Access-a-Bible
Have the text to speech announce the current passage and errors.
When reading with TTS, have verse numbers announced.
Hear sound effects when the microphone starts or stops listening.
Hear sound effects when TTS reading is started or stopped.
Show ESV section titles and group verses into paragraphs. When off, ESV displays like other translations.
"List, Chapters & Verses Grid" adds a grid of verse numbers under each chapter, so you can jump straight to a verse.
A small Previous/Next chapter bar, always visible.
Hides the top title bar while scrolling down, and brings it back while scrolling up or near the top.
Hides the bottom toolbar while scrolling down, and brings it back while scrolling up or near the top.
If installed to your home screen, hides your device's remaining browser chrome while scrolling down.
Choose whether the toolbar button (and Shift+Space) activates the microphone or opens a text field to type instead.
Choose the 3 accent colors used throughout the app (buttons, borders, headings, icons).
This feature is in beta.
Layout preview only - the extra icons are placeholders and don't do anything yet.
Only use this if you’re troubleshooting a passage that looks wrong - it's not something you should need day-to-day. It re-downloads every passage you open next, which is slower and uses more data. Your highlights, notes, and settings aren’t affected.
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Tip: put a phrase in "quotes" for an exact match (e.g. "the fruit of the Spirit")
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This isn’t usually necessary - only do this if you’re troubleshooting a passage that looks wrong and suspect it’s showing old cached data. Every passage you open afterward will need to re-download. Continue?
Choose theme colors to customize your experience.
Applies to things like dropdowns, text fields, and toolbar buttons.
Applies to things like the menu button, button borders, and accordion markers.
Applies to things like the passage title and headings, and accordion text.
Remove all recently viewed passages from your history? This can’t be undone.
Delete this note? This can’t be undone.
Choose up to 4 colors to show first when highlighting a verse.
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Hello! Welcome to the Access-a-Bible. You can use voice commands to jump to a specific book, chapter or verse from the Bible. Then, you can ask it to read for you using a text to speech voice.
We pray that God will use this app for His glory.
"For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." - Hebrews 4:12, New International Version (NIV)
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The King James Version (KJV), American Standard Version (ASV), and World English Bible (WEB) are in the Public Domain. You are free to copy and distribute these texts.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT), by Robert Young, is also in the Public Domain. Its text is provided courtesy of eBible.org.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language.
Users may not copy or download more than 500 verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.
Scripture quotations marked “ESV” are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language.
Users may not copy or download more than 500 verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language.
Users may not copy or download more than 500 verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.
Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188, USA. All rights reserved.
The text of the New Living Translation may be quoted in any form up to and inclusive of 250 verses without express written permission of the publisher, provided the verses quoted do not account for more than 20 percent of the work in which they are quoted.
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