Path & Light vs Dwell
Dwell is an audio Bible app: many translations read by several narrators, with background music, listening plans and CarPlay. Path & Light is a reading-first Bible app with prayer, a journal and Bible questions; its audio Bible (with Plus) covers all 66 books in 10 Bibles, including the KJV, NIV, NKJV, NASB 2020 and Chinese 和合本, with the ESV being added. Choose Dwell if listening is how you take in Scripture. Choose Path & Light if you mainly read, study and pray, and want audio as well.
Choose Dwell if
- Audio in many translations, including the NIV, ESV, NKJV, NASB, KJV, NLT and CSB, plus Spanish and Portuguese
- Several narrators, background music and listening plans
- Offline listening, CarPlay and Android Auto
- Family and church plans
Choose Path & Light if
- Reading is how you spend time in Scripture: every Bible is free to read
- You want guided prayers, a journal and Bible questions in the same app
- You want study notes and the Hebrew and Greek words (Plus)
- You want to listen to the Bible in Chinese (和合本)
Side by side
| Path & Light | Dwell | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Daily Bible reading, prayer, a private journal and your questions, in one app | Listening to the Bible |
| What’s free | Reading every Bible, search, highlights, related verses, the journal, widgets, some guided prayers and a few questions a day | Dwell Daily and samples; the rest needs a subscription, with a 7-day free trial |
| Audio | With Plus: all 66 books in 10 Bibles, including the KJV, NIV, NKJV, NASB 2020, Reina-Valera 1960 and Chinese 和合本, with the ESV being added. Stream or download | Many translations, including the NIV, ESV, NKJV, NASB and KJV, with several narrators and music |
| Study | With Plus: study notes on every chapter (Matthew Henry and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown), chapter quizzes, and the Hebrew and Greek words of each verse. Related verses are free | Listening plans |
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad. Android is planned | iPhone and Android, with CarPlay and Android Auto |
Questions
Which Bibles can I listen to in Path & Light?
With Plus, all 66 books in the KJV, NIV, NKJV, NASB 2020, World English Bible, Reina-Valera 1960 and 1909, NTLH, Almeida and Chinese 和合本, and most of the ESV, with the rest being added. You can stream chapters or download them. See Audio Bible.
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