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God’s Word in YOUR language. Hear, watch, read, and share the Bible on your mobile device anytime, anywhere for free through the revamped Bible.is app. Discover a brand-new way to interact with God’s pure Word and give others free access to the Good News. Features:

- Listen to beautifully dramatized Scripture at home, at work, or in the car.

- Easily create custom Plans and Playlists for personal, family, or church Bible study.

- Discover and follow Plans made by others to engage the Bible.

- Search Bible passages by language or country.

- Navigate in your language—Bible.is detects the language your phone uses and automatically adjusts its text, or you can select your preferred language.

- Look up keywords, book names, or specific verses.

- Bookmark, highlight, and add notes for Scripture memorization and inspiration.

- See the ministry of Jesus come to life in Gospel Films and the JESUS film.

- Share any Bible verse via social media or email with one tap.

Bible.is, a ministry of Faith Comes By Hearing, a 501(c)(3) non-profit ministry dedicated to getting God's Word to everyone, everywhere. All U.S. donations are tax-deductible.

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The missionary app that forgot about the user experience

Bible.is started as an audio Bible project fourteen years ago, and honestly? It still feels like it. After using this thing for a month alongside YouVersion and Bible Gateway, I get why Faith Comes By Hearing has such a devoted following — and why everyone else deletes it after a week.

The audio quality is genuinely incredible. Multiple voices, sound effects, background music that actually fits. Problem is, everything wrapped around that audio experience feels broken.

My month of crashes and Gospel films

First day with Bible.is, selected NIV audio, hit play on Matthew. The dramatized reading stopped me cold. This isn't your grandpa reading scripture — it's theater. Different voices for Jesus, Peter, the narrator. Background sounds of crowds, water, footsteps. Felt transported.

Then the app crashed.

Restarted, found my place (no resume feature), played for ten minutes. Phone screen went dark. Audio stopped. Had to unlock, restart the app, find my place again. This happened seventeen times in the first week. Seventeen.

Week two discovered the Gospel films. These are word-for-word visual Bibles in 700 languages. The production quality varies wildly — some look professional, others like church basement productions from 1987. But for visual learners or teaching? Game changer. Watched Luke in Mandarin with my neighbor who doesn't speak English. She cried.

Week three, the connection issues hit hard. Driving to work, streaming Acts. Hit a dead zone for literally three seconds. App didn't pause or buffer — completely restarted the chapter. From the beginning. While driving 70mph. Nearly threw my phone out the window.

By week four, found the workaround everyone uses: download everything offline first. Takes forever (seriously, budget two hours for a full Bible), but at least it stops the crashes. Mostly.

What Reddit won't tell you

App crashes almost every time users open it, and sometimes doesn't automatically scroll with the scripture Bible - Audio & Video Bibles - Apps on Google Play, which defeats the whole "hands-free listening" purpose. One user mentioned it takes 10 seconds just to switch books Bible - Audio & Video Bibles - Apps on Google Play.

App Store reviews are split between missionaries praising the 2,200 languages and regular users begging for basic stability. One parent uses it every night for kids' bedtime, claiming scripture comes back when you need it most ‎Bible - Audio & Video Bibles on the App Store. Another user spent a month downloading content only to have it disappear after an update.

Google Play reviews are brutal. The connection interruption issue isn't just me — if you lose wifi but still have network, it stops playing and force restarts the chapter Bible - Audio & Video Bibles - Apps on Google Play. Imagine using this in developing countries where it's supposedly designed for.

The pros and cons nobody talks about

How it stacks up against the giants

Why missionaries love it and everyone else doesn't

Here's what clicked after week three: Bible.is isn't really for American iPhone users. It's for reaching unreached people groups. The Quechua speaker in Peru. The Hmong refugee in Minnesota. The 2,200 languages aren't a feature — they're the entire point.

Faith Comes By Hearing has implemented 1.3 million Bible listening programs reaching 114 million people Faith Comes By Hearing - GuideStar Profile. They ship physical BibleSticks to military personnel. This is missionary infrastructure disguised as a consumer app.

Which explains why the user experience is garbage. They're not competing with YouVersion. They're trying to get audio Bibles to villages without electricity.

Final verdict after 30 days

Deleted it from my phone, kept it on my iPad.

For daily Bible reading? YouVersion destroys this. For audio Bible listening while commuting? Bible Gateway is infinitely more stable. But for specific use cases — teaching ESL students, sharing Gospel films in other languages, or if you genuinely need Mongolian audio Bible — nothing else comes close.

The tragedy is the audio really is that good. If they hired one decent iOS developer and fixed the crashes, this could compete. But after fourteen years of the same complaints, that's clearly not happening.

Download it, grab the specific audio versions you need offline, then prepare for frustration. Or just use YouVersion like the other 700 million people who want their Bible app to actually work.