Dwell vs Bible.is: A Head-to-Head for 2026

Lifetime member!!

Scripture and God’s Word delivered in this way has totally transformed my life. I am so thankful for it!! It is so thoughtful and well-done. I’ve never experienced anything like it. At first I loved listening on the go to my Bible recap plan within the app, but now I honestly love being read to as a follow along in my own Bible. It’s hard to imagine reading and studying without it now. Somehow it helps my brain to know exactly how many minutes it takes to listen to my planned reading to get through it! I retain so much more and notice things differently. Listen—I can’t stand audiobooks—I get bored and tired and annoyed at the narrators or something. But I love the options in dwell and have never felt that way. Narrator Kiley is just tremendous and I all the options to control, like speed background ambiance. The background music is so soothing and gives the scripture such power and cadence. I’m just so grateful for how God is using his Word to transform our family and renew me daily in the grace of God. Thank you Dwell Bible! You are doing holy work! I honestly downloaded the app because I was hopeful for your kids content or yoto connection? But wow am I glad I stayed for more! The integration with the Bible Recap is what stuck for me and I love the other plan options. I can wait to try the Bible project one next! (Side note-It seems like the background music is too loud in the bible project commentary if you could check that out team?) I am your biggest fan! Keep doing what you’re doing and praise Jesus!

— haleysue

Best Bible App…So Far

I love Bible Apps! I am a pastor and theologian and have used many Apps, since the dawn of Apps, both mobile and desktop versions. Dwell is my favorite to date for three reasons: 1) You can search for and listen to a specific set of verses, and do so on repeat! If you’re studying or memorizing, let’s say John 3:14-19, you can listen to only those verses over and over instead of having to listen to the whole chapter; 2) Background track customization and mediation timing! Do you want to hear crickets, a waterfall, or Gregorian Chant in the background while you listen to your verses? You can! Or if you prefer silence, or a dozen-plus other options, you get to set the mood…bonus, add periods of silence for contemplation between chapters or tracks!; 3) Daily Dwell. Each day a different leader leads you in a short Bible study, meditation, and prayer. These are so rich! I never fail to start my morning by betting centered in God’s presence and Dwell Daily is one of my number one tools in my tool box for spiritual formation. Thank you Dwell for the best Bible App. You’ve set the bar high. Let’s see of anyone can do better! Shout out to Viv and Ian, two of my favorite Dwell Daily leaders! Their spiritual depth and wisdom are priceless. (In case any one is wondering. I am not affiliated with Dwell in anyway. I’m literally just a happy customer who has been using Dwell for almost a year now.)

— Morteltyme

Phenomenal app, except this 3.0.5 version

This app is phenomenal and has gotten me so much further in the Bible than I have ever gotten before just in the past 2-3 weeks. I am not much of a reader and when I try to read, I fall asleep, and I wanna continue to dive deep into the Word, and these dramatized audio books help me to do just that. Everything was going well with the simple layout and pretty quick Bible book downloads for offline usage as well. However, when this new update came out and I updated the app, it deleted all of my downloads and now I had to make an account. Also it takes 3 times as long to download all the books and chapters and the app keep glitching where if I pause in the middle of a chapter, any of them, and maybe go to another app, and then come back to it, even a few seconds later, it buffers FOREVER. It doesn’t play until I use the skip button to go either forward or backward and then back to where I was. Also, every time I close the app, I have to log back in instead of it just automatically having me logged in. It’s a bit too many downfalls for a bunch of extra stuff. And the new layout (not including the extra features like the videos and bible plans, etc.) unfortunately is not as good as the old one. The old one was simpler and easier to utilize and faster. This one is a lot slower and has more defects unfortunately. That’s for version 3.0.5 by the way. It’s currently April 22,2020. I downloaded the app about a month ago or so.

— xSupernovax

Excellent app!!!

A great way to reclaim lost time and build your faith. Have you ever went into a store and then after you leave you have a song or a tune on your heart? That’s what this app is great for. It stores the word on your heart. It’s amazing how many times the scriptures come back to you when you need them. If used regularly it creates a huge platform in your heart for God to draw from when you need it. It has been countless times that I have faced a situation or a relationship and God’s word will come to mind. I am literally shocked at all the scripture that flows into my conversations. Out of the overflow of the heart your mouth speaks the Bible says. This app will assist you in building that overflow. Parents! This is a great way to get the word into your children. We would play the Bible every night at bed time. Your kids will be bringing up scripture and growing in a Christian world view. You can create an overflow in their hearts just by being faithful to turn the word on at bed time. You will find that your children will point out when the culture or even Christian messages don’t line up with the bible. You will be shocked when your kids bring up Old Testament life examples and relate them to daily living and much more. I can’t say enough about how listening to the word has blessed my family!!

— 12345brian12345