WordGo: The Bible Study App

Honestly, I want to old app back. While I love the improvements to the Biblical content, the old app was much more user friendly for studying. 1. Overall appearance is now dark. God’s word is literally Light. I do not enjoying the depressing imagery of the new app. Comparing 1John to 1John in both apps; the old app is far more bright and joyful. The new one is low light and I was amazed and the feeling of depression upon switching. 2. Toggling between pages. For scripture, questions, notes, when you’re literally on the GO you don’t always have a Bible to keep open beside you. Not losing my place in scripture when answering questions or references scripture when reading through notes, was wonderful. Now, it’s time consuming to scroll to reference scripture when answering questions and reading/listening to notes. 3. Customization: you used to be able to set a reminder to pray, tell the app how long each day you had to study, and more. I can’t find any of these in the new app and it didn’t prompt me at the beginning. This was so helpful to me as a mom of littles struggling to not get caught up in life. It was something I raved about to others. And now it’s absent. 4. No longer have more than one individual course open. I see you can create new groups but not multiple individual studies. I liked being able to cross reference different notes/studies. 5. Lastly, I lost everything I had studied in switching to the new app. Brining in the midst of a study, this was extremely disappointing

I have loved and used the WordGo app for a few years now. These studies are the best studies around - and for free!! The format and layout in the old app made it easy to switch between scripture and questions. It seems as though in the new app they’ve forgone a nice format and focused on making it more about outreach. A couple months ago they made a video and sent it to BSF classes about the new and improved version, which I agree is improved with training videos and such, but I don’t believe the format is new or improved. It seems they’ve also left out the “insights” for each question, which I appreciate when I’m stumped on how to answer a question, or what direction the question is aiming to go. Again, I will still be using it because the content is AMAZING!!! I just hope they reformat the studies.

This app is missing one of my favorite features of the old Word Go…the option to set how long you would like to spend daily. That means I can’t choose to spend more (or less) time each day. This was great for mixed groups of seasoned readers who wanted more depth and new believers who needed only the foundations. I also don’t like that the notes are usually longer than the scripture itself. I like the way BSF boils down and explains the truth, helping the student understand, but they’re too wordy and don’t always let the Bible speak for itself. Once a student prayerfully reads the Bible and completes the questions, only a few notes are needed to clarify confusing points. I don’t think every sentence of scripture needs to be parsed in the notes.