Hello friends, I'm a retired pastor, having served in a rural parish in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for 32 years. When I recently got my iPhone, I too searched for good Bibles for my phone. Here's what I discovered with the help of a partially sighted Lutheran Christian member of our local congregation.
1. Bible Gateway's great, especially online. I haven't tried the app,, and, until now, didn't know an app existed. Thanks for that information. A good thing to know when using Bible Gateway on line is to use the really accessible mobile version. To do this simply go to www.m.biblegateway.com, and you'll avoid all the advertising when searching for your favorite passages and favorite translations. Another unfortunate glitch in this program is that the Bible most used by many main-line Christians, the New Revised Standard Version is not available on Bible gateway because of copyright issues. Thus, to obtain access to this translation, I got the iBooks app, went into it and ptyped NRSV in the search field and got the bible from iBooks for $9.99, not a bad price for a Bible. It's quite accessible, though you'll have to play with it some. It also has the apocrypha, those books written between the Old and New Testaments found in many Bibles including the Catholic Bible. I am sorry you tried the olive tree Bible. The reason it can't be accessed at all is that it is a totally graphic app. Wouldn't it be nice if the app store could help us know such things before we pay to download some of its apps? Case in point, the person whose message I read on this list about trying to access Sirius/XM on the iPhone. Some of us Sirius/XM users have already discovered this app's inaccessibility. I actually canceled my subscription and got credit back on my Visa card because I called attention to this problem. For the avid radio buff like myself, I suggest tune-in radio. It's a buck 99 paid all at once and you're done! It's totally accessible and has access to more stations across the globe than you'll ever need! Chances are, your own local station's in the tune-in radio cue! Getting back briefly to accessible Bibles, you have two great choices,: Bible Gateway and iBooks. Good luck, and, if you want other Bible accessible ideas outside the iPhone, feel free to contact me off-list for my phone number which I would gladly post but don't know if that's allowed. Or you can give me your number and I'll get back to you. Peace and blessings, Duane On 7/11/12, Carol Pearson <carol.pearso...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I've found the YouVersion to be the most user friendly and richest in > features. I looked at the OliveTree Bible today and just couldn't get it to > > work no matter what I tried. I may be missing something of course and would > > be interested to hear from others if they've found it successful. > > The app associated with Bible Gateway lacks some features and it's not my > preference. > > There is a study Bible out there, can't think of the name right now, and I'd > > like to try that one; so anyone with knowledge of this, please let me > know. > > Thanks. > > Carol P > ---- Original Message ---- > From: "Katey Glass" <katey...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:03 AM > Subject: best off-line NIV Bible app > >> Hello all, >> I was wondering which app is most accessible for reading >> the NIV Bible in off-line mode? I use YouVersion on both >> my iPhone 4S and iPad, but was wondering which is the >> most VO friendly for off-line use. >> >> Any help would be most appreciated. >> >> Katey >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to >> the "VIPhone" Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to >> viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
