ESV Bible

I like a lot of people have used this app for years and would even pay for using it. But like a lot of people, I agree if you are looking in one book in chapter and then you go to another why can’t you go back to the other one and not to the main menu to select the book and the verse all over again. And the new one I found it’s really annoying if you want to highlight a verse or passage worse yet you have to click on one of the verses and then you have to select what color you want highlight in then you have to click the window to go away and then if you’re doing a whole passage, you have to do that for each first used to be able to just drag to select passage . Probably no one else but may use, but I really do miss on the audio. You could slow down the narration. I love that I was sick for a long time and didn’t sleep well and I could turn that on and it was Isaiah or a couple of other books and I would just start from verse one and slow down the narration, turn the very low and usually put my phone on my chest and go back to sleep and then I woke many times during the night I could hear or tap on the phone to see what they passage they were reading and go back to it in the morning if I wanted to read that specific passage. It’s kind of the reading sometimes is faster than you would read it if you were reading your own Bible.

Updated: thanks for the follow-up! It appears that my problem with the update has been resolved. I may have had to delete the digging deep into the Bible plan and the reload it into the new version of the app to get it resolved. Or they fixed it. Either way I like the updated app now it tracks my daily reading. And while I don’t like having to pay for something I used to get for free (Kristyn Getty reading) I do believe “a worker deserves their wages” so I paid. I hope they keep improving the app with the funding. It is a really good way to get your Bible study in daily. And the ESV Bible is the best translation in my view. ——- old review: One star for the app update. I’ve used this app for years and was using the “digging deep into the Bible plan” that allowed me to go through the Bible in a year. It has a problem now that it checks off the days readings without ever doing the readings. It would be nice if it stopped doing that. Also I don’t like how I have to pay for a voice. Used to be free. Oh well. Everyone has to make money I suppose. At least one voice is free.

Update: Thank you for fixing both the issues that I mentioned in my last review. For me this app is almost perfect. I don’t love the subscription model but it doesn’t affect the way I use the app. I wish the “To the Word” Bible reading challenge was available in your reading plans but that’s not a huge deal. I also wish that in addition to the subscription model you would add one-time purchases. We would gladly buy Kristyn Getty’s voice but can’t pay a subscription just for that. I’m old school. I prefer to own things rather than rent them. This is not a slight to those who like the subscription model. I’m just saying that you’re missing out on financial support by not having any offerings for people like me. I still love the app though and use it every day. These are just suggestions. Thank you! I use this app multiple times a day everyday. It is one of the most used apps on my phone. The new update is very frustrating. You close the app, it starts you back over at Genesis 1. Why won’t it just open back up to where I was when I closed it??? Also when go to a chapter the audio starts in the previous chapter. Why won’t it start in the chapter so selected? In psalms it starts at the beginning of the psalm prior to the one I selected!?! I’m not sure what’s going upon but this major update is majorly glitchy. I loved this app. Please fix these and other issues asap and I will return to review to 5 stars.