Gospel Library app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
5392 ratings )
Reference
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Developer: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Free
Current version: 6.9.1, last update: 3 months agoFirst release : 18 Jun 2013
App size: 104.06 Mb
Gospel Library is the gospel study app of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The library includes the scriptures, general conference addresses, music, learning and teaching manuals, Church magazines, videos, audio recordings, gospel art, and more. Study, search, mark, and share this vast collection.
Pros and cons of Gospel Library app for iPhone and iPad
Gospel Library app good for
Its the best version ever done. Im grateful to have and use this gospel tool.
I loved this app until now. It no longer works on any Apple iPhones. My service provider could not get it to work on his device. Downloads fine, but cannot download content. This is serious!
I like this app very much! It has full range of materials of gospel. It helps me a lot to study the most important messages. Many thanks to the development team and the Church!
I love it but I wish that you could update it so that you can listen to the scriptures without having wifi.
This app is definitely the ultimate Mormon encyclopedia you can take with you wherever you go! The only thing I would like to see changed is to see this app use the same search feature that is used for general conferences on lds.org for easier searching. Other than that, great app with great future potential!
Um... I still love the app, my entire family is just missing the Book of Mormon, not sure where it went
Some bad moments
The scriptures in french are no more in the
App ? What is happening ? I need my scriptures !!! Help ... :(
The app is crashing in the iPhone 5c, and I cant even open it. This last update made it not work anymore. I think its a bad idea to update apps in the Friday, if you dont have a team working in the Saturday and Sunday and mainly when the day people most use the app is in the Sunday. Hope you guys have learned the lesson.
Annotations are gone or tedious if restored.
The German Bible is gone.
Search functions are worse than before.
Hands off!
This new version actually makes my study harder. Im currently studying the Old Testament and am in the book of Isaiah so having the footnotes visible at all times is very important to me (thanks to all the helps in them) especially in this book. I dont believe that I could be the only one that uses the footnotes constantly, especially given all the work that went into creating them in order to help people learn and not just read. Ive been using the electronic versions of scriptures, especially for my daily study, for the past 5-6 years, precisely because it seemed to be designed (and did) allow me to get more from my time in them, now I get less from my time. I wish I hadnt upgraded.
Another issue that Ive noticed is that I lost all my audio downloads and the app wont complete any download when I ask it to. For instance, I try to download Conference, theres over 500 MB and I never get more than 300 (sometime 5 or 122 or 50 or some other random number even when left overnight and tested on several networks that have no problems with anything else), and instead of just downloading the individual talks it also gets each full session for duplication of data which is also a killer on space.
Ive loved this app (I use it several times a day often totalling 1.5-2 hours a day) and appreciate all the work that The Church puts into it and those that work on it (I can and have accepted bugs like the download issue before) but the change to the footnotes really makes me sad and I find it difficult to do what was easy before.
My wife and daughter have updated to version 4.0, and now the Gospel Library app crashes after being open for only three or four seconds. One might expect something like this to happen after an iOS update, but not an update designed for the current iOS. This has occurred on an iPhone 5C and the last generation of iPad before the Lightning connection was introduced. Usually, if an update is not compatible, the app store does not install it. I am not sure what is happening, here, and hope that a fix is on the way. Generally speaking, previous versions of this app have worked well on older devices.
Used to work great but now it doesnt launch. Hope this gets fixed soon!