The JW Library app* is designed to enhance your Bible reading and deepen your personal study. Download Bible-based publications, videos, and audio programs to access your content anytime, anywhere.
Multiple Bible Translations
• Read God’s Word and compare verses from various Bible translations available in hundreds of languages.
Library of Publications
• Download books, brochures, and articles in over 1,000 languages, including more than 100 sign languages.
Videos and Audio Programs
• Enjoy a variety of programs, including videos on Bible teachings, Bible talks, feature dramas, and animated series.
Music
• Listen to a variety of original compositions, including vocal, orchestral, and instrumental recordings.
Daily Text
• Start your day with a Bible verse and comments containing positive, upbuilding thoughts.
Meetings
• Access material for both midweek and weekend meetings in one location.
Search
• Find specific Bible verses, content, and topics.
Personal Study
• Highlight text, add personal notes, and categorize with tags.
Playlists
• Create and organize playlists of music, videos, audio programs, and pictures.
* JW Library is an official app produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Thank you to all of my brothers and sisters who have put endless efforts into forming this app to what it is today, and thank you Jehovah for blessing and supporting us. I have used it forever and never thought about a review until now! I am grateful for the easy access to my bible, publications, music, quick and easy videos! Having these options make a lot of obstacles easier in the ministry but primarily helps to keep the faith of the main users strong. I will not speak of the bugs here and there because restarting the app has always worked for me but I will speak on something I am passionate about and that is the highlight colors! I noticed we got more options for speeding up the audio and that is awesome! I normally can’t listen to the bible reading unless it’s at a 1.5x but I do go back a lot so it’s nice to have slower and faster options! Now for the colors.. very passionate about how I highlight certain texts. I can use Psalms for example, which is where I am right now, I feel a lot of pink when reading what David will say he feels about Jehovah but the pinkish red color I am already using as a “Stop, Wrong” and orange as a “Danger, Warning” just to give a feel of what I mean. So the best I have are green and yellow which correlate but differentiate in their own uses. I don’t know if a color wheel would be possible but it would be nice to have a baby pink.. as it is a rare occasion & very special type of text, like David and Jonathan’s brotherhood or a strong emotion. Thank you anyway!
What a feast!
catndud
I am so truly appreciative for this spiritual resource. With everything literally at our fingertips, I continue learning more & gaining deeper insight about Jehovah. The reference materials are amazing! I use the Personal Study as my quick-access subject reference library, having it set up just like the old walk-in libraries are. I make notes & create references about everything. One thing that would really be wonderful is the ability to highlight & tag a video title for a quick reference. Sometimes when discussing a particular principle, it takes SO long to find that video you know applies. I have given up a time or two because I just couldn’t find it at the time. Having the title as a tagged note in my Personal Study would really be helpful. I can do this with the videos included in a publication (i.e. ‘Video Reference Guide’) but not the videos available only in “Media”. Maybe a video index publication listing the video talks [on JW Broadcasting, all the animations on Children, the animations & guidance talks on Teenagers, talks for the Family, Morning Worship talks, & Bible Teachings & Principles] would be a possible solution for note geeks like me. It would be so efficient to have any one of these available to go to immediately by subject (tag) with the touch of a finger 🙂 I know how hard everyone works to make all this spiritual food available to us, & I am not unaware of the amount of work that would be involved in such a task as I am suggesting. I am grateful for all you do!!
Love this APP
Anitapioneer
I appreciate so much that Jehovah‘s organization has given us an app that helps feed us spiritually. There are some things that I wish you that would allow for an easier and more personal experience with this app. I would love for there to be a color wheel where we can choose a color that we wish to use. I think that being able to put certain fonts would be great for when we write our notes to have that choice would be nice. I also think that underlining would be a great option to also have and when morning worship comes out I think it would be such a great feature to be able to add that to the scripture that they’re explaining for example if a morning worship has to do with Genesis 315 I would love the idea of being able to just have it where when I read that scripture I can maybe put a link that will take me to that morning worship if I choose to. I would also love for there to be an option to separate my notes within one book according to language, for example, if I studied something in Spanish, I write my notes, but within that same publication if I look forward in English, my Spanish notes still appear I think that if there can be an option where I can choose to just separate it, my English notes stay with my English publication and my Spanish notes with my Spanish publication.. but then if I wanna see both notes, I can also choose that option.
Playlists & Notes…& Crashes 💥
Jay Double Yew
As always, the benefits of this app far outnumber any issues with using it. However, lately, my app has been crashing multiple times. This makes personal study and meeting preparation more difficult. My patience sure was tested during convention as I did my best to catch up when all of the crashes continued both on my iPad and my iPhone. 🥴🤭 The crashes seemed to happen more frequently as I was following a link to a scripture and then highlighting that scripture and making a note. I tried backing up the app on my phone and then sharing to my iPad since the crashes seemed more frequent on my phone…only to lose a whole day of notes from the convention in the process. 🤦♀️ Thankfully, I live in an area that made it possible for me to make up that day and take notes again! 🥳The playlist feature has made listening to original songs and morning worship programs so much easier! 🎶🎼🎥No more searching through favorites and playing one thing at a time!! 🎉I never had a problem with the app crashing before the playlist feature was added. Could it be related? I am exceedingly grateful for this feature and I know that bugs will occur and that they will be worked out. I thank you all for the hard work involved in developing the software that makes our daily lives more enjoyable in these times that we live.
- You can open multiple JW Library windows at the same time on devices running iPadOS® 15 or macOS® 11 and later.
- Several issues have been fixed, including some that were causing the app to crash.
Version 15.9
The developer, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Search History
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
Size
199.8 MB
Category
Reference
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.