# The Living Bible — user reviews > 73 indexed App Store user reviews of The Living Bible by RAVINDHIRAN SUMITHRA, rated 4.80/5 from 3,722 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-living-bible/id1517515086/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-living-bible/id1517515086.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,272 · 4★ 239 · 3★ 84 · 2★ 46 · 1★ 81 ## What do users think of The Living Bible? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💡 Easy to read and understand - 🚀 Refreshing and helpful - 👍 Detailed and tailored to details **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and unreliable - 💤 Distracting ads - 🤯 Demonic ads - 🤔 Confusing and hard to navigate **Commonly reported bugs** - Subscription issues - Inability to close ads - Incorrect chapter tracking - Compatibility issues **Most requested features** - Ability to save reading progress - Improved table of contents - Automatic reading mode - Verse numbers and references ## Newest reviews (16 of 73) ### 3/5 — No Audio for me *2026-05-20* There is nowhere in the app I can find to use audio. It doesn’t look the same as the preview does here in the app store. No Audio button found. disappointing. 😞 ### 2/5 — Allows malicious adds! *2026-05-01, version 5.2* This app allows malicious, scam adds that are trying to mimic Apple in an attempt to deceive iPhone users! ### 1/5 — Living Bible App *2023-12-10, version 1.0* Very poor quality. Books of the Bible are not named or labeled. They are only numbered. Very un user friendly. ### 1/5 — Not The Living Bible (TLB) *2023-09-07, version 1.0* Textually, not The Living Bible. Verse 2 Tim 4:3-4 is not correct. Verified with TLB pdf by Tyndale, and TLB on Bible Gateway. ### 2/5 — Where are the books? *2023-08-27, version 1.0* App looks nice but you have to tap and guess whi book you want to read or looking for. Its blank! I dont like having to guess ### 4/5 — Distracting *2023-08-22* Love being able to read the Bible on my phone. What I don’t like is all the ads that distract you from what you are reading. Probably will go back to a good old fashioned book. At least I won’t just get into what I am studying and then get side tracked by annoying ads! ### 3/5 — Review *2023-08-13, version 1.0* Advert disturbing ### 1/5 — Missing verses *2023-07-20, version 1.0* I’m not really sure why you have deleted verses. The Bible is the Bible and it’s not your place to edit it. ### 3/5 — Would be nice if… *2023-07-02* One could read the names of the books in the drop down menu. They’re in white don’t even when you change the display settings. The app also doesn’t play on the background, so one has to keep tapping the screen to keep it from shutting off while it’s reading the scriptures aloud. Really wanted to like this, but sadly it’s not meeting the expectations or standards. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-05-13* this app doesn’t work on cellular data only on wi-fi so not much use unless sat at home ### 2/5 — Living Bible *2023-05-09, version 1.0* The App doesn’t work only comes up when I downloaded the App. After that I get a white screen very disappointing. ### 1/5 — Please change the negative scriptures to encouraging daily scriptures *2023-04-29, version 1.0* I love using you app to look up the word, however, the daily scriptures is never anything really positive and encouraging. With the issues of life I need to feel the love of God everyday! ### 2/5 — New Living *2023-04-17, version 1.0* It sometimes it’s the wrong “interpretation”. It’s more a commentary and then only a fair one not the best. Sorry I know some folks spent a lot of time putting it together but it is NOT a translation in my opinion! ### 3/5 — The living bible app problems *2023-04-15* The living bible is a easy version to read. However I am disappointed to why the app is never updated. I am Interrupted always with the pop up adverts, when you am trying to find the scriptures it disappears from time to time. Also it doesn’t save the scriptures from the last place you read you end up having to start from the beginning. It would help if you can read from the large size of the iPad ### 1/5 — Not current. *2023-04-06, version 1.0* Not current. ### 1/5 — Where’s My Ad-Free? *2023-03-02, version 1.0* I paid for ad-free but I still see at the bottom. Either give me the ad-free or I will submit for refund to Apple. Nobody wants to see ads while trying to read Bible verses. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — ALL I SEE IS ADVERTS *2025-08-31, version 5.0* I downloaded this Bible app yesterday and after typing this review I’ll be deleting it because I’m not able to read the Bible because of adverts. ### 1/5 — A no go *2025-07-03, version 4.1* There’s ads. This is a Bible app!! ### 1/5 — Needs lots of improvement *2025-02-08, version 4.1* The way this app is working right now, it is junk. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother *2024-12-25, version 4.1* Too many advertisements. It breaks your concentration and distracts you from what you’re reading and experiencing. The cost of ad free is too much. ### 1/5 — Not happy with update *2024-09-26, version 4.1* I loved this bible reading app until they came out with the new update. I lost all my notes and saved scriptures. I also lost my progress the (mark as read). Not to mention there is no audio like it advertises, at least not for me. ### 1/5 — Worst strategy for ads *2024-09-04, version 4.1* Who needs to see or forced to see ads while trying to spend time reading the Bible. ### 1/5 — Living Bible Rate *2024-08-17, version 4.1* The reason I rated it very low was way to many Adds!! You can’t stay concentrating on what you are reading for all of the ads popping up!!!!!! The Bible should be free and free from ads!!! ### 1/5 — Tech-support 100% unavailable *2024-07-06* I paid for a lifetime subscription. Four days ago it said I had to buy a subscription. I clicked on the link to restore my subscription. It just spins. I tried going to the help page, when you try to get a hold of Support. Nothing happens. Extremely buggy. ### 1/5 — The app functionality is bad *2024-05-24, version 1.0* I love this version of the Bible, it my favorite. But, this app has been very disappointing. It’s totally blank when I open the app, I can’t see what book I am on. The front end functions are totally off. I am disappointed. ### 1/5 — God’s word says *2024-02-05* God’s word says you are not to add or take away from his word. You left out the verse in Luke chapter 17:36. And it’s possible that there are others missing in this app so For that reason I’m deleting this app and if I could take away the one star I assure you that I would… don’t mess around with the Lords word.!. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — DAWN’S REVIEW *2026-08-02, version 5.5* I love this bible application. It’s so easy to read and understand. I just love it! Thank you for your service. ### 5/5 — Refreshing *2024-05-25* Although the Bible is a little complicated to understand sometimes, The Living Bible gives the same word from God. TLB is easy to read and much easier to understand. God wants us to stay in his word and get to know him and TLB will bring you closer to him! Great reading and God Bless you! ### 5/5 — Living Bible *2023-08-17, version 1.0* Can’t figure some things out. Voice Text size ### 5/5 — Easy to navigate & understand *2023-07-31, version 1.0* This app has been wonderful is many areas, if I was looking for a quick verse, or wanted to dive into a specific chapter which was easy to find.in my Morning reading hours or waiting in line. The video are nice to share with kids who are very focused on the ‘tik toc’ version of life. I continue to find more ways to understand the great book from this app.. thank you ### 5/5 — Living the Living Word *2023-02-19* Can’t express enough how helpful this Bible is when I want a more clear understanding. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Easy To Read And Understand *2023-02-18* I have come to love reading the Word of God, this Bible IS easy to read and understand. ### 5/5 — The living Bible is easier to understand *2023-01-04, version 1.0* Love, or even the Bible keeps me closer to God ### 5/5 — Living Bible Translation *2022-06-21* Easy to comprehend especially English is my second language..Thank you to the people responsible for making this apps so amazing. ### 5/5 — Easy read *2022-06-15* I love the format. Each verse is easy to read and they don’t “bleed” into the previous or next verse. I wish my other Bible apps were this reader/user friendly. ### 5/5 — Detailed *2022-06-10, version 1.0* This version of The living bible is so tailored to details. I’ll recommend it for anyone anytime any day. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*