Listen your way • Choose a male or female reading voice for the Bible and devotionals. Hold the headphones button, or tap Voice on the player. • Start listening from any verse: tap a verse, then the headphones. While listening, tap the title on the player to jump to any part. • The app now picks your phone's most natural-sounding voices first. Share as image • Select any passage in a devotional or book and share it as a beautiful image. Safer community for young members • Members under 18 are better protected in chat: adults can't message them first, and photos and voice notes need a reply first. • Add a parent or church contact in Profile > Safety. • Report and block are available everywhere. Improvements • A cleaner, better-aligned Community menu on the home screen. • Books load more smoothly, and the app recovers by itself when the server is busy. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

What's new in NBC Devotionals • New search: find people to follow, community posts, groups and books as you type, all in one place. • Devotionals now work offline: the coming days are saved on your phone automatically, so you can read them even without internet. • Change your name: edit it any time from your profile. • Edit your community posts fully: change the text, add or remove photos, and choose to show or hide your name. • Reply to a comment: tap Reply under any comment to answer that person directly. • See who is online in Challenge games and challenge them at once. • Search inside books: find any word in a PDF book, online or offline, plus contents, bookmarks and night mode. • Chat looks better: photos with captions and long messages now display neatly, with the time tucked in like your favourite messengers. • The notification bell now clears as soon as you open a notification. • Every screen opens instantly with the NBC logo while it loads, and a double tap no longer opens a screen twice. • A fresh, modern look for buttons and menus throughout the app. • For church staff: a completely redesigned Admin area with live figures, charts and easier member management. • More stable: fixed crashes when opening notifications, finishing games, sharing and closing books. • Many smaller fixes and speed improvements.

A big update for the NBC family: • Yorùbá and Hausa: devotionals, Bibles and the Yorùbá Baptist Hymnal, with app menus in both languages. • Chat with family and friends: photos with captions, voice notes, reactions, replies (swipe), editing, forwarding and read ticks. • Official group chats for NBC departments and units (WMU, MMU, Lydia Auxiliary, Royal Ambassadors, Church Music, Youth and more), each with its official logo. Singles & Searching for adults 18+. • Status updates, member profiles with cover photos, following, coloured posts and a fresh community. • Singles & Searching is now Kingdom Connect, with a compatibility score on every profile: meet Godly Baptist singles (18+). Every profile is checked by our team; only people who like each other can chat. Free, with optional short videos for extra likes. • Reels play instantly, with playback speed, seek and auto-next. • Photos in posts show in their real shape (nothing cut off), up to 10 photos in a Facebook-style grid, with a full-screen viewer and zoom. • Faster offline: responsive readings, Sunday School, Bible and hymns open straight from your phone. • See your book sales and earnings at a glance on the website. • Reels: share a short testimony video (up to 30 seconds). Videos are made smaller on your phone for quick uploads, and every video is checked by our team before it shows. • #Topics like #Healing, #Marriage, #Youth and #Thanksgiving: tap a topic to see its posts and follow it. • Mention a member with @ in a post or reply; they are notified. • Polls in posts, and Bible verse cards: tap a verse in the Bible and choose "Post to community". • Badges for taking part: Prayer warrior, Encourager and Testifier. • A weekly digest every Sunday evening with the week's testimonies and answered prayers. • A smarter community: a Popular feed, "People you may know" to follow, alerts when people you follow post, and one recommended post each evening (turn each off in Settings). • See who has a new status right from your chat list: tap the coloured ring around their picture. • Group statuses: group leaders share an update with the whole group, and every member is notified. • Chat shows "away" and "last seen" times. • Edit your profile, cover photo and public details on one screen. • Invite friends with ready-made flyers that carry your own code and QR code. • Advertise with us: businesses and churches can promote their services to the NBC family and follow their results in Settings > My ads. • Bible Quest: 12 games with endless levels – Bible Quiz, Who Said It?, Word Search, Crossword, Verse Builder, Memory Match, Match 3, Fast Tap, Puzzle Adventure and more. Challenge a friend, play for your church in the weekly tournament, unlock themes in the free season pass. They also work offline. • Sunday School: this week's lesson and a short quiz. • Highlight verses and write notes; they come back on a new phone. • Search everything: the Bible, hymns, readings, devotionals and Sunday School in one place. • Share any verse as a beautiful picture with the NBC logo. • Responsive readings for worship, also offline. • Home screen widget with the verse of the day and today's devotional. • Notes with checklists and reminders, saved to your account. • Instant notifications for messages, comments, Amens, followers and announcements. • Many fixes: smoother home screen, offline downloads and the NBC staff list.

A big update for the NBC family: • Yorùbá and Hausa: devotionals, Bibles and the Yorùbá Baptist Hymnal, with app menus in both languages. • Chat with family and friends: photos with captions, voice notes, reactions, replies (swipe), editing, forwarding and read ticks. • Official group chats for NBC departments and units (WMU, MMU, Lydia Auxiliary, Royal Ambassadors, Church Music, Youth and more), each with its official logo. Singles & Searching for adults 18+. • Status updates, member profiles with cover photos, following, coloured posts and a fresh community. • Reels: share a short testimony video (up to 30 seconds). Videos are made smaller on your phone for quick uploads, and every video is checked by our team before it shows. • #Topics like #Healing, #Marriage, #Youth and #Thanksgiving: tap a topic to see its posts and follow it. • Mention a member with @ in a post or reply; they are notified. • Polls in posts, and Bible verse cards: tap a verse in the Bible and choose "Post to community". • Badges for taking part: Prayer warrior, Encourager and Testifier. • A weekly digest every Sunday evening with the week's testimonies and answered prayers. • A smarter community: a Popular feed, "People you may know" to follow, alerts when people you follow post, and one recommended post each evening (turn each off in Settings). • See who has a new status right from your chat list: tap the coloured ring around their picture. • Group statuses: group leaders share an update with the whole group, and every member is notified. • Chat shows "away" and "last seen" times. • Edit your profile, cover photo and public details on one screen. • Invite friends with ready-made flyers that carry your own code and QR code. • Advertise with us: businesses and churches can promote their services to the NBC family and follow their results in Settings > My ads. • Bible Quest: 12 games with endless levels – Bible Quiz, Who Said It?, Word Search, Crossword, Verse Builder, Memory Match, Match 3, Fast Tap, Puzzle Adventure and more. Challenge a friend, play for your church in the weekly tournament, unlock themes in the free season pass. They also work offline. • Sunday School: this week's lesson and a short quiz. • Highlight verses and write notes; they come back on a new phone. • Search everything: the Bible, hymns, readings, devotionals and Sunday School in one place. • Share any verse as a beautiful picture with the NBC logo. • Responsive readings for worship, also offline. • Home screen widget with the verse of the day and today's devotional. • Notes with checklists and reminders, saved to your account. • Instant notifications for messages, comments, Amens, followers and announcements. • Many fixes: smoother home screen, offline downloads and the NBC staff list.

• Group chats for NBC departments and units, each with its official logo: Christian Education, Global Missions, Publications, Youth, WMU, MMU, Lydia Auxiliary, Royal Ambassadors, Church Music Ministries, Drama and more. Join the ones you belong to. • Singles & Searching: a group for single adults (18+), with age and gender shown next to messages (you can hide yours). • Bible Quest: 12 games with unlimited levels: Bible Quiz, Who Said It?, Devotional Quiz, Word Search, Crossword, Verse Builder, Verse Scramble, Books in Order, Memory Match, Match 3, Fast Tap and Puzzle Adventure (a journey from Creation to the New Jerusalem). Daily Challenge, coins, streaks, achievements and a weekly leaderboard, with music and sound effects you can switch off. • Share any Bible verse, or any text you select, as a beautiful picture with the NBC logo. • Verse of the day: three short verse notifications a day; tap one to open the passage. • Responsive readings for worship, with the leader's and the people's lines. • Chat: reply by swiping, select several messages, edit like WhatsApp, add a caption to photos. • Profile: crop your cover photo, view profile pictures full screen, add your gender. • Instant notifications for messages, comments, Amens, new followers and announcements. • Bottom sheets everywhere, white status bar icons on the home screen, and many fixes (offline downloads, the NBC staff list).

What's new in NBC Devotionals 3.1 • Refer and earn: get your personal referral code and link, share it with friends and family, and see how many people joined through you. • Clearer notifications: each message shows a short preview, and tapping opens the full message on its own page. • Written books read day by day: dated chapters open on today's reading automatically, with a "Today" button to jump back. • UK pastors added to the Pastors' Directory. • Your library: books stay available after the publisher updates them, page counts are shown correctly, and offline downloads are easier to find. • Many fixes and speed improvements.

This update makes your daily devotional easier to reach, wherever you are. • Devotionals offline: the app keeps the days before and after today on your phone, so you can keep reading with no internet. This works for paid subscriptions and for free access. • Read ahead: members with access can open the coming days early. • Six new Bible versions: New International Version (UK), American Standard Version, New Heart English Bible, Nigerian Pidgin Bible, La Bible du Semeur and Louis Segond 1910. NIV (UK) is now the default for English readers, and all earlier versions are still there. • Messages from NBC Publications now arrive as a phone alert as well as under the bell icon. • Devotionals download first, so they're ready even after a short time online. • Bug fixes and performance improvements. Thank you for reading with us. If you enjoy the app, please leave a review.

- Follow members in Testimonies and prayer, and see their posts first - New community design with member profiles and pictures - Clearer checkout: see your cart and pay in fewer steps - New dashboard in Settings for your books, orders and messages - Messages from the NBC team now open in full - Profile saves now show progress and keep your phone and birthday - PDF books open more reliably - Fixed reminder notifications and other crashes