Offline Reading

Everything you read and everything you write is on your device. Apart from syncing your own work to your own iCloud, FerventWord App contacts a server only when you ask it to.

What Works Offline

  • Every version — all of them came with the app
  • Your reading plans and today's passage
  • Your highlights, notes and notebooks
  • Everything in Recent, including the passages you held together
  • Reminders
  • The Bible Guide for a chapter — its outline, key verse, context, dates and cross references
  • Writing your plans and notebooks to a file at Settings → Export & Import
  • The Home Screen widget

What Needs A Connection

  • Syncing your highlights, notes, plans and recent passages between your devices
  • Listening to ESV + Audio. The words of that edition are on your device like every other one; only the recording is streamed, so you can always read it offline even when you cannot hear it
  • Teachings and maps in the Bible Guide, and View Chapter On FerventWord.com — those open in your browser on ferventword.com
  • The links on About FerventWord App and Versions & Copyrights, which open their publishers' sites
  • Getting Prayer Mentions, which opens the App Store
  • Sending a message from Help & Support
  • Giving