How much does it cost?

Nothing, and it will stay that way as long as it can be sustained. No ads, no subscription, and no paywall hiding features. Donations keep it alive, which is why we ask for them.

Do I need to belong to a church?

No. The Bible, lesson, devotionals, and assistant work without joining any congregation. If you join one, you also get its wall, birthdays, and bulletin.

Does the assistant read my prayers or journal?

No. That material is never sent in queries. Conversations with the assistant are stored locally on your phone, not on a server.

Does it work offline?

Not yet. The Bible currently requires a connection; offline reading is one of our top priorities and will be announced here once available.

What languages are supported?

Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French—not just menus, but the Bible and Sabbath School lesson as well.

Maná · Bible, Sabbath School and devotionals

What it brings

Five icons. One is enough.

The Bible, the Sabbath School lesson, the devotionals and your congregation’s wall. Everything Adventist in one place.

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Devotionals

Devotionals from all over the world.

You read what people all over the world are writing, and also what your own congregation writes. In the same week you can read someone from your church and someone you have never met, ten time zones away.

With a beginning and an end

Some last five days and others much longer, depending on what the writer has to say. What does not change is that they end: from day one you know how much is left.

By subject, not by date

Anxiety, grief, forgiveness, money, waiting for an answer. You look for what is happening to you this week, not for what fell on Tuesday.

With the passage beside it

The text it talks about opens with one tap, in the version you read, without leaving the devotional or looking it up in another app.

From everywhere

Anyone can write one, whether they sit in your pew or on the other side of the planet. It goes out with their name, and what is read in Mexico may have been written in Manila.

Devotionals written by the Maná community, each with the name of who wrote it — Written by people like you

The devotional’s passage open in the Bible — And the passage, beside it

A five-day plan open in Maná, with its days and the passage of the day — A five-day plan

Assistant

Ask without embarrassment.

There are questions you never ask in Sabbath class because you feel awkward, and you carry the doubt for years. The assistant answers with nobody watching, and it tells you where it gets things from so you can check, not so you can take its word. It never reads your prayers or your journal: that material never enters a query.

Why do Adventists keep the Sabbath?

Genesis 2Exodus 20

What gets asked the most

Languages

Nobody reads in a borrowed language.

It is not a translated menu with the rest in English: the whole app, the Bible with the Bible and the Sabbath School lesson are in all four. Someone who arrived from another country can study in the language they pray in, and stay in the same class as everyone else.

Spanish“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” English“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Portuguese“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” French“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Spanish“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” English“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Portuguese“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” French“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”

Portuguese“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” French“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Spanish“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” English“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Portuguese“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” French“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Spanish“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” English“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”

Questions

What people always ask.

Still got a question?

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Nothing, and it will stay that way as long as it can be sustained. There are no ads, no subscriptions, and no paid version with the good stuff locked away. What keeps it running are donations, and that is why we ask for them.

No. The Bible, the lesson, devotionals, and the assistant work without joining any congregation. If you do join one, you also get its wall, birthdays, and bulletin.

No, and that is not just good intentions: that material never enters the prompt. Conversations with the assistant stay on your phone, not on a server.

Not yet. The Bible currently requires a connection, and downloading it for offline reading is one of the first things we want to add. When it is ready, we will announce it here.

Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French—and not just the menus: the Bible and Sabbath lesson as well.

On the App Store for iPhone and Google Play for Android. Use the download buttons on this page.

Purpose

It is not an app. It is a ministry.

It started from wanting to study the lesson with someone else, and for it not to be a PDF forwarded on Friday night.

The purpose

That the gospel travels far, starting with the pew next to you.

An app on its own converts nobody. What works is people: someone who asks how you are doing, a class that waits for you on Sabbath, a prayer request somebody actually reads. Maná is the tool for that, not the point.

The promise

We never read what you pray.

Your requests and your journal never enter a query to the assistant, and your conversations are kept on your phone, not on a server of ours.

Travels

Your question
The passage you read
This week’s lesson

Never travels

Your prayers
Your journal
Your notes and highlights

Sabbath School

So it gets studied during the week.

Spread from Sabbath to Friday, with the questions the class will discuss. You arrive on Sabbath having read it, not reading it in the parking lot.

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If it adds to you

One year, and one person has paid for it.

No organization holds Maná up. One person builds it, and so far it has been paid for with their own money.

What has gone into it already

A year of work, with nobody having charged anything.
The two store licences: Apple’s, which renews every year, and Google Play’s.
The servers, paid every month whether there are ten people or a thousand.
The domain and the four languages, so nobody has to read in a borrowed language.

Around 1,500 dollars of direct spending so far, on top of the year of work.

Where what is donated goes

The Bible licences. Every version has an owner and gets paid for, which is why an app cannot offer whichever it likes. This buys versions so everyone reads in theirs.
The licences for devotional content and for Ellen G. White, so it can be offered inside the app.
Supporting whoever develops it. So far they have put in the hours and the money, unpaid.
Building a team: someone to translate, someone to answer the emails, someone to fix what breaks.

Supporting keeps this ministry going and makes it grow: more congregations reached, more Bible versions available and more hands working on it. Inside the app it unlocks nothing, and that is deliberate: there is no paid tier, no hidden feature, no ads. If you want, your name appears below, on the supporters’ wall.

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Would you rather get something in return? IMPRL clothing supports this too.

The clothing

30% of every garment supports Maná.

IMPRL Studio is a Christian clothing brand, and it is the other half of what keeps this standing. A donation goes entirely to the costs; a garment does that too, and you also get something to wear.