Kärnbibeln APP is now available!
Kärnbibeln (The Core Bible) now has its own app available – and it is completely free to use!
When you have fought hard, invested time and effort into something, victory becomes even more valuable. I am so grateful that the Kärnbibeln app has finally been approved by Apple! And of course it is available on Google Play too!
The app will continuously be developed during 2025. We are planning more updates with smart reading plans that not only divide biblical books into chapters, but also automatically create dynamic plans based on how many sections you want to read.
We also want to expand the features for reading together with your friends and family. We believe that reading the Bible together in groups of two or three is particularly valuable!
We are also planning a diary feature with new approaches to help readers reflect on their reading. We also want to make it easier to use. If you pick up your phone on a Sunday between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., you are most likely in a church – and then there will be a feature at the top of the front page for adding a sermon/Bible study!
If you would like to support our work on the app, we gratefully accept donations. If you have thoughts and ideas, we are also looking for people who want to join our test team. Please send an email to app@karnbibeln.se
Want to know more about the history of the app? Continue scrolling!
Seven years of wait is finally over!
In 2017, I used Wycliffe’s tools to create code for a Bible app for iOS and Android. Google Play approved the app (for Android) right away, and today the app has over 5,000 downloads. Apple, on the other hand, did not approve the app. The reason was that it was not “unique enough,” and the Bible is a book that belongs in iBook, not as an app.
I thought that if I made my own app in Apple’s own programming language Swift, they would approve it, but the answer was no, because of “not enough functionality.” I added a few more months of development and updated the app with a Bible atlas, but the answer was still no.
It was during this period that Apple even removed the Bible Society’s app for Bible 2000 from the App Store, even though it had been there for several years. When I spoke to Olof Brandt at the Bible Society, he told me that they had at least received one piece of advice: “Make a new app with a puzzle or a game, and maybe the app will be approved.” At first, the idea of a game seemed like a joke!
But my wife, Liselotte, came up with the idea that we could make a Bible quiz. However, there was no time to work on creating questions and recoding the app at that point. The iOS app had already taken months of valuable time away from the translation work, so we postponed the project.
In 2022, we were able to hire Arvid Nyström to work on the app one day a week.
On Thursday, December 5, 2024, thanks to Arvid’s work and Janine Kruse, who joined us last fall, along with a group of testers and some fantastic enthusiasts who created over 850 questions, and people who contributed financially to the work — all in collaboration with many who prayed — the app is now completed!
