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Love
Love this app. Have been using it for years. Only issue is… it keeps crashing. Would love it if the developers could sort this one.Sippinn.it
Loading issues
Going into the Bible option then closes the app and needs to be reloaded up again 😒
I love this app and wish it could be fixed and ads cut out altogether ⭐️Food gamer
Great Content, Buggy Audio Bible
This is one of the first apps I ever downloaded and I have recommended it to many people, including foreign-language speakers. I use the audio Bible often and am grateful they have NIVUK with David Suchet. I prefer the NKJV, but Simon Bubb is so monotonous he sounds like AI. This has nothing to do with Bible Gateway, but I wish NKJV had picked another British reader.
Around mid-2022 I noticed some bugs in the audio Bible. It would sometimes skip chapters or restart a book instead of continuing to the next book. And weirdest of all, it had a chapter called 1 Thessalonians 9!!! I contacted BG and they fixed the bugs. But it’s January 2023 and the bugs are back. I was listening to Ephesians and it went straight from chapter 5 to Philippians 1. (I am using the latest version iPhone.) I don’t know if this is happening with every version or only with NIVUK, but I request BG to have this big fixed.Show lessA Copywriter
Updates are not working
No lie, every time you guys give an update for bug fixes, it gets worse. 🤦♀️. I started having problems about a year or so ago after using for years. For years, this was the best app of its kind! I’m so sorry to see all the problems that have come with updates. The app was finally working again for months, and now with this latest “update” things are once again bad. The app randomly closes constantly. All my previously highlighted verses are gone. When I try to re-highlight them, the app just closes. Also, for months, when I highlighted a verse in one version, it automatically highlighted to all. I loved this feature! I often switched between several versions that I like, and this was so helpful. Now with this latest “update”, that no longer happens. I wish I could go back in time before all the so called “updates.” It really saddens me that something that was once so great has been ruined.Show lessKatmandu1234
Used for years and loved….no more!!
Bible Gateway app has been my favorite over the popular You Version for years. I have been trying to bear with it for the last many months, but just deleted today because I’m wanting and needing to study and do my daily scripture writing but can’t. It opens….and this is pretty much a common regular and multiple back to back occurrence even in one sitting, over the last several months…it opens as normal with the verse of the day, then in seconds an ad pops up, which is expected because I use the free version of the app….however, once I view the ad, and I choose to close it rather than get it or purchase, the ad will close and go back to the verse of the day screen. From there I go to search for the book, chapter and verse I want to read and study, and select it, but instead of pulling it up, the app closes. Some days I have more patience to keep trying and eventually it will stop closing in the described manner, and I actually get to read in the location I selected in the app. But today…I’m done!! After it has closed on me a number of times and I’ve still not gotten to do my daily reading and journal writing of the passage that I was trying to select, my time and my patience with the app has run out. I’ve deleted and going to find another. This one needs some fixes or if that’s their means they use to get you to want to purchase the ad free version of the app….forget it! Don’t want it!!!Show lessNaniex4
Glad it’s not just me
I have been using this app for several years and period just started paying for it within the last year and really have loved it. But for about a three months or so the app on my phone has been terrible. It still works well on the laptop, but not on my cell phone at all. The audio portion rarely remembers which chapter I left off on. I can’t get into the Bible at all. I have to use another app completely to be able to read the Bible. The audio portion works, but I have to go and find the chapter that I was in. It only remembers the book. I do not know if it was an update or what but something has caused the app to stop working fluently as it used to. I am hopeful to update the rating to five stars soon. Because that is what it used to be in my opinion. And I am sure they can get it back there if they notice this recent strand of comments. As I see, I am not the only one.Show lessDmulaa
Used To Love It
Oh, I used to love your app. It was one of the best search tools, it was great for continuous audio, and so much more. But now, it doesn’t remember where you were if you get out of the app. If I do the audio, which is quite frequently, it has massive glitches and kicks out of it multiple times, and where it used to run continuously until I shut it off, it now stops at the end of each book. When you are scrolling to locate a particular location, it doesn’t even go directly to the verse you’re looking for —sometimes it’s at the beginning of the book and sometimes it’s right on but there is no consistency. That’s not to mention all the ads. So, I don’t know if this is a ploy to get a person to go to a paid version or not. But if I can find an app to replace this. I will.Show lesscrazy4fun2
Glitches starting to abound
This has been my favorite iPhone Bible app for years. This is starting to change. A few months ago glitches and bugs began appearing that simply should not exist on an app that is this prominent.
In night mode the verse numbers have an annoying square around them. Not that big a deal, but annoying.
I have turned off the red-letter feature that highlights Jesus’ words. For some reason, that comes on automatically, and the only way to turn it off is to click on the version and then cancel out of it - the red letters disappear for reasons as mysterious as why they appeared in the first place. Not a killer bug, but more annoying than the first glitch I mentioned.
When changing books of the Bible, at times it just won’t switch from one book to the other until I close and restart the app. Now it is starting to get ridiculous. Today, I was in Genesis 1, moved to Acts 1, and when I scrolled down, what should have been Acts 2 was Genesis 12. What???
I have not yet found another app I like, and I desperately hope Bible Gateway will get its act together, but I have written them about it and was told they were aware of these problems, but after several months, these things still aren’t fixed. It is a shame.
Two stars (but one of them is just for nostalgia)Show lessHoltzter
Bible Gateway has changed - and now even the notes don’t wor!
PS The latest “downdate” means that I can’t access my notes from the app. Happily I managed to go onto the web version and download them all (88 pages!!) but in the app they don’t appear as a note reminder on the verse like they used to, and when I press notes to look at the list of my notes, I can’t read them by pressing on the title in the list as I used to be able to. What are you guys DOING?!?
I used to LOVE this app, but the recent update has made me search for another Bible app, because Bible Gateway is so glitchy. Open it up- it defaults to Genesis 1:1, instead of where youleft off. Try to search - it will either return NO RESULTS. (For pride! Really?) or close the app. Compare versions (which used to be so useful) and once you get both sides showing the verse ( not Genesis!) and the version, it crashes. When you open the app, you can’t press “read the Bible” for quite a few seconds( sometimes), unless you risk another crash. And “best” of all, a great big advert pops up every time you open it (which is badly sized and chops out half the ad). This app used to be the BEST and I loved it, but the recent “upgrades” make a mockery of the name. What’s going on?Show lessK8FLR
Need improvement
This would be a great app if it worked. I used it every single day during the day and night for several years. I endured some of the issues for a long time because I almost got used to the issues.
Some of the bugs or issues were for example; every time I went to the dashboard it turned white and empty. My work around was to go to settings and toggle on and off the night view option. Then the second issue every time I went to do my reading plan the fonts were extra small by default. Then I had to go to the settings again and increase the fonts. I deleted and reinstalled this app several times but these issues continued. Then I gave up and deleted the app and got another app without these issues. I missed some of the easy features but I got tired of waiting for the developer to fix the bugs.Show lessCapitan Ed
