Orthodox Bible 4+

Great job guys, I purchased a subscription to happily keep this going. Looking forward to seeing what future things you have in store with this app. Thank you, and God Bless!

Hello! Thank so much for giving us 5 starts and an excellent review of our Orthodox Bible and Calendar app! I also want to say THANK YOU for buying a subscription without complaint. Of course we would love for everyone to have free access to the entire app, but building and maintaining a mobile application takes a lot of time and money. The subscriptions are to help us get to a point where it can be free for all to use. We are a very small team, and we choose to do this without pay and despite the financial or time burden on us. People like you who understands this keeps us going, as we get A LOT of messages about how 'it should be free' and how 'we are profiting off of God'. These narratives couldn't be further from the truth so hearing messages like yours definitely encourages us to keep going! We are not backed by a major church with a huge budget; we do it simply as a way to show our devotion to being Orthodox and to help others build a better/stronger connection with our Lord, literally in the palm of their hands. It is not always easy work, but it is always worth the work. Again, thank you so much and may God Bless you and your family in all the best ways.

Don’t get me wrong, I am orthodox. The biggest flaw with this application is that it’s made to make money. You can’t read the bible unless your connected to the internet, there is an add after every button you touch, even if your connected to the internet the only thing you can do is read the bible. You can’t listen to the audio books and other stuff. God is not a means of making money. If they had just made the app completely free form subscription and advertising it would have easily been a 5 star and one of the most downloaded apps. If your going through the reviews to see if it’s worth it let me tell you it’s not. I’m being completely honest here.

Hi Abrsh21,


I am sorry to hear you are frustrated about the ads in the app. Ideally, we would not want to put ads in the Orthodox Bible, but developing and maintaining apps in the app stores costs quite a bit of money. In addition, we are a very small team of believers who work full time, do not get paid to do this, and are only able to work on it in our spare time. We do have a very low cost monthly and yearly version without any ads. It is our hope that enough people who can afford the app will buy it, help us cover the costs of maintaining the app, putting in new features, etc, and have it available free for everyone. We are a new app and still have a lot of improvements and development work to do, which is extremely expensive. Unfortunately, many apps may tell you they are free and do not have ads, but are likely hiding many of their best features from you unless you are a premium subscriber. If this is not the case, they are financially well supported by mega churches to cover all of their technology needs. Unfortunately, we do not have this kind of support. I hope this helps you understand our reasoning. Thank you and God Bless.

This just seems wrong on a serious level. I can read literally any other version of the Bible through apps like YouVersion and Blue Letter. Only orthodox is excluded. And then the “free” app has ads? And not just ads…constant ads. I had to go through 3 ads just to get to a point where I could actually access any scripture…and then there’s an ad banner while I’m trying to read. And still…all this could be forgiven if I could just buy the app and be done with it. But no. It’s a subscription. This just feels shameful. This is NOT how we promote the faith. And yet I am the only negative review. Nobody else has a problem with the shameless monetization of God’s word here? I’m just in disbelief.

Hello,
I am sorry to hear you are frustrated about the ads in the app. Ideally, we would not want to put ads in the Orthodox Bible, but developing and maintaining apps in the app stores costs quite a bit of money. In addition, we are a very small team of believers who work full time, do not get paid to do this, and are only able to work on it in our spare time. We do have a very low cost monthly and yearly version without any ads. Thank you for suggesting a one time purchase; it is certainly on our radar, and we are trying to make this financially feasible. It is our hope that enough people who can afford the app will buy it, help us cover the costs of maintaining the app, putting in new features, etc, and have it available free for everyone. We are a very new app and still have a lot of improvements and development work to do, which is usually very expensive. Unfortunately, many apps may tell you they are free and do not have ads, but are likely hiding many of their best features from you unless you are a premium subscriber. If this is not the case, they are financially well supported by mega churches to cover all of their technology needs. Unfortunately, we do not have this kind of support. I hope this helps you understand our reasoning. Thank you and God Bless.