United StatesThe number one Bible App on the App Store for note-taking & Bible journaling. Write what you hear from God, highlight passages as you study, and draw pictures as a way to express yourself. Pencil Bible is ideal for Christians who want to do Bible study on their iPads. NEW! The iPhone version is also available now - although with limited use compared to the iPad (will add more features in the future). How does it work? 1. Choose your favourite translation (new translations are added all the time) 2. Customize your Bible by choosing a font, font size, line space, drawing space, and white space 3. Draw, write, take notes, journal, doodle, create and read your Bible on the iPad in style Currently, available translations are: - ESV ($8.99) - NLT ($9.99) - CSB ($9.99) - TPT ($12.99) - NIV (NON NORTH AMERICAN ONLY) ($9.99) - NVI SPANISH ($9.99) - NVI PORTUGUESE ($9.99) - KJV (FREE) - ASV (FREE) - WEB (FREE) P.S. Pencil Bible is free to use up to 10 pages. You can subscribe for unlimited use (subscriptions start at $0.99). Subscriptions help with development and cloud costs. You can read the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Good so far - room to improve - too expensive
The ease of use and visual aesthetics of the app are really nice. And in the short time I’ve use it it gets the job done. But considering some missing features that I think are essential and how this app is priced, I can’t give it more than a passing review. You have to pay $10 for each of the more popular translations and if you’re someone who likes to switch between translations you have to pay for each one. On top of paying for translations that most people would use, to make notes on more than 10 chapters, you have to subscribe and either pay $60 one time or $30 yearly (there are more options but you get the jest). Seems a little pricy imo. In terms of missing features, switching between landscape and portrait is a little clunky. You have to wait a couple of seconds for the screen to reload (with a loading bar and everything). In landscape mode the amount of blank space you have is often more than you actually have. Meaning if you draw outside of a marked area, it will not carry the image over if you switched back to portrait. The result is it feels like a lot of waisted horizontal space which is kinda of the point of switching to landscape orientation. My biggest gripe, though, is that many drawing apps allow you to erase or undo an action by tapping with two fingers or double tapping with two fingers. It is a little annoying to have to go all the way to the eraser and back again to the pen to undo a small mistake. BUT overall it’s a nice app. A little expensive, but it gets the job done.
United StatesI love it
I love the way the app is set up but I wish it had the NKJV.
United StatesCrashes every time
I really want to use this app, but every time I open it, it just closes right back instantly. I have no idea what’s wrong. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling, turning it off and on again, searching Google, but I’m not finding anything that will help the app to open. Any advice?
United StatesOnly 2 bookmarks?
For some reason, it only ever shows up to 2 of my bookmarks…? I like to read in multiple places every day, so it’s much more difficult to navigate then other bible apps currently. Hoping that this is a bug that will get fixed soon!!!
United StatesIt’s a ok app for the Bible
I love almost everything with this app. The biggest thing I don’t like is that they give you 3 versions of the Bible. Granted one of the versions if the king James. However for a version like NIV which is commonly used as the standard now they require you to pay $10 which is not ok with me. This is the Bible and they are charging too much for it. I understand they need to make money somehow but this isn’t the way.
United StatesGreat app…but
This is a great app except that you can only read one chapter. For a different chapter it takes a click, a scroll and two more clicks to get to another chapter. Why can’t I just turn a page and keep reading instead of clunking around?
United StatesScam
You get a bible but they only allow you to annotate 10 chapters before they charge you a monthly subscription. Who wants to pay to make reminders of things you find in the Word. No way!
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This is a cool little update! - We completely reworked dark mode. It looks great now! - We now use the full screen if you hide the top bar/header (only for newly created Bibles). Feels and looks great! - Adjusted the toolbar design - The last shape selected is remembered - A few design updates - A few bug fixes
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