I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You. Psalm 119:11 · Berean Standard Bible
Memorize scripture by watching it disappear.
Meletao hides a little more of the verse every time you practice: all of it, then three quarters, half, a quarter, none. By the last rung you are reciting from nothing but the shape of the words. You type the first letter of each one, and every keystroke is checked.
Five rungs. The verse gets quieter,
never harder.
Every rung is the same drill: type the first letter of each word. What changes is how much of the verse is still there to lean on. Blanks keep their punctuation and the true width of the word they hide, so you can still count the words and judge their lengths at the top of the ladder. The pattern is reseeded daily, so a verse is never memorized as one fixed silhouette.
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Level 1 · The whole verse — type the first letter of each word.
Psalm 1:2 · Berean Standard Bible
Scroll to climb, or pick a rung. Level 5 keeps the skeleton: an underline per word at its true length, the punctuation, the verse numbers. Reciting from that scaffolding is what earns a verse its place in Review.
50% hidden — type the first letter of each word.
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Every keystroke,
checked.
Nothing here asks you to grade yourself. You type the first letter of a word and that word fills itself in, one keystroke at a time, so the verse rebuilds under your thumbs as you go. The app compares every character, which is how it knows precisely which words you stumble on rather than only whether you called a card hard. Those words are kept and shown back to you.
A word you had to reveal is marked in rust and underlined, so correctness never rides on color alone. The passage scrolls itself to keep the word in hand a comfortable two lines above the keyboard, so the thing you are typing is never the thing hidden by your own thumbs.
90% advances you a rung. Below 70% you drop one. The marks along the top are squares because a square is a stage; the round dots elsewhere in the app are habits, and the two never trade shapes.
Three word-perfect runs,
on three different days.
That is the whole bar for leaving the ladder. Word-perfect at level 5, three times, and only one of them can count per day. An afternoon of cramming cannot promote a verse, so anything that reaches Review genuinely survived a night's sleep three times over.
Then you set the ceiling, not the schedule.
A verse in Review comes back on a spaced-repetition interval that stretches every time you keep it. But you choose the longest you are willing to go without seeing it, anywhere from one day to six months, and the scheduler stretches up to that ceiling and then stops.
Ease keeps accruing while a verse sits capped, so raising the ceiling later pays out immediately instead of starting over.
Hatched bars are held at the ceiling. Demonstration figures.
A slip is not a reset.
If a Review verse comes apart, it drops back onto the ladder by however much was actually lost: three outcomes you can predict, not a curve you have to trust.
The whole Bible ships
inside the app.
Not a cache, not a download on first launch. The scripture database is compiled into the binary, so browsing, choosing a passage and drilling it work on a plane, in a basement, or with the radio switched off entirely. Pick a book, a chapter, a range of verses, and a translation.
Five weeks of days,
honestly drawn.
Three things are worth marking each day: whether you prayed, whether you reviewed, whether you studied. The strip on your Today screen shows the last 35 days at a glance, and a cell darkens as you keep more of the three.
There are no points, no badges and no leaderboards anywhere in this app. A streak is a fact about what you did, not a score, and it is drawn faintly enough that breaking one does not feel like a punishment.
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
Philippians 4:6 · BSB
3 due today · tap to begin a guided session
A prayer list that comes back
on the days you asked it to.
Write a request once and give it a rhythm: every day, certain weekdays, or a single date. Today shows you only what is due, so a long list never becomes a wall you avoid.
A guided session walks the due requests one at a time, one screen each, so praying through the list is a sequence rather than a page to skim. When something is answered it moves to an archive instead of being deleted, because the record of answered prayer is the part worth keeping.
Or learn it alongside
three other people.
Share a six-character code and a family, a small group or a discipleship pair works the same passage together. Everyone sees everyone's rung and everyone's cord: enough to know you are not the only one still at level 2, and little enough that it never becomes a scoreboard. A nudge is one tap and says nothing but "still with you".
Group prayer requests can be shared too. Anything a member can write, another member can report, and a reported item is hidden pending review. Meletao ships with moderation, blocking and community guidelines rather than promising to add them later.
Built for the ten minutes
before you fall asleep.
This app is used alone, one-handed, in a dark room, by someone tired. That is the design brief, not an edge case. It is why the page you are reading is dark from top to bottom, why the scripture is set in a face that holds up at 5am, and why nothing in the app buzzes for your attention.
Meletao is nearly done.
It is built, it is in beta on TestFlight, and it is waiting on the last of the App Store paperwork. Leave your address and you will get exactly one email, on the day it goes live.