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Golden Bowl

Version 1.0.0
Web · Laravel & Livewire
About

Golden Bowl is a Bible, Shepherd's Rod and Ellen G. White reader built for the GADSDA community. It is the web client of a three-platform ecosystem, and also the backend that the mobile apps sync through.

Ecosystem
  • WebGolden Bowl (Laravel)
  • iOS clientAlkitab (Swift)
  • Android clientBiblary (Kotlin)
  • Real-time syncLaravel Reverb
Text Format

Bible text is stored in the YES2 binary format with Snappy compression, and the Shepherd's Rod and EGW corpora in GBM modules. The reading pipeline is YES2 → BintexReader → Snappy → UTF-8 → Blade.

Links
Open Source Libraries
  • Laravel — Taylor Otwell MIT
  • Livewire — Caleb Porzio MIT
  • Alpine.js — Caleb Porzio MIT
  • Bootstrap — Bootstrap team MIT
  • AdminLTE — ColorlibHQ MIT
  • Bootstrap Icons — Bootstrap team MIT
  • Snappy — Google BSD-3-Clause
  • Laravel Reverb — Laravel MIT
Credits

Inspired by the open-source androidbible project. Built for the GADSDA community.

© 2026 The Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Church.