Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books 4+
Deseret Book Company
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Deseret Bookshelf – Deseret Book’s Library in Your Pocket
Search, study, read, and listen to uplifting, family-friendly content—all in one powerful app. The new Deseret Bookshelf is the most comprehensive source for wholesome eBooks, audiobooks, and podcasts for individuals and families alike.
Start with 8 free Latter-day Saint eBooks and unlock access to hundreds more—all at no cost. Your Library keeps all your Deseret Book purchases in one convenient place. Subscribe to Deseret Bookshelf+ for unlimited access to a wide-ranging collection of gospel, fiction, and nonfiction titles—including romance, suspense, inspirational voices, Church history, and more. That’s over 4,000 eBooks and the full audiobook catalog in one app.
Key Features
Wholesome Content
- Discover uplifting content that inspires faith, joy, and purpose.
- Curated for all ages—perfect for personal study and family time.
- Listen to audiobooks and talks from trusted Latter-day Saint voices.
- Enjoy clean stories with meaningful, family-centered themes.
Discover & Search
- Browse thousands of inspiring eBooks and audiobooks by genre or theme.
- Explore rich categories like gospel study, romance, fantasy, and suspense.
- Stream gospel-focused podcasts with insights from Church members and leaders.
- Find content quickly with smart filters and universal search.
- Follow beloved authors and access their most popular works.
eBook Reader & Study Tools
- Customize fonts, spacing, and light/dark modes to suit your reading style.
- Choose between scroll or page-flip mode.
- Highlight passages, bookmark favorites, and add personal notes.
- Tap scripture references to view linked verses instantly in context.
- Sync your markups and progress across all your devices.
Audiobook Player
- Listen to over 2,500 professionally narrated audiobooks and talks.
- Use chapter skip, 30-second rewind/forward, playback speed control, and sleep timer.
- Enjoy full background listening and cross-device syncing.
- New mini player keeps audio controls accessible while you browse.
Podcasts
- Subscribe to uplifting Latter-day Saint podcasts.
- Manage episodes with auto-playback and library organization.
- Download for offline listening or stream anywhere.
- Control playback speed to listen at your preferred pace.
Inspiration & Sharing
- Start your day with a new, uplifting quote.
- Share highlights or passages with friends via text, email, or social media.
- Let others know what books and authors are inspiring your journey.
Free Starter Library
Create an account and instantly receive 8 classic Latter-day Saint titles:
1. All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience – Neal A. Maxwell
2. The Power of Everyday Missionaries – Clayton M. Christensen
3. The Beginning of Better Days – Sheri Dew & Virginia Pearce
4. Be Your Best Self – Thomas S. Monson
5. Jesus the Christ – James E. Talmage
6. Lectures on Faith – Joseph Smith
7. The Joseph Smith Papers – Joseph Smith
8. Gospel Doctrine – Joseph F. Smith
You’ll also get access to the Standard Works, Church manuals, General Conference talks, and official Church publications—all included at no cost.
Deseret Bookshelf+ Subscription
Unlock unlimited access to:
- The full Deseret Book audiobook collection
- Thousands of premium and exclusive eBooks
- The subscriber-only “Sunday on Monday” podcast
- New titles added regularly
Whether you’re commuting, studying, or winding down at night, Deseret Bookshelf helps you stay spiritually nourished with uplifting content—anytime, anywhere.
Download now and experience the joy of wholesome reading and listening.
What’s New
Version 7.0.6
In this version we introduced a couple of new features, including:
* Now manually select the app theme you wish to use. No longer do you need to have the theme your phone is set to as the app theme.
* Faster and better handling of audiobooks and podcasts.
In addition, we fixed a lot of user interface issues and bugs. Enjoy!
Ratings and Reviews
App changes
Love the books, hope they change some things with the app. I wish they would keep the chapters on the same page as the play options. It’s annoying to have to switch pages every time I want to see the table of contents. I’d rather have the table of contents than a picture of the book. Also, is there not a way to permanently set the time options to end of chapter, 15 mins, etc.? I have to click this button every time I turn on a new chapter as I usually listen before bed.
It would be nice to have the option to go back to the darker screen.
Developer Response ,
This is valuable feedback. We are looking for user interface improvements to make selecting chapters easier.
As for the sleep timer setting, we will address this in a near release.
Love the app/concept but it has a lot of weird issues.
I love this app but it is not very user friendly, in my opinion this app needs to be completely redesigned. Finding books needs to be much easier especially for the series, we need to be able to pull up series in order, and we need to be able to look up an author and be able to see a complete list of all the books they have written, with a distinction between series and novels within that list. With this latest update the apps frame doesn’t fit on my phone anymore and when I go to download an audio book it won’t let me download just one chapter at a time and sometimes it will download every chapter but leave out 1-5 chapters and it won’t let me individually download those chapters/ download the at all. When you hit play on an audio book and turn your phone off it will sometimes immediately stop playing or you will get through a few chapters and then it will stop playing, will also stop playing when I have paused and then try to resume playing audio book. Love this app please fix it 🥺
Developer Response ,
We love this feedback. We are working on improving our searching to make it even easier and more convenient for you to find and enjoy our content.
Some of the issues you have reported have already been fixed in our latest release and others are still in the works.
Please don't hesitate to contact our customer service for addition help or to provide more feedback.
The more I use the new version, the worse it is
The new version of the app is quite bad. Searching no longer works. Or rather, it does work if you just want to search titles, but it doesn’t work to search in the contents of the books. The scrolling within a book is very jerky and often doesn’t respond to finger drags. There is no longer a way to organize books into categories. All of my hundreds of books are in a single library that is unwieldy. Sorting by author is broken. It sorts by first name instead of last name. My impression is this “update” mainly exists to market books and get people to purchase more books instead of being able to do gospel research and study using my existing library. At this point, it is probably better to get the books from somewhere else and use a decent book app instead of this.
Developer Response ,
Hi, thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are working on fixing it.
App Privacy
The developer, Deseret Book Company, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Deseret Book Digital
- Size
- 74.1 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Portuguese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Deseret Book Company
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Bookshelf Plus Meme Pack $0.99