audibible
Narrated Bible audio with synchronized read-along text, narrator choices and ambient sounds.
For People seeking Scripture listening with accompanying text and adjustable soundscapes.
App StoreOfficial websiteAudience source
- Platform
- iOS
- Category
- Reference
- First release
- 24 December 2024
- Store ratings
- 22 (US)
- Research captures
- 29
Design review
Observed choices, what they mean, and what still needs checking.
Access & cost
A Premium sheet lists four benefits and preselects Yearly with a 7-day free trial at USD34.99/year ("That's just USD2.92/month"), alongside Monthly at USD5.99/month with the same trial.
Captured flow · 28 October 2026Attention & control
The profile menu marks Listening Statistics with a crown badge and lists Give to the ministry separately among appearance, language, rating and policy rows.
Scoped review · 28 October 2026Trust & care
Source boundaries, privacy and safeguards need further review. No app-wide assurance is implied.
Evidence incompleteOffers are dated iOS observations in USD where captured. Eligibility, country and platform can differ. Existing settings are not installation defaults.
Where the observed choices sit
Each row is one scoped observation of a specific flow, not a grade for the whole app.
No practice has been placed on the scale yet.
2 areas reviewed, not yet placed6 areas not reviewed yetReview notes
Works against: a choice subverts the person’s agency. Respects: it respects people and safeguards. Restores: a practice restores at a cost freely borne by the builder. Price, Christian branding or a free tier alone do not place an area. How we review.
Screens
29 reviewed screensCaptured app states, distinct from the publisher’s promotional images. Dates and versions belong to each screen; this is not a complete app walkthrough.
Features and patterns
What the reviewed screens show this app doing. A missing entry does not mean a feature is absent.
How human the assistant seems
A 'Select voice' sheet offers illustrated voices grouped by language: Helena (selected) and George for English, Marc and Ruth for Français. The sheet does not say whether the voices are human or synthetic.
How human the assistant seemsOther apps with how human the assistant seems (16)
Bible audio
Audibible displays its daily meditation, continue-listening cards and a Luke mini-player. Audibible presents stories and chronological listening plans with durations and crown badges. Audibible combines Luke 1 text with narrator, music, progress and playback controls. Audibible exposes speed, timer, repeat, music, atmosphere and separate volume levels. Audibible exposes appearance, text size, dynamic background, display format, paragraph effects and verse numbers. Audibible offers full Bible and testament listening plus a book list and passage search. Audibible gives Genesis a chapter grid, Listen action, favorite and download controls. Home shows a 'Daily Meditation' week strip with Wednesday selected and the 28 October card 'Invisible collaborators' quoting Psalm 103:20-21, with a play button and 'View calendar'. Below are 'Continue listening' tiles for Luke 1 and Psalm 27 and a mini player for Luke 1. After about a minute of Luke 1 audio, Listening Statistics shows Today 1min, Current Streak 1 Day (Best 1 Day) with an orange flame, and 1min for the week, month and total. The Luke 1 mini player is playing. Further down Explore, topics include 'Conditional immortality' (15m 29s) and 'Total health'; a 'Stories told' section offers 'Beginnings' and 'Abraham'; and 'Listening plans' starts with 'The Bible in 1 year: Chronological' (366 days) and 'The Bible in 90 days: Chronological'. Explore lists listening plans by length (The Bible in 1 year, 90 days and 180 days, all chronological; New Testament in 90 days) above 'Explore Psalms', where each psalm has a short title such as Psalm 1 'True Happiness in God's Law', Psalm 2 'A Psalm for a Royal Coronation' and Psalm 3 'Threatened but Trusting'. The plan page for 'The Bible in 1 year: Chronological' has a 'Start plan' button and explains that each day 'you will listen to passages from the Old and New Testaments' in the order events occurred, 'from the creation of the world to the redemption offered by Jesus Christ'. The first day, Genesis 1-3, begins below the mini player. On 29 October the Home week strip highlights Thursday and the daily meditation card shows 'The Deliverance of Peter' quoting Acts 12:11. 'Continue listening' now leads with 'Is man immortal?' from the Conditional immortality topic, followed by Luke 1, and the mini player shows the same episode.
Bible audioOther apps with bible audio (20)13 supporting screens
Devotional audio
Audibible displays its daily meditation, continue-listening cards and a Luke mini-player. Audibible shows a premium promotion and weekly content picks with play controls. Audibible groups long podcast titles and shorter topics with duration labels and crown badges. Audibible displays a Psalm 91 meditation and continue-listening cards. Home shows a 'Daily Meditation' week strip with Wednesday selected and the 28 October card 'Invisible collaborators' quoting Psalm 103:20-21, with a play button and 'View calendar'. Below are 'Continue listening' tiles for Luke 1 and Psalm 27 and a mini player for Luke 1. Before the daily meditation starts, the full text of Psalm 103:20-21 is shown ('Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength...') without a translation name. A voice picker set to 'Helena' and a 'Start' button sit at the bottom. During the daily meditation the screen shows only an illustrated dusk landscape and a fragment of narrated text, 'That God could', with no visible playback controls or progress bar. Explore opens with 'Deep Dive', described as a podcast with 'thought-provoking discussions that inspire fresh perspectives', with episodes of 3h 55m and 4h 16m. Below, 'Topics' offers audio such as 'The spirit world' (15m 42s) and 'A coming foretold' (9m 50s). On 29 October the Home week strip highlights Thursday and the daily meditation card shows 'The Deliverance of Peter' quoting Acts 12:11. 'Continue listening' now leads with 'Is man immortal?' from the Conditional immortality topic, followed by Luke 1, and the mini player shows the same episode.
Devotional audioOther apps with devotional audio (25)9 supporting screens
Finding a passage
Audibible offers full Bible and testament listening plus a book list and passage search. Audibible gives Genesis a chapter grid, Listen action, favorite and download controls.
Finding a passageOther apps with finding a passage (26)2 supporting screens
First use
A Premium sheet lists four benefits and preselects Yearly with a 7-day free trial at USD34.99/year ("That's just USD2.92/month"), alongside Monthly at USD5.99/month with the same trial. The footer says payment is charged at confirmation; no trial was activated. Continue leads to a paywall titled Listening Stats with the same yearly (USD34.99/year, 7-day free trial) and monthly (USD5.99/month, 7-day free trial) offers as the general Premium sheet. The statistics themselves were not shown. The iOS purchase sheet for "Yearly" (audibible: audio bible app) shows a 1-week free trial starting today, then $34.99 per year starting Nov 3, 2026, with "No commitment. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account at least a day before each renewal date. Plan automatically renews until canceled." Subscribing needs a double-click of the side button; it was not confirmed. The account line is masked.
First useOther apps with first use (89)3 supporting screens
Giving and offerings
The profile menu marks Listening Statistics with a crown badge and lists Give to the ministry separately among appearance, language, rating and policy rows. The frame does not show what the statistics contain.
Giving and offeringsOther apps with giving and offerings (26)
Also observed
- Download
- Free download · US store
- Access
- Access requirements unverified
Cost, access & publisher model Sources and details
Practical facts, separate from the design assessment. Checked 25 October 2026. A free download does not establish free access to all content.
- App download
- Free download · US · Store source
- Subscriptions
- Subscription declared · Source
- Store in-app products
- In-app products listed
- Donations
- Not verified
- Advertising
- Not verified
What access does payment cover?
The retrieved sources do not establish which capabilities require payment. This is unknown, rather than a claim that the app is free or paid throughout.
Free samples, a free tier and the complete library are different scopes. Store and publisher evidence is separate from the dated captured-flow review in Design review. Coverage varies by offer and platform.
Store-listed products and prices (5)
US App Store · checked 25 October 2026. Names and prices describe listed products, not a personal checkout quote. Other platforms, web offers and eligibility can differ.
- Monthly$5.99
- Yearly$34.99
- Monthly$3.99
- Lifetime$149.99
- Lifetime$229.00
Publisher funding and business model
Publisher App Store listing advertises paid in-app products; this establishes app-level offers only.
Linked app / US App Store product catalog · Current storefront checked 25 October 2026 · Publisher source · checked 25 October 2026
The organization’s complete current funding mix and revenue are not established here. App payments, donations and capital raised describe different things; they do not determine an ethical assessment.
Organization profile and funding sourcesStore facts checked 25 October 2026 (version 2.2.5). Ratings are not downloads or active users. App-specific revenue and active users have not been verified; see the organization profile for separately scoped figures.
Store reviews
Store reviews offer useful questions to investigate. These retrieved samples are self-selected, vary by platform and do not establish the experience of every user.
Illustrative reading
Audio clarity is valued; an older selected negative account objects to discovering paid access.
Based on 2 selected review excerpts, which may be historical; not a full thematic analysis. Review source
Review samples, reading and sources
- Google PlayEnglish / US requested
3 written reviews within the 180 days ending 25 October 2026.
4–5 stars: 23 stars: 11–2 stars: 0
Small sample: fewer than 20 recent reviews.
View Google Play listing- Google PlayGerman / DE requested
No written reviews in this retrieved sample fall within the recent window.
View Google Play listing- Apple App StorePublic review page · default order
1 selected excerpts returned; these may be older and are not a recent or random sample.
Returned dates: 27 April 2025 – 27 April 2025.
View Apple reviews
Collected 28 October 2026. Up to 50 newest Play reviews per requested language/storefront before the date filter. Requested locale does not establish residence; streams may overlap and must not be added together. Star counts describe ratings, not text sentiment or ethical quality. Methods and limitations.
App Store screenshots
View the store listingPublisher-supplied images from the US App Store, checked 25 October 2026. Promotional artwork may include captions or composites; it shows how the publisher presents the app.
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Review notes
Reviewed, not yet placed
Evidence was gathered for these areas, but it does not yet support placing a choice on the frame.
Money and access
A Premium sheet lists four benefits and preselects Yearly with a 7-day free trial at USD34.99/year ("That's just USD2.92/month"), alongside Monthly at USD5.99/month with the same trial. The footer says payment is charged at confirmation; no trial was activated. The profile menu marks Listening Statistics with a crown badge and lists Give to the ministry separately among appearance, language, rating and policy rows. The frame does not show what the statistics contain. Continue leads to a paywall titled Listening Stats with the same yearly (USD34.99/year, 7-day free trial) and monthly (USD5.99/month, 7-day free trial) offers as the general Premium sheet. The statistics themselves were not shown.
Still to check:Activate an approved Apple in-app trial only with owner authentication; record entitlement, cancellation and expiring state. Distinguish the displayed quote from the Apple confirmation sheet and from actual charges.
Attention and agency
The profile menu marks Listening Statistics with a crown badge and lists Give to the ministry separately among appearance, language, rating and policy rows. The frame does not show what the statistics contain. Opening Listening Statistics shows an introduction, "Track your progress and celebrate your commitment with personalized stats", with a Continue button. No statistics are shown on this screen. Continue leads to a paywall titled Listening Stats with the same yearly (USD34.99/year, 7-day free trial) and monthly (USD5.99/month, 7-day free trial) offers as the general Premium sheet. The statistics themselves were not shown.
Still to check:Distinguish existing account settings from first-install defaults. Observe delivered notifications over time; verify pause, refusal and recovery behavior without manufacturing personal activity.
Not reviewed yet: Truth and spiritual authority, Privacy and dignity, Formation and relationships, Care and inclusion, Craft and repair, Stewardship and accountability.
The ten principle questions For your own design review
These questions guide discernment; they are not ten scores for this app.
- Keep the Word distinct, and teach it truly
- Can a reader always tell Scripture from our words, and our words from a machine’s?
- Never speak for God
- Would we put our own name under this sentence, or are we borrowing God’s?
- Design for the most vulnerable first
- Who is the most vulnerable person likely to use this today, and what will they see?
- Welcome before you ask, and guard what is told in confidence
- If a friend read everything we keep about this person, would the person be glad?
- Feed the flock, not on it
- Does this serve growth in faith, or only the usage numbers?
- Make room for rest, and say when it is enough
- Where does our product stop, and does it ever tell someone they have done enough?
- Send people to God and to one another
- When someone closes what we built, are they closer to God and to other people?
- Plant and water; leave the growth to God
- What would we stop measuring if we believed growth is God’s?
- Make it well, as an offering
- Would we offer this to God as it is, and could the person with the least sight, time or reading ease use it?
- Hold it with joy and trembling, before God and others
- Who outside the team holds us to account, and who prays for the people who use this?
Use this in your own work
Start with the observed choice, then ask how your own implementation serves people. The evidence is a design example, rather than an app-wide recommendation.