Now available in Spanish as a free download. Read the standard works and hymns side by side in English and Japanese, Portuguese, or Spanish.
Gappon is a straightforward app for reading the standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in two languages: the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price, with parallel language support where available. Japanese and English are built in, and Portuguese and Spanish are available as free downloads.
Included texts and materials:
• The Japan Bible Society, Bible: Japanese Colloquial (1954)
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Holy Bible, King James Version
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Bíblia Sagrada (Portuguese, 2015)
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Santa Biblia Reina-Valera (Spanish, 2009)
• The Book of Mormon
• The Doctrine and Covenants
• The Pearl of Great Price
• Joseph Smith Translation Appendix
• Guide to the Scriptures
• Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
This app is not published by or affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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This is really a great app. I’ve been using it for over a year and just recently made the in app purchase just to support you. I want to keep you improving the app. Really good job. One feature request if I may. I can read 80 to 90% of the Kanji characters but sometimes I am really distracted by the furigana. On the other hand, sometimes I need the furigana too. It would be really nice if you had a toggle like you do for the English, to be able to turn on and off the furigana. You could put it in the top left corner like the English toggle, or you could make it a floating toggle like the text to voice toggle. Thx for the great app. よろしくお願いします。
Developer Response
Thank you very much for purchasing and taking the time out to share your thoughts. I would definitely consider the feature you requested and will make it happen if I find a nice way to integrate it into the existing features. Your support is greatly appreciated. I'll keep updating the app in order to help your scripture study in Japanese.
NEEDS the ability to turn off furigana
Bagmon
Love this app, but it needs the ability to turn off furigana: it interferes with the ability to look up words, which is one of the main problems with the Gospel Library Japanese Scriptures. I understand that if the church still hasn’t done it, it’ll likely be difficult to do it yourself, but it’s 100% the next step. Perhaps, if that’s not doable, you can apply tags to all the words so we can just tap on them and it’ll show a dictionary entry for each word. It would be very nice to be able to see what is what type of speech more easily like you see in TODAI’s “Easy Japanese News” AppAlso, how do we send feature requests? Since the app used text to voice software, could you highlight what ever words are being spoken? That would make it a lot easier to follow along, especially for beginners
How come I didn’t find this app until now?!!!
Shikaszun
Thank you so much! I am a missionary studying Japanese, and I had been trying to find a good Japanese/English Bible with furigana since I still struggle with kanji. I almost bought a $30dll Japanese Bible just because it had furigana, but then I found this app! The fact that it has also other religious books makes it even better since I also like studying about other religions. I wish I could give you more than 5 stars, I hope to see more books added to this app such in the future I’d definitely buy them!Again, thank you!
Developer Response
Thank you very much for taking the time to leave the 5-star review. It is an honor to be able to help you to study Japanese and teach people the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Great find!!!
esmac 0000
This app is so great!. I was a missionary in Japan 25 years ago, and I want to start working on reading the Scriptures in Japanese. I love that the English version for each verse is right below, and that the Old and New Testaments are included!. Thank you so much! And it has furigana. Most online Bibles and apps do not. Love it!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this excellent review. I’m glad that the app helps you reading the scriptures in Japanese.
• Added Spanish (free download from Settings > Add or Remove Languages)
• Menus and settings are now available in Spanish
• Text-to-speech now uses Enhanced or Premium voices downloaded to your device (Gappon Premium)
Version 7.3
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Seller
Nozomi Okada
Size
83.6 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
