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Life.Church (YouVersion)

YouVersion Bible App in African languages

Free Bible app with text and audio in 2,456 languages; Swahili, Amharic, isiZulu, Arabic, French and Portuguese were confirmed on its languages page. Includes reading plans and offline reading.

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Why this is listed

Most widely installed Bible app in Africa; full text in the main trade languages.

How to start

  1. Open bible.com (opens an external site) and read what Life.Church (YouVersion) says about itself before you read anything else.
  2. Confirm the cost and level fit: free, introductory, over ongoing.
  3. Note the tradition — Broadly evangelical. It will shape what you are taught, and that is worth knowing going in.
  4. Put the first session in your calendar now. The gap between reading about study and doing it is a calendar entry.

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