A desktop reader for the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Journal of Discourses, Lectures on Faith, and the Joseph Smith Translation - fully offline, with personal notes, tags, verse highlighting, keyword search, a Topical Guide, General Conference citations, a Scripture of the Day banner, a reading streak, a Resume Reading history of your last 5 chapters, a choice of accent colors, cloud-folder sync across your own devices (via whatever cloud client - Nextcloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, or similar - already keeps a folder synced on your machine), and opt-in AI-assisted search: ask a question in your own words - and refine it conversationally with follow-ups - to get pointed at real, matching scripture, using your own AI endpoint.
This is an unofficial application, not produced by or affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or with Community of Christ. Scripture text courtesy of the beandog/lds-scriptures project; Journal of Discourses and Joseph Smith Translation (published as the "Inspired Version") text courtesy of their public-domain scans on archive.org; General Conference citation data courtesy of BYU's Scripture Citation Index. The Topical Guide is Desktop Scriptures' own correlation of its local scripture text and that same citation index - not a copy of the Church's own, separately-copyrighted Topical Guide.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
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