Dwell: Audio Bible

August 22, 2024

Big Search Improvements! - Devotionals, Prayer, and Sleep experiences are now searchable! - You can now filter your searches by category type for a more refined search experience. For example, you can now easily search for devotionals or sleep experiences directly. Enjoy exploring your favorite content with enhanced search functionality! - We've also refreshed the showcase screens for Scripture Plans, Playlists, Series, and more, giving you a cleaner, more engaging browsing experience.

August 1, 2024

Introducing Dwell Kids • There's a new space in the app for children and families! Explore curated listening plans, topical playlists, and classic passages designed to cultivate biblical literacy and awaken wonder in young minds and hearts. For the best Dwell Kids experience, listen to the International Children's Bible (ICB), written at a 3rd-grade level and narrated by kids and teens. Select "Kids" from the voice menu to begin. • Storybook Bibles Dwell is also excited to offer families access to beloved storybook Bibles as a part of our Dwell Kids release. Enjoy listening to the Jesus Storybook Bible and N.T. Wright's latest storybook Bible, all included in your subscription. More storybook Bibles are coming soon, such as Kevin DeYoung's The Biggest Story Bible Storybook! • Family Plan Improvements Did you know Dwell has a family plan? If you have a Dwell subscription through Apple, you can upgrade to a Dwell Family Plan and get up to six seats for your family using one account. You can also invite family members from the app's new Family Plan screen. This release also includes performance improvements and lots of bug fixes. We're just getting started with Dwell Kids and will have an exciting announcement for you next month, so be on the lookout for that.

June 6, 2024

Lots of exciting new updates for you in Dwell’s latest release. Listening Plans are even more useful for you now: • We’ve added a new ‘Congrats’ message upon completion of your plan and given you the much-needed ability to ‘Restart’ a plan after you’ve completed it. • On your Plans page, we’ve added a toggle that lets you easily switch between Plans that you are in progress and others that are completed. This should help declutter this screen for those of you who have gone through several plans. • Our Chime, Reflect, and Repeat functions will now work as expected when there are multiple scripture references in a single day of a listening plan. New Version & Voice Preferences Screen • You can now adjust which voices appear in the voice menu on the player, as well as which versions appear in Read mode. Now, when listening on Random, the audio will shuffle between your active voices in the Version & Voice Preferences screen. Big Improvements to Offline Listening • You can now download any experience for offline listening, including the Dwell Daily Devotional, Sleep experiences, Breath Prayers, Lectio Divina and more. We also made quite a few under-the-hood improvements that should make downloading and listening offline much easier. CarPlay Update: The Dwell Daily Devotional is now available in CarPlay • Now, you can integrate daily scripture plus reflection into your drive, making every journey an opportunity for spiritual growth. New tappable track indicator for playlists and plan days. • Easily navigate your playlists and plan day tracks while in the audio player with our new tappable track indicator. This feature showcases the current track you’re listening to and lets you jump between tracks without leaving the player. It’s a more intuitive way to engage with playlists and plans. New Bible Version: The Reina-Valera (RVR) Spanish Bible is now available in the app • This beloved Spanish translation can now be enjoyed in Dwell. The RVR is our third foreign language version of the Bible. You can also enjoy the NVI and the NVI-PT. We hope these updates are a blessing to you! We have a lot more coming this summer and fall, so keep an eye out.

June 5, 2024

Lots of exciting new updates for you in Dwell’s latest release. Listening Plans are even more useful for you now: • We’ve added a new ‘Congrats’ message upon completion of your plan and given you the much-needed ability to ‘Restart’ a plan after you’ve completed it. • On your Plans page, we’ve added a toggle that lets you easily switch between Plans that you are in progress and others that are completed. This should help declutter this screen for those of you who have gone through several plans. • Our Chime, Reflect, and Repeat functions will now work as expected when there are multiple scripture references in a single day of a listening plan. New Version & Voice Preferences Screen • You can now adjust which voices appear in the voice menu on the player, as well as which versions appear in Read mode. Now, when listening on Random, the audio will shuffle between your active voices in the Version & Voice Preferences screen. Big Improvements to Offline Listening • You can now download any experience for offline listening, including the Dwell Daily Devotional, Sleep experiences, Breath Prayers, Lectio Divina and more. We also made quite a few under-the-hood improvements that should make downloading and listening offline much easier. CarPlay Update: The Dwell Daily Devotional is now available in CarPlay • Now, you can integrate daily scripture plus reflection into your drive, making every journey an opportunity for spiritual growth. New tappable track indicator for playlists and plan days. • Easily navigate your playlists and plan day tracks while in the audio player with our new tappable track indicator. This feature showcases the current track you’re listening to and lets you jump between tracks without leaving the player. It’s a more intuitive way to engage with playlists and plans. New Bible Version: The Reina-Valera (RVR) Spanish Bible is now available in the app • This beloved Spanish translation can now be enjoyed in Dwell. The RVR is our third foreign language version of the Bible. You can also enjoy the NVI and the NVI-PT. We hope these updates are a blessing to you! We have a lot more coming this summer and fall, so keep an eye out.

March 26, 2024

Bugfixes and performance improvements

March 1, 2024

ENHANCED NAVIGATION WITH MINI-NAV BARS: In an effort to make your app experience as productive and enjoyable as possible, we've increased the app's navigational capacity. Now, with mini-navigation bars atop several prominent screens, organizing content within a given category has never been easier. These intuitive mini-nav bars will help you see all that Dwell has to offer and aid you in finding exactly what you need. DWELL DAILY DEVOTIONALS ON-DEMAND: We're excited to unveil our comprehensive collection of 120+ devotionals from the Dwell Daily, an "evergreen" collection of the very best, reformatted to remove date-based references or content, allowing you to enjoy them anytime and anywhere. Thoughtfully arranged by Guide, Scripture, and Topic, accessing any devotional on-demand is now quick and easy. Immerse yourself in our growing library of guided Dwell Daily devotionals. Also included in this release are some general improvements and a fix for a crash that affected a small number of users. With these updates, we aim to deepen your connection to the content on Dwell that matters most to you. Discover the improvements and let Dwell be a cornerstone of your daily devotion.

February 13, 2024

We’re excited to announce a couple of new UI enhancements in our latest update, designed to make Dwell more intuitive and enjoyable for you. - New Compact 'Up Next' Layout: Our newly redesigned 'Up Next' layout for Listening Plans is now sleeker and positioned at the top of the home screen, simplifying access to the next day of your plan. - Improved iPad Layout: Embracing the larger screen real estate of the iPad, we've revamped our layout to better utilize the extra space. This improvement makes for an easier navigation experience. Stay tuned for more exciting updates! We're grateful you've chosen Dwell. Thank you for your continued support!

January 29, 2024

We're excited to announce that users are now able to set reminders for devotionals like the Dwell Daily, our Advent and Lent devotionals, and other series content, such as our new guided sleep experiences. Stay Consistently Connected with Reminders Set Personalized Reminders Easily set reminders for any of our devotionals in the app. The Dwell Daily devotional is a great place to start. Choose the time and frequency that works best for you. Sync Across Devices Series reminders can sync across all your devices where Dwell is installed. Manage which Devices Get Reminders Unlike our current listening plan notifications, these new series reminders give you the flexibility to enable or disable reminders on individual devices. Tailor your Dwell experience to fit your lifestyle. Offline Support New series reminders will appear even if your device doesn't have an internet connection. Out in the woods? No problem! This update is about helping you integrate the Word into your daily life with ease and consistency. We hope this new Reminders feature enriches your Dwell experience. As always, thank you for being a part of the Dwell community. Happy listening!

January 25, 2024

We're excited to announce that users are now able to set reminders for devotionals like the Dwell Daily, our Advent and Lent devotionals, and other series content, such as our new guided sleep experiences. Stay Consistently Connected with Reminders Set Personalized Reminders Easily set reminders for any of our devotionals in the app. The Dwell Daily devotional is a great place to start. Choose the time and frequency that works best for you. Sync Across Devices Series reminders can sync across all your devices where Dwell is installed. Manage which Devices Get Reminders Unlike our current listening plan notifications, these new series reminders give you the flexibility to enable or disable reminders on individual devices. Tailor your Dwell experience to fit your lifestyle. Offline Support New series reminders will appear even if your device doesn't have an internet connection. Out in the woods? No problem! This update is about helping you integrate the Word into your daily life with ease and consistency. We hope this new Reminders feature enriches your Dwell experience. As always, thank you for being a part of the Dwell community. Happy listening!

December 10, 2023

Several small touch ups to help improve the overall experience in the app. Changes in this release include: - Show a placeholder view when there are no search results - Update the settings views to have a more modern layout - Show completed plans in the Subscribed Plans view and sort them to the bottom of the list - Update the Change Email and Change Password views to match the current app style - Bug fixes Thank you for using Dwell. We hope these updates further enrich your scripture listening journey.

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