Study together
Everyone on the same verse, wherever they are sitting
A group in Taala is a private room for your small group, your family or your church community. You read the same passage, talk about it verse by verse, and when you meet — in a living room or on a call — the app keeps everybody on the same words. Nobody has to ask what page we are on.
An ordinary Friday
The Friday you are stuck in traffic
Your group meets at half past six in somebody's living room. This Friday the road is not moving.
An hour before, your phone has already said so. You open Taala and the group's card tells you the study is running. You tap in, and the reader opens at the passage the leader is on — not the chapter you were last in. When they move, you move with them. What the room has been saying is on your screen, attached to the verses it is about, so you can catch up on the argument rather than on the small talk.
The voices come through the call your group already uses. The Bible comes from here.
You walk in late and you have missed the tea, not the study.
If you are the one driving, just listen. The passage will be where the group left it when you are somewhere you can look at it.
How it works
How a study runs
Make the room
Name the group and send a link only the people you choose ever see. There is no directory, no discovery, and no way for a stranger to ask to join.
Put it in the diary
Every Friday at 18:30, in the group's own time zone, with a reminder an hour before. Arrive up to half an hour late and the study is still open.
Talk verse by verse
A thread hangs off the verses it is about, not off a date. Come back in a month and the question somebody asked about Romans 8:28 is still sitting on Romans 8:28.
One of you leads
Whoever starts the study moves the group, and every reader follows. Read ahead if you want to — you stay where you put yourself, and a tap brings you back in step.
What it is not
The things it deliberately will not do
- Taala does not host the call
- Your group brings its own Zoom, Meet or WhatsApp link. We would rather hand you to an app that works than put a lobby in front of your study.
- No public groups
- Invitation only, by a link. Nobody finds your group and nobody requests to join it.
- No attendance, no leaderboard
- Nothing counts who came. A study you missed is a study you missed.
- Your notes are still yours
- The discussion belongs to the group. Highlights and notes stay private unless you put them there.
However many you are
It does not have to be a crowd
A group of two is a group. One friend in another city, a husband and wife at a kitchen table, a parent and a grown child who read the same chapter on the same evening and say what they saw in it. And if the people you read with cannot say openly what they are reading, a private room with no public side to it is the whole point.
Start one, or join the one you were invited to
Making a group takes a minute and an account, because it is other people. Reading does not — the Bible is open to anybody who opens it.