Bible Reader Choosing a book and chapter
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Tap the title to pick any book and chapter. The arrows step to the next or previous chapter.
Tutorials
Short how-to videos
Each one is under a minute, recorded on an iPad. Watch the one you need, or play them all in order. Tap the video to pause it.
Play them all, one after another
The Simple Reader
A page and a few big buttons. Nothing else.
Making the words bigger
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Size makes every word on the page larger, as large as you need.
Hear it read aloud
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Tap a verse, then Speak. Each word lights up as it's read. Tap the verse to pause, and again to carry on.
Three ways to read
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One setting decides how much is on the screen: Simple Reader, Reference Bible, or Ask – Tell Me More.
The Margin
What a study Bible prints beside the text, one tap away.
The Margin
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Beside the page: the people a verse names, its words in the Hebrew or Greek, and the verses that speak to it.
A reference, and the way back
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A tapped reference opens over the page. Go to takes you there, and a bookmark brings you back.
Over or beside the page
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The Margin can sit beside the page or rise over it as a drawer you can raise and lower.
Search
The verse you half-remember, from one word.
Search for a word
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Type a word or a phrase. Every verse that has it, and the word lit on the page.
Narrowing it down
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Whole Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, or just the book you're in. Tap a verse for its card.
Ask – Tell Me More
Questions answered from trusted references, on the iPad itself.
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Asking a question
Start from a suggestion, or ask in your own words, typed or spoken.
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An answer from trusted references
Apple Intelligence reads the commentaries and dictionaries on this iPad and writes a short answer. Every point says where it came from.
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The references behind it
Under the answer, the references themselves, in their own words. A verse they mention opens as a card.
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Choosing what to see
Show every kind of reference, or just one: commentary, cross-references, the dictionaries.
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Going to a verse, and back
Go to opens the verse in the Bible. The bookmark takes you back to where you were.
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Settings
The reading profile, the voice, text size, the words of Christ in red, and which reference works Ask reads.
Setting up
Two settings on the iPad that make the app sound and work its best.
A better voice
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Settings › Accessibility › Read & Speak › Voices: download a natural voice, then choose it in the app. A Siri voice is the most natural of all.
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Turning on Apple Intelligence
Ask writes its answers with Apple Intelligence. Settings › Apple Intelligence & Siri, on an iPad that supports it.
Prefer to read?
Everything in the videos is in the guide — the same one that's inside the app under Settings › About.