The One Bible App

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About The One Bible App

Begin Your Study Now

The One Bible app gives you free Bible versions to read, study, and grow from. Navigate by book, topic, passage, search and more. Listen to your favorite passages even when reading is impossible (like when driving) with the convenient Audio feature. Grow in your spiritual walk and join thousands of other Christians with the best-in-class Bible app available.

READ:

* Clear and easy to use app with simple navigation to read the Bible

* Get the most popular Bible versions

* Download Bibles for offline reading without an internet connection

* Listen to Audio Bible read aloud to you (available for select versions)

* View fully formatted Bible text

* Enlarge font and change background color for easier reading

STUDY:

* Write and Title notes

* Highlight and Underline Bible verses in multiple colors

* Backup and Sync notes, highlights, and bookmarks to all your devices with a free Just1Word profile

* See words of Jesus in red (most versions)

* Navigate the Bible quickly and easily

* Explore the Bible by topics, stories and more

* Save bookmarks

* Get exclusive devotionals, reading plans, and daily content

* Read publisher footnotes

* Keep track of your reading history, mark sections as read

GROW:

* Enjoy Verse of the Day to keep you engaged

* Share verses and links by Email, Text, Facebook, Twitter, and more

SMART SEARCH:

* Use the fast search as a study tool

* Most relevant results first

* Search the Bible by topic, passage or phrase

* Filter results to find things fast

Get Started Fast:

Open straight to the Bible, without any other reading material to get in your way like other Bible apps.

Your Bible, Your Way:

Not interested in an account? Saving notes & highlights is as easy as it gets. No account registration needed like other Bible apps.

ENGLISH BIBLE VERSIONS:

AMP - Amplified Bible

ASV - American Standard Version

CEV – Contemporary English Version

DRB - Douay Rheims Bible

ESV - English Standard Version Bible

GNT – Good News Translation

HCSB - Holman Christian Standard Bible

KJV - King James Version Bible

MSG - The Message Bible

NABRE - New American Bible Revised Edition (In-App Purchase)

NASB - New American Standard Bible

NCV - New Century Version Bible

NIrV - New International Readers Version

NIV - New International Version Bible (Audio Supported)

NIVUK – New International Version Anglicised

NKJV - New King James Version Bible

NLT - New Living Translation Bible

NRSV - New Revised Standard Version (In-App Purchase)

RSV - Revised Standard Version (In-App Purchase)

VERSIONES ESPAÑOL SANTA BIBLIA:

DHH – Dios Habla Hoy

LBLA - La Biblia de las Américas

NBLH - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

NVI - La Versión Nueva Internacional

RVA - Reina Valera Antigua

RVR60 - Reina Valera 1960

RVR95 – Reina Valera 1995

TLA - Traduccion en Lenguaje Actual

OTHER BIBLE VERSIONS:

AA - João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada

ACF - Sinta-se português Corrigida (1753/1995)

ARB - سميث فان دايك الكتاب المقدس باللغة العربية

CUV -中國版聖經聯盟

CUVS -中国协和版简体圣经

DELUT - Elberfelder Bibel

IRV - Versione Italiana Riveduta (1990)

KOU -コウゴ - 屋久島

KOR -한국어 성경

LND - La Nuova Diodati 1991

LSG - Louis Segond 1910

RUSV - Русская версия Синодального

SVEN - Svenska Bibeln

SV1750 - StatenVertalings 1715 Bijbel

UKR - українського Біблійного

Also available in form of subscription:

GLOBAL CONNECTION POINT - $0.99 weekly

Contact the One Bible team:

Get help by emailing [email protected]

Find our terms of use at https://www.salemwebnetwork.com/terms/

Get access to all Bible versions for offline use, the audio reading feature, and a side-by-side study feature!

Version

App Information

My month with aggressive Bible ads

Ever open a Bible app to quickly check a verse during church, only to watch a 30-second ad first? Welcome to The One Bible App. After using this thing daily for four weeks (and watching approximately 120 ads), I've got thoughts.

Started using this after someone recommended it for the NASB version. First week was rough. The app opens straight to scripture, which sounds great until you realize there's always an ad blocking it first. Not a banner at the bottom — a full-screen video you have to wait through or frantically close. During a Bible study group. While everyone's waiting.

What actually works and what doesnt

The button system for selecting chapters and verses? Brilliant. Instead of scrolling endlessly through Psalms, you tap twice and you're there. Someone on r/Christianity called it "the only good thing about this app" and... yeah.

Three weeks of daily testing hell

Week one almost broke me. The ads weren't just annoying — they're loud. Sitting in a quiet room for morning devotions and BOOM, some mobile game ad blasts through your speakers. By day three, I'd figured out airplane mode blocks them. Should've stopped there.

Week two, the sync issues hit. Had all my highlights and notes on my iPhone. Opened the iPad version? Empty. Manually enabled iCloud sync in settings (buried three menus deep), waited an hour, still nothing. Turns out you need to force-close and reopen both apps multiple times. Sometimes.

Week three brought the notification nightmare. Turned on verse of the day reminders. Cool feature, except you get ALL notifications or none. No middle ground. Want the morning verse but not the seventeen other alerts throughout the day? Too bad. Disabled everything by Thursday.

The audio feature surprised me though. The NIV narration is professional, clear, and you can adjust playback speed. Downloaded it for a road trip and it worked offline perfectly. That's... actually the only thing that worked perfectly.

How it stacks up

What the internet actually thinks

Reddit's r/Christianity had a thread where someone asked about Bible apps. The One Bible got mentioned once — as an example of what to avoid. "Used to be decent before Salem bought it," said one user with 50+ upvotes.

App Store reviews paint a darker picture. Recent ones from October 2024 onwards are brutal. One guy who bought the NASB version for $30 ten years ago is furious about being forced into the new app with ads. Can't blame him. Another user discovered the support email goes nowhere after trying four times. Kyle from support actually responded in the App Store reviews admitting they're "frustrated with the app recently" too. When your own support team is frustrated...

Found a 50-page MacRumors thread about Bible apps. The One Bible gets mentioned twice, both times as "that app that used to be good." Ouch.

Twitter search for "@salemwebnetwork bible app" mostly returns complaints about crashes and ads. One pastor tweeted he switched to YouVersion mid-service because an ad played during scripture reading. The official account hasn't responded to complaints since 2023.

Personal usage verdict

Still using it? Honestly, no. Kept it for exactly 28 days to give it a fair shot. The final straw was when it crashed during a Bible study while trying to switch versions. Someone asked what app I was using, I told them, and three people immediately said "oh yeah, delete that."

The core functionality — reading the Bible — works. But everything around it fights against you actually wanting to use it. It's like they're actively trying to push users away. Maybe that's the point? Force people to pay for premium? Except there's no premium option that removes ads consistently.

Here's what kills me: the bones of a good app are there. The chapter/verse selection system is genuinely better than YouVersion's scrolling. The parallel reading implementation is clean. If they just... stopped breaking things with updates and killed the ads, this could compete.

Am I keeping it? Already deleted. Moved to YouVersion like everyone else. Miss the button navigation but gained my sanity back. No ads, sync works, support actually exists.

The One Bible App feels like a decent car that someone poured sand in the engine of. It'll run, barely, but why would you drive it when better options exist for free?