After only five months in existence, an audio-based Bible app has already reached one million downloads.
The Bible.is app has been downloaded in 166 countries and is available for free to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android devices. The app combines text and audio and is offered in a large number of languages.
The audio-Bible app has been developed by Faith Comes By Hearing ministry, and is an expression of their Digital Bible Project (DBP), which combines the latest technology with the world’s largest digital library of both Bible text and audio recordings. The app advances the ministry’s mission to record audio Bibles for every nation, tribe, language and people.
At this point the ministry has Scripture recordings in 500 languages, with the aim of 2,000 by 2016.
"While the Bible.is apps are great at home, in church and on-the-go, we really see them as a part of a larger strategy to fulfill the Great Commission," said Troy Carl, the ministry's national director and architect of the DBP. "We are excited by this rapid growth, and especially the worldwide reach this technology has produced."
Another Bible app, the YouVersion developed by LifeChurch.tv has even more impressive download figures after recently surpassing the 10 million download mark .
In one weekend alone, more than 100,000 downloads of the app took place, according to the YouVersion team.
YouVersion is also free and available on nine different platforms and in 20 different languages. The app includes 23 different reading plans readers can choose from.
“What we see with the app and the number of people talking about it and sharing it with others is we are really seeing what I think is the beginning of a revolution,” said Terry Storch, who leads the digerati team at LifeChurch.tv.