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Now Available: The Bible App for Apple Watch
Now there’s a whole new way you can experience the Bible App: on your Apple Watch. Jump directly into some of the Bible App features you use most often, right on your wrist:
- Read the Verse of the Day just by looking at your wrist.
- Know that someone is thinking about you each time you feel that little vibration telling you one of your Friends Liked or Commented on your Bible activity.
- Any time you think of it, glance to see which verses are trending.
- Easily jump to your own Verse Images, Bookmarks, and Highlights.
All over the world, people just like you are connecting with each other through the global YouVersion community, sharing encouragement, inspiration, and insight. And the latest update to the Bible App for iOS places the power of that community around God’s Word…literally at your fingertips.
Jesus Sets a Man Free in a New Bible App for Kids Story, “Demons Destroyed”
“Demons Destroyed” is the newest story in the Bible App for Kids. Your kids will thrill at seeing Jesus set a man free from evil spirits that had been tormenting him for years. Based on Mark 5:1–20, as Jesus and his disciples are walking by a cemetery near the Sea of Galilee, they meet a very troubled man. When evil spirits that live inside the man beg Jesus to leave them alone, the man tells Jesus that he has “lots” of mean spirits inside him. Jesus tells the bad spirits they have to leave, making them go into a herd of pigs nearby. All the pigs run into a lake together and drown.
When the pig herders go tell the people in town what happened, everyone comes out to see for themselves. But when they see how different the man is, it makes them afraid, so they ask Jesus to leave. When the grateful man wants to go with Jesus, Jesus tells him he should stay and tell people his happy story instead — that when Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee, he cast out “Lots” and set him free. And that’s just what the man did!
If you already have the Bible App for Kids, all you need to do to get “Demons Destroyed” is open the Bible App for Kids and tap the new story icon. But even if you don’t have the app yet, getting it is easy — and it’s free! Just click one of the buttons below.
About the Bible App for Kids
Already installed on more than 6 million devices, the Bible App for Kids comes from YouVersion, makers of the Bible App™. In partnership with OneHope, the Bible App for Kids was designed specifically to provide your children with a delight-filled Bible experience all their own. Here are all the places where you can get the Bible App for Kids:
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Now Available: Choose Your Own Photos for Verse Images
Verse Image is one of the most popular features in YouVersion history, with more than 1.8 million already created since it launched. Hopefully you’ve already been enjoying making your own Verse Images, turning Bible verses into inspirational art that you can share with your community of friends. Today we’re pleased to announce that with the newest release of the Bible App, now you can select your own photos as backgrounds for your Verse Images!
Note: Before you can use Verse Images, make sure you have the most current version of the Bible App installed. Some older versions of Android and iOS may not be supported.
On Apple Devices:
From inside the Bible App:
- Tap the passage you want to share.
- Tap the Share icon.
- Tap Image.
- Tap the gray image icon in the first square.
- Follow the prompts to the photos already on your device and select the one you want.
- Customize your image with fonts, colors, and other effects.
- Share your Verse Image directly into your Bible App Home feed, as an SMS or email message, or on social media.
On Android Devices:
From inside the Bible App:
- Tap the passage you want to share.
- Tap the Image icon.
- Tap the gray image icon in the first square.
- Follow the prompts to the photos already on your device and select the one you want.
- Customize your image with fonts, colors, and other effects.
- Share your Verse Image directly into your Bible App Home feed, as an SMS or email message, or on social media.
Also coming soon…
Add blur.
Blurring your
background picture
can create greater
contrast for your text,
making your Verse
Image easier to read.
Adjust text and
line spacing.
Fine-tune space
between the letters
and between the lines
in your Verse Image.
About the Bible App
The Bible App™ has been installed on more than 170 million unique devices, all over the world. Developed by YouVersion, the Bible App offers more than 1,000 Bible versions, in more than 770 languages. And it’s always completely free.
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Why YouVersion is Bringing the Bible App to Apple Watch
The power of God’s Word, close at hand.
At YouVersion, we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, the primary way that He communicates with us. And we believe that the Bible has the power to absolutely transform lives. We’ve seen it happen — again and again and again.
That’s why we keep our mission simple: to help you engage with the Bible. Because we’re convinced that when you spend time with the Bible, either reading or listening, and then carefully reflect on what it’s saying to you, God’s Spirit will do something inside of you. His words will change you, make you into a new person. Ultimately, His words will draw you closer to Him.
That’s what drives every release of the Bible App, every new feature. We research which behaviors seem most likely to help you daily engage with the Bible. We select the ones we believe will be the most effective for the most people, and then we carefully craft features around those.
That’s why we’re bringing the Bible App to Apple Watch.
We’ll be there on launch day, just like we were among the first 200 free apps in Apple’s App Store on the day it launched in 2008. That first version of the Bible App let people have the Bible with them, constantly available everywhere they went. And we never stop evaluating new opportunities that might help you keep God’s Word in front of you.
We realized that certain aspects of this unique platform could deepen the presence of the Bible verses that mean the most to you — those that you tagged specifically with Verse Images, Bookmarks, or Highlights. We even tried to think through how your Apple Watch could help you stay closely connected to your community of Bible App Friends.
After hours of discussing, debating, prototyping, experimenting, tweaking, discarding — then repeating the process — we landed on the features that we think will help you get the most from the Bible App on your Apple Watch. Now we’re looking forward to the new ways we believe God will speak to you through his Word when you’re able to give it this kind of constant, natural presence in your daily life.
Meditation:
Verse of the Day
Every day, the Bible App presents you with the “Verse of the Day,” keystone Bible verses meaningful to believers the world over. With Apple Watch, you can revisit the Verse of the Day anytime you want, with just a glance and a tap.
Biblical Community:
Friend Notifications
“Every time I think of you,
I give thanks to my God.”
Philippians 1:3
Taptic notifications are a brand new feature unique to Apple Watch. If you turn on your Bible App notifications, you’ll feel a tiny vibration each time one of your Bible App Friends likes or comments on your Bible activity. Without even looking, you’ll know that in that very moment, one of your trusted friends is thinking of you, encouraged or inspired by the time you’ve recently spent in God’s Word.
Inspiration:
Trending Verses
Which Scriptures are other believers engaging with right now? With a tap and a scroll, a quick glance at which Bible verses are trending will give you a sense of what’s happening across the worldwide YouVersion community. Available exclusively on Apple Watch.
Mindfulness:
Your Verse Images, Bookmarks, and Highlights
Bible App on Apple Watch will let you scroll through and view your own Verse Images, Bookmarks, and Highlights. It’s a simple, practical way that you can find inspiration, encouragement, or even just a reminder of the things you value most.
All over the world, people just like you are connecting with each other through the global YouVersion community, centered around God’s Word. And very soon, the Bible App for Apple Watch will place the power of that community literally at your fingertips. Make the Bible App one of the first apps you connect to your Apple Watch. As long as your iPhone is up-to-date and Apple Watch-compatible, then the day that your Apple Watch arrives, the Bible App will be there.