Midvash
00 Chrome Extension

Every Bible reference becomes a link.

Reading a sermon, post, or article and you bumped into "John 3:16"? The extension detects the reference, turns it into a link to the reader, and shows the verse in a discreet hover tooltip — without taking you off the page.

Add to Chrome Free · 9 languages · Privacy-first

Blog post before Midvash — Bible references as plain text
Same blog with Midvash extension — references linked + hover tooltip

Stylized demo. Real pages may differ; the parser works on any markup.

01 What it does

Local detection. Discreet preview.

01

Detects

Scans the visible text on the page and finds Bible references in nine languages — "John 3:16", "Salmos 23", "Römer 8", "1 Corinthians 13:4-7". All in your browser, nothing leaves the device.

02

Links

Replaces the reference with a link to the corresponding chapter or verse at midvash.com. Nothing else on the page is changed.

03

Shows

On hover, opens an elegant tooltip with the verse text (or the first verses of the chapter). Without taking you out of your original reading.

04

Customizes

Default translation per language, list of sites where to disable the extension, tooltip on/off — all in chrome.storage.local, in your browser.

02 Privacy

Page content never leaves the browser.

Detection is 100% client-side. The text of the page you read is not transmitted to any server, not to Midvash, not to third parties.

The only requests the extension makes go to api.midvash.com, and contain only the identifier of the detected reference (book, chapter, verse) — to fetch the public text of the verse for the tooltip.

No analytics. No trackers. No third parties. No ads. Your preferences live in chrome.storage.local and never leave the device.

03 Languages

Detects references in nine languages.

English Português Español Deutsch Français Italiano 中文 Русский 한국어

The parser uses the official Midvash book index (cached locally for 7 days) to recognize varied forms — "John", "João", "Juan", "Johannes", "Иоанна" all detected as the same book.

04 Under the hood

Manifest V3, no third parties.

Built on Manifest V3 with Vite + React 19 + TypeScript, using @crxjs/vite-plugin. Small bundle, auditable code, no third-party SDK. All code is bundled with the extension — nothing is loaded dynamically.

Powered by the public Midvash API — the same one used by the web reader — to fetch verse text. Weekly refresh of the book index via chrome.alarms.

Available on the Chrome Web Store.

Install once and every Bible reference on the web becomes a link to the Midvash reader — no signup, no setup, no tracking.