MyBible for Android – app description

Contents

1 What this app is for?
2 How did it start?
3 History of Releases
4 MyBible Team
5 App Features
6 Icons
7 Synchronization

What this app is for?

MyBible will help you study the Bible carefully and deeply. It will make the Bible more convenient to read, as you will always have it with you without the need of an Internet connection. Bible translations in more than three hundred languages are available, including the original texts and early translations in ancient Greek, ancient Hebrew, and Aramaic. In MyBible you also have commentaries, biblical dictionaries, thesauruses, daily devotions, and powerful tools to help them all work conveniently together.

How did it start?

The author of MyBible, who previously used a PalmOS-based PDA, created this application because in the entire Android world he could not find any Bible Study application comparable to PalmBiblePlus, which was unsurpassed at its time.

History of Releases

MyBible Team

App Features

Adjustable display of the Bible text, all chapters of a book (not just one chapter at a time); grouping of verses into paragraphs, subheadings, with or without verse numbering; highlighting of Jesus’ words, night mode
Two or three Bible windows with different translations; windows that automatically synchronize for the current position, but can also be used independently
Fast and powerful search of the Bible text
Bible text: convenient paging and scrolling, categorized bookmarks, color-highlighting and underlining of fragments, remarks for the text, reading places, user-defined cross references, comparing of selected verses in different translations
Ancillary means that can be shown in the Bible text: cross references, hyperlinks to commentaries, footnotes, Strong’s numbers
Built-in information on the correspondence of the “Russian” and “standard” numbering of verses in the book of Psalms, Job, and Song of Solomon (this provides for parallel reading of these books in Russian and in other languages)
Bible reading plans: a large selection of pre-defined downloadable reading plans, option to quickly create a simple reading plan of your own, option to activate several reading plans simultaneously, convenient and friendly tracking of your progress on active reading plans
Bible commentaries, comparison of different commentaries for a selected verse
Showing of dictionary articles on a double-touch of a word in the Bible text, option to search for a word of interest in dictionaries, Strong’s lexicon that is activated by a double-touch on a word or on a Strong’s number, Strong’s number usage searching – capable of replacing a printed “Symphony”, option to look up references to a selected verse from dictionary articles – gives input for a deep understanding of integrity of the Scripture
Text-to-Speech (TTS): Bible text, commentaries, dictionary articles, daily devotions, and automatic combining of TTS for the Bible text with TTS for commentaries that are shown as hyperlinks in the Bible text (this could be handy while you are driving a long distance)
Copying of selected verses, copying of verses found as a result of search
Working with favorites: daily devotions, commentary articles, dictionary articles
Notes entry window with hyperlinks to Bible places that can be created automatically for entered references to Scriptures (e.g., John 3:16)
Profiles which completely store an environment, settings, a navigation history, etc. For instance, this allows you to easily switch between “My readings”, “1Cor 13 lesson”, or “Today’s sermon”
Extensive set of settings; optional Simplified Mode, for beginners
Usage tips for the entire main functionality: available from the menu, grouped, allow searching from a word fragment
Support of data back-up and sync hronization between different devices of the same user, this includes settings and downloaded modules and assumes usage of external means, (Dropsync is recommended).

Icons

MyBible has three different icons:

the original MyBible icon with the cross
the icon with the Star of David instead of the cross
the icon with no sign on the book’s cover (for Muslims)

You can explicitly select a desired icon in the MyBible localization settings. Note that selection of a particular icon in essence activates one of the MyBible startup shortcuts, with simultaneous deactivation of others, so please select a desired MyBible icon before finding a handy location for the MyBible shortcut (icon) on your device’s home screen.

By default, MyBible automatically uses one of its icons based on the rules described below.

Icon with the Star of David

This icon is used when:

Hebrew is selected as the device’s system language
or
A device is connected to an Israeli mobile network operator

Icon with no sign on the book’s cover