About Emmaus

Emmaus is a Bible and daily prayer app. It gives you the whole Bible, free and offline, and a short daily ritual — Word, Reflection, Prayer, Carry and Lay down, Amen — that takes three, five or ten minutes. Each ritual adds a few lines to an engraving of your own, which completes over six days.

Why is it called Emmaus?

In the twenty-fourth chapter of Luke, two travellers walk from Jerusalem to a village called Emmaus. A stranger joins them and, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, opens the Scriptures to them along the way (Luke 24:27). That walk is the shape of the app: a little Scripture each day, read as one story, in company.

³²They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

Who makes Emmaus?

Emmaus is operated by THA MOTORS TRADING - FZCO, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Building A1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. You can reach us at support@emmausapp.co. The same address handles support, privacy requests, press and corrections.

What do we promise?

• Scripture is never behind a paywall.
• Verse text never comes from an AI.
• No ads, no selling of data, no tracking across apps.
• Your tradition, your burdens, your ritual answers and your prayer journal stay on your device.
• What we give for free, we never lock later.
• No points, no leaderboards, no confetti.

The full list is on the home page.

Where does the Scripture text come from?

Emmaus embeds twelve translations that are in the public domain or published under open licences: the Berean Standard Bible, the World English Bible (with the Deuterocanon), the King James Version, Yorumsuz Türkçe Çeviri, Açık Lisans Temel Türkçe Tercüme, Reina-Valera 1909, Palabra de Dios para ti, Bíblia Livre, the Luther Bible of 1912, the Menge Bible, Louis Segond 1910 and the Sainte Bible néo-Crampon Libre. Each one is credited with its licence inside the app and under every article that quotes it. Verse text is printed from these files exactly as published; no model writes, completes or paraphrases it.

Where do the engravings come from?

Most scenes are public-domain prints: Gustave Doré's Bible illustrations of 1866, the plates of The Bible Panorama (1891) and other nineteenth-century engravings, together with older works such as Albrecht Dürer's. A few images were widened, completed or animated with generative tools, and those are labelled where they appear. Following the traditions of the Church, God the Father is never drawn in human form, and Orthodox users are shown Orthodox imagery.

How is the Journal written?

The Journal explains Bible reading, prayer and the Christian year for every tradition. Articles are researched from primary sources where possible — Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Book of Common Prayer, the Fathers and the liturgical texts of each church — and drafted with the help of AI writing tools. Every factual claim that is not common knowledge is linked under the article. Every Scripture quotation is inserted automatically from the translation named beside it; it is never typed by a writer or generated by a model.

We describe each tradition in its own words and do not tell readers which church is right. Articles about anxiety, sleep or grief are not medical advice.

How do we correct mistakes?

If you find an error, write to support@emmausapp.co. We fix factual errors promptly and change the "updated" date on the article; substantive corrections are noted at the end of the article.