NIV Audio Bible: David Suchet

Hachette UK

About this app

The official NIV Audio Bible app includes the full text of the NIV Bible (British Text) and full audio narration by British actor, David Suchet. Simple to navigate, it’s the easiest way to read, listen to and make notes on the NIV on your iOS device – perfect for taking to church, house group or for your own quiet times. The journalling feature will help you to respond to your Bible reading with notes and bookmarks. From Hodder & Stoughton, publishers of the Anglicised New International Version.

READ THE NIV EVERYWHERE
- Simple navigation: the Quick Verse Selector helps you find passages at speed and remembers your most visited places.
- Clear, readable layout: the Bible text matches the printed NIV 2011 Bibles.
- Full Bible text included so no need for a network connection to use any of the app features.
- Full-text keyword search allows you to find all entries for a particular word in the Bible.
- Short introductory reading plans to stimulate your daily Bible reading.
- Well-known passages: find shortcuts to famous stories and events in the Bible.
- Turn off toolbars to give you an uninterrupted reading experience.
- Choose to turn the words of Christ red or leave them black.
- Adjust text size to make reading more comfortable.

LISTEN TO THE BIBLE
- Listen to British actor David Suchet read the Bible as you read or while multitasking.
- Quick and easy to find the passage you want to listen to.
- Play the audio continuously, or select a verse at a time.
- Follow the verses as they are narrated by selecting ‘Highlight verse with audio’.
- Turn off the audio capability entirely if you wish to use the app for reading only.
- Manage the audio content held on your device: download all at once, or section by section. E.g. Download Genesis-Deuteronomy and when you no longer need, it send it back to the cloud.
- Set the ‘Sleep Timer’ to automatically switch off the audio after a certain number of minutes (max 99).

JOURNALLING
- Make notes next to the text as you study the Bible or listen to a sermon.
- Bookmark and highlight your favourite passages for easy reference.
- Notes and Bookmarks tabs list of all your entries so you can quickly jump to the one you want.
- Sort bookmarks by colour or Bible book.
- Sort notes by date or Bible book.
- Share notes and verses with friends and family or yourself by SMS (text), email, Twitter and Facebook.

NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION
With over 400 million Bibles in print, the New International Version is the world’s most popular Bible in modern English. Setting the highest standards of reliability and readability, the NIV is ideal for personal reading, public teaching and group study.
Royalties from all sales of the NIV help Biblica in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.

DAVID SUCHET
David Suchet CBE is an acclaimed British actor. He has enjoyed great success with the RSC and in London's West End. He is best known in television for his portrayal of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot. He is also a practising Anglican. Follow him on Twitter @David_Suchet

HODDER & STOUGHTON
Find out more about Hodder at hodderbibles.co.uk
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At the moment the app is not supported on Chromebooks

Ratings and reviews

I really like many things about this app but I find the sleep timer simply does not work unless the screen is on, which defeats the purpose of a sleep timer. It just keeps playing the audio and only if you reopen the app does it pop up saying the timer is finished. It also doesn't go back to where you stopped the audio from, it just goes back to where you started playing from. If there is a setting to help fix these, please advise.

Had this for years and loved it but it no longer works at all despite reinstallions etc😔 please can you fix this bug. I reinstalled yey again hoping it was fixed, downloaded audio separately listened once. Tried to get into the app today (9/12/23)and it's frozen again at front page. I originally paid £9.99 for it - I don't mind about that but I'm missing the app a lot 😔

Disappointing from the first. David Suchet is wonderful (so not 1 *) but the playback has so few functions it is virtually useless, like something from the early 2000s. No repeat function, no skipping within playback. You can't even restart a passage. For 9.99 it's a absurdly mediocre.

What's new

Bug fixes and bookmarks/notes restoration.