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Get Council
Free. No account, no subscription, no ads, no telemetry. The King James Bible is built in; the rest of the library is yours to choose.
All platforms
Building it yourself
Council is a Flutter app and the source is public. If you would rather build it than wait for a release:
git clone https://github.com/SpencerSmithSite/council.git
cd council
flutter pub get
# Pick your platform
flutter run -d macos
flutter run -d windows
flutter run -d linux
flutter run # a connected phone or emulator
You will need Flutter 3.x and the toolchain for whichever platform you are targeting. No API keys or accounts are needed to build or run it.
What you get
Built in
The King James Version, complete — 1,189 chapters — plus the search index and the on-device embedding model. Works offline immediately.
On request
650 works across 34 collections, from 0.7 MB up. Downloaded from inside the app, whenever you want them. See the catalogue →
Optional
An AI backend — Ollama on your own hardware, or a provider you hold the key for. Council works fully as a search tool without either. Setup →