The Bible Memory App

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About The Bible Memory App

The Bible Memory App is the ONLY complete, all-inclusive Bible memory system that equips you to easily MEMORIZE, ORGANIZE, & REVIEW verses on your own, customizable review schedule. You can even memorize & review verses while READING your Bible, all in one app! (*In-app purchase required for the Bible reader.)

The Bible Memory App is also the only Bible memory system you can access across all mobile devices & online, at BibleMemory.com. Your progress stays in sync between all of your devices, so you can memorize anytime, anywhere. Even without the Internet!

MEMORIZE Bible verses fast by actively engaging 3 separate cognitive areas: kinesthetic (touch), visual, and auditory memory.

• Kinesthetic: Type the first letter of each word in a verse to quickly memorize it in a proven, 3-step memorization process, Type It—Memorize It—Master It

• Visual: Draw Pictures & use Flash Cards (*PRO features). Animated Word Emphasis feature accentuates each word to ingrain it into your memory.

• Auditory: Record verse audio & playback for hands-free review (*PRO feature)

Create & ORGANIZE your personal Verse Library.

• Import verses from ANY of the following 10+ translations from the Internet: Amplified, ESV, HCSB, KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV, NIV84, NLT, The Message, & in Spanish with Reina-Valera 1960.

• Enter verses manually in ANY version.

• Choose Bible verses by topic from 57 verse collections in our Verse Library.

• Create & name your own verse collections with verses you choose yourself.

• Join one of over 9,000 Bible memory groups to memorize verses together.

• Start your own Bible memory group. It’s easy to invite others via text message, email, Facebook, & Twitter.

Never forget another verse with our SMART REVIEW SYSTEM.

• We use spaced repetition to quickly cement verses into your long-term memory.

• You can also customize your review schedule for any verse to review it on your own schedule (*PRO feature).

• Receive optional emails &/or mobile Review Notifications to review verses at the time of your choice.

READ, MEMORIZE, & REVIEW with the Bible Memory Bible (*In-app purchase)

• Read the Bible & memorize verses, all in one app!

• Available in ESV, NIV, NASB, CSB & KJV

• See your memory verses underlined and color coded by review status in the Bible.

• Search for keywords across multiple translations (*includes all purchased translations).

• Inline cross-reference links make it easy to explore related passages (ESV, CSB & NASB).

More:

• The Bible Memory App will guide you through the 3-step memorization process, Type It—Memorize It—Master It.

• Once a verse is memorized, you can easily review it by typing, using Flash Cards (*PRO), or with Audio playback (*PRO).

• Save time. Only type the first letter of each word when using the app. (You can also type verses out completely on BibleMemory.com.)

• Type without looking. Modified key zones give you credit for hitting any key adjacent to the correct letter.

• Heat Maps automatically highlight trouble spots in your verses (*PRO feature).

• Earn Badges & Advance in Rank with other members.

• Track Your Progress with history charts (*PRO feature).

• Easily share verses with friends via text message, email, Facebook, & Twitter.

• Multi-User & Family Friendly. Easily use multiple accounts on the same device.

About The Bible Memory App’s Audio Bible Verse Recorder (*PRO feature):

• Record yourself reading your verses.

• Play back verses in a continuous loop.

• Review hands-free, anytime, anywhere!

• Select background music from your device.

• TIP: Speak along with your recordings for an extra retention boost.

Stop playing games. Succeed at Bible memory with The Bible Memory App today!

*Bible Memory PRO is available as an in-app purchase.

*Bible Memory Bible is available as an in-app purchase.

*Bible Intelligence is available as an optional subscription.

By purchasing, you agree to Apple's End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Title: Bible Memory App review: finally memorized 100 verses but at what cost

Meta Description: Three months with Bible Memory App (formerly Scripture Typer). Yes, I memorized 100+ verses. But the bugs, sync issues, and $9.99 paywall might make you think twice.

Three months, 127 verses, and one existential crisis

Started using Bible Memory App after bombing a Bible study discussion. Everyone's quoting Scripture left and right, and I'm sitting there googling "verses about faith" under the table. Downloaded this app that night out of pure shame. Three months later, I can recite 127 verses from memory, but my relationship with this app is... complicated.

First week felt like magic. Type the first letter of each word, and somehow your brain just gets it. T-f-l-o-e-w = The first letter of each word. Genius, right? Memorized John 3:16 in literally five minutes. Thought I'd discovered the holy grail of Bible memorization.

Then reality hit.

my daily battle with this app

Every morning at 6am, I open the app for my review session. Half the time it crashes immediately. Restart phone. Try again. Sometimes my verses from yesterday are gone. Sometimes they're duplicated. Once, Philippians 4:13 showed up 47 times in my review queue. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me... except figure out why this keeps happening.

The typing system actually works though. After three steps (Type It, Memorize It, Master It), you genuinely know the verse. Not just recognize it - actually know it. Last week at church, pastor asked for someone to quote Romans 8:28 and my hand shot up before my brain caught up. Nailed it word perfect. The old me would've been frantically flipping through my Bible.

But here's what nobody tells you - the free version is basically a demo. After a fixed number of verses, it requires purchase at $9.99 to unlock greater functionality. 5 Best Bible Memory Apps for 2025 (memorize the Bible faster!) Hit that wall at verse 15. They don't advertise this clearly anywhere.

what the community's saying

Reddit threads are fascinating. Found a guy who's memorized 2,000 verses using this app. Two thousand! Meanwhile, the App Store reviews are weirdly divided between cult-like devotion (4.8 stars from 20,000+ reviews) and people ready to throw their phones.

One user mentioned that longer passages like whole chapters start disappearing during review - the page goes blank and you have to start over. ‎The Bible Memory App on the App Store Happened to me with James chapter 1. Twenty minutes of work, gone.

But then you get reviews like this person who memorized 100 verses for witnessing to Mormons and says they can recite them "in random order" now. They started with 14 verses from Romans and ended up at 63, planning to reach 130 total. ‎The Bible Memory App on the App Store

The homeschool crowd absolutely loves this thing. Found multiple blog reviews from parents using it with their kids. Makes sense - the gamification with badges and points probably works great for children.

The pros and cons

How it stacks up

The weird addiction factor

Here's the thing nobody talks about - this app becomes weirdly addictive. The typing mechanism hijacks your brain somehow. You start thinking in first letters. Reading my Bible now, I automatically see t-f-l-o-e-w patterns everywhere. Is this healthy? No idea.

The review system is brilliant when it works. New verses daily, then every other day, then weekly, monthly, eventually yearly. Except sometimes it forgets and makes you review the same verse seventeen times in one day. Romans 12:2 is burned into my retina at this point.

Users consistently praise the "scripture typer" feature where you type the first letter of each word, saying the app shows the next word and tells you whether you got the first letter correct or not. 5 Best Bible Memory Apps for 2025 (memorize the Bible faster!) This really is the app's killer feature. Nothing else does it quite the same way.

My verdict after 127 verses

Would I recommend Bible Memory App? If you're serious about memorizing Scripture and have $10 to spare, probably yes. If you expect a polished, bug-free experience, absolutely not.

I've tried five other Bible memory apps. This one's the most effective and the most frustrating. It's like having a brilliant but unreliable study partner. When it works, you'll memorize faster than you thought possible. When it doesn't, you'll want to hurl your phone.

Still using it daily. Still getting annoyed daily. But I've memorized more Scripture in three months than in the previous three years combined. Make of that what you will.

Pro tip: screenshot your progress regularly. When (not if) the app loses your data, you'll at least know what you had memorized. And don't start with whole chapters unless you enjoy suffering.

The $9.99 for Pro? Worth it if you're going to stick with it past a month. The heat maps alone saved me hours of wondering why I kept missing certain words. Just don't expect those premium features to fix the technical issues. They won't.