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About AgapePlay

What you know by heart, nobody can take back.

We have never had so much Scripture within reach, and never so little of it inside us. AgapePlay started with that gap, one evening, in front of a full shelf.

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A name goes on the flyleaf. The rest of the book is still waiting to get inside somebody.

They had no Bible in their pocket

In the first century, a disciple quoting the prophet Isaiah was not looking up a reference. They were carrying it. The texts travelled by heart first, in morning prayer as much as in prisons where you took nothing with you.

Today there are two Bibles on the shelf and five translations in the phone. Ask the people around you for three verses from memory. The pause that follows is awkward, and it usually comes from people who read every day.

We own the Word. We no longer live inside it.

A verse a day, and by evening nothing is left

Bible apps are beautiful. A photograph of a mountain, the verse of the day landing at seven. You read it, you agree with it, you close the app. The next morning you could not say it back.

That is not weak willpower. Reading and remembering are two different acts, and almost everything is built for the first one. Where real memorisation does exist, it tends to ask for a subscription by the second week, or for a connection that never drops.

Memory does not ask for heroism, it asks to meet again

Nobody anchors a text by reading it twenty times in a row. You anchor it by coming back to it: tomorrow, the day after, ten days later, just before the point where it would have slipped away. Five minutes in a queue count for more than an hour of good intentions on a Sunday.

AgapePlay does nothing cleverer than that. It does it properly, and it keeps four promises.

  1. The core is free, and stays free

    Scripture and the ways to learn it will never sit behind a paywall. What you pay for keeps the studio alive; it does not unlock the Word.

  2. It works with no signal

    On the underground, or in a country where data is expensive. The app does not need the internet to put you through your review.

  3. What you learn is yours

    Your progress belongs to you. It is not sold on and not traded away: you are not the product here.

  4. No denominational label on the door

    Catholics and Protestants learn the same texts. We never put a label on the door, and we are not going to.

Then we put the phone down on the table

An app does one thing well: it walks beside you, alone, every day, without getting bored. It will never get fourteen people on their feet after Sunday lunch. So the project turned into a games house, and that house makes cardboard.

The first one is called Alléluia ! You get your team to guess biblical people, places and scenes: talking freely at first, then with a single word, then miming it in total silence. What happens around the table is not measured in verses learned. A grandmother shouting an answer, a teenager finding out they knew the story better than they thought.

Alléluia ! is open for pre-order

What keeps us going

We would like this to last ten years

AGAPE PLAY is a French company, based in Gagny, just east of Paris. The goal has not changed since day one: that ten years from now a student or a pastor can point at a passage and say, that one I know, it lives in me.

Two ways to help: use it, and mention it to someone who would be glad to hear about it.

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Made with faith in France.