He Reads Truth 4+

This has been my Bible app of choice for the past several years because it has a super clean aesthetic and generally works well. I can’t give it more than three stars though for two reasons. The first star was lost because I have an unresolved issue with my profile photo having become a grey circle instead of the original initials. I reached out to the developers a few years back but they said they couldn’t do anything. I recall reaching back out a year or so after that to see if there had been any advancements and got no reply. The second star was lost because the translations offered are very limited, and they only include the translations you are likely to see in conservative evangelical circles. To be fair to the developers, those circles are probably the majority of their customer base, but the results is that other translations like the NRSV or CEB aren’t included. A more ecumenical assortment of translations would benefit everyone involved in my opinion.

I love the look of this Bible app. Everything about it is so clean & the interface makes it easy to navigate. I do have some issues with the software of it, I’m not sure if they’re glitches or not but I hope they can be fixed in the future. The first bug I’ve seen is when I reopen the app after I change the settings of the text, i.e the size, the red letters, etc. it’s almost as if the app forgets what I set it to and resets. The second thing I’ve found difficult is that it doesn’t always stay at the book/verses I was reading when I leave the app. Again, perhaps a resetting bug that causes the problem. The third is that when I tap on a verse, the options to highlight, bookmark, etc. are not always next to the verse I tapped and it gets a little confusing. And finally, when I want to send verses to people through text, it only has the number of the verse but doesn’t include the book & chapter it came from. It’d be really nice if that was included in the text that I can send to people.

All of that being said, I love the amount devotions offered in this app. It really helps me stay accountable with time in the Word and gives me more motivation to dive deeper into it. Thank you so much for making this app, it’s helped me in many more ways than you could know.

I love this app as my quick access Bible, but it is missing many critical features that prevents me from making it my primary Bible app.

1. Please add landscape support. Especially for tablets, it will make note taking and reading easier especially if you are using a keyboard.

2. Adding Apple Pencil handwriting support will make this app very unique and greatly increase the value it adds to the users.

3. Adding more men based content would be greatly appreciated. Most of the content seems to be based on women because of the foundation around She Read Truth, but I would really like to see the He Reads Truth split off with a lot of men based content, podcasts, and other features with some combined features such as marriage reading plans, marriage based studies, and other similar features.

4. Being able to see multiple translations at once.

5. Be able to partially highlight and note verses. I like to be able to break up verses into some critical words and being able to highlight just those and add notes to just those would be a great benefit and once again make it unique among Bible apps.