← Euphie Zhao
Verse Within · Maker · 2026

I couldn’t memorize two verses for my discipleship group, so I built an app — and learned them word for word in half an hour.

Verse Within hide step with mastery and trouble words, mockup
Illustrative mockup · sample data
Role
Designer and builder
First version
June 2026, in one day
Languages
English, Chinese, Korean
Stack
React, Vite, Supabase, Vercel
Live
verse-within.vercel.app
01

The problem

In one-on-one discipleship at church, each meeting starts with two memorized Bible verses. Before my eighth meeting I still could not get them down, so I built a web app the day before. With it I learned both verses word for word in about thirty minutes.

02

What it does

Four steps to memory

Read, hide, fill in the blanks, then recall — by typing or by saying it out loud.

Review that adapts

Six mastery levels with spaced review, a streak, and a heat map of the words you keep missing.

Works anywhere

Usable without an account; sign in with Google to sync across devices.

03

Key decisions

Privacy in the analytics

Usage events never store the verse text, your answers, voice transcripts or searches.

Progress, not answers

In the planned group view, members see each other’s progress and streaks, never each other’s answers.

Copyright before growth

Bible translations carry different licenses. I checked them before building in any verse sets, and wider sharing waits for the right permissions.

04

Outcome

People from Korean, English-speaking and Chinese congregations now use it. Next comes a general plan model, a 100-verse challenge, and invite links for small groups.

1 dayto the first version
3languages