How to use Speak The Word

Start to finish

1. Choose your Bibles

   On first run the app asks which languages you read, then downloads those Bibles and their voices to the device. After that it needs no network at all — on a plane, in a basement, in a country that filters the internet, it works the same.

2. Find the passage

   Browse by book and chapter, or search the text. Hold any verse to bookmark it, copy it, share it or select part of it. Tap a word for Strong's number and what it meant in the original.

3. Build a proclamation list

   Make a new list, or duplicate one of the ready-made topics to edit. Add passages from as many books as you like, write or record lines of your own, and drag them into the order you want to hear them.

4. Proclaim it

   Press Proclaim and the list is read aloud, each verse lit as it is spoken and the rest dimmed behind it. Listen straight through, or use Proclaim mode, which pauses after every verse so you can say it back.

5. Make it yours

   Change the voice, the speed and the pause between verses. Show the text or hide it. Put a still photograph or a moving film behind the words — ocean, waterfall, gentle rain — or nothing at all.

6. Set a time

   Schedule a list for the mornings you want it, and the phone will remind you. No account, no sync, no server — the schedule lives on your device.

7. Keep it, or send it

   Save a proclamation as audio, or as a video with the verse on screen — over a moving background, over a photograph, or the proclamation screen itself — and share it wherever you like.