NIV Audio Bible: David Suchet 4+
British Text
Hachette UK (BP)
Designed for iPad
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- £14.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The official NIV Audio Bible app includes the full text of the NIV Bible (British Text) and the award-winning audio narration by British actor, David Suchet
INSTALL NOTE: As this app includes the full 80 hours of audio for the NIV Bible read by David Suchet, you will need 1.3GB free space on your device for it to install successfully and downloading may take some time to complete.
Simple to navigate, it’s the easiest way to read, listen to and make notes on the NIV on your iOS device – perfect for taking to church, house group or for your own quiet times. The journalling feature will help you to respond to your Bible reading with notes and bookmarks. From Hodder & Stoughton, publishers of the Anglicised New International Version.
READ THE NIV EVERYWHERE
- Simple navigation: the Quick Verse Selector helps you find passages at speed and remembers your most visited places.
- Clear, readable layout: the Bible text matches the printed NIV 2011 Bibles.
- Full Bible text included so no need for a network connection to use any of the app features.
- Full-text keyword search allows you to find all entries for a particular word in the Bible.
- Short introductory reading plans to stimulate your daily Bible reading.
- Well-known passages: find shortcuts to famous stories and events in the Bible.
- Reading mode turns off verse and chapter numbers.
- Turn off toolbars to give you an uninterrupted reading experience.
- Choose to turn the words of Christ red or leave them black.
- Adjust text size and brightness to make reading more comfortable.
LISTEN TO THE BIBLE
- Listen to British actor David Suchet read his award-winning recording of the Bible as you read or while multitasking.
- Quick and easy to find the passage you want to listen to.
- Play the audio continuously, or select a verse at a time.
- Follow the verses as they are narrated by selecting ‘Highlight verse with audio’.
- Turn off the audio capability entirely if you wish to use the app for reading only.
- The NIV Audio Bible read by David Suchet won 'Bible of the Year' at the 2015 Christian Resources Together Awards.
JOURNALLING
- Make notes next to the text as you study the Bible or listen to a sermon.
- Bookmark your favourite passages for easy reference.
- Notes and Bookmarks tabs list of all your entries so you can quickly jump to the one you want.
- Share notes and verses with friends and family or yourself by SMS (text), email, Twitter and Facebook.
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
With over 400 million Bibles in print, the New International Version is the world’s most popular Bible in modern English. Setting the highest standards of reliability and readability, the NIV is ideal for personal reading, public teaching and group study.
Royalties from all sales of the NIV help Biblica in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.
This Anglicised NIV app has been developed in the UK by Aimer Media in collaboration with Hodder & Stoughton. Due to the terms of Hodder’s NIV license, the app cannot be purchased in the USA or Canada. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
DAVID SUCHET
David Suchet CBE is an acclaimed British actor. He has enjoyed great success with the RSC and in London's West End. He is best known in television for his portrayal of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot. He is also a practising Anglican. Follow him on Twitter @David_Suchet
HODDER & STOUGHTON
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What’s New
Version 2.1.0
Bug fixes and restoration of old bookmarks/notes.
Ratings and Reviews
Urgent changes need
I’ve had this app for years, it’s been one of my favourites!
With the recent update we have seen a new feature allowing us to visibly highlight verses, thank you! So helpful!
The update also has created some short comings, please can you change them for a better experience for phone users:
- Scrolling between chapters, was a nice slide, you could see where you were going, now it just jumps and is hard to control!
- I suffer from Dyslexia and the mono-font style text that was used before made reading so much more easier, helped me read my Bible with ease, this is the only app that has catered for Dyslexic people!
- The verses followed along highlighted as David read aloud, it was very easy to follow along and pause so I could reflect. So very helpful due to having dyslexia my eyes would easily skip lines, having it highlighted makes following the words so much more easier and enjoyable!
- When you press the play button, it plays where you were last at rather than the chapter you’ve selected, you have to manually click on the verse and tell it to play, causing a hinderance.
My thoughts are if you make the app as easy to use, not only people will want to use it, but will encourage others to read the Bible more as it’s easier to access!
Great audio, but terrible app design
David Suchet's reading is fantastic, just enough emphasis and expression to engage and bring the text to life, but avoiding the distracting over dramatisation of some audio versions.
However, it is such a shame that more care wasn't taken over developing the user interface. It is glitchy, and far from intuitive to use.
The feature to highlight text as it is read simply doesn't work. It is jumping all over the place. I don't understand how Apple allow apps on their store that promise features that don't work. In the real world you could take a physical purchase back to the shop for a refund if it didn't work as intended, but I suspect it is not that easy in the virtual world once they have your money.
There is another feature in the audio section that displays 3 starting points for readings. They seem to act like bookmarks, but there is no obvious way to set them. If you touch or hold them them just play from that point.
Swiping the pages from left or right is also glitchy. It's like the interface is fighting with you. It only works if you get right onto one edge of the screen and swipe fully across to the other edge.
Overall, I'm very disappointed that such great content has been packaged in such a poorly thought out way. I hope they take the time and money to start from scratch and completely rethink the UI.
Great potential but falls short
I agree with all the challenges reported. The reading and emphasis is great but text does not follow reading for long and loses altogether when phone goes into battery save mode.
The highlighting when I’d does follow is hard to see. Moving forward or back is clumsy. At end of book, it stops and now does not automatically move to next book. I use it when driving so the lack of following or of changing books is a real issue esp on a long journey and across the shorter books.
I have raised the issues repeatedly by email, and to no avail. Come on guys, to a programmer this is not rocket science. You need to do better….
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Information
- Provider
- Bookpoint Limited
- Size
- 40.1 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Hodder & Stoughton, Aimer Media
- Price
- £14.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Bible in One Year £2.99