Believers Hymn Book

4.4
515 reviews
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

* Replaced with Believers Hymn Book +
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gospelriver.believershymnbook2 *

A simple and easy to use mobile version of the Believers Hymn Book hymnal (Copyright John Ritchie Limited).
Includes tunes for each hymn, lyrics search, and number entry taking you straight to the hymn you are looking for.

ONLINE and other versions:
http://gospelriver.com/bhb

BUG REPORTS: Please email bhb@gospelriver.com to resolve.
I cannot fix them if I do not know they exist!

FEATURES:
- 465 hymns
- approximately 600 audio tunes (low quality version available without an Internet connection)
- Lyrics search (case and punctuation insensitive, search terms highlighted)
- Search by meter
- Mark favorites
- Zoom functionality
- Night mode display option
- Easy number entry
- Alphabetical index of first lines
- Listing by number
- Show hymns by category
- Browse all hymns
- No ads
- Installs to SD
- Bookmark songs
- History of viewed songs (for that session)
- Song starter notes and additional tune options
- Hymn authors and author search
- Add custom notes to each hymn
- Meter quick-list to get a tune in an emergency
- Believers Hymn Book Companion (by Harold S. Paisley) gives information about the hymn writers

INSTRUCTIONS are now found within the app (? button)

PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS:
There have been some questions regarding additional permissions requested by the app. These are due to upgrades in the plugins that the app uses which are capable of functions that the app does not perform, but are necessary for the functionality of the app. This app does not access your personal information.
Updated on
Jun 22, 2020

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Ratings and reviews

4.3
466 reviews
A Google user
December 1, 2019
Any single-word entry with a trailing space (as commonly entered by the the word completion algorithm of smartphones) causes the app to come up with no results. Take for example the word "unclean". When we begin typing it in the search bar, our smart keyboard will suggest it above our keyboard letters. (Capitalized because it's the 1st word.) We tap it and it's inserted "Unclean ". The app says Found in 0 hymns. What about #32?
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My Site Creations
December 2, 2019
Got it! That makes sense-- when a word is followed with something other than a space and your search text has one, there is a failure to locate the word. That should be an easy fix--thanks for the input.
A Google user
March 30, 2019
It's a really awesome app. Gives me access to lots of hymns, the tunes and even notes about the author. Great job guys! God bless you!
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My Site Creations
December 1, 2019
Thank you!
devon swaby
July 18, 2020
I downloaded this app because I thought that it would play the songs, I meant that, I would actually be hearing a choir or someone singing the songs... I'm so disappointed...
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My Site Creations
October 28, 2020
Thank you for your features suggestion. The reason behind the audio in this app was to help people learn the tune, not to provide a listening experience/entertainment. I think you are only the second person to suggest this, but if others want to see this feature they may like this post. Should I create a Facebook page for posting feature requests?

What's new

Just an update to increase device compatibility. It is asking for record and write to external storage permissions, but the app does not do those things. I am no longer able to remove those permissions as I could in the past.
(Note: the New Believers Hymn Book app with sheet music is in progress and will be sold by John Ritchie Ltd. Lord willing.)