Lifeway Reader

This is one of the worst apps I've ever had the unfortunate experience of using. I paid good money for a study guide that I can barely use and will never be able to go back to easily. Text disappears as I fill in the cumbersome text box below the actual "fill in the blanks" question, therefore rendering multiple question sentences unintelligible. There is nowhere to make side notes as the speaker implies us to do. I certainly don't have the luxury of a "margin" to take notes in, as many teachers suggest. I was under a time contstraint and HAD to use this as my only option under protest. I used this years ago and it was horrible. It has not improved one iota. Once again Lifeway, you suckered me in to spending money on an 'e-book' study guide that is not an e-book, and has left me thoroughly disappointed.

Not even worth having an app if you are going to execute this poorly. Makes your company look even worse to have such a lackadaisical approach. Fix it or pull it.

This is the most useless app I've ever tried. And I have books I've bought in it. I will never buy a book from lifeway again.

I have used this app for years because it is my only digital option for Lifeway materials. I have prayed and begged for revisions to this app to make it usable. Apparently that will never happen. PLEASE allow me to export my purchase to a useable app! I beg you. There are many other apps that will let me use my pencil or stylus to write my answers. There are many other apps that will let me STAY SIGNED IN. Above all, there are many other apps that will let me use my purchased material offline. If you can’t do these things (and we know you can’t because you haven’t) PLEASE let us export the books that we PAID FOR to apps that we can use. Thank you.

Agree with previous reviews. I don’t understand how Lifeway could publish such a bad app. They could use something like Kindle or Nook. I teach Sunday School and travel a lot so I will prepare for my lesson in a place where internet is not always available, like on a plane flight. Since the lesson can’t be downloaded to your computer, I copy and paste a lot of it since I can read on a plane. You have to sign in quite often in order to be able to view the lesson and they do there best to hide the sign in procedure. You can’t adjust font size of the lesson or expand the screen, so I hope you like font size 6 or 8. Terrible app!

Yup it is terrible. No way to download for offline use and you CANT RETURN ANY DIGITAL PURCHSES! So hope you aren’t like me who had never bought a digital book from Lifeway and learned all this after purchasing

I can’t even get over the number of issues I have with this app. First off, it never remembers the last page you were on so I have to screen shot it before I close the app. If you have questions with answer boxes, sometimes they load, sometimes they don’t. I will never purchase a book from Lifeway again.

The old Explore the Bible app and Bible Studies for Life app were actually pretty stable. You could purchase literature in the app, which was convenient. What happened? The Lifeway Reader app is buggy and unstable with too many issues to chase; however, here is a short list. -Almost every time I open the app, I am no longer signed in. -Workspace does not keep the last opened item. -Library needs a “Recents” tab or search. -Purchasing in app is a must fix. Having to go to Lifeway online store to purchase literature to use in the app is probably the most convoluted process I’ve come across. The bottom line is that individuals like me and churches that want to go digital can’t depend on Lifeway for a stable app.

I have to redownload the app every time I use it. Please fix this issue.

I have purchased several e-book Bible studies from Lifeway and continue to have the same problems I see that other reviewers have had. I have to delete and re-install the app every morning before I am able to access the ebook properly. It gets frustrating given that it’s probably not a difficult fix and Lifeway is such a large and i suspect profitable company.