Holy Bible by Paul Avery – Free
http://www.peejstudio.com/iphone/holybible.php
Easy and simple to use Bible app with many translations. Each of the translations resides on the iPhone/iPod touch. No internet connection required.
Notable Features
Version 2.0 features an improved GUI, next/previous chapter buttons, bookmarks, and notes.
English
1. King James
2. American Standard
3. Bible in Basic English
4. World English Bible
Greek
1. Greek New Testament (Nestle-Aland)
2. Septuagint
Spanish
1. Reina Valera 1909
2. Sagradas Escrituras
3. Español Moderno
Upcoming Features
1. Swiping left/right for previous/next chapter.
2. Accented version of the GNT-NA26.
3. Non-copyrighted Hebrew OT.
4. A much faster/efficient search
5. Many more preference options.
Our Take: This is a very good bible app but lacks a couple big things that YouVersion has. #1 Tons of translations and #2 An active online community.
Standard Works – Bible App $9.99
http://www.standardworksapp.com/node/4
Notable Features
Full text for the following books:
- Old Testament (King James Version)
- New Testament (King James Version)
- Book of Mormon (only in LDS Books)
- Doctrine and Covenants (only in LDS Books)
- Pearl of Great Price (only in LDS Books)
Application tips
For a new user several tips will appear explaining main features of the application.Adjustable font size
Use a pinching gesture to adjust the font size when viewing a chapterQuick Navigation System
Select books, chapters and verses using a quick grid view. No need to scroll all the time!Bookmark System
Create a bookmark for any verse and then easily jump back to that verse.
Bookmarks display the name of the verse as well as the verse’s text for easy recognition.
Rearrange the order of bookmark folders and verses within a folder.
Create, edit, and delete bookmark folders. Folders may contain any number of verses.
When a bookmark’s verse has been navigated to you can easily navigate to other verses in the same folder using up/down arrow buttons.
Create bookmark folders for topics, lessons, etc.!
Application ships with pre-defined bookmark folders for all scripture mastery verses. (only in LDS Books)Verse History
Stores a history of recently navigated to verses for quick retrieval.
Remembers your last viewed chapter and returns you there when re-launchedSearch Engine
Search by words and/or phrases.
Extremely fast search – results are displayed as you type.
Search results are displayed with the verse reference and verse snippets with all search terms highlighted.
Once a search result has been navigated to, easily browse through the other search results using up/down arrow buttons.
The last search terms are remembered for quick modification.Advanced Search Options
- Wildcard search – single and multiple characters.
- Fuzzy search – find words that sound like other words – great for when you don’t know the exact spelling!
- Proximity search – find words within x characters of each other.
- Boolean operators – combine multiple search terms with AND, OR and NOT operators.
Advanced search help web page to explain the advanced options and how to use them.
Custom Notes
Create notes for the application, individual books, chapters and verses.
Assign an icon to the note which will be displayed when viewing the associated book, chapter or verse.
While reading a chapter, easily toggle between the assigned icon and the note’s text for each verse.
Our Take: Not a lot to say here, quit frankly, I would never spend money on a bible app after I have used the free ones that give me everything I could ever want.
YouVersion – Free
Why tell you about the features…when you can watch it.
Our take: I came into this research trying to find a bible app that was better than this one, which is the one I use but what makes YouVersion stand above the rest of these bible apps is its active online community which powers the contributions engine. Press any verse on the app and get notes and thoughts from other users on the YouVersion community. This really is the best Iphone bible app I have found.
Touch Bible LE – Free
Notable Features
Five English Translations, including:
KJV – King James Version
- NET – New English Translation
- WEB – World English Bible
- ASV – American Standard Version
- YLT – Young’s Literal Translation
The Internet is NOT required to use these translations.
Blazing fast & intelligent search Readability – spread out words, adjustable font sizes Bookmarks – Click the verse number and that verse is bookmarked for quick access later. Dial A Verse – Touch Bible’s exclusive way of looking up scripture FAST (great for church).
Our Take: The TouchBible works well but it doesn’t seem to have any features that the others do not. I love that it is free and funded by donations, and it is intuitive enough to keep an eye one as it improves.
December 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Have you tried Olive Tree’s updated BibleReader? You can download it for free, but you have to buy translations and books from their web site. They have over 75 titles available now and are working on another 450.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287455446&mt=8
Stephen,
Software Engineer
Olive Tree Bible Software
January 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I’m the owner of Standard Works, which makes the “The Bible” application, and I’d like to invite you to actually use it. From your description I get the impression you haven’t done that – especially since the picture attached to our application above isn’t even of our application.
Please take a look at our tutorial and demo videos available at http://StandardWorksApp.com/demos Note: The video is of our “LDS Books” application, but the core application is the same between them. We also have additional screen shots, etc., available on our website for your perusal.
Terry Evans
Owner, Standard Works LLC
January 14th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Terry – Thank you for noting the mistake. I have changed the photo, and linked to your demo video. The feature list comes from your website so it should be accurate. Thanks again for commenting and for your work to bring technology to the Kingdom!
Jason
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Great application. As one of the Several Million American Catholics (out of the Billion world wide)that own Iphones and the Ipod Touch, I am disappointed that you do not have the New American Bible (NAB)that all Catholics in the United States use. I guess for now we have to use your competitor, the Olive Tree Bible reader, until you come up with its format.
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 pm
check out the new iphone app Living Word in app store. Click the link below:
itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327008565&mt=8&s=143441
October 5th, 2009 at 6:52 am
I use Youversion on my Blackberry and think it is brilliant. Although you have to have a network connection to make it work, you wouldn’t not have network with Blackberry. plus it means you don’t have to download Bibles onto your phone.
You can also easily and quickly check multiple versions. It is excellent.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I did not read the whole string, however I have been using the free version of YouVersion. I am a little confused, which version I can download that won’t have to acess the internet.
Thanks,
Alex