Gospel Library

Name: Gospel Library
Rating: 4.4 (12358 reviews)
Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Study the word of God

Free · Designed for iPad

12K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Reference
Developer

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Language

EN
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Size

120.3
MB

Gospel Library is the gospel study app of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The library includes the scriptures, general conference addresses, music, learning and teaching manuals, Church magazines, videos, audio recordings, gospel art, and more. Study, search, mark, and share this vast collection.

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

12K Ratings

App is great but i don’t like the new home screen and it constantly crashes.
09/29/2024

Se7ventySix
I wanted to adjust my review so I don’t discourage people from trying it. Issues aside, the app itself and all the content it gives you access to are amazing. You can cross-reference scriptures, conference talks, church magazines, hymns, and any other church published content. You can also create links and notes. I highly recommend giving it a try. Hopefully they are able to fix the sync \ crashing issues. Current Issues:The tiles on the new home screen are too big pushing most of the content down the screen and when I try to scroll below it, the app crashes. I’ve restarted, deleted and reinstalled and nothing fixes it. It still crashes when scrolling below the tiles. Tiles were the worst thing Microsoft ever did. please don’t follow their lead. Please give me the option for the old home screen. I use this every day for my scripture study but it is unusable right now. I’m on ipadOS 17.6.1 on a 12.9” 5th gen ipad.

Developer Response
Thanks for reporting this. If you could send feedback via the Help section of the app (three dots in the top right), we’ll see if we can reproduce the issue.
App is great but i don’t like the new home screen and it constantly crashes.
09/29/2024

Se7ventySix

I wanted to adjust my review so I don’t discourage people from trying it. Issues aside, the app itself and all the content it gives you access to are amazing. You can cross-reference scriptures, conference talks, church magazines, hymns, and any other church published content. You can also create links and notes. I highly recommend giving it a try. Hopefully they are able to fix the sync \ crashing issues. Current Issues:The tiles on the new home screen are too big pushing most of the content down the screen and when I try to scroll below it, the app crashes. I’ve restarted, deleted and reinstalled and nothing fixes it. It still crashes when scrolling below the tiles. Tiles were the worst thing Microsoft ever did. please don’t follow their lead. Please give me the option for the old home screen. I use this every day for my scripture study but it is unusable right now. I’m on ipadOS 17.6.1 on a 12.9” 5th gen ipad.
Developer Response Apr 24
Thanks for reporting this. If you could send feedback via the Help section of the app (three dots in the top right), we’ll see if we can reproduce the issue.
Why did you make the new font so ugly?
08/17/2018

Moroniman
The thing I liked best about using this app to study over my hard copy of the scriptures was the experience I had when scrolling through the text. The last font, spacing and layout was very well done from an aesthetic point of view. It was pleasing to the eyes and made for not only a great tool but also a pleasing experience. Now the text is small and harsh and goes to the far extreme of both sides of the screen (where are the margins?). Yes it provides more content on one page but that content is too small and difficult to use. Yes you can manually change the size of the text in tools but that only works for that one chapter. You have to repeat the process every time you advance a chapter. The irony is when you pull up the footnotes they are in the old font and size while the main text is in the new aesthetically challenged font. It makes me want to read only the footnotes. Why can’t we have the best of all worlds, more info, pleasing aesthetics, pleasing font and for heavens sake some margins. All I know is that my study was more rewarding and spiritually focused in the last version. Isn’t that what we are striving for?I look forward to an improvement in the next version. That or let those who want revert back to the old way or at least have that option.
Why did you make the new font so ugly?
08/17/2018

Moroniman

The thing I liked best about using this app to study over my hard copy of the scriptures was the experience I had when scrolling through the text. The last font, spacing and layout was very well done from an aesthetic point of view. It was pleasing to the eyes and made for not only a great tool but also a pleasing experience. Now the text is small and harsh and goes to the far extreme of both sides of the screen (where are the margins?). Yes it provides more content on one page but that content is too small and difficult to use. Yes you can manually change the size of the text in tools but that only works for that one chapter. You have to repeat the process every time you advance a chapter. The irony is when you pull up the footnotes they are in the old font and size while the main text is in the new aesthetically challenged font. It makes me want to read only the footnotes. Why can’t we have the best of all worlds, more info, pleasing aesthetics, pleasing font and for heavens sake some margins. All I know is that my study was more rewarding and spiritually focused in the last version. Isn’t that what we are striving for?I look forward to an improvement in the next version. That or let those who want revert back to the old way or at least have that option.
Thank you for such a marvelous tool and the constant improvement
04/13/2024

BNiedens
I am so grateful for those people who had the vision to create this app, for those who originally created it and those who are working on improving the app. This app has improved my gospel study, conversion to Christ and improvement of my relationship to Heavenly Father. The tab and note functions have allowed me to easily do things which would have taken years to do with paper scriptures. An example is first searching The Book of Mormon for each occurrence of “Repent” and it’s variants, tagging each occurrence, being able to make notes at each occurrence of the word to identify and categorize the major usage of the word and then making an index in the Notebook identifying which verses can be classified under each major usage category. Using the split screen function on a tablet allows me to have one side open to the tags and the other screen open to the Notebook allowing easy classification of verses into categories. This has been a most enlightening exercise in the mercy and love available from our God.

Developer Response
Thanks for your positive review and feedback!
Thank you for such a marvelous tool and the constant improvement
04/13/2024

BNiedens

I am so grateful for those people who had the vision to create this app, for those who originally created it and those who are working on improving the app. This app has improved my gospel study, conversion to Christ and improvement of my relationship to Heavenly Father. The tab and note functions have allowed me to easily do things which would have taken years to do with paper scriptures. An example is first searching The Book of Mormon for each occurrence of “Repent” and it’s variants, tagging each occurrence, being able to make notes at each occurrence of the word to identify and categorize the major usage of the word and then making an index in the Notebook identifying which verses can be classified under each major usage category. Using the split screen function on a tablet allows me to have one side open to the tags and the other screen open to the Notebook allowing easy classification of verses into categories. This has been a most enlightening exercise in the mercy and love available from our God.
Developer Response Apr 24
Thanks for your positive review and feedback!
Disappointing Search Issues
08/14/2018

Sparky McMuffin
I’ll leave my original review as it stands. I fixed the search results. When you type a search keyword, the results that pop up are as I stated: hymns, topical guide, and dictionary. However, if you tap on return, the true search completes. This pop up info is what has been introduced with this version. Changing app behavior like this is incredibly confusing. The release notes don’t even address this change in behavior. I find this change in search behavior more complicated and less intuitive than before because the new contextual shortcuts appear to be search results. I can’t be the only person confused by this change. ⁂ I don’t care about the GUI update. Search has either been severely hampered, or it’s broken. I have come to rely on the power of this app to find all references to a keyword in every downloaded document on my device. Now search only shows results for hymns, topical guide, and bible dictionary, or it shows results for articles not downloaded yet, but it shows NO RESULTS for scriptures. This is stepping us back over ten years, which is how long it’s been since I used the Topical Guide to find a scripture. Surely, search isn’t meant to be this useless now?
Disappointing Search Issues
08/14/2018

Sparky McMuffin

I’ll leave my original review as it stands. I fixed the search results. When you type a search keyword, the results that pop up are as I stated: hymns, topical guide, and dictionary. However, if you tap on return, the true search completes. This pop up info is what has been introduced with this version. Changing app behavior like this is incredibly confusing. The release notes don’t even address this change in behavior. I find this change in search behavior more complicated and less intuitive than before because the new contextual shortcuts appear to be search results. I can’t be the only person confused by this change. ⁂ I don’t care about the GUI update. Search has either been severely hampered, or it’s broken. I have come to rely on the power of this app to find all references to a keyword in every downloaded document on my device. Now search only shows results for hymns, topical guide, and bible dictionary, or it shows results for articles not downloaded yet, but it shows NO RESULTS for scriptures. This is stepping us back over ten years, which is how long it’s been since I used the Topical Guide to find a scripture. Surely, search isn’t meant to be this useless now?

• Added an indicator on role-based content in the library. • Fixed an issue where related content wasn’t accessible when using VoiceOver. • Fixed an issue where the screens panel didn’t always scroll to the current screen. • Fixed an issue where content flickered after switching screens. • Fixed an issue where new content notifications opened to a blank screen. • Fixed an issue where the reading view didn’t always load completely after downloading content. • Fixed an issue where scrolling could be buggy after swiping between chapters. • Fixed an issue where the formatting bar in the note editor was inaccessible on macOS. • Fixed an issue where the Choose Highlight panel was blank on macOS. • Improved error handling when playing a playlist while offline. • Improved full screen experience on iOS 17.

Version 7.5.2

Nov 23

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