Everything. In one.

The Bible, the lesson and your church. In a single app.

Maná on an iPhone: John 1 open, with the version picker and the study tools

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.

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.

    Questions

    What people always ask.

    Still got a question?

    Go to the panel

    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.

    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.

    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.

    The Maná icon

    For iPhone and Android

    Free as long as we can keep it going.

    No ads, no subscription. Donations are what keep it standing, and that is why we ask. Start with today’s chapter.