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Personalizing Your Experience

Opening settings​

The gear icon in the header opens Settings. The settings panel has these tabs: Text Size, Theme, Modules, Gestures, Language, Notifications, Apps, and About. Close it with Escape or by clicking outside it. Changes save immediately; there is no Save button.

Settings are stored in this browser on this device. They don't carry over to other browsers or devices.

The settings panel open on the Theme tab, showing the colour theme grid

Themes​

The Color Theme section of the Theme tab shows the themes as swatches: Auto, Light, Dark, Sepia, Forest, Midnight, Lagoon, Ocean, Sunset, Meadow, Slate, Rose, Sunrise, Arctic, Parchment, Autumn, and High Contrast. A theme applies immediately.

Auto follows your device's light or dark setting.

The theme button in the header offers Auto, Light, Dark, and Sepia directly, and More… opens the full grid.

Reset All, at the top of the Theme tab, restores the theme, font scheme, text sizes, red letters, interlinear layout, topical indexes, gestures, and the commentary overview setting to their defaults.

The same passage shown in the Light theme and the Dark theme

Fonts​

The Theme tab also has font schemes. Each scheme pairs a heading font with a body font, previewed on its card. A scheme applies to the Bible text, headings, and study panels.

  • Font Scheme — Recommended: Classic (Georgia), Lora, Merriweather, Crimson Pro, and Libre Baskerville.
  • Font Scheme — Other: Times, Modern (Sans-Serif), EB Garamond, Playfair Display, Cormorant Garamond, Spectral, and Book Antiqua.

The font scheme cards on the Theme tab, grouped into Recommended and Other

Text size​

The Text Size tab has a plus/minus control that scales the Bible text, study panels, and interface together. It shows the Bible text size in pixels (for example, 19px). Reset Text Sizes restores the default sizes and line heights.

Advanced shows separate controls:

  • Bible Text — the Bible text.
  • Study Text — commentaries, cross-references, and the other study panels.
  • UI size — menus, buttons, and labels.
  • Bible Line Height and Study Line Height — the spacing between lines.

The Text Size tab with the plus/minus control and the advanced sliders

The tab also has:

  • Words of Jesus in Red — affects the reading area only, in translations that include red-letter data.
  • Interlinear Layout — in Study mode, shows original-language words either Inline (in parentheses) or Stacked (word columns) beneath each English word.

The text size button in the Bible toolbar opens a smaller version of the plus/minus control, with Reset and a Bible, Study and UI sizes… link to this tab.

Modules​

The Modules tab controls which study content is shown.

  • Search — Use online meaning search turns Ideas Search on or off. The line below it shows whether you have agreed to it, and on which date.
  • Commentary — Show combined commentary overview tab shows or hides the overview tab in the Commentary panel.
  • Topical Indexes — choose which topical indexes are active.

The available translations and commentaries are chosen by the site operator.

Gestures​

The Gestures tab controls touch behavior.

  • Swipe to change chapters — a horizontal swipe across the Bible pane goes to the previous or next chapter.
  • Chapter swipe threshold and Commentary verse swipe threshold — how far a swipe must travel on the Bible pane, and on the Commentary pane to move between verses. Raise them if swipes trigger by accident; lower them if swipes don't register.

See Using on Your Phone.

Language​

The Language tab sets the language of the app interface. It does not change the Bible translation. Languages other than English are marked Preview: they are machine-translated and not yet reviewed by a native speaker.

Notifications​

The Notifications tab sets up a daily Verse of the day notification.

  1. Click Allow notifications, and allow them when the browser asks.
  2. Turn on Show notifications.
  3. Under Reminders, turn on Verse of the day and set the time.

Quiet hours holds notifications that fall between the From and To times until the quiet hours end. Send a test notification checks that notifications work.

Notifications arrive only while the app is open in a browser tab, even if the tab is in the background. If notifications are blocked, allow them for this site in your browser settings.

Apps​

The Apps tab sets whether the app switcher is shown and the order of the apps in it.

Left-handed mode​

On a phone, the Theme tab has Left-handed mode, which flips the bottom navigation bar.

About​

The About tab shows the version and license (GNU General Public License v3.0 or later), a link to the source code, and a Refresh App button. It also has Reset app cache, which clears the app's saved files on this device and reloads the page. Your settings are kept. Use it if the app looks out of date or does not work correctly.