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Yes. Bible First is free to download and use. There are no subscriptions, no in-app purchases and no ads, and every study is available to everyone.

No. There is nothing to sign up for. What you write and mark is kept on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud so it stays in step across your devices.

iPhone and iPad, on iOS 17 or later.

No. All 224 studies and their Scripture are inside the app, so reading, searching and writing all work offline. A connection is only used by iCloud, to keep your devices in step.

There are sixteen pathways on the Home tab, such as Jesus' Parables, The Psalms and Names of God. Each holds between ten and twenty-one studies, 224 in all.

Tap a pathway to see a short introduction and its studies laid out as a route. The ones you have read are ticked, and You are here marks the next one. The gold button at the top continues from that study.

Each study has a summary, the Scripture passage, a reflection on it, reflection questions, and a closing prayer. Below those are your own notes, the themes the study touches, and related studies.

When you reach the end of the study itself, which is its closing prayer. Opening a study and leaving does not mark it read.

If you leave partway through, Home offers it back to you as Continue reading and it reopens where you stopped.

It is the next step for you: the study you left unfinished, or else the next unread study in the pathway you read from last, labelled Up next.

At the end of the last study you will see Pathway complete. Tap it for a summary: the studies you read, the themes the pathway returned to most, your highlights, and every answer and note you wrote, each beside its question or verse. The summary stays available from the pathway's page.

At the end of every study are the themes it touches, such as Grace or Fear & Anxiety, and four related studies from any pathway.

Tap a theme to see every study on it, grouped by pathway. You can also browse all sixty themes from the Search tab before typing anything.

Tap the verse and choose Highlight. To remove it, tap the verse again and choose Remove Highlight.

Tap the verse and choose Write a Note. The note stays with that verse: inside its card, or directly beneath the passage under its reference.

To change or remove it, tap the verse or the note again and choose Edit Note. The editor has a Delete note button.

Tap the question, write your answer and tap Save. The answer stays beneath its question. Tap it again to edit or delete it.

Yes. Under My Notes in any study, tap Add note. Tap a note to edit it, or press and hold it to delete it.

Open the Settings tab and tap Highlights & Notes. Your highlights, notes and answers are listed together, newest first, each with the verse or question it belongs to. Use the buttons at the top to show one kind, and tap any row to open its study.

Tap the Search tab and start typing. Results come from every study, its Scripture, and your own notes and answers, and each shows the line that matched.

While reading a study, tap the heart at the top right. Tap it again to remove it. Your saved studies are on the Favorites tab.

Open the Prayer tab and tap +. Write your prayer, choose any tags that fit, and tap Save.

Tap Pray on a prayer each time you pray for it. When it has been answered, tap Answered ✓; it moves to the Answered list, where you can look back on it or restore it.

Tap a prayer to edit it. Press and hold it and choose Delete Prayer to remove it.

In Settings, under Daily Reminder, turn on Remind me to read and pick a time. iOS will ask once for permission to send notifications.

Nudge me about quiet prayers sends one reminder on a Sunday when something on your prayer list has not been prayed for in two weeks. It never includes a name or the words of a prayer.

Notifications are probably turned off for the app. Open the iPhone's Settings, then Notifications, then Bible First, and allow them. The app's own Settings screen shows a warning when this is the cause.

Yes, both are in Settings. Appearance can be Light, Dark or Auto, which follows your device. Text Size can follow your device's setting or be one of five sizes.

In Settings, tap Reading Stats for your streak, the studies you have read, and your milestones.

If your device is signed in to iCloud, your favorites, highlights, notes, answers, prayers and reading progress sync through your own private iCloud to your other devices. Settings shows the current status under iCloud Sync.

The place you stopped in an unfinished study is kept on each device and does not sync.

Only you. They are stored on your device and in your own private iCloud, which we cannot read. The app has no account system, no analytics and no advertising, and makes no network requests of its own. See the Privacy Policy for the detail.

Check that both devices are signed in to the same iCloud account, are online, and have Bible First updated to the latest version. Newer kinds of writing, such as answers and verse notes, only appear on a device once it has the version that introduced them.

Your data lives on your device and in your iCloud, and survives app updates. If the app was deleted while iCloud was off for it, data that was only on that device is lost.

If something went missing unexpectedly, please write to us so we can look into it.

This means the app could not open its library on this device and is running from temporary memory. Anything added now would be lost when it closes. Restarting your iPhone or iPad usually clears it.

In the app, open Settings and tap Send Feedback. Choose Suggestion, Problem or Question and write your message. It is sent as an email from your own account, with your app version, iOS version and device model added for you.

You can also write to levihopper+biblefirst@gmail.com. If you do, please say which iPhone or iPad you have, your iOS version, and what happened.