Beautiful
I’m surprised how much I like the Dwell app. It has quickly become part of my daily life. From listening to stories in the car with my kids, playlists as I hang the washing and psalms in quiet moments. I love getting to listen to different voices, the music in the background isn’t intrusive and I’m surprised how much I appreciate the “topic” playlists (eg all Jesus parables) when I typically just take a book at a time.
My only surprise is that there’s no timer to automatically switch off - although there very well could be this feature and I’m not observant enough!!
My only surprise is that there’s no timer to automatically switch off - although there very well could be this feature and I’m not observant enough!!
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Perfect for moms!
I treasure God’s Word. I love it. It is my heart’s delight and my heart’s cry. But I am a busy homeschooling mom of 6. I rise early to spend time reading and studying. But throughout the day wasn’t making time to come back to the word. This app is perfect, whether I have one minute or ten. When I am doing dishes, tidying up, preparing lessons I can turn this on and it is immediately the best thing my kids and I could ever be filling our ears and hearts with. I would love for there to be a feature that an alarm could be set so that it would begin playing automatically. More than just the available reminders, but actually just have my morning alarm start playing the word. And have an alarm signaling time to get ready for lunch start playing the word. Thank you for the care you took to making the app so useful, organized well, and aesthetically beautiful. What a gift this app is. What redemption of technology. ❤️ this is the app I want to be addicted to.
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Encouraging
This app really opens up the Bible in an innovative and encouraging way. Creative and bespoke, it speaks (literally) to your soul in a way intended to receive it. The choice of voice, music, pace and verse really helps to set the scene for a new journey through verse and chapter. I look forward to when the full iPad version is released later this year so a full screen resolution can be utilised. That said, it still works perfectly and was completely worth the investment.
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Great voices and interactive feel
The way the music and voices work in together help to foster a thoughtful hearing of God’s Word - vertebrae of joys for my whole being
Best Out There
I shopped around for an ESV audio Bible app for quite sometime. This one was definitely worth the annual subscription because I wanted to support further content and features in the future. The app is extremely user friendly. I love that you can choose the speed of the reader and play background noise at whatever volume suits you. I’m currently listening straight through books of the Old Testament but am excited to see many of their own plans of various lengths - “through this book in 7 days” or “through that book in 30 days” - as well as topical studies. The background music is beautifully written and helps catch my ear which helps me focus. Another great thing is that the books are “tracked” by verse. Meaning when you skip ahead or need to go back, it does so one verse at a time. I love that it’s not by 10 or 15 seconds like other audio apps. Well done! Well worth the subscription! Keep up the great work!
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Love the choice of voices!
I’m really enjoying dwell! The reading plans and different voices are great! Best bible app I’ve tried!
Beautiful Listening Experience
This is a gorgeous app for listening to the Bible. The choice of readers voices is a big plus, sensitive music in the background, well planned playlists, and an app that moves seamlessly through each plan; it really is something special. I hesitated purchasing the full subscription but after listening to it for a while decided it was well worth it. I don’t think I’ve heard anything quite like it before, congratulations to the developers of Dwell.
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A must-have for every blind person
As a blind person, I've always looked for a good audio Bible. Several apps have audio, as a kind of nod to hearing the word, but even though they have several versions, the voice is rarely that good, there's no music, and accessibility of the app with VoiceOver, especially when using footnotes, is liable to change drasticly from version to version. This app is perfect in almost every way, except for reasons of time, like more books of the Bible, other translations, especially the CSB, please, and commentaries. I'd like just one other thing from the app, and that is footnotes. Whenever they are in a Bible, it makes understanding a lot easier. They can be spoken by the currently selected voice, and a toggle in settings can turn them on or off by default, and a toggle in the player can turn them on and off for the current queue. Also, I hope that a version like the Complete Jewish Version is recorded, so that I can know the actual pronounciation of the Hebrew and Greek names, along with the other advantages of having a Messianic Jewish Bible.
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Super Great App! 😃
Have had the Dwell app for a few months now and have been enjoying it immensely! I tried out the various options with the music and voices and found that I enjoy them all, but especially enjoy the default settings.
I appreciate how they have it easily set up the have a Bible portion of the day, rather than just a verse and have it set so I can have a reminder each morning where I can just swipe and go straight there first thing when I wake up. 😊
I also like how they have various study sections, reading plans, and even short portions set aside that you can listen to if you don’t have a lot of time.
The only thing I would add to the app if I could is having the Word present in a written form as well when you’re listening to it, so you could follow along if you desired to. I figure this would probably slow down the app a bit, and is probably why they had chosen not to do so. I resolve it by having an additional Bible app that I can easily go to, since I can listen to Dwell and be in whatever other app I desire at the same time- which is super nice. 😊
I appreciate how they have it easily set up the have a Bible portion of the day, rather than just a verse and have it set so I can have a reminder each morning where I can just swipe and go straight there first thing when I wake up. 😊
I also like how they have various study sections, reading plans, and even short portions set aside that you can listen to if you don’t have a lot of time.
The only thing I would add to the app if I could is having the Word present in a written form as well when you’re listening to it, so you could follow along if you desired to. I figure this would probably slow down the app a bit, and is probably why they had chosen not to do so. I resolve it by having an additional Bible app that I can easily go to, since I can listen to Dwell and be in whatever other app I desire at the same time- which is super nice. 😊
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Beautiful app, currently a little bit ‘heavy’
Amazing work so far with 4 wonderful voices (premium version) which really capture the spirit of God’s word and communicate it well. The app itself is quite ‘bloated’ however in the sense that it takes a while for passages to load and changing voices also seems to take a long time too. If you fixed that it would be 5 ⭐️ from me!!
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