The Gospel Library (GospelLibrary.lds.org) that you’ve enjoyed for years on LDS.org is now accessible on a free iPhone application just released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [Update: This mobile app is now available for many types of mobile devices. See mobile.lds.org.]
The Gospel Library iPhone application allows you to download and study the scriptures, general conference talks, and the many other gospel instruction materials (such as Gospel Principles, Hymns, Preach My Gospel, and other curriculum manuals) published by the Church. If you want audio recordings of the scriptures, general conference talks, Church magazines, and new radio programming, you can get them through the Church’s free Mormon Channel iPhone application.
The Gospel Library iPhone app allows you to search, bookmark, annotate, link, and highlight the texts. Later this year, these personalized study features will also be available across the Church’s Web site and other platforms. The iPhone app will also soon contain the scriptures and other materials in various languages. See the support page for FAQs, known bugs, and planned updates.
Please try it out, rate it, and invite your friends to use it. Church is also interested in your feedback and suggestions for improving the app. This application and others being developed are available thanks to the volunteer work of community developers. To learn how you can participate in this community development work for the Church, visit tech.lds.org.
Where does this leave the Standard Works iPhone ap I know and love?
http://www.standardworksapp.com/
I love this app! I especially love having the hymn lyrics … very very handy.
I use this app, and love its features. It is, however, not without faults. It crashes (it feels like it crashes a lot), usually when doing something with either notes or bookmarks. Also, the most recent year of general conference is not available, which is inconvenient for me, as I have an iPod touch rather than an iPhone, and don’t always have access to the online versions.
Overall,I think it’s a great app, and I’m looking forward to the day when both of these issues are dealt with.
Cant wait for official church apps on Android!
I just went to update my iPhone’s apps and found that the Gospel Library app is missing… What has happened to this fantastic application?
CQM, when it crashes, how do you fix it? Delete and reinstall? I started using the bookmark feature last night, put in 4 bookmarks, and this morning I can’t get the app to open. I’d hate to delete and start over, but if that’s what I have to do . . .
I too am having a crashing problem with this app. I’ve been using it more and more recently and have bookmarked some talks that I do not want to forget about. But now the app crashes every time I start it up. Any ideas on how to fix this w/o losing the bookmarks? Any idea when an update to the app will come out that will fix this problem?
Great app! When/how will this latest conference session (april 2011) be available on this app?
Andy, the page at http://lds.org/general-conference/when-conference-materials-will-be-available?lang=eng says it will be available in English 1 week after conference.
Ilove bing able to have the magazines in Gospel Library on my ipod touch but I have trouble getting the latest issue. Sometimes it comes on when I delete Gospel Library and reinstall it but sometimes it doesn;t.
I am searching LDS Scripture for my Nook Tablet. I have downloaded two but are not happy with them. One by Dave Van Leeuwen allows the various features that I want which includes enlarging of page, bookmarks, highlighting, etc however they work sporatically and the other one LDS Gospel Library does not provide the benefits of enlarging of page, etc as the previous one. Does the one mentioned on this site, Gospel Library for I-Phone work with Nook Tabler?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Susan, the Gospel Library does allow you to make the words large (up to 32 points). I understand that the Nook will run most Android applications, so try using the Gospel Library Android version.
is this app available for samsung galaxy yet?
Eileen, the LDS Gospel Library mobile app is available in Android, so it should work on the Samsung Galaxy. On your Galaxy, go to the Android market and download it.
I want to be able to annotate my lessons for the Young Women’s classes that I teach. I can annotate but they don’t stay after I go to other page? I watched the video on how to do annotations I none of the selections at the bottom to change annotation color, make other notes etc work? Is there someone I can actually talk to about this problem? A real human?
Wendy, sorry for taking so long to get back to you. The new youth lessons aren’t yet set up to do annotations and highlighting. They are simply web pages, and not part of the Gospel Library of publications that accept the Notes and Journal features.
When that come available, I’ll write about it here on http://LDS365.com
Larry