Terms of Use

The whole Bible is free to read, on every device, and always will be. A subscription is $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year and buys two things: every chapter read aloud in the iPhone and iPad app, and Speak without its free limits. It covers every device you sign in on, and you can cancel it wherever you bought it.

What this is

World Bible Guide is a Bible reader — the King James Version and a plain-language reading of every verse — on iPhone, on iPad, and in a browser at app.worldbible.guide. The iPhone and iPad app also carries the Berean Standard Bible and Bibles in six more languages, and can read every chapter aloud. It also offers Speak, described below. By using any of them you are agreeing to what is on this page.

Your account

Reading needs no account. Speak does, because a conversation belongs to somebody and follows them between devices, and because a subscription has to attach to something. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in to yourself, and you must be old enough to agree to this where you live.

You can have your account and everything in it deleted at any time — see the privacy policy.

Subscriptions

On iPhone and iPad, payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Refunds are Apple's to give, through Apple.

On the web, payment is taken by Stripe from the first day — there is no trial. It renews monthly or yearly until you cancel, which you can do at any time from the account page, and cancelling stops the next renewal rather than ending what you have paid for. Ask us if you think a refund is owed and we will look at it properly.

One subscription, everywhere. It belongs to your account, so buying it in one place opens Speak in the others. You should never be charged twice — each place checks whether you already subscribe before offering to sell you anything, and tells you instead. If you are ever charged twice anyway, tell us and we will refund it.

Prices may change. If they do, it will not be for a period you have already paid for, and you will be told before the change takes effect.

What is free

All sixty-six books and all 31,102 verses, in both wordings, with the artwork and the daily verse — free, with nothing held back and nothing to unlock. In the iPhone and iPad app the other Bibles are free to read too, and the daily verse is free to hear. Speak is open to everyone, with a limit: one journey, ever, and 10 questions a month. A subscription lifts those limits and adds listening; it holds none of the Bible back.

What a subscription includes

Listening, in the iPhone and iPad app: every chapter of every Bible there, read aloud, and whole books you can keep on the device for listening offline. Books kept that way play while your subscription lasts; when it ends they stop playing, and every Bible stays free to read.

In Speak, questions without the 10-a-month cap, and 6 journeys a calendar month. The count resets on the 1st. A journey you have begun always runs to its end, however many months that takes — nothing is ever cut short because a month turned.

You may hold two unfinished journeys at a time. This is not a limit on how many you may walk; it is there because a journey is a conversation that waits for you, and a pile of forgotten ones is no use to anybody. Finish one, or leave it — leaving keeps everything you wrote, and a journey nobody has touched for a fortnight stops counting by itself.

Speak, and what it is not

Each character in Speak is an interpretation built from a text — not the person, not a historical record, and not a representative of any church or tradition. The app states this before any conversation begins. What it says is generated, and it can be wrong.

It is not counselling, therapy, medical, legal or financial advice, and must not be used in place of any of them. A conversation that turns towards real distress is answered in plain words pointing at real help; if you are in danger, contact your local emergency services.

Please do not use Speak to harass anybody, to break the law, to try to make it produce something harmful, or to build another product out of it. We may end access that is used that way.

What belongs to whom

The King James Version is in the public domain and always was, as are the Berean Standard Bible, Reina-Valera 1909, the Synodal Bible, Kulish–Puluj, Louis Segond 1910 and Luther 1912. The Bíblia Livre is © 2018 Diego Santos, Mario Sérgio and Marco Teles, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The plain-language reading, the artwork for all sixty-six books, the recordings, and everything in Speak are ours, and are licensed to you for your own reading rather than for redistribution. What you write remains yours; you give us permission to store it and send it to be answered, which is what makes the feature work at all.

When things go wrong

We offer this as it is, and cannot promise it will never be unavailable or never be wrong. Nothing here limits rights you have by law where you live, and consumer law in your country applies whatever this page says.

Changes, and ending

If these terms change, the updated version appears here with a new date. You can stop using the app at any time; we may end access that breaks these terms, and if we do we will refund any unused part of a subscription.

Contact

Write to support@worldbible.guide, or through any of the accounts linked at the bottom of this page.