Ctrl Alt Amen

The workday fills up quickly, and a quiet minute with Scripture is easy to lose somewhere between the first email and the last. Ctrl Alt Amen is built for that gap. The name is a keyboard joke, and the idea follows from it: put a short piece of Scripture inside an ordinary working day. The Today page follows your device's local date, and the tagline is "Words for the workday."

Behind that sits a full Bible reader with six editions. In English there's the King James Version, the American Standard Version of 1901 and the Berean Standard Bible. Alongside them are the Japanese Freedom Bible, the Japanese Literary Bible and the Russian Synodal Bible, and there's a Read offline option. Text size is adjustable, and tapping a verse lets you highlight or bookmark it. The whole site switches between English and Japanese, and you can add it to a phone's home screen.

The Scripture Assistant takes a feeling, a topic or a phrase and returns Bible passages. The FAQ is careful to say it isn't a chatbot. It doesn't write a personal answer, and it returns Bible text only.

If you sign in, your notes, bookmarks, highlights, study plan and reading position are saved and synced, and you can export your history as CSV or Excel. Without an account, drafts and searches last only for the page visit.

Then there's the hardware companion, a keyboard with a dedicated Amen key that opens the day's verse. The about page calls this a concept that joins a keyboard with a digital companion, and what you can try today is an on-screen version of the key. As of November 10, 2026, no keyboard was offered for sale on the site.

The about page is written by Oleg Ugrin, founder of Hikari Apps, who describes a personal love for Scripture, people and Japan. The teaching resources include a page about Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille, which tells you something about the tradition the study material draws on.

The privacy page, effective September 10, 2026, says you can read, search and draft notes without an account, and that accounts and saved study are stored with Supabase. On the passage search it says two things. One line says Scripture searches run on your device. Another says that when you submit a Scripture Assistant search, the text is processed by Cloudflare Workers AI to find passages, and isn't added to analytics or logs. The safer reading is that what you type into the assistant leaves your device. Contact messages have no automatic deletion schedule.

If you'd like a verse waiting for you each working day, in English or Japanese, the Today page is the place to begin.