Eyes Right

Thanks to John Bennett (via Twitter) I learned about TouchBible, a web app providing searchable access to the Holy Bible for the iPhone and iTouch from iBibleZ. This is a preview of the application on YouTube:

TouchBible does not offer as many translation options as The Bible Gateway, but does offer the following versions currently:

English

• King James Version (KJV)
• American Standard Version (ASV)
• English Standard Version (ESV)
• Bible in Basic English (BBE)
• Darby Bible Translation (Darby)
• Webster’s Bible (WEB)
• Youngs Literal Translation (YLT)

Chinese

• Chinese 汉语/漢語
• 和合本 - Chinese Union Version (CUV)

Have you found and tried other online searchable Bible web apps for the iPhone? I used a searchable Bible program on the Palm I used a number of years ago, and have REALLY wanted to have a searchable Bible on my iPhone. The downloadable NT Bible which iBiblez offers is actually just an html attachment you can view using the iPhone’s mail feature. It does support selection of individual NT books and chapters, but not keyword searching. Hopefully developers with iBiblez or other groups will use the iPhone SDK to create an actual application which runs entirely offline and permits Bible searches with multiple translation versions. I’m sure we’ll see that before long!

Bibles for iPhone & iPod Touch

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at 3:15 pm by Wesley Fryer and is filed under God, books. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.