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Rhema just went fully offline. ๐ฅ
We added local Whisper speech-to-text so you no longer need an internet connection or API key to detect Bible verses in real time. Works on both Windows and Mac.
But that's not all. Here's what else shipped:
๐๏ธ Voice navigation for verses and chapters in reading mode
๐ Light and dark mode toggle
๐ Add to queue straight from the book search panel
๐ก Remote control via OSC and HTTP API
๐ Interactive onboarding tutorial for new users
๐ Improved semantic search parsing
๐ ๏ธ Unicode crash fix for Windows Bible downloads
Rhema is becoming the sermon companion we always wanted to build. More coming soon.
#Rhema #BibleTech #OpenSource
The goal will be open-core, primarily open-source (self-host and BYOK for AI models) with option to subscribe for people who just want to download and use.
Here's why this one stands out:
- Mostly offline (only uses Deepgram for speech-to-text)
- Available on Windows, Mac & Linux
- Open for the community to improve long-term
- Completely free
The only downside?
- Technical setup, may be best suited for developers
Hi guys, I built an open-source alternative to @pewbeam_ai in one week.
https://t.co/WwyVRtv8H3
Started coding during a Sunday church service. By the following Sunday, we were using it live during our church service. Wild.
Here's what Rhema does: it listens to your pastor's sermon in real-time, detects Bible verse references as they're mentioned, and displays them on screen instantly. No manual clicking, no dedicated slide operator needed.
The tech stack:
- Tauri 2.0 with a Rust backend handling all the heavy lifting: audio capture, transcription pipeline, verse detection logic, and system tray integration
- Local AI embeddings using Qwen3-0.6B so everything runs on-device with zero cloud dependency. Your sermons never leave your machine
- Real-time audio transcription paired with semantic search against a full Bible verse database
The Rust backend was a deliberate choice. We needed low latency audio processing and efficient memory usage for running an embedding model locally, and Rust delivers on both.
Is it perfect? Probably not. But the core functionality works and we're already using it in a real church environment
This is where you come in. Rhema is fully open source and we need contributors to help take it to the next level. Whether it's improving the verse detection accuracy, adding multi-language support, building a better overlay UI, adding support for more Bible translations, or optimizing the transcription pipeline, there's real work to be done and real impact to be made.
If you're a Rust developer, a frontend engineer, an ML enthusiast, or just someone who loves building tools for the church, come build with us.
Star the repo. Fork it. Open a PR. Let's make this the go-to open-source solution for live Bible verse display in churches worldwide.
https://t.co/WwyVRtv8H3
The goal will be open-core, primarily open-source (self-host and BYOK for AI models) with option to subscribe for people who just want to download and use.