NWT Audio Bible vs NWT Reading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NWT Audio Bible
Access and listen to the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures with features like chapter browsing, podcast readings, music, and background playback. Includes daily texts with scriptures. This is an unofficial online research tool for publications.
- Browse and play any chapter
- Podcast Bible readings
- Music and songs
- Background playback
- Daily text with scriptures
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Easily access & listen to New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures anytime, anywhere. App features: • Browse & Play any chapter • Podcast Bible readings • Music & Songs • Background playback • Daily Text with Bible Scriptures This is an online research tool for publications. Made by Jehovah's Witnesses. It is an unofficial app.
NWT Reading
This app offers a structured Bible reading schedule for the New World Translation, catering to Jehovah's Witnesses. It supports multiple languages, tracks progress, and provides various reading plans, including chronological and canonical orders. Users can also explore locations mentioned in scriptures and enjoy a dark mode.
- Bible reading schedule
- Supports multiple languages
- Tracks reading progress
- Canonical and chronological plans
- Highlights key chronological events
- Dark mode theme
- Open source
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NWT Reading provides a Bible reading schedule for the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, specifically for Jehovah's Witnesses. • Supports reading the Bible in all available languages of the complete New World Translation, including sign languages. • Scriptures open in the JW Library® app. • Tracks your reading progress and shows the number of days you are ahead or behind schedule. • Offers several reading plans: canonical, in the order the Bible books were written, and chronologically, as the events took place. • Allows you to select the reading speed or read without a specific end date. • Highlights dates with key events in the chronological plan. • Shows locations mentioned in each section and where to find them in the brochure “See the Good Land.” • Use multiple Bible reading plans in parallel. • Enjoy a dark mode theme for a more comfortable reading experience. • NWT Reading is open source! Find us on GitHub and contribute. • User interface available in Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, and Spanish. JW Library is a registered trademark of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NWT Reading at 79% against NWT Audio Bible's 13%. NWT Reading also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. NWT Audio Bible sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. NWT Reading asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NWT Audio Bible | NWT Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (55 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 79.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 55 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rubo Manukyan | Werner Fleischer |
Customer experience
NWT Audio Bible
NWT Reading
Bugs and requests
NWT Audio Bible
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
NWT Reading
Reported bugs
11 issues- Hebrews 1 in the middle of Philemon
- Link to Bible no longer works after update
- Update makes app confusing and lacks dates
- Lost where I was after several years due to update
- New revision no longer opens in JW Library
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- App doesn't open scriptures in JW Library, taken to JW org instead
- Links not working in chronological plan
- App not opening in JW Lib on iPad
- Update reset reading progress
- Glitch with 'continue at' feature highlights previous day
- Not working on iOS 10.3
Requested features
12 requests- Allow user to set target date
- Notification or reminder feature
- Ability to start at any book
- Option to read only one chapter a day
- Synchronization between devices
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- Split screen capability on iPad
- Dark mode
- Text slider
- Backup option
- Android version
- Daily bible reading schedule based on Kingdom Ministry
- Adjust 1/4x schedule for daily reading
In-app purchases
NWT Audio Bible
- Premium Version$1.991 Month
NWT Reading
No in-app purchases
Questions
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