Paul Baloche
Desperation Band
Brian Doerksen
Don Moen
Desiring God
The Practice of the Presence of God 
Once you get hold of your exciting new iPhone one of the first things you’ll want to do is find a good quality bible that you can view on it. Back in October and soon after the launch I produced a definitive post of all the free iPhone bible options available. But which iPhone bible is the best for you?
Three months on from the guide to 11 free iPhone bibles, and now several months after the launch of the iPhone. Here are the best bible choices for your iPhone!
the best overall choice: iBibleSpace
iBibleSpace still stands tall as the best iPhone bible offering available free. Firstly it provides the great ESV translation of the bible, including footnotes. As you can see from the image on the left, it looks superb and is perfectly at home on the iPhone.
You can create your own personal notebook to highlight or attach notes to any verse and you easily search the bible by choosing a specific book or use the search feature. They have also thrown in a verse of the day and Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening daily devotional.
If you have to choose one iPhone bible, choose this one!
the next best overall choice: iBibleZ.com
iBibleZ.com is newer than iBibleSpace but is improving in leaps and bounds. As with iBibleSpace it has a great design which fits nicely with the iPhone’s style. It also includes the ESV, ASV and Chinese Union Version, with further translations likely to be added. It is very easy to select the verse you want or search for words too.
iBibleZ is also undergoing continual improvements, so it is worth checking it out now to see what I have missed! Indeed, I would not be surprised if iBibleZ.com jumps to the top of this list soon.
the best for multiple translations: 3onesix
My goodness the 3onesix iPhone bible has more translations than you could dream of! As well as Italian and Spanish bible translations it also includes the NIV. Here is the complete list:
- NIV: New International Version
- TNIV: Today’s New International Version
- KJV: King James Version
- NKJV: New King James Version
- NCV: New Century Version
- NASB: New American Standard Bible
- ItalRV: Italian Revised Version
- ESV: English Standard Version
- SpaRV: Spanish Reina-Valera Antigua
- HCSB: Holman Christian Standard Bible
- MSG: The Message
The best for study: The NET bible
Obviously the iPhone is not exactly designed for in depth bible study! However, if you need some further background on a verse then The NET bible is the best iPhone bible. It has the study notes for the NET bible built in, and is particularly good for giving the original meaning of translated words.
other iPhone bible choices?
If you are not 100% happy with those iPhone bibles, then there are plenty more options as discussed further in ‘the best 11 iPhone bibles’ post.
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January 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Is there a spanish bible for iPhone?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Hi Hugo,
You can use the 3onesix iPhone bible to read Spanish Reina-Valera Antigua (SpaRV) at: http://iphone.3onesix.com/
The default translation is the NIV.
Based on the instructions I have you would have to type “SpaRV:Mark 2″to search for chapter 2 of Mark. This is obviously rather cumbersome. I t may be worth checking if there is a way on 3onesix of setting a default translation?
Thanks for visiting - let me know if this works, if not I’ll try to find a better option!
April 16th, 2008 at 3:20 am
check out cpl… covenantpocketlibrary.com
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Hi Chris,
Thanks for letting me know about Covenant Pocket Library. I’ve added it to the definitive iPhone guide (http://www.freechristianresources.org/2007-10/best-iphone-bibles) and also written a review for it (http://www.freechristianresources.org/2008-04/covenant-pocket-library).
May 14th, 2008 at 2:57 am
Thanks for the resources but I need a bible that I can download to the iphone as internet access is sometimes unavailable. Are there any free ones and if not could you diretme to the best place to purchase? I am looking for 3 versions, esv, niv and nkjv.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Try this for kjv: http://hiarmen.googlepages.com/
June 18th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Hi Pat,
Sorry for the delay in responding to this. You could try ibiblez.com http://ibiblez.com/ which has produced a free downloadable version.
June 29th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I just posted a new spanish translation for TouchBible. I hope those who need a spanish bible translation will find this helpful.
July 12th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
There is a new iPhone Bible app that is powered by YouVersion.com. It features You can download it now for FREE at
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=282935706&mt=8
or read more about it at
http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/2008/07/11/youversion-powers-the-bible-app-on-iphone/
If you can, please take a moment to write a review on iTunes.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Hello Patrick,
That is great news about the addition of the Spanish translation at TouchBible (http://www.touchbible.org/)
Kind regards,
David
July 31st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Hi John,
I will be writing a review soon, there are a couple of new iPhone bible websites that we’ll be reviewing here soon, including of course the YouVersion bible.