Available in English, 40+ others Website www.youversion.com | Owner Life.Church Registration Optional | |
Alexa rank 4,814 (Bible.com)
82,035 (YouVersion.com) Launched 2008; 9 years ago (2008) | ||
YouVersion (also known as Bible.com or the Bible App) is an online and mobile Bible platform published for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and many other operating systems; it also supports a variety of other platforms. YouVersion's Bible App features 1480 Bible versions, in 1073 languages, audio Bibles for popular versions, offline capabilities, as well as over 800 Bible Plans on specific topics, portions of the Bible, the entire Bible, and devotionals.
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History
Introduced in 2008, YouVersion has been described as the "world's most popular Bible program for mobile phones".
November 2013 brought around the introduction of the Bible App for Kids, which 13 months later had 5 million installations in 6 languages.
YouVersion is funded by Life.Church and outside donors. It is staffed by more than 20 full-time employees and more than 400 active volunteers.
In April 2014, YouVersion released version 5 of the Bible App, which added features for community engagement and scripture discussion. The Bible App has been downloaded more than 200 million times.
In April 2015, The Bible App became available on the Apple Watch and included functionality for reading the Verse of the Day, viewing trending verses, as well as the ability to jump to your own Verse Images, Bookmarks, and Highlights.
In November 2015, The Bible App became available as an Amazon Alexa skill on the Amazon Echo.
In August 2016, YouVersion announced that the Bible App became the first mobile app in history to offer text content in over 1,000 languages.
By February 2017, YouVersion had been downloaded over 262 million times. The app had 1480 versions of the Bible, in 1073 languages.
In March 2017, YouVersion launched a service using Google Assistant on Google Home devices that enabled users to ask for Bible verses based on moods and emotions.