Dwell User Reviews

Dwell: Audio Bible

Dwell App, LLC

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Positive highlights

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This app hasBeautiful and elegant design

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This app hasHigh-quality narration with diverse voices

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This app hasCustomizable background music and sounds

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This app hasWide variety of Bible reading plans and playlists

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This app hasAbility to search and navigate through the Bible

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This app hasRepeat and loop functions for meditation

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This app hasTimer and sleep mode for bedtime listening

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This app hasHelps with consistent Bible reading and study

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This app hasGlobal representation of narrators

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This app hasExcellent customer service and responsiveness

Negative highlights

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This app hasLimited offline listening options

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This app hasDifficulty in managing and customizing playlists

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This app hasLack of support for multiple Bible translations

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This app hasInconsistent volume levels between narrators

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This app hasConfusion with date-based reading plans

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This app hasRelatively high subscription cost for some users

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God’s Word is a Treasure!

This App is the best!! What a blessing to listen to the Bible being read! Thank you with all my heart!❤️

Mimi 52

5 months ago

Response from developer

You are so welcome! Grateful you are enjoying the hearing of God's word through Dwell! Thank you for your review.

Please allow Carplay functionality

I am ready to buy this app with a lifetime license
I’m in desperate need of an audio Bible that can work with Apple CarPlay so I don’t have to play around with my phone while driving
Can you please make this app work with Apple CarPlay not just for the daily scripture. I’d like to be able to listen to the Bible and pick a book for example that I could listen to or chapter. if you can add this apple carplay functionality I am sold and I think a lot of other people will be too. I need Gods word while driving all day

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Lennyloveit

5 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review. Dwell is compatible with CarPlay - though it isn't completely seamless. Most people who drive for hours and hours will load up their Queue and then play through their Queue. Email us if you need help with that: help@dwellap.io

Fr. George Tolias

So far Excellent. God Bless all of us and His whole Creation...

Fr. gt

5 months ago

Response from developer

We are so glad you are enjoying Dwell. Thanks for your review!

What a life-changing, life-giving app.

I’ve had Dwell for a few years now - and bought the lifetime licence (in itself a great deal and incredible option to have though it rightfully costs more upfront). I remember thinking, I’d invest no matter how good the app actually is, so I could support the team developing it because it was a wonderful idea: no commentary/interpretation, not sermon-style content, just the straight Word of God being played. A few years later and what’s in the app now is sheer proof of a strong development timeline and a great team - so many reading voices and versions of the Bible to choose from; curated reading collections; sleep time playlists; playlists for pretty much everything, with relevant scripture; the ability to read in-app what you hear if you want to refer back yourself, etc. - this is just a snapshot of what app allows you to do. I’ve been going through some tough times recently including a series of traumatic events taking time to heal - and you all don’t understand how much this app has helped me. In times where I haven’t been able to pick the Bible up to read it myself, to be able to have the Bible so beautifully read to me; have scriptures picked so accurately for my situation… Thank God for Dwell and the team behind it.

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Nsng777

6 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your review - and for being a Lifetime subscriber. Your words are such an encouragement to our team. Grateful God's word has been such a help to you - and that He's using Dwell in such a meaningful way in your life. We are humbled.

Worth every penny

I’ve recently given my life to Christ (again). In doing so I want to get deeper into the word but I struggle sometimes reading and concentrating. Having the ability to have the Bible read to you (and you can cater that experience to your desire) allows me to digest a lot more than I would have otherwise.

I also love the daily devotionals, passages and prayers for sleep and other lovely additions (i.e. 5 minutes of the Bible every day). This really helps me to get the Bible into my life every single day.

I really feel blessed to be able to experience this. Thank you to all involved for making this happen.

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Nics1996

6 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for this wonderful review. I am so grateful you are able to experience Dwell and I love reading how it has helped you spend more time in God's word! Thank you so much for taking the time to write your experience. We are humbled!

God speaks

As a teacher- I have a very very full life. However, My mornings are started right with the Daily Devotions followed by a few other passages of scripture.
I love the words with sounds, music, it changes and I love it.
I can hear beautiful readings of scripture in my car as I drive, I am happy to be a part of the dwell community- so many great ways I can listen to the Word and hear from God across my day. A great app- worth it!!!

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Rebecca.B.Artist

6 months ago

Response from developer

We are so grateful to have you part of the Dwell community! I love reading how God has used the app in your life. Thank you so much for your review!

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Pleasant realistic voices that don't sound like robots, Beautiful interface! But unfortunately cannot listen to the Bible without paying :(

🥀DarkAcademic🥀

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for your review. Our voices are real people, and that definitely comes across in their reading. We don't ever want cost to get in the way of someone experiencing Dwell. Please email us if that's you. We'd love to help. 💗 help@dwellapp.io

It’s not free

Seems to say free but you got to enter you credit card details and was like 50 $ a month ok maybe it was a year don’t like paying for water and don’t like paying for the water of life I’ll stick with my free bible

Trollwar lord

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for your review. Yes - the cost you mentioned is per year. We don't ever want cost to get in the way of someone experiencing Dwell. Please email us if that's you. We'd love to help. 💗 help@dwellapp.io

Ability for different settings with different plans?..

I love this app but... I have 2 different plans going, and I would love to have different settings locked for each plan.

I have a regular Bible thru the year plan that I like to listen to with a few different voices and translations on random. However I also have a praying the Bible plan that goes through the Psalms & Epistles that I have set to a particular voice and to pause for 5 seconds after each verse so I can pray about it. Unless I’m missing it, I currently have to go through and change all these settings each time I listen to each set up.

Also - the app isn’t very good for listening to or making plans that go through whole books of the Bible. I would love more options to say, go through the psalms or epistles one chapter a day. The ability to make your own plan is wonderful - but unfortunately it is very difficult if attempting to do the above. Basically I would need to enter in each chapter of the 150 psalms individually. It’s either that, or I need to remember where I left off each day and find it before my drive.

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Walshl3

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your feedback and the suggestion of locking certain preferences into various areas of the app. I will happily share that with our team. While users cannot create their own plans, we have around 80 of them in the app and are constantly adding more. If you click the "Explore" tab at the bottom of your screen you'll be able to see a list! We also have a bookmark like feature. You can click on the "Me" tab at the bottom of your screen and scroll to where the heading says "Continue Listening" Anything you click in there will pick up from where you left off. We would love to help you answer these questions and anything else that comes up. Please feel free to email us: help@dwellapp.io. Thanks again for your review!

Breath prayers

The breath prayers are instantly calming and so meaningful. A return to the early Christian practices , like the continuous breath prayer, is so desperately valuable to our modern day lives.

Annexi

7 months ago

Response from developer

We are so grateful you are enjoying Breath Prayers through Dwell! Our team was so excited to bring this early Christian practice to the app. Thank you so much for your review!