5 helpful Bible apps to have on your device
Nowadays, there is no excuse to not have a Bible, unless you live in a country that strictly forbids owning one. That's because technology has brought to us the beauty of God's Word in digital format, which can be put into our mobile gadgets and brought everywhere we go.
On top of making it more convenient to bring the Bible around, online resources have also made it much easier to study the Bible when you're preparing for a Bible study, preaching, teaching or if you simply want to dissect the Word and extract more Rhema out of it.
Although many argue that nothing beats having an actual leather-bound paper-based copy of the Bible, it can be very much helpful to have God's Word ready with you anytime and any place. Plus, why just have one when you can have both?
Here are the some of the top Bible apps that you can have on your mobile device.
Olive Tree has established itself as one of the major Christian technology providers worldwide. It's Bible + app has many different Bible translations in addition to KJV, NIV and ESV. It also includes some study tools like commentaries, dictionaries and more. The search function of the app is exceptionally powerful, and gives results not only to hits on keywords but relevant topics and commentary entries. The app allows side-by-side comparisons, highlighting, bookmarking and note-taking.
The official app to the popular online browser Bible BibleGateway.Com, Bible Gateway is free and ready to use after installation. It has about 90 translations of the Bible which can be downloaded for offline use. Side-by-side comparison is also supported, as so is highlighting and placing stars on verses you'd like to take note of.
This Bible app allows extensive resource linking, note-taking functionality, and linguistic analysis for study of the Bible both in translation and in its original languages. It's compatible with more than 43,000 titles related to the Bible from 200 publishers. This is definitely one app you'd like to have ready.
Arguably one of the most popular Bible apps with 180 million downloads, YouVersion's Bible app comes with hundreds of reading plans. The app contains over 1,000 Bible versions covering hundreds of languages, and also supports offline reading, audio Bibles and some video content.
Here's a little something for the kids, if you have children, nieces, nephews or little brothers and sisters. This app also belongs to YouVersion and is also available for free. The Bible for Kids app has interactive storytelling functions that make it fun for kids to learn Bible stories. The app includes clickable animations that come alive at the touch of a fingertip.
