Holy Bible - KJV+Audio+Verse

Review by eFreeware

If you read the King James text regularly and want a single place to read, listen and keep notes, the Holy Bible - KJV+Audio+Verse app is built for that routine. It comes from developer LiveLauncher and sits in the Books & Reference category, which tells you it is meant as a study and reference tool rather than a reading app with a story to follow. The core offer is straightforward: the King James text, a narrator reading it aloud, and a small set of tools for marking and finding passages.

The app is free to install and supported by ads, with no in-app purchases. That combination shapes what kind of reader it suits. Someone who wants to open a chapter on a quiet morning, hear it read while getting ready for the day, or look up a phrase they half-remember will find the pieces they need here. Someone who wants a paid, ad-free library with commentary and reference works is looking at a different category of product.

It has been installed more than a million times and holds a 4.2 average across 8,248 ratings, with 507 written reviews. Those numbers put it among the more widely used free Bible apps on the store, though a rating average is a summary of many different expectations rather than a promise about how it will fit your own reading habits.

Built for daily reading and listening

The feature that anchors the app is the daily verse. The developer describes it as personalized, arriving each day to encourage and uplift. For readers who like a short passage to start with rather than a full chapter, this gives the app a reason to be opened every morning, and it works as a low-commitment entry point if you have never kept a consistent reading habit before.

Audio playback is the second pillar. Narrators read the scriptures, and the recordings are presented as high quality. The obvious use case is listening while your hands are busy: a commute, a walk, or chores around the house. It also helps readers who find long passages easier to absorb by ear than by eye, and it means the app is not limited to moments when you can sit down and look at a screen.

Between the two, the app covers two different modes of engagement: a short daily prompt and a longer listening session. That pairing is what makes it feel like a daily companion rather than a reference volume you consult only when you need to look something up.

Study tools for finding and marking passages

Study tools cover keyword search plus bookmarks and cross-references. Cross-references let you follow a theme or phrase from one passage into related ones, which is the kind of thing that matters when you are preparing a lesson, leading a group, or simply trying to understand how a term is used across the text. Search handles the other direction: you remember a phrase but not where it sits, and you want to get there without paging through books.

Bookmarks are the simplest of the three and probably the most used. Marking a passage you return to often saves you from repeating the same search every week. Together these tools are modest compared with a full study Bible with commentary and maps, but they cover the everyday jobs most readers actually have: find it, mark it, come back to it.

Search, cross-references and bookmarks are the tools the app's claim as a comprehensive study tool rests on.

Making the page your own

Personalization is handled through font size, themes and highlighting. Font size matters more than it sounds: readers who study for long stretches, or who read on a smaller screen, will want text they can adjust without straining. Themes give you a choice of look, which helps if you read at night or in bright light and want the page to be comfortable either way.

Highlighting lets you color passages you care about and find them again quickly. Used alongside bookmarks, it turns the app into something closer to a marked-up personal copy than a plain digital text. That looks like a small feature, but over months of reading it is the difference between a text you pass through and one that accumulates your own notes.

The prayer journal is the other personal element. It is a dedicated place to record prayers and spiritual experiences, so you can look back over time at what you asked for and what changed. For readers who already keep a paper journal, this replaces a notebook; for those who don't, it is a low-effort way to start.

Free, with ads and no purchases

The app costs nothing to download and is supported by advertising. There are no in-app purchases, so nothing inside the app is gated behind a payment, and there is no subscription to manage or cancel. For a free Bible app, that is a clean arrangement: you install it, you use it, and the cost of running it is carried by ads.

The trade-off is exactly the one you would expect. Ads are part of the experience. How much that bothers you depends on how you use the app. Someone who opens it for a daily verse and closes it again will notice far less than someone who listens to long passages in one sitting.

The choice is simply whether you are comfortable with an ad-supported app in exchange for the features above. Content is rated for Everyone, and the app was released in November 2023, with the most recent update in September 2026 bringing bug fixes and stability improvements.

What else you might weigh against it

The most direct alternative is a study Bible app built around commentary, notes and reference material rather than reading and listening. Those tend to be heavier and often paid, and they suit readers preparing teaching or digging into historical context. This app is lighter: text, audio, search and a journal.

A second option is a general-purpose reading app where you load a Bible text yourself. That gives you control over formatting and your own library, but you give up the narrated audio and the built-in search and bookmarking that come ready here. A third is a dedicated audio Bible, which does one job well but leaves you without the text tools.

The practical question is which of those jobs you actually do most. If your week includes more listening and quick lookups than deep study, the balance here lines up. If it includes more commentary and cross-referencing against reference works, a study-focused app will serve you better.

A reasonable home base for KJV reading

The features are the ones most readers reach for regularly rather than a long list of extras, and the app has clearly found an audience, with more than a million installs and a 4.2 average from 8,248 ratings.

The main thing to accept before installing is the advertising. If that is fine with you, this is a sensible home base for King James reading, particularly if you like the idea of hearing the text as well as reading it and want somewhere to keep your own marks and prayers.

It suits readers who want a single, free app for daily devotion, listening on the move and light study. It is less suited to anyone whose reading depends on commentary, maps and background notes, since those are not part of what this app provides.

What's new in version 1.8.0

Fixed bugs and improved stability