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Study your Bible.
Not your phone.

A pocket e-paper companion that sits beside your open Bible. The whole Bible as calm, typeset pages — tap a name to meet the person, tap a word for the Greek beneath it, follow a thread from Genesis to Revelation. No internet, no account, no AI. Nothing on it can interrupt you.

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Real device pages — tap to browse
Manna Slate home screen — the manna wordmark and 'Gather it daily.'
The home screen — tap the device to browse its real pages
e-paper · no glow · weeks of battery

Read. Tap. Follow.

I
Read
Turn it on and you’re exactly where you left off. Pages turn with a swipe, book to book, Genesis to Revelation — typeset like a fine print Bible, on paper-calm ink.
II
Tap
The text is the menu. Tap a name and meet the person. Tap a marked word and see the Greek or Hebrew underneath it. Tap a verse number for what else Scripture says there. One tap back, and you’re reading again.
III
Follow
Threads trace one image across the whole Bible — the lamb, the bread, the light — a few stops, one quiet line between each. Go as deep as you like; one tap always brings you home.

A study shelf, sealed in your pocket.

Dictionaries, cross-references, maps, a concordance — the tools that used to fill a shelf all live in apps now, one swipe from everything engineered to distract you. Manna Slate carries the shelf on paper-calm ink, every page set in place before it reaches you — while the only book open on your desk is the Bible itself.

The whole Bible (WEB) Cross-references (TSK) Easton’s Dictionary Greek & Hebrew word studies Concordance Maps & artifacts Threads Study margin

Made for the questions you actually ask

Every answer is a page, set in type before the device ever reaches you. Nothing is generated; everything was placed there on purpose.

tap “Melchizedek”
People & places
Tap a name in the text and meet the person — or see the place on a map. One page, then back to your reading.
tap a verse number
Cross-references
What else Scripture says — related passages, the original words, artifacts and maps where they belong.
— the manna thread ›
Threads
Where a thread passes through your reading, a quiet line appears. Follow the bread from the wilderness to the hidden manna of Revelation.
find a word › faith
Concordance
Every significant word in the Bible, findable in four taps — like the back of a fine print Bible. Tap any occurrence and you’re reading that verse.

What it will never do

No internet.No Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth, no radios that can reach you. It cannot buzz, ping, or update itself at the table.
No account.Nothing to sign into, nothing tracking you. You buy it, it’s wholly yours.
No AI.Every page was written, checked, and set in type by people. The text physically cannot change under you.
No subscription.Scripture is never behind a paywall. No fees, ever — it’s finished when you buy it.
The first batch

Twenty-five founders’ slates.

The first slates will be built by hand from the first run of custom boards — numbered № 0001 through № 0025, right on their home screens. A reservation holds your number.

$49 holds your number.
Fully refundable, any time, for any reason, until your slate ships. One click, no questions.
It counts toward the price.
Founders’ pricing is announced before any balance is due. If it isn’t right for you, your deposit comes straight back.
Your slate places a Bible.
Every slate sold places a printed Bible in someone’s hands. The founders’ Bibles are the first numbers in the ledger.
Reservations opening soon
Hand-built prototypes, honestly labeled — the first twenty-five of something.

Why I’m building this

Every time I reached for my phone to look up a word, I lost ten minutes to notifications. So I started building something that can’t distract me — and along the way it became more than a lookup tool: the whole Bible on a sheet of e-paper, with the study shelf underneath the words. Tap what you’re wondering about, get one answer, and go back to reading. It can’t do anything else, and that’s the point.

The prototype in my hands does all of this today. Right now I’m finishing the custom board and enclosure — and I’d love for you to follow along.

— the maker of Manna Slate

The road to launch

The stone, rolled away

In our name, each n stands like the doorway of a tomb, and each a is the stone. The word tells the story in order: the first a rolls shut against its n — the stone sealing Jesus in the tomb. The last a is rolled away — the tomb standing open.

He is our Savior. He died for us. He was raised from the dead. It is all there, every time we write our own name — and it is the quietest way we knew to say what all of this is really for.

Questions

Be first when it launches

Build updates from the workbench, and early-bird pricing when we launch. No noise.

Manna Slate · built slowly, on purpose.