About
Protos teaches you how to read the Bible while you read it.
Open a verse and the background of the book, the commentary, the dictionary entries and the original Hebrew or Greek are already on the same screen. No class first, no second app, no tab to go and find.
It works that way because the book is genuinely hard. You were handed 66 books, written by roughly 40 people across about 1,500 years, in three ancient languages, into cultures nobody explained, and told to read them on your own.
The rest of this page is who builds it, where every word in it was published, and what it deliberately is not.
Who makes it
I have spent years inside local churches watching the same pattern repeat: people who genuinely want to read Scripture, stalling on it, and concluding they are the problem.
They are not. They were handed a hard book and no method. Protos is an attempt to hand over the method too, putting the same reading skills a pastor picks up in training on the verse where the question comes up, rather than in a class you have to take first.
"to equip the saints for works of ministry"Ephesians 4:12
Fabio Jonathan Arifin
Founder of Protos · Portland Bible College graduate
Reach me directly at [email protected].
“Great app for diving into Scripture wherever you are. It makes it easy and convenient to study on the go.”
Darren Raynald
Pastor, MountainHouse Church · Teaches at Portland Bible College
“Been using Protos for months now. Protos is an amazing Bible study app for anyone who wants to grow deeper in God's Word. I love how it helps me understand Scripture beyond simply reading the verses, providing helpful historical context, commentary, and insights into the original Hebrew and Greek. The resources make it easier to engage with the Bible and grow in understanding.”
Jason Layantara
Teaching Pastor, MountainHouse Church · M.A. in Christian Leadership · Bible class teacher, Lake Tahoe
Where the content comes from
Every explanation in Protos traces to a published work by a named editor or scholar, written and published before it ever reached us. You can check any of it, which is the point.
- Bible text
- 7 translations
- Berean Standard, KJV, NET, ASV, WEB, LSV, Darby
- Commentary
- Tyndale and JFB
- Verse by verse, in full
- Dictionaries
- Three trusted classics
- Easton's, Hastings', and Smith's
- People and places
- 4,186 entries
- 363 with a photograph of the real place
- Original languages
- UBS Hebrew and Greek
- Tap any word, with Strong's numbers
- Book introductions
- All 66
- Purpose, author, date, and setting
What Protos is not
- It is not a seminary tool. If you want morphological parsing and a 40-volume library, Logos is the better product and costs accordingly.
- It is not a devotional app. There is nothing wrong with those. This one is for the next question, which is what the passage actually means.
- It is not an AI commentator. The explanations come from published works, attributed on the page where they appear.