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Latest Update Ruined This App
I have used this app quite enthusiastically for years. Not only was it my favorite Bible app, I rarely used another Bible app, because this one had such great features, and did everything I needed. With the latest update occurring a couple of months ago, this app is now totally useless to me. It now has several bugs it never had before (iPhone 12). The most frustrating bug is that it crashes every single time I open it. Not five, or six, or eight out of 10 times, but 10 out of 10 times. And most of the time, it crashes within 30 seconds of opening it. When it does stay on longer than that, other things happened, that never did before. It deleted several scriptures in my “Favorites” list, although they are still highlighted in the body of text itself. Often it will not go to a scripture that I select. It crashes almost every time I try to select something new from any menu. The “Search” feature is now horribly broken; when I type in anything in the search field, there is no way to close the keyboard and push a button to actually activate the search. The app has become literally useless!
I never write reviews. At least this one is the first in several years. The only reason I’m doing so, is because I used to love this app. I hate having to give it up, but I have no choice! Please fix it!Show lessGosh Darn Worst!
Updated version of app is glitchy!
I used to love this app, but since the update, adds pop up in the middle of readings which is very frustrating.
Listening to audio of George W Sarris is one of my favourite ways to absorb the Bible, but the audio Bible option shuts itself down now or has errors when trying to change from one book of the Bible to the next, and sometimes just won’t work at all. The app no longer remembers where you were last reading/listening from and the reader settings keep resetting on their own.
I end up closing the whole app down, only for it to repeat the same issues later on reopening.
Please fix the bugs and give us a new update. In its current state, I wouldn’t recommend this app anymore.Show lessPHILosophy77
Please fix bugs
We truly appreciate this app. Please fix the bugs that have the app shut down for certain books when they are opened.MamaOutForALook
Going down hill
I have used the website for years. So getting the app was a natural choice. However, it’s always been buggy and not very user friendly. There are many redundancies in navigation. You have to hit 2-3 buttons to do what a better app could do in one. The cut and paste feature is hard to figure out, and for awhile it was omitting words and spaces from the paste. So you may accidentally misquote scripture. They told me they were working on the bug, and may have fixed it by now. I don’t know for sure, I’ve just avoided using the feature lately for obvious reasons. The key word search doesn’t seem to be all inclusive either. When looking for the location of specific verses, and you are using the right words, it doesn’t always give me what I’m specifically looking for. Forcing me to use other apps that work first time with the same words and translation. Also, they have resorted to using ads, while I don’t have a problem with that in general, they could be a bit more choosy about them. Many seem out of place on a so-called sacred site. While I will continue to use the website on my desktop, I am done using the app for now.Show lessPretty stone face
Even paid version isn't worth it
This is disappointing to have to write but perhaps more reviews like this will make the developers take notice that they need a major overhaul of the app. I have been very loyal to Bible gateway since I became a believer in Christ in 2010. It was the first app I used on a regular basis. Back then, apps were in their infant stage so it made sense that it would be have a lot of glitches. But it's 2023, and even free apps don't function on this level. I realized that perhaps I needed to just upgrade to the the plus version. For one, perhaps it would at least take the pop up ad out. It still isn't functioning on a level that I know you all can be at. Someone at the top needs to have a hard conversation or two. There's just no reason why there are still fundamental errors and mistakes with the app. It hardly refreshes on an automatic basis. The search engine always acts as if I made an error. It's just hard to navigate and the $5/month version is just not cutting it for what you pay for. Please look at the company keeping you at this level and look at other Bible apps that have far surpassed you all in quality. You guys are the standard in info. But the app to access is a major hindrance. Please find someone else to handle it. I say this truth in love.Show lessSusihi Lover
Bible App Not Working
I have used this Bible app since 2020. I loved using it as I could highlight verses and save notes to those specific verses. Now when I open the app, I can’t open the Bible without the app shutting down. If I try to open one of my saved verses in the notes with the thoughts that I wrote down, it shuts down. Sadly, I am going to have to delete this app because it is not working at all. This makes me very sad because I made several notes since 2020 verses and so I am completely losing any thoughts and notes that I had.
I also just want to add that it was very disheartening to me when you removed the passion version of the Bible. Buying into all of the hype that people were saying about the passion Bible. I personally have read the passion Bible side-by-side to the AMP, the NKJV, the NIV, and other Bibles, and did not have an issue with it. It was a beautifully written Bible. The Bible I do have a problem with is the Message Bible as I fill it lightly covers the subjects and doesn’t give the depth of God’s word. Maybe you could reconsider the Passion.
I hope you fix whatever is wrong, and are paying attention to the many are complaining about the problems of this app.Show lessLicorice_smile_22
APP devolving
Before it would’ve been five stars. Now, I have the latest update, and it really ruined the prior version that I was using. Now, you open the app and the search box takes you always to Genesis 1:1. Before it took you back to the chapter and verse that you last looked at, studied or read.
Now you do a search to open a certain book, chapter and verse and it open takes you to verse one of that chapter when before you could end up at verse 34, which is where you wanted to be. Before in the box, it appears for you to choose the book, chapter and verse at the bottom in blue. It showed where you were exactly going; it flashed; then you touched it and went exactly there.
Now the history area does not have the last chapter and verse you went to it just has that chapter with verse one. That is not very useful when you’re going back-and-forth in the Bible during a study. Before it kept a complete list by chapter and verse. You could highlighter verse, and it would add it to your history which was very helpful but now it doesn’t.Show lessRevrmoody
Non functional
Over last several weeks or more, when I open the app & try to go to the scripture of the day it closes. Time after time, try to open to read a passage & the app closes. Plus the ad pops right up to block the screen.spud city
Started out great but went downhill
I really liked this app at first. I appreciated being able to compare various translations. In the last few months it has stopped functioning well. It crashes frequently, either when looking up passages or trying to manoeuvre between passages or switching translations. Very frustrating.Asiseeit08
