He Reads Truth Reviews

I had such high hopes for this because my fiancé loves She Reads Truth but I am disappointed. I have been using this for 9 months doing a Bible reading plan. It has stopped marking off where I’m at in my reading and has stopped loading it, completely defeating the purpose of using it as a Bible study tool. I have contacted them to see about fixing it and will update this once accordingly.

UPDATE 1: I have reached out multiple times over the past 6 months or so and keep getting the same excuse of “Our developer is aware of the issue and working to fix it”.

UPDATE 2: The last update shows that the Mark as Read button now functions correctly but it doesn’t. I’m giving up I’ll come back later and see if it’s actually fixed.

UPDATE 3: It has been almost 3 years and I came back to see if HeReadsTruth has been fixed. In the process of buying a reading plan HeReadsTruth crashed on me four times.

I really have tried multiple times to get on board with He Reads Truth but their refusal to address basic issues shows that as long as they are bringing in money without having ti put effort into their plans and/or their app, they don’t truly care about spreading the gospel.

My wife and I purchased their books for the Advent and thanksgiving series. The 4 books totaled $115, and when they get here, they didn’t even include the devotional... you have to ALSO buy the devotional through HeReadsTruth . The books they sent were simply trendy books with a few scriptures in them, cooking recipes, and useless information purely designed to look cool with trendy edited photos of scenery. If you do need an app to help you be more consistent with the Word, there are other great ones that aren’t overcharging you for nonsense. Their studies are fine, and some of their writers have good insight, but you are way overpaying for what you get unfortunately.

The design of the latest update is very nice. It’s cleaned up and beautiful! Overall it’s prettier, but takes far more tapping and searching to actually find what I’m looking for—which as a UX designer, makes me very sad.

HeReadsTruth is also very very slow now. Which I’m sure bugs will get squashed soon, so I’m not incredibly worried there.

The user experience of the reading plans is the main culprit. For example, tapping on my latest reading from the home page takes me to yesterday’s reading instead of today’s for some reason. Clicking the reading plan tab in the bottom navigation always drops me into “available plans” instead of the ones that I own and am wanting to read. And it now takes multiple taps to get back to my reading plans once I’ve finished a reading. And my list of readings always reorganizes itself seemingly at random. Sometimes my Bible in a year reading plan will be at the top of the list. Sometimes it’s at the bottom, and sometimes it’s 2nd or 3rd from the top.

First, let me just say the content of HeReadsTruth is wonderful. The reading plans are phenomenal and a blessing.

Now, HeReadsTruth itself: Wow, there’s so much that could be better. The UI design is questionable at best. Tapping a reading plan always takes you to the previous day instead of the next day you are reading. There’s no dark mode for the reading plans, which is more of a minor gripe, but valid nonetheless since the Bible part of HeReadsTruth has a dark mode. Why does there have to be a huge picture that I have to swipe away to get to the reading plan every single day? Why aren’t the completed reading plans automatically sorted to the bottom of my plans? Why do I have to tap “back” through the huge picture to get back to my days in the plan? Devs: please fix HeReadsTruth, it is not in a great place right now.

It pains me to write this, because the content of HeReadsTruth is very, very good…for the two days that I was able to use it. Now HeReadsTruth is completely unusable. 9 times out of 10 that I open HeReadsTruth , it crashes within 30 seconds. On the rare occasion that I can get HeReadsTruth open for more than a minute, while the scripture portion of the plan is present, the commentary section appears as blank. This happens both only iPhone SE and my iPad, which is the newest generation. It’s really frustrating to be missing out on excellent devotional because HeReadsTruth is one big bug.

I love HeReadsTruth as my quick access Bible, but it is missing many critical features that prevents me from making it my primary Bible app.

1. Please add landscape support. Especially for tablets, it will make note taking and reading easier especially if you are using a keyboard.

2. Adding Apple Pencil handwriting support will make HeReadsTruth very unique and greatly increase the value it adds to the users.

3. Adding more men based content would be greatly appreciated. Most of the content seems to be based on women because of the foundation around She Read Truth, but I would really like to see the He Reads Truth split off with a lot of men based content, podcasts, and other features with some combined features such as marriage reading plans, marriage based studies, and other similar features.

4. Being able to see multiple translations at once.

5. Be able to partially highlight and note verses. I like to be able to break up verses into some critical words and being able to highlight just those and add notes to just those would be a great benefit and once again make it unique among Bible apps.

I use this on my iPad, I really was excited that there would finally be an iPad app, quickly became a subscriber when HeReadsTruth was released, but then just couldn’t love only having a portrait version of HeReadsTruth . All iPad covers are designed to sit in landscape mode when propped up, this is how I use it and how I use my digital journal to write as I do the devotional. I understand designs have limitations, but it is 2019, this is about the only non game app I know of that doesn’t rotate. Is there a plan to update this?

While HeReadsTruth itself is great, it severely needs iPad landscape support. Whenever I’m doing any kind of reading on my iPad I much prefer to hold it in landscape mode rather than in portrait mode.

One other small complaint is that I would prefer for the home page in HeReadsTruth not contain their store products. I already own some he reads truth stuff, including a Bible, but I think a focused Bible and devotional app should avoid tempting its users to buy material possessions. It would be fine if it was in another tab, just don’t put it front and center on the homepage.

The devotional is very good. The intro summary shows up after the text which seems weird because it tells to read the text that you just read. The other weird thing is posting comments onto the chat board is very dysfunctional. I hit the return to go to a new line and majority of the time it posts the comments when I didn’t want it too. The other thing is when a post a second comment it reposts the first comment and deletes what I wrote.

I really appreciate the studies that are produced by this company/org, and it’s convenient to be able to read scripture in HeReadsTruth , but with a subscription of $36/year, I would hope for a better in-app experience.

- dark mode should be an app or account setting carried throughout HeReadsTruth ... frustrating if you’re using it at night to have the devotional/study scripture passages and notes in bright white.
- often times it’s obvious that the actual devotional notes are cut short at the end in the current studies ... probably some technical glitch
- swiping to the next chapter when using the Bible function can be really glitchy
- sometimes the page where you choose what day of the study to open up gets stuck in an endless loop (e.g., tapping “Day 3: