IQ Bible App v1.28 Released
You can quiz yourself when you finish a chapter. And you can now read the Bible one verse at a time, just by scrolling.
Chapter quizzes, scroll the Bible and a note about what’s new. Covers 1.27.0 through 1.28.0.
Six weeks ago we rebuilt Topics. This time you can test what you read. Finish a chapter and you can quiz yourself on it. We also built a way to read the Bible one verse at a time, just by scrolling.
Chapter quizzes
At the end of a chapter there’s now a Take a quiz button. It shows how many questions the chapter has. Some have one. Some have ten or more.
A quiz asks up to ten questions. They are multiple choice and true or false. You answer and the app says right or wrong. If you miss, it shows the right answer and the verse itself. You can hover the reference to read it.
At the end you get a score and a list of what you missed. You can retake it. If the chapter has more than ten questions you get a different mix. Or you go on to the next chapter.
Finishing a quiz at any score marks the chapter read. It doesn’t count toward your streak. Your best score shows in the Read on line. My Progress has two new tiles, Chapter Quizzes Taken and Average Best Score.
In Scroll, the button sits on the last verse of the chapter. Scroll also marks a chapter read now, when you scroll all the way through it.
The questions are in English and follow the KJV wording. On another translation the app tells you so. Some of the questions were drafted with AI from public domain text. A person reviews each one before the API serves it. The API post below says more.
Scroll the Bible
Open app.iqbible.com/scroll/ and the first verse fills the screen. Swipe and the next one comes. Each verse gets its own card. Chapters load as you get near the end, and each chapter starts with a title card.
You can bookmark a verse. You can highlight it in four colors. You can share it. You can jump to any book and chapter, change the translation, switch to dark, and change the text size.
Your bookmarks and highlights are the same ones the main app keeps. They show up in My Library. Scroll starts where you stopped reading, and the Page view button takes you back to the same verse in the main app.
Long verses used to get cut off at the bottom of the card. They shrink now until they fit.
Tap, double-tap and share
Tap a verse and it copies. Double-tap and it’s bookmarked. Tap again and the bookmark is gone. A small message tells you which one happened.
Share opens the same options as Verse Tools in the main app. You get the verse as an image in light or dark. You get the embed code, copy verse, copy link, email, X and WhatsApp. If your phone has its own share sheet, that’s there too.
Explain
Each verse has a lightbulb. Tap it and a sheet opens with three parts.
What it means holds a piece of Matthew Henry or John Gill on that verse. In the original shows the Hebrew or Greek as one line. Open it and you see each word with its sound, its meaning, its grammar and its Strong’s number. Related verses shows the cross-references with the text of each.
All of it comes from the API. One call to GET /ai/context brings it back. Nothing in that sheet is written by AI.
Listen
Press Listen and the chapter plays. If the translation has more than one narrator, you pick the voice and the app remembers it. The audio is for the whole chapter, so the cards don’t follow along word by word.
What’s new
A small note now shows at the top of the reading page when we ship something. It shows one at a time. You dismiss it and it’s gone. Help has a What’s new list if you want it back. A first-time visitor sees none.
The notes live in a plain file called announcements.json. If you run your own copy of the app, you can edit it or empty it.
Small things
The Explain sheet starts closed on every verse. The Hebrew and Greek words are easier to read. The reference buttons in dark mode are no longer faint. A tap on a verse reference in a commentary now opens the preview on the first tap on a phone. Before, it took two. A link straight to Settings with no API key no longer hides the key field under a prompt. Help topics sit in one column.
The API behind it
Scroll, Explain and the quizzes run on the IQ Bible API v2. The quiz endpoints are new. Read about them in IQ Bible API v2.0.0-rc.17 Released.
The app is open source. You can read the code or run your own copy at github.com/IQ-Bible/iqbible-app.
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