This review was written by Marty Lange
Reading App Builder helps you build customized apps for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. It can make apps containing picture books, health/community development instructions, song books, illustrated stories, and libraries of easy-to-read books. Materials created with Reading App Builder can be displayed to synchronize text with audio recordings, highlighting each section of text while its audio is playing. Your new app’s menus, icon, splash screen, and colors can be customized to fit your language and culture. Several tutorials are available on YouTube and Vimeo, as well as a forum where you can ask questions, so you don’t have to create the app alone. If you can create a Word document, you can build apps with Reading App Builder.
Learn more about Reading App Builder here.
Scripture App Builder offers a quick way to publish Scripture as a smartphone app. If you are working with Paratext, creating an app of your translation only takes a few minutes. It also allows you to make an app draft expire according to your preference, which is helpful whenever community-checking of a translation is required. If a translation’s audio version has been recorded, it is easy to synchronize this with the text as it is spoken, highlighting the words on users’ screens. It’s also simple to create a bilingual Bible with the language of wider communication synchronized with a translation to show both on one screen. Because Scripture App Builder video tutorials are available, along with an active forum, it will be easy to find answers to your questions.
Learn more about Scripture App Builder here.
There are many more great things that could be said about these App builders and the apps they build (see the sites), including that they are specifically designed to be able to easily share phone-to-phone or via SD card and Bible Boxes, as well as being able to download them from app stores and websites.