
56/100
faster than 60% of Reference apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Catena: Bible & Commentaries
The Bible has been changing lives for thousands of years.
Moses wrote of a God who hears the cry of His people. David sang to Him from the cave and the palace. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote down what they saw and heard of Jesus. Paul wrote from prison to churches he loved. Their words have carried people through grief, doubt, exile, and joy for a hundred generations, and they are still doing it today.
Catena helps you read the Bible with the understanding of 2,000 years of the most influential Christians.
We collect the writings of faithful Christians, men and women who read these same pages within a few generations of the apostles. Athanasius, who was exiled five times for holding to the divinity of Christ. Antony, who heard one verse read in church and walked into the desert. Basil, who built the first hospital. Gregory, John Chrysostom, Augustine, Cyril, Ephrem, and more than 100 others. They were bishops, monks, teachers, and martyrs. They were critical to nurturing the faith of their communities, and suffered for the faith we still hold. Catena puts their words beside every verse.
Catena also brings the largest library of verse-tagged video and podcast Bible studies and sermons, so you can hear the same passage preached by priests and teachers today.
All of it for one purpose: to help you see the love, joy, mercy, and forgiveness of God that is woven through Scripture from the first page to the last.
EVERY VERSE, EXPLAINED
Tap any verse and read what the Church Fathers said about it. Over 200,000 passages of commentary from more than 100 Fathers of the East and the West, arranged verse by verse so you never have to go looking.
A LIBRARY OF COMPLETE WORKS
Read the Fathers in full, not only in excerpts.
- Athanasius's On the Incarnation
- Augustine's Confessions and City of God
- Life of Antony
- Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew and John
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke and John
- Basil, Gregory, Origen, Ambrose, Ephrem, the Apostolic Fathers, and many more.
Over 1,500 complete texts, and every Scripture reference inside them opens the verse.
BIBLE STUDIES AND SERMONS, TAGGED BY VERSE
Access thousands of videos and podcasts, every one transcribed and tagged to the verses it teaches on.
Open a verse and jump to the moment it was preached.
Read the transcript beside the video, and keep watching in picture-in-picture while you read.
THE BIBLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Over 220 translations in 71 languages, including the Van Dyck Arabic and the Bohairic Coptic New Testament. Go deeper with the Hebrew and Greek interlinear, parallel passages, related verses, footnotes, and cross-references.
THE DAILY READINGS
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Catholic, and Greek lectionaries, with the Synaxarium, the feasts, and the fasting seasons. Open the app and today's readings are waiting.
FIND IT IN SECONDS
One search across Scripture, commentary, the Fathers, their books, and talks.
MAKE IT YOURS
Highlight in the colors you choose, take notes, and gather verses
Moses wrote of a God who hears the cry of His people. David sang to Him from the cave and the palace. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote down what they saw and heard of Jesus. Paul wrote from prison to churches he loved. Their words have carried people through grief, doubt, exile, and joy for a hundred generations, and they are still doing it today.
Catena helps you read the Bible with the understanding of 2,000 years of the most influential Christians.
We collect the writings of faithful Christians, men and women who read these same pages within a few generations of the apostles. Athanasius, who was exiled five times for holding to the divinity of Christ. Antony, who heard one verse read in church and walked into the desert. Basil, who built the first hospital. Gregory, John Chrysostom, Augustine, Cyril, Ephrem, and more than 100 others. They were bishops, monks, teachers, and martyrs. They were critical to nurturing the faith of their communities, and suffered for the faith we still hold. Catena puts their words beside every verse.
Catena also brings the largest library of verse-tagged video and podcast Bible studies and sermons, so you can hear the same passage preached by priests and teachers today.
All of it for one purpose: to help you see the love, joy, mercy, and forgiveness of God that is woven through Scripture from the first page to the last.
EVERY VERSE, EXPLAINED
Tap any verse and read what the Church Fathers said about it. Over 200,000 passages of commentary from more than 100 Fathers of the East and the West, arranged verse by verse so you never have to go looking.
A LIBRARY OF COMPLETE WORKS
Read the Fathers in full, not only in excerpts.
- Athanasius's On the Incarnation
- Augustine's Confessions and City of God
- Life of Antony
- Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew and John
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke and John
- Basil, Gregory, Origen, Ambrose, Ephrem, the Apostolic Fathers, and many more.
Over 1,500 complete texts, and every Scripture reference inside them opens the verse.
BIBLE STUDIES AND SERMONS, TAGGED BY VERSE
Access thousands of videos and podcasts, every one transcribed and tagged to the verses it teaches on.
Open a verse and jump to the moment it was preached.
Read the transcript beside the video, and keep watching in picture-in-picture while you read.
THE BIBLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Over 220 translations in 71 languages, including the Van Dyck Arabic and the Bohairic Coptic New Testament. Go deeper with the Hebrew and Greek interlinear, parallel passages, related verses, footnotes, and cross-references.
THE DAILY READINGS
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Catholic, and Greek lectionaries, with the Synaxarium, the feasts, and the fasting seasons. Open the app and today's readings are waiting.
FIND IT IN SECONDS
One search across Scripture, commentary, the Fathers, their books, and talks.
MAKE IT YOURS
Highlight in the colors you choose, take notes, and gather verses
Latest updates
7.1.1
This update fixes a problem that stopped Catena from opening on iPhones running iOS 16 and 17, along with other bug fixes and performance improvements.
7.0.1
Catena 7.0.1 adds the Arabic Van Dyck Bible with the deuterocanonical books, new church calendars, and faster reading.
New
- Added the Arabic Van Dyck Bible with the deuterocanonical books: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, the Maccabees, Baruch, and more.
- Added new church calendars: the Byzantine Old Calendar, the Greek order, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and the pre-1955 Roman Missal.
- The verse panel now also shows commentary and talks on parallel passages, such as the same story in another Gospel.
- Each commentary now shows the years its author lived.
- Choosing your Preferred Commentator now shows every Father on a timeline, with search.
Improved
- Chapters open faster and scroll more smoothly.
- The Fathers and eras you hide in Settings are now hidden on every verse, and left out of the commentary count.
- Related verses now open in full, with a link to their chapter.
- You can turn the daily quote reminder on or off from the Quote of the Day in the Library.
- You can now remove the NKJV and RSV to save space. If no Bible is left, Catena reinstalls them automatically, even offline.
- Video shelves now mix speakers, so one series no longer fills a whole row.
Fixed
- Fixed a freeze when tapping a verse. Back now returns you to the verse you came from.
- Fixed commentary cards freezing or selecting text by accident.
- Setting your Deuterocanonical Version to "None" now saves correctly.
7.0.0
Introducing Catena 7.0. An all-new Catena with 3x more commentary, from 1,500 complete patristic works.
The Bible has been changing lives for thousands of years. Throughout the Old and New Testaments, its writers, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, have recorded, prophesied, taught, and revealed the love, mercy, and hope of God for mankind. We rebuilt Catena from the ground up so that you can read with the understanding of 2,000 years of writings from the most influential Christians.
A LIBRARY OF COMPLETE WORKS
For the first time, the writings of the Fathers are here in full, not only the passages that touch a verse.
These were bishops, monks, teachers, and martyrs who read these same pages within a few generations of the apostles.
- Athanasius's On the Incarnation
- Augustine's Confessions and City of God
- Life of Antony
- Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew and John
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke and John
- Basil, Gregory, Origen, Ambrose, Ephrem, the Apostolic Fathers, and many more.
Over 1,500 complete texts, chapter by chapter, and every Scripture reference inside them opens the verse.
BIBLE STUDIES AND SERMONS, TAGGED BY VERSE
The largest library of verse-tagged video and podcast Bible studies and sermons, so you can hear the same passage preached by priests and teachers today.
Thousands of talks, every one transcribed and tagged to the verses it teaches on.
Open a verse and jump to the moment it was preached.
Read the transcript beside the video, and keep watching in picture-in-picture while you read.
A REDESIGNED CATENA
A cleaner reader, a new home screen, and the Fathers' words a tap away instead of a screen away.
OVER 220 BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
Read in 71 languages, including the Van Dyck Arabic and the Bohairic Coptic New Testament. Go deeper with the Hebrew and Greek interlinear, parallel passages, related verses, footnotes, and cross-references.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Catena is now available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese, with full right-to-left support and numerals in your own script.
THE DAILY READINGS, EVERY DAY
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Catholic, and Greek lectionaries, with the Synaxarium, the feasts, and the fasting seasons.
FIND IT IN SECONDS
One search across Scripture, commentary, the Fathers, their books, and talks.
MAKE IT YOURS
Highlight in the colors you choose, take notes, and gather verses and commentary into collections. Your highlights and collections from the old Catena come with you when you sign in, and everything stays in sync across your devices.
ALSO NEW
- Read offline: save books of the Bible and their commentaries to your device.
- A Quote of the Day from the Fathers and the early monks of the desert, with a home screen widget.
- Share a verse, a passage, or a Father's words with a link that opens in Catena or on the web.
- Old commentary links from the previous app and website open in the new one.
All of it for one purpose: to help you see the love, joy, mercy, and forgiveness of God that is woven through Scripture from the first page to the last.
We pray that Catena may be an edifying resource in your relationship with God, to whom is due all glory, honor, and dominion. Now and forever, and unto the ages of all ages, Amen.
Store changes
What Catena: Bible & Commentaries changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New screenshots
6 screenshots (was 4)
App got bigger
81 MB → 168 MB (+108%)