Contact The Bible with Nicky and Pippa Support

My husband and I have been Alpha leaders in the US for almost 10 years now. I am constantly recommending this app to our Alpha teams. I can no longer recommend this app. I can no longer use this app as I’ve always used it. I cannot go back and listen to and read previous entries as I’ve always done. I can no longer search previous days and send encouraging sections to friends and Alpha attendees. I can no longer use this app as a reference. This makes me SOOOO incredibly sad. I’m not sure how I’ll start my day moving forward but it will no longer be with Pippa and Nicky and David. This update was not an improvement, IMO. It wasn’t broke so why did you have to “fix it”. I really wish I had the old version back as it was MUCH more user friendly and much more of a resource to help others. No, I won’t use the website where I have to page through day after day after day to get to the day I want to reread or copy a section for someone in need. I have been doing Nicky’s BiOY for years and I loved going back to previous days and previous years, even. Now I cannot see ANY of the previous days/years. I’m sure a great deal of time was spent on this “update” but it is a HUGE step backwards, again IMO. What was wrong with the previous version? I miss the listing for each day (commentary, psalm/proverbs and commentary, New Testament and commentary, Old Testament and commentary.) Help!!! I’m soooooooooo sad. 🙁

Three friends and I use this app and keep one another accountable to read. I love the readings, although they’re in a weird order—It’s disconcerting to have the Old Testament last — hard to end the reading with some of those writings and it’s an illogical flow. The audio is excellent! I love being able to change speed settings based on what I need during the day—can slow it down when I’m winding down for sleep! *However* If I open a day’s reading and get interrupted, it’s marked off as completed and *the reader can’t change that*, so it’s easy to miss portions. *Also* (and this is the worst part) *it is impossible to “read ahead” past today’s assigned reading*. If I have a busy time coming up or just am interested, and want to read more, I cannot. In recent months I have wanted on many days to read more than one selection but could not. Life happens. It’s nicer to be ahead than behind . During the past three weeks I was injured and many of my reading days got away from me. I now have a discouraging number to read through to get caught up. But I can never get ahead. The app should open to the location of Today’s selection in the list, but allow the reader to scroll forward and backward to read ahead or catch up if they choose. Please change this. It’s the thing that is a bad problem but it’s an unpleasant interaction to have.

I have used this app for years. The content and value is fantastic. BUT! I really hate the new interface, and it has impeded my ability to keep up with it. For example, it defaults to today even though I may not have viewed/listened for several days due to my schedule. There used to be a way to know if I had finished the lesson or only got through 1/3 of it by clicking only on the Bible verse I’d finished, then seeing it marked as 1/3 done. I’d know where to pick up from. But now, it marks the whole day done whether I’ve actually finished it or not. So if I mistakenly click on today and then go back to yesterday, it’ll mark both as done. Ugh! I also miss the way each section was shown as a list while listening , and you could forward or backward to a section and see visually where you are while listening (such as being in the middle of the New Testament audio when I had to stop.