Personal Bible Trainer FAQ

  • How to support future development?

    Donations

    Many people have expressed their desire to give a donation to support the development of the Personal Bible Trainer application, since there are a lot of costs developing an app. So if you want to support with donations, then there’s an opportunity to do so with PayPal using pixelslost@gmail.com address.

    PayPal direct link

    UX design support

    If you’re a professional UX designer and have ideas how the app can be easier to use or look better, then you’re always welcome to create mockups and send me the ideas.

    Daily challenges

    Is there a daily challenge that you think is missing, then please contact me. Ideas are always welcome!

  • Is it possible to sync between devices?

    At the moment it is not possible to sync between devices, and it might never be added to the app either. The reason is that it needs a lot of permissions, like access to your account etc, to create a syncing feature, and I’m trying to keep the app simple and without the requirement of permissions needed.

  • How to move the data to a new device?

    On the first device, open Personal Bible Trainer and go to the settings page, tap the button to create a backup and select to save the file to Google Drive, iClound etc. Then on the new device, repeat previous steps, but tap the restore button instead. Find the backup file to restore and open it.

  • Can I set that I did read yesterday, even if I forgot to tap “Done”?

    Yes, one day back in time is possible to fix if you forgot to tap “Done”. Use the bottom right button to say that you did read yesterday. But it’s not possible to change previous days before yesterday.

    A tip is to use the setting to automatically mark a day as done when tapping the link to read.

  • The app does not open JW Library on my iOS device

    If you have selected that it should open in JW Library but it still opens in the web browser on your iOS device, then it means that the default settings for iOS has been changed. To restore the default settings, long press on a link like this one https://www.jw.org/finder?pub=nwtsty&bible=01001000&wtlocale=E&srcid=share and select to open with JW Library.

  • How do I view the history?

    You can view what you’ve been reading the previous days if you swipe down in the middle of the first screen. Then you’ll get a list of historic items with the date when you read them.

  • I forgot to tap “done” and the days in a row are back to zero. Help!

    If you forgot to tap “done” yesterday so the number of days in a row got back to zero, then you can use the bottom right button to fix that, up to three days back in time.

  • Can you add the weekly Bible reading to the app?

    Unfortunately is it not as easy to automatically get the information of which chapters to read and split it up in the number of days to read. Also since each congregation has their meeting on different days, it makes more difficult. So no plans for that at the moment.