Read Scripture Reviews

I was looking for something related to Francis Chan in ReadScripture Store, because I love his quote, “I want to live my life in such a way that if God doesn’t come through I’m screwed.” That’s become my life motto in combination with Jeremiah 17:7 “But the person who trusts in the Lord will be blessed. The Lord will show him that he can be trusted.”

The bible app I’ve used for years has taken on too much of a social media format, so I download ReadScripture. ReadScripture is very impressive. The short videos are very well done in regards to content, narration and artwork. What a great idea to put the Bible in context for the reader. No matter how many times you read through the Bible you learn something new.

The illustrations are very cool and it’s a nice feature to hide the verse numbers if you want, to give a different reading experience. The circular animation that coincides with taking a deep breath is fantastic. I need a reminder to take a deep breath and relax. Francis Chan frequently mentions each breath we take is because God allowed it.

I was reading in my YouVersion Bible plan, and stumbled upon a video. It was an amazing overview of the books, within really cool animations.

I showed my 10-year-old a few videos from ReadScripture , and he was in awe of the Comic-book-style renderings. He said it made the Bible so much more readable because it became fun. (But I have to admit, I think I'm more hooked on these videos than he is.) There are various artistic creations - from what look like comics, to beautiful scenes that look like they were painted in watercolors.

Of course, ReadScripture isn't just a bunch of videos. Do you ever look at scripture and wonder why there are line breaks and poetic-style passages? Well, not any more. Put into actual paragraphs, the Bible is an amazing read. Almost like a novel. Because of that, I find that I'm much better absorbing, and comprehending, what I read. The Bible has always been a bit off to me because of the style. Now I actually enjoy reading it.

Reading and watching is available at your own pace. Want to skip to books & chapters and read stories of what you feel is more important to you at different times? Go ahead. You can always go back and see anything you've skipped, (and also re-read the ones you haven't.)

I don't have even one negative to present. This is by far my favorite app of all time, and I hope everyone realizes the amount of time, effort, and super creativity that has been put into it.

A+++++++

I’ve used more bible reading plans and apps over the years than I can count. Any method that gets a person into a routine of reading the Word is great, but this one is by far my favorite. Every little detail has been a blessing to me, down to the reminder at the beginning of each reading to take a deep breath. It reminds me to pause, be still, rest, and be reverent, instead of treating the daily reading like a task or chore. I love that there is a psalm as well as a sequential reading for each day. It’s also wonderful to have the plan not attached to calendar dates. It keeps me from feeling guilty or overwhelmed (both of which often convince me to just give up on a plan altogether) if I fall behind. Sometimes I need a day away from the plan because I feel led to study something else, and I appreciate that it doesn’t leave me feeling like I need to “catch up.” The videos have been a great source of insight, too! Love ReadScripture.

I have been a Christian my whole life, raised in the church, Bible college for a couple years, etc and I’ve had moments of feeling close and feeling far away from God. I love the encouragement by Francis Chan and other godly leaders to get alone with God, to make personal intentional time with Him. I had heard about and tried (unsuccessfully) for years to read my Bible but I just never found a rhythm or put in the work. I often felt like reading the Bible was good by not necessary and compared it to flossing - beneficial but not worth the effort to me.

But since I’ve started using ReadScripture, all of that has changed. I am on my longest streak of readying the Bible every morning (70 days, missed 2 but man, I’ve never had this many days of being intentional). And I feel God in a way I have never experienced in my life. He is changing me. He is changing my heart. As I sit at His feet and read the Words He wants me to hear, I can see myself becoming a new creation.

I highly highly recommend ReadScripture to everyone! This is an amazing gift and I love the videos at key moments that highlight the chapter or a theme we are reading about. I am now a firm believer that nothing can replace this time alone with God and yield the same results.

Thank you Bible Project and Francis Chan for ReadScripture and for your faithfulness in ministry! I also recommend checking out the Crazy Love podcast as a great supplement.

I’ve been using ReadScripture for the past 3 weeks, and honestly it’s had me in the Word and studying it the most consistently I’ve ever been. I work about 25-30 hours a week, I just started my first semester in college after a gap year, and I teach a Sunday school class, so this is exactly the kind of structured reading I needed.

And as far as theology goes, The Bible Project guys have been super solid on their doctrine as far as I’ve seen, which, obviously, is a huge plus.

The only criticisms I really have is I haven’t seen a way to set up a new reading plan after I read through the whole Bible (other than re-reading the Bible) and I think it would be awesome if you could choose more specific reading plans, like reading just the Old Testament or just the New Testament, or just the books of the prophets, ect. But other than that I really can’t complain!

ReadScripture is such a blessing and exactly what I have been looking for. I use it every day. The videos are incredibly well done with artistic creativity while providing legitimate overviews of the books of the Bible that even the most biblically educated would appreciate. You read the scripture in the ESV and then end with a paired psalm. I recommend ReadScripture to anyone who's interested in reading the Bible.
My only negative comment is that there is issues with the portrait orientation. When I change my phone's orientation from vertical to horizontal the text changes location, even background color. Then when you flip it back it doesn't even go back to where you left off. So I always have to make sure my phone's orientation lock is on while I'm reading.

Such a fantastic app though. I'm thankful apps like this exist. Thank you!

It has daily readings of scripture arranged into about three chapters of Old Testament plus a Psalm, and the reading is often prefaced with a neat video of about five minutes. The video gives background and overview of the book that is featured in the reading.

When I have done daily reading plans in the past, I've been frustrated that I can't find a simple plan that divides the Bible into daily portions going from one cover to the other. I don't like mixing my testaments. The other option is a chronological plan, mixing chapters of books up so they go according to their historicity. Mutilation! This plan goes a book at a time, and the addition of the psalm each day infuses a devotional element that takes the reader out of the narrative and into communion with God.

The only thing I might add to ReadScripture is the ability to listen to the Bible readings.

I have been really enjoying the set up The Bible Project has with ReadScripture. I didn’t grow up in the church and am not very familiar with a lot of the stories in the OT. Having videos along the way to help guide and give context really helps me as I’m reading much of this for the first time. Additionally, most days readings are really manageable and not overwhelming. Some other plans have you reading from four different books a day— that’s too scattered for me! This streamlines your reading, allowing you to really get into the story. And having a psalm a day is refreshing!

I do wish there was a way to adjust the reading schedule a bit more. Mainly, when I miss a few days I wish I could adjust it so that it doesn’t keep moving forward when I’m still catching up. Not a big deal, but functionally it would be a little helpful!

I've been watching your videos for a while and that's how I learned about ReadScripture . I love the reading plan, I love having those videos in key parts and sometimes I watch them again as I continue reading future days to keep track of where in the video I'm at (so I can connect with the larger picture better), I love the Psalms following each day, the encouragement to pray,... It's like a quiet time!

I have three suggestions for new features:
1) other translations. I'm liking ESV, but I'm more used to NIV. I'm sure other users will have other preferences as well.
2) my fiancée started using ReadScripture as well, but she had started reading the Bible a while ago. We played with the "start date" option and used the long tap option to mark everything up to here as done to match the dates of "read every day" with the current date. Maybe there could be another long press option for "Start here today" which would mark everything above as done and set the start date accordingly so the selected section is due today.
3) a dark theme. I like reading light on dark when the room is dark, plus it helps preserve the battery. I like the theme being used for the Psalms.

Thanks for the effort you're taking on and keep up!

WOW, it’s here! ReadScripture is amazing! Finally an easy way to read the Bible in a year with interactive amazing videos to go along with Gods story! I love The Bible Project! Their work is truly making a difference! I am so thankful for this! God Bless them in all that they are doing! Please get this information out to everyone! I do go back to the YouVersion app so that the reading for the day can be read to me while I follow along in my bible, highlighting. Maybe that can be an update to ReadScripture. Have the ability to play the reading by audio. But it’s easy to use the YouVersion app for that if want! Thank you, Thank You for this perfect app. I am full of JOY! No issues at all found with it❣️🥰😍
Keep adding new TBP videos to ReadScripture!
~Angela

I want to reach out to the team at the Bible Project for such an incredible resource. I have tried a number of times to help the boy I mentor understand the Bible better. I had tried a number of approaches, but we stumbled across these videos a few years back at a small group meeting and he immediately asked if we could start watching through them. He was impressed with the quality and art style. I was ecstatic about the content! Thank you so much for this incredible resource. On the suggestion front... I would love to see a dark mode option incorporated into ReadScripture . I often use this at night to read scripture before bed and a dark mode setting would really help! Keep up the great work!

Absolutely love ReadScripture, went through myself and it was an incredible experience that taught me more about the Bible and helped me to grow as a Christian more than I ever had before. That being said, I think it would really be benefitted from an update. It’s lacking BibleProject’s many new videos detailing Biblical themes and the books themselves (for example, their older animated Mark series is included in the reading plan but their newer animated Luke-Acts series is totally absent). I would love to see ReadScripture continually updated with BibleProject’s new releases! Highly recommend this for anyone seeking to understand the whole Bible on a deep level, it will change your life.

Love ReadScripture , but a few changes would improve it a lot. I wish we could create an account so that our reading would sync across devices. So that I could use my iPhone or my iPad and my progress would be shown on both devices. That would be really helpful. Another thing that would be nice is if there was audio for the readings as well. And I have also noticed that the Read Scripture/Bible Project videos are not updated on ReadScripture as more are being made. The reading plan listed on the Bible project website has a lot more videos listed with different sections than what is shown on ReadScripture. It would be great if the new videos were placed on ReadScripture when made available.

If ReadScripture can have 7 stars, I’d rate it as such. I don’t know where I was all these years to not find ReadScripture and I guess it’s because my personal hunger and curiosity to be closer to the scriptures and the Lord has grown. Initially I had problems following along the paper version but then I finally received the email that I was to receive when I first signed up, and TADA! I went into “settings” and set the “start date” to be whichever date you start, it has a calendar date that popped up and is next to the portion you are to read. No more guessing the date and the chapter I should be on. Love and blessings to the project team! May you be blessed abundantly. ❤️

Great app! You’ve done an amazing job in putting this together, and the videos and narrations are awesome. Thanks for putting this out there for free. Just one suggestion. I would love to have a dark mode option so that the text is light-colored over a dark background. It makes it so much easier on the eyes, especially when reading at night. And if we could have a few fonts to choose from that would be great too. I tend to prefer serif fonts for long reading (they just flow better). And you could also add the free Open Dyslexic font which would be of incredible help to those who suffer from dyslexia. Anyway, thanks for ReadScripture guys. God bless!

I have been using ReadScripture this entire year. God has used it to transform my life. His Word is so beautiful and soothing in the midst of the chaos of this world.

The creators are Christians who hold to the correct and historic view that the entire Bible is the Word of God. The videos are so very helpful, and have totally reformed the way I view the entire Bible and my faith as a whole. The videos highlight the themes and the important shifts of each book, and do so in an easy-to-understand way. Their theme videos go through major themes in the entire Bible. In addition, the whole technology team has been anointed with God-given creativity (which shows in their stunning animation) and gentle humility.

The Bible Project is my favorite website right now. There is also blog that goes along with the reading plan. It's eye-opening. In order to access it, you need to sign up via email.

If you love the Lord Jesus, then you will get to know His Word. This is an incredible tool and an incredibly helpful resource. I highly recommend it to all my brothers and sisters in Christ.

ReadScripture is fantastic! Well formatted, straight forward, easy to use... I prefer my own Bible for reading, so I was a little hesitant to use ReadScripture for a Bible reading plan, but one day of use I can hands down say I will continue to use ReadScripture for this daily part of my time with the Lord. I use my Bible for further study, and other things, but for this reading plan, it’s perfect. I love that it’s all together, all tracked, I literally just have to sit down and enter that quiet time with my Father. It’s effortless. I could keep going, so I will just sum up with this, if you are looking for an easy, but in depth Bible reading plan, don’t even look any further, ReadScripture is great!

ReadScripture is so wonderful on so many levels! It has allowed me to cultivate the habit of being in the Word daily, which has been mind-blowingly amazing! It has allowed me to understand the content and context of what I am reading. AND it’s free!! Thank you to those who put ReadScripture together and work to bless us through it - God is doing a mighty work through you; thank you for following God’s call on your lives.

A few things that would make ReadScripture even more wonderful:
- ability to highlight and take notes on the readings
- ability to listen to the daily text in addition to reading it

So grateful for this ministry! Amazing artwork in these videos make the Bible come to life and have already helped me understand the Bible more already! My only two requests for developers.. I would love to see a ‘donate’ button or something like it on ReadScripture ..I just think the artists and team putting these resources together for free deserve support:) Also, I would love to be able to re-watch the introduction video and information, but I can’t seem to figure out how to get back to them once I started the reading plan. Thank you so much for doing this project!

There are many things I love about ReadScripture. #1 is the videos. They are excellent!! I also like the reading plan and how it is divided up into major themes of the Bible.

Now for the negatives. #1- there is no way to listen to the Bible readings. I like to read and listen to the scriptures and that is not an option with ReadScripture. #2- I am reading the scriptures with a group of people and for accountability and encouragement, we comment on what we read. There is no way to do this within ReadScripture.

Last year we read thru the Bible in the you version app. Though we all like read scripture plan and videos better, the listening and comment feature makes you version a better option in my opinion.

I want to thank everyone involved with ReadScripture and this mission!! I have been following Tim since his Blackhawk days. Even though I was in California I read along with the whole Wisconsin church for one straight year. Tim drew boxes on a glass board and everything suddenly made sense. When he announced that he was leaving I cried as if he was my own pastor. But thankfully he did leave. Because what was once boxes on glass has developed into this application and the whole Bible Project website!! Thanking the Lord for bringing all these people together and for this application!! Truly in my 40+ years of studying the Bible this program is the most helpful!