- Starting price
- Free, then $7/mo billed annually
- Free tier
- Yes
- Platforms
- Web - iOS - Android
- Developer
- Biblingo LLC
- Launched
- 2020
- Updated
- Jul 26, 2026
The verdict
Biblingo is the right buy for a self-taught reader who has bounced off a grammar-translation textbook, and for homeschool families needing a per-child plan with sibling discounts. It is the wrong buy if what you need is lookup - Blue Letter Bible, Bible Hub, STEPBible and Scripture4All all do that for nothing - or if you are an institution that cannot approve a purchase without a published price, because Biblingo does not print one.
Try Biblingo ↗Opens biblingo.com
Almost every biblical-language product is a reference tool: you know the verse, you click the word, and back comes a Strong's number, a parsing and a lexicon gloss. Biblingo is a curriculum instead, built to get you to the point where you no longer need the parsing, on the theory that biblical Hebrew and Greek should be learned the way Spanish is - pictures, audio, repetition, graded reading - not by paradigm memorisation and translation drills.
Kevin Grasso and Nick Messmer founded it in 2020. The about page states that "In 2020, Biblingo for web was officially launched, and the mobile app followed in 2023," matching an App Store release of 29 March 2023 under the seller name Biblingo LLC. Google Play shows 10,000-plus installs; the current build on both stores is version 2.6.1, dated 2 May 2026. That release and the one before added Latin, with Aramaic, Syriac and Akkadian listed as future work.
The Apple listing carries a 4.2 average - 4.19 before rounding - from 63 ratings. Sixty-three is a thin sample and should be read as such, though Play shows the same 4.2 from 111 ratings. The low-star reviews on both stores cluster on one thing, and it is not the pedagogy: it is reliability. An Apple three-star review titled "Like it, somewhat confusing interface" describes voice-recording exercises refusing to let the user advance and asks for "a clear submit button"; a Play review says the app "crashes Daily," with repeated logouts and screens that "sometimes just never load at all."
Pricing needs care, because Biblingo publishes at least three price lists for the same product - one on its pricing page, a cheaper one on its homeschool page, a dearer one inside the iOS app. None is hidden. They simply do not agree.
✓ The good
- A curriculum, not a lookup layer - 52 lessons each for Greek and Hebrew, from the alphabet through video grammar, activities, a textbook, drills and a graded reader, which App Store copy calls "four semesters worth of university content"
- Greek and Hebrew at genuine parity - both at 52 lessons, unusual in a category where Greek is normally two or three times better resourced and Hebrew buyers get the leftovers
- Checkable credentials - Grasso holds an MA in Linguistics and a PhD in Hebrew Language from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Joseph Justiss, who runs the live courses, holds an Oxford doctorate in Hebrew Bible
- The free tier is a working product - Flashcards is priced "$0 / forever" and includes the alphabet module plus decks keyed to Mounce, Decker and Duff for Greek and Seow, Pratico and Van Pelt and Ross for Hebrew
- The graded reader indexes Scripture by difficulty - the whole Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament ordered by vocabulary coverage, so it serves the next passage you can read rather than dropping you into Hebrews
- The trial asks for nothing - 10 days on every plan with "No credit card required," and instructors get free access plus a teacher dashboard, slides and exams
✗ Watch out
- The pricing page and homeschool page disagree on lifetime cost - the pricing page prints "$750" one-time for all three languages, the homeschool page prints "Lifetime - All Languages $400" and "Lifetime - One Language $250," and neither acknowledges the other
- Buying inside the iOS app costs several times more - Apple lists "Learner - Greek $22.00" monthly against $7/mo billed annually on the web, and "Learner Plan - Both (1yr.) $350.00" for two languages against $288 a year for all three
- The website gives flashcards away; Apple sells them - the purchase list includes "Flashcard Plan - Greek $4.00" and "Flashcard Plan - Both (1yr.) $48.00" against a pricing page printing that tier as "$0 / forever"
- The science claim has no published evidence - the App Store description calls the methodology "proven" and "based on the latest research in linguistics and second language acquisition," yet no study or outcome figure appears on the site
- The refund guarantee is not in the contract - the pricing page promises a refund "no questions asked" and 100 days on lifetime plans, while the Terms of Service state no refund policy and defer to App Distributors
Best for
- Self-taught readers who stalled on a grammar-translation textbook
- Homeschool families teaching Hebrew, Greek or Latin to several children
- Seminary students who passed the exam but cannot read unaided
- Classical Christian schools adding an ancient-language track
Avoid if
- You only need to look up a word or a parsing
- You want offline or airplane-mode study
- You are buying for an institution that requires published pricing
- You need academic credit or a transcript
What Biblingo is
Biblingo is a subscription curriculum for biblical Hebrew, biblical Greek and Latin, delivered as a web app with iOS and Android companions. The overview page counts 52 lessons for Greek, 52 for Hebrew and 14 for Latin, with a plan to bring Latin to 52. Each lesson chains reading, listening, typing and speaking activities to a grammar guide, a video lecture and a textbook chapter, starting at the alphabet.
Behind the lessons sit the tools: a graded reader ordering the whole Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament by vocabulary coverage, a tagged text where clicking a word returns parsing and definition, personalised daily vocabulary review, paradigm drills, and decks keyed to the standard textbooks. Accelerator adds office hours, workshops and reading groups.
Acquisition instead of parsing, taught by people with the paper to back it
The distinctive claim is methodological. Biblingo frames learning as three stages it calls Learn, Retain and Fluency, and builds the first out of images and audio rather than English glosses - thousands of photographs and videos shot in Israel, so a Hebrew word attaches to a picture of the thing rather than to an English equivalent. Version 2.0 wrapped this in Biblingo Journeys, twelve passes through biblical narrative with artifacts to collect and text fragments to decipher.
What gives the claim weight is the personnel rather than the marketing. Grasso's doctorate is in Hebrew Language from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, his grammars are forthcoming from De Gruyter, and the classroom page collects endorsements from faculty at Southern Seminary, Boyce College, Regent College and St. Constantine College. Note where the doctorates sit: Grasso in Hebrew, Justiss in Hebrew Bible, Hinchman in Biblical Hebrew. Buy the Greek course and the named academic anchor is a linguist plus a grammar not yet published.
Fifty-two lessons each for Greek and Hebrew - and only fourteen for Latin
The most useful number on the site sits on the product overview page: Greek has 52 lessons, Hebrew has 52, Latin has 14 with an intention to reach 52. Greek-Hebrew parity is worth pausing on, because original-language resources overwhelmingly favour Greek and a Hebrew buyer usually gets the thinner half. Here the counts are identical, textbook decks cover seven Hebrew grammars against nine Greek, and the graded reader spans the full Hebrew Bible as well as the Greek New Testament.
Latin is the tier to be honest about. Fourteen lessons is 27 percent of what the others offer, the Vulgate is still coming soon to the graded reader, and Apple's purchase list names Greek and Hebrew only, even though the 2.6.0 release notes announce that "Latin language now available." Buy Latin and you pay the same $7 a month for a course a quarter built.
The graded reader is the feature that justifies the subscription
The hardest problem in learning a dead language alone is the cliff between exercise sentences and real text. Biblingo indexes the entire Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament against your own vocabulary, so it can serve the next passage where you know enough words to read rather than decode. Accelerator makes that reader personalised, tracking retention and re-ranking Scripture, and adds a tagged text where a click returns parsing and definition in place.
It is not a complete answer. Fifty-two lessons of graded material is a fraction of what a living-language learner reads before opening a novel, and the jump to biblical prose stays steep. Office hours and reading groups cover part of that gap, being where the two-way negotiation of meaning software cannot supply is meant to happen. One App Store reviewer identifying as a language tutor calls the spaced-review algorithm "not sufficient."
Pricing
Flashcards
Free
Printed as "$0 / forever" with "Free, no expiration." The alphabet module plus Greek, Hebrew and Latin flashcards - lesson, textbook, Bible-book and custom decks. No lessons, no video, no graded reader.
Learner
$7/mo billed every 12 months
Printed as "$7 / mo" with "Billed every 12 months" and "Save 20%", stated on the homeschool page as "$84 / yr". One language of the three, adding its lessons, video lessons, activities, the textbook, the graded reader and paradigm drills.
Accelerator
$24/mo billed every 12 months
Printed as "$24 / mo" on the same annual terms - $288 a year. Learner for all three languages, plus the tagged biblical text, personalised graded reader, dictionary, learning community, expert instructors and weekly reading practice.
Lifetime
$750 one-time
Printed as "$750" for all features in all three languages plus future languages, with a full refund in the first 100 days. The homeschool page prices the same access at $400 for all languages and $250 for one. Ask before paying either.
The pricing page prints four tiers. Flashcards is "$0 / forever." Learner is "$7 / mo" with "Billed every 12 months" and "Save 20%", for one language. Accelerator is "$24 / mo" on the same terms for all three. Lifetime is "$750." Every plan opens with a 10-day trial and the page states "No credit card required."
The annual framing hides the monthly rate, which the homeschool page prints: "$9 / mo" against "$84 / yr" for Learner. On those figures $9 x 12 = $108 against $84, a saving of $24 or 22 percent, consistent with the advertised 20 percent. For Accelerator, $24 x 12 = $288 a year; against the $750 lifetime that is a payback of two years seven months, assuming the annual rate holds.
The lifetime price is where the vendor contradicts itself outright. The pricing page says $750 for all three languages; the homeschool page says "Lifetime - All Languages $400" and "Lifetime - One Language $250" - a $350 gap on the same access. The homeschool page also carries the only family scaling published: "Your first subscription is full price, but children 2 and 3 are 25% off. Children #4 onward are 50% off," each language a separate subscription per child.
Subscribing inside the iOS app is the expensive route. Apple lists Greek at $22.00 and Hebrew at $22.00 monthly, both at $36.00, six months of Hebrew at $119.00, and "Learner Plan - Both (1yr.) $350.00." Against the web: $22 x 12 = $264 a year for one language versus $84, roughly 3.1 times, and $350 for two languages versus $288 for all three - $62 more for one language fewer. Apple also sells Flashcard Plans from $4.00 monthly to $48.00 yearly for a tier the website gives away.
For students and institutions there is no published price. The classroom page offers instructors free access, a teacher dashboard, slides, exams and "a unique 10% discount code for your students" - 10 percent off an $84 Learner year is $8.40, a coupon rather than a student tier.
Where Biblingo falls behind
No published evidence for the central claim. The App Store description says "Biblingo's proven methodology is based on the latest research in linguistics and second language acquisition," yet no study citation, peer-reviewed paper, named acquisition theory, completion rate or pre- and post-test score appears anywhere - only testimonials and endorsements. The free tools it competes with make no pedagogical claim, so they have nothing to substantiate. For a product whose whole premium over a free interlinear is that its approach works better, that is the biggest gap on the site.
Three price lists for one product. The pricing page, the homeschool page and the iOS purchase list disagree on lifetime cost, monthly cost and whether flashcards are free. A buyer who lands on the wrong page pays $750 instead of $400, or $22 a month instead of $7. Vendors reprice; they do not usually leave two live pages contradicting each other.
A refund promise the contract does not repeat. The pricing page offers a full refund for the billing period "no questions asked" and 100 days on lifetime purchases. The Terms of Service contain no refund clause, defer to App Distributors, cap liability at amounts paid in the previous six months, and disclaim warranties as-is under Georgia law.
Reliability, not pedagogy, drives the low-star reviews. Across 63 Apple ratings and 111 on Play, critical reviewers describe daily crashes, repeated forced logouts, constant refreshing, screens that never finish loading, and speaking exercises that trap the user with no clear way to submit. These object to the software, not the method.
A roadmap that argues with itself. Aramaic appears both as shipped, since Aramaic decks are listed in the App Store description, and as a future language alongside Syriac and Akkadian. The interface is English only and no offline mode is documented.
Biblingo vs. Blue Letter Bible vs. Bible Hub vs. STEPBible vs. Scripture4All
This is not apples to apples, and pretending otherwise does a buyer no favours. Blue Letter Bible, Bible Hub, STEPBible and Scripture4All are lookup tools: you arrive knowing the verse, click the word, and get a Strong's number, a parsing, a lexicon entry and often a translation grid. All four are free permanently, with no tier above them. Biblingo is a teaching tool: you arrive knowing nothing, spend a year, and the intended endpoint is that you stop clicking the word.
For most readers the honest answer is the free ones. To check a claim about the aorist, or how eight translations render a clause, Blue Letter Bible does it in one click and STEPBible does it with better-sourced data plus desktop builds you can run offline. Bible Hub is fastest for parallel translations, and Scripture4All hands you interlinears you keep. Nothing Biblingo sells improves on that; its tagged text and dictionary are conveniences bundled into a course.
Biblingo earns its subscription only if you intend to become a reader rather than a checker. The four free tools will let you use original languages forever without learning one, which is what Biblingo exists to prevent. If you have tried a textbook and quit, the case for $84 a year is straightforward. If you have not, spend a month with Blue Letter Bible and the free flashcard tier and see which you keep opening.
The bottom line
Biblingo is the most credible attempt at teaching biblical Hebrew and Greek by acquisition rather than parsing, and the academic backing is genuine rather than decorative - a Hebrew University doctorate, an Oxford doctorate, grammars forthcoming from De Gruyter, and 52 lessons each for Hebrew and Greek with no favouritism between them. It is also a product that publishes three different prices for the same access, promises refunds its terms do not mention, calls a method proven without publishing evidence, and ships software its own critical reviewers say crashes. Take the 10-day trial, buy on the website rather than in the app, and ask about the $750 versus $400 lifetime gap first.
Alternatives to Biblingo
Blue Letter BibleThe free default for original-language lookup - click any word for its root, Strong's number and every other occurrence. Reference, not instruction.
Bible HubFree interlinears plus the widest parallel-translation grid anywhere. Best in class for comparing renderings of a clause; no curriculum and no path from the alphabet to a paragraph.
STEPBibleFree Greek and Hebrew lexicons, interlinears and grammar analysis, with Windows, Mac and Linux builds you can run offline. The most rigorous of the free reference tools, and still a reference tool.Scripture4AllFree downloadable Greek and Hebrew interlinear Bibles and software. Dated presentation and no teaching component, but the files are yours to keep.
BiblearcThe nearest competitor on the teaching side - paid courses in arcing, bracketing and phrasing aimed at exegetical method rather than language acquisition. Complements Biblingo more than it replaces it.Frequently asked questions
What does Biblingo actually cost?
The pricing page prints Flashcards at "$0 / forever", Learner at "$7 / mo" billed every 12 months for one language, Accelerator at "$24 / mo" on the same terms for all three, and Lifetime at "$750". The homeschool page prints "$9 / mo" monthly, "$84 / yr" yearly, and lifetime at $250 for one language and $400 for all - a $350 gap reconciled nowhere.
Is there more Hebrew content or more Greek content?
They are equal, which is unusual here. The overview page lists 52 lessons for Greek and 52 for Hebrew, the graded reader covers the full Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament, and textbook decks exist for seven Hebrew grammars against nine Greek. Latin is the outlier at 14 lessons, with no Vulgate in the graded reader yet.
Should I subscribe on the website or in the iOS app?
The website, by a wide margin. Apple lists $22.00 monthly for one language and $350.00 for a year covering two, against $84 a year for one and $288 for all three on biblingo.com. The in-app route works out at $264 a year against $84, roughly 3.1 times more. Apple also sells Flashcard Plans from $4.00 to $48.00 for a tier the website gives away.
Does Biblingo publish evidence that its method works?
No. The App Store description calls the methodology "proven" and "based on the latest research in linguistics and second language acquisition", and the site calls itself science-based. No study citations, papers, named acquisition theories, completion rates or outcome comparisons appear on any page read for this review - only testimonials and faculty endorsements. Two founder grammars are forthcoming from De Gruyter, but a grammar is not an efficacy study.
Who designed the curriculum, and what are their credentials?
Kevin Grasso, co-founder and CEO, holds an MA in Linguistics from Dallas International University plus an MA in Comparative Religion and a PhD in Hebrew Language from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Co-founder Nick Messmer holds an MA in Biblical Exegesis from Wheaton College. Joseph Justiss, head of live courses, holds an Oxford doctorate in Hebrew Bible, and Isaac Hinchman on curriculum an MA from Jerusalem University College.
Is there a school, seminary or institutional plan?
There is a programme but no published price. The classroom page gives instructors free personal access, a teacher account for tracking student progress, in-class slides, quizzes, exams, a PDF grammar textbook forthcoming via De Gruyter, and a 10 percent student discount code. Per-seat and minimum-purchase figures are printed nowhere; educators are directed to a signup form.
Sources & further reading
More Greek & Hebrew Tools
Blue Letter BibleThe serious-study site for everyone who can't afford Logos - and a surprising number of people who can.Bible HubThe most-cited free Bible study site on the internet - a thirty-translation parallel view, a Strong's-tagged interlinear, and a wall of classical commentaries on every verse, all one click apart and all completely free.STEPBibleA free, open-source original-language Bible study site built by actual textual scholars at Tyndale House Cambridge - and the best-kept secret in serious Bible study.BibleArcThe diagramming workbench seminarians swear by and most casual readers have never heard of - and the reason that gap exists is the same reason its fans will not give it up.Scripture4AllA quiet, donor-run project that gives the whole Bible away as a word-for-word interlinear - Hebrew and Greek under a literal English gloss, with grammatical parsing on every word, free and downloadable.
ParabibleParabible puts the BHS, the Rahlfs Septuagint, the SBL Greek New Testament and the NET in parallel columns with ETCBC morphology on every Hebrew word and no Strong's numbers anywhere. It is free, donation-funded, built by one biblical-studies PhD - and its search still only works in the Hebrew Bible.