Read the whole Bible: track your progress through all 1,189 chapters, and celebrate and share when you finish. Memorize your own verses: pick a single verse, a few verses, or a whole chapter. Chapter intros now minimize to a slim bar instead of hiding, so they’re one tap away. Open My Feed: the end of each day now shows the real Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and other app icons. The app now stays in portrait mode.

This week’s reading: your Profile now keeps everything you’ve read since Sunday, grouped by day. It starts fresh every Sunday. Your 2026 in the Word: in early December, see your year in Scripture — days, chapters, and books — ready to share. Reading plan: the Village Church plan now picks up new yearly schedules automatically.

• A smoother start: setting up the app now takes just three quick steps, and you can pick your morning reminder time • Ready for the new year: "Year in the Word" now keeps a card for every year so you can look back on your progress, and starts your new year fresh on January 1 • Finishing a reading plan now gets a celebration, with an easy way to start again or choose your next plan • Restarting a reading plan now starts with a clean slate

• New for night owls: choose when App Blocker locks your apps for the new day — midnight or as late as 5 AM. Out late? Your apps won't lock overnight, and your reading still counts for the day you do it. (App Blocker → Schedule) • Your "Year in the Word" recap is now more accurate, including all of your reading this year • Reading-plan chapters now count toward books opened and finished, including days you read ahead, catch up, or listen

New in 1.0.25 • Book & chapter intros — Before you read, a short intro shows what the chapter is about. Chapter 1 of every book opens with an overview and how the book points to Christ. Prefer to dive straight in? Hide intros in Settings. • What Scripture teaches — Topic search now opens with a short summary of what the Bible says, with links to the key verses. • Home & Lock Screen widget — See today's verse and your streak without opening the app. Long-press your Home Screen, tap Edit → Add Widget, and search "Scripture Before Scroll." (iOS 17 or later) • Milestone cards — Finish a book, reach a streak milestone, or hit a reading-day milestone and get a card you can share. • Year in the Word — A new card on your Profile recaps your year: days in the Word, chapters read, books finished, your longest streak, and verses memorized. • Chapter announcements — Audio now announces each chapter in the narrator's voice. • App Blocker fix — On older versions of iOS, the App Blocker now re-locks your chosen apps each morning as it should.

Your daily verse pool just grew from 600 to over 1,000 — years of fresh Scripture before anything repeats. On the reading-plan tab, each day's passages are now clear, tappable buttons so it's obvious where to start. Memorizing a whole chapter now correctly counts every verse toward your Verse Treasury. Plus a few small polish fixes.

New: "What does the Bible say about…" Type any topic, question, person, or place — anxiety, forgiveness, marriage, David — and instantly see what Scripture says about it. Tap to read the full chapter in the app, or dig deeper on Blue Letter Bible. Thousands of topics, right from your home screen.

• Read-along audio now highlights and scrolls in sync with the narration, verse by verse. • Hands-free listening now announces the full chapter name before it starts reading. • Fixed a reading-plan issue where the last chapter of the day could repeat. • Fixed hard-to-read text on the completion screen in Dark Mode. • Small polish to sharing.

This update fixes two bugs: • The home screen buttons (Verse, Chapter, Memorize, Plan) could stop responding after you opened a chapter from your reading plan. • In the hands-free audio reader, a second voice could start reading over the narration and wouldn't stop when paused. Both are resolved — navigation and listening are smooth again.

Listen while you drive. Memorize whole chapters. Share the app. • Listening mode — tap "Listen to today's reading" and go hands-free. Your reading plan plays chapter after chapter automatically, announces each new one aloud, and keeps playing with your screen locked — with lock-screen controls. Perfect for the car, the gym, or the morning walk. (The play button's bigger and easier to hit, too.) • Memorize a whole chapter — pick any chapter, like Romans 8, and work through it verse by verse. Each verse starts with just a few blanks, then hides more as you go, until you can recall the whole thing. • Share the app — inviting a friend now takes them straight to download. Keep seeking Him first.

Read the whole Bible, your way. Introducing reading plans you can choose from — and switch between anytime: • Genesis to Revelation — read straight through the Bible, cover to cover. • Chronological — follow the story in the order events happened (Job with the patriarchs, the prophets in their times, the letters within Acts). • Old & New Testament Daily — a Gospel, a Psalm, and Old Testament readings woven together (Village Church Irvine plan). Pick your pace — 7 days a week or 5 days a week (weekdays) — and finish in about a year either way. Each plan keeps its own progress, so you can explore freely without losing your place. Also in this update: a fix for a launch issue affecting some devices, plus stability improvements. Keep seeking Him first.

• Dig Deeper — tap the search icon on any verse to study it instantly on Blue Letter Bible (original languages, commentaries, cross-references) right inside the app. Choose your preferred study translation in Profile. • More reading translations — read your daily chapter and plan in BSB, WEB, KJV, ASV, or NET. Pick your favorite under Profile → Reading translation. • Share with a friend — love your morning habit? Now it's one tap to invite someone to start their own. • Polish and stability improvements. Thanks for reading Scripture before you scroll.

• You can now choose a starting verse when picking a book and chapter. • Fixed late-evening reading not counting toward the day's streak in some time zones. • Fixed the "next chapter" button on short reading-plan chapters.

Enhancement - Created a dark mode option.

Bug fixes and improvements: • Fixed an issue that could interrupt App Blocker setup. • Improved reliability of staying signed in.

Added a feature to keep the verses read that day in a section that you can go back and reflect on. This resets each day.

Fixed: Highlighted verses and notes now correctly save between sessions — previously they were lost when closing and reopening the app.

New: Highlight verses and take notes as you read! Tap any verse while reading a chapter to highlight it, then tap the pencil icon to save a personal note. Find all your notes anytime from the Profile tab. New: Weekly progress circles on the home screen now correctly show checkmarks for past days you completed — previously some completed days weren't marked. Fixed: The "Unlock My Feed" summary screen now shows the number of Reading Plan days you've completed (instead of a verse count) when you're on the Reading Plan.

Bug fixes: App Blocker now correctly saves selected apps on all supported iOS versions (16.6+). Also fixes an issue where the daily reminder could appear even after completing your habit for the day.

App Blocker improvements — renamed from "Habit Gate" for clarity, new onboarding that explains how it works, and a fix where apps could stay blocked after completing your habit following an app update. Also added an audio seek scrubber and verse-tap seeking for chapter audio, two new streak milestones (7 and 30 days), 100 new reading verses, 52 new memorize verses, and a soft banner when a newer version is available.

• Smoother audio — The chapter audio now scrolls the text continuously as it reads, highlighting the current verse in real time. Much easier to follow along. • 500 verses — The daily verse pool has reached 500 curated scriptures with reflections. You'll go over a year without seeing a repeat. • 150 memorize verses — 30 new fill-in-the-blank verses added to the memorization library. • Reading Plan fixes — Fixed a visual glitch when completing your last passage, and the Unlock My Feed button now always appears correctly after plan completion. • Book & chapter indicator — The chapter reader now shows which book and chapter you're in at a glance, and updates as you move through the reading plan.

• Beautiful audio — Listen to the full Bible in two voices (Liam and Heart) with high-quality, natural-sounding text-to-speech. Tap the audio bar to play any chapter. • More verses — Reading pool expanded to 350 verses; memorization library grown to 120 verses with hints and context. • Daily reminder fix — Notification timing is now rock-solid and won't drift over time. • Shuffled verse queue — Reading verses now rotate in a fresh order each time so it never feels repetitive.

More Scripture to explore — we've added 100 new verses to the reading library (250 total). Listen to any chapter read aloud, with a choice of voices and adjustable playback speed. Cleaner chapter reading — fixed spacing so verses are easier to read. Habit Gate is more reliable — changing which apps you block no longer unlocks them by mistake; your blocked apps stay protected until you've completed your reading. Smoother audio controls — pause and resume now work correctly while listening. Various stability fixes and polish.

Updated app blocking feature to work with a midnight update, added daily verses, new prompts for daily reflections, and squashed some bugs.

Bible Reading Plan — Work through the whole Bible in a year with a structured Mon–Fri reading plan. Check off passages as you go, read them in-app, and unlock your feed when you're done for the day. Start in Genesis — The chapter reading mode now opens to Genesis 1 by default. Shield screen fix — The custom Scripture Before Scroll screen now correctly appears when your blocked apps try to open. Bug fixes and polish — Trivia answer improvements, clock display fix, and general stability improvements.