For the first time, read the ESV Bible on your iPhone or iPod Touch, with or without an internet connection—for free. Record your own notes, highlight verses, save favorites, and share with friends. Please take a look at the ESV App and tell us what you think.
Check out some of the features:
Tap. Simply tap on any verse to bring up the verse detail screen to access features such as cross-references, footnotes, highlights, favorites, sharing and My Notes.
Tap+Hold. Simply tap+hold to activate the verse multi-select tool to select multiple verses with options to copy and access verse detail information.
Verse Details
The verse detail screen can be accessed by “tapping” on a verse or by “tap+hold” multiple verse select. From the verse detail screen you can highlight, add to favorites, share a verse or create a My Note. You can also view cross-references and footnotes from this screen.
Passage Navigation
Tapping on the “Books” icon in the top left corner will activate the bible book picker where you can access any book and chapter with speed and ease.
Verse Multi-select
“Tap+Hold” gesture will bring up the verse multi-select tool box. Dragging the endpoints will allow you to select multiple verses for copying or to view multiple verse details.
Search Function
Simply click the search icon at the bottom of your screen and type the word you are searching in the field at the top of the screen.
Highlighting
Follow instructions for verse Multi-select and chose “details.” Tap the “A” button to highlight selection.
Post to Twitter
Per the screen shot above, choose the box with the arrow on the top right of screen to email a verse or post it to Twitter.
Please note: For those of you using other mobile devices, we haven’t forgotten about you. We’re working on it!
looks amazing! i love the seamless navigation and reading.
one suggestion – after clicking a cross reference in the verse details page and seeing the cross reference, it would be nice to have a “back” button to take me back to the original verse.
thanks crossway!
Comment by Matt — March 17, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
I have Logos on my phone, and didn’t think I’d really “need” the ESV app… But the interface is beautiful! Very intuitive, and very handy for quick references during conversations and whatnot. I’ll be keeping it installed! Thanks, Crossway!
As an aside, I’ve yet to see a Subsplash-developed app I didn’t like. Those folks do great work!
Comment by Len Flack — March 17, 2010 @ 2:13 pm
Very nice app. Text is clean and well formatted for reading. Some customization to allow muted verse numbers would be nice, but your choice is not bad. A little space above section headings would be nice, as they are in the printed ESV. But unlike the printed version, I like your choice of italics over bold text.
The book nav screen is beautiful. I love the gentle float right.
I agree with Matt: the first thing I did after navigating to a verse was click a cross reference, but then I couldn’t easily get back. OliveTree’s Bible Reader 4 has the best interaction design for this that I’ve seen, but I think you could do with a back button.
Thanks, Crossway, for this St Patrick’s Day gift!
Comment by Scott Howard — March 17, 2010 @ 3:08 pm
Android please. Thank you.
Comment by Sara — March 17, 2010 @ 7:17 pm
Hallelujah! This is the first app I looked for when I bought my Ipod touch in January. I had the faith and it is finally here!
Comment by Andrew Terry — March 17, 2010 @ 7:39 pm
I was looking today at a Nook e-reader. Kind of out of the budget at present but the main thought I had was: I wonder if ESV is available in a format usable on Nook? Does anyone know if it is now? Or if it is planned for the future? Thanks.
Comment by Eden — March 17, 2010 @ 8:47 pm
It would be great to get it on Palm WebOS as well. As far as I know there is no app at all for the ESV on WebOS! I’ve been stuck using the mobile esv.org site, which isn’t too horrible until I’m in one of the very few places where I don’t get a signal
Comment by Al — March 18, 2010 @ 6:01 am
And for the Droid?
Comment by Van H. Edwards — March 18, 2010 @ 7:28 am
This is really great. I’ve been waiting for an ESV iPhone app that didn’t require a network connection, and this really fits the bill! The one thing that would be nice would be the ability to go to a reference from the search bar.
Overall, I’m very grateful for the work you put into this!
Comment by Josh C. — March 18, 2010 @ 8:08 am
love it! thanks!
my fiance and i just got iphones and we’re still learning about all the apps to get. thanks for letting us know about this one! 
Comment by emily — March 18, 2010 @ 9:46 am
Absolutely incredible app guys. Thank you so much. It’s a joy to use.
My only question is, when viewing the references of a verse, what is the differences between other verses in brackets [] and why some we are told to “See ___” and others are just noted?
Just looking for some clarity…perhaps this has eluded me while reading my “real” Bible!
Comment by AJ — March 18, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
This is a great app–I’ve been using it to read the passage for this Sunday’s message when I’m stuck in a line. Well done!
Oh, and the design is great, too!
Comment by Dan — March 20, 2010 @ 8:18 pm
The interface is slick and not needing an internet connection is a time / life-saver. However, the search function seems quite different than using the web version. When searching for two words, my results show all passages with either word – not just passages with both words (even when I tried adding “and”). Until it searches the same way the web version does, I’ll still use the web version more.
Comment by Luke — March 22, 2010 @ 4:04 am
Android 2.1+ please…
Comment by Andrew — March 22, 2010 @ 2:31 pm
Clean, pretty, and highly usable. Searches are impossibly fast. Notes, favorites, footnotes, cross references. Thank you, Crossway, for providing an excellent translation in wonderful iPhone app!
Comment by Mark — March 26, 2010 @ 8:54 pm
I love the iPhone app, but I would also love to see an android version, there are plenty of us out there now. Thanks for all the good work.
Comment by Josiah — April 4, 2010 @ 2:38 pm