I’ve been on a quest to find a great mobile site for accessing the Bible. I was after a site that I could so I could use my iPod touch in church instead of carrying my Bible. (OK, no commentary please) I’ve used google’s mobile site converter to access the Biblegateway and Zondervan’s online version, but it wasn’t quite there. I know that Laridian has a pay service, but I really didn’t want to pay even though their offering is great.
This last week I found YouVersion’s mobile version. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. It works great on my ipod, my treo, and even my old iPaq. The thing that really won me over was the versions that are available. It has the ones I regularly use – NIV, TNIV, the Message. If it had the NIV readers version it would be perfect.
Check out the YouVersion blog for more info.
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Were you aware that Zondervan Bible Search has a mobile version? It’s at http://www.zondervanbiblesearch.com/mobile – so you wouldn’t have to use Google’s mobile site converter.
thanks, for mentioning the Zondervan mobile version. I’ve tried it, but it doesn’t wrap right on the iPod or iPhone, making the text too small to read, and requiring constant zooming and panning to read. The google converter fixs that problem. If Zondervan can fix that it will be a much better solution. I’ve also read that the Biblegateway is working on a mobile version so in the future it might be another option.
Hello:
Thank you for checking out http://www.zondervanbiblesearch.com/mobile . I am the project lead for ZondervanBibleSearch.com. Thanks for the info on the wrapping problem. We have looked at this on the iPhone before and didn’t notice the problem but we will take another look. We are in the middle of a minor site upgrade so we will see if we can fix this soon. If not, we will put it on the list. Oh and a shorter url to the mobile site is http://www.zbible.mobi.
Thanks again for visiting.
Thanks for the info Britt. I’ll have to give the zbible.mobi another go. I also look forward to your upgrades, I love the NIV readers version and I miss not having it on YouVersion.