Practical Gospel

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Everything in Practical Gospel

A page for each part of the app: what it is, how to use it, and a look at it on a phone. Start with the screen you are looking at.

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What every screen of the app holds, and where each part of it is explained.

Come, Follow Me

The week's reading, ready when you open the app.

This week's lessonOpen Come, Follow Me and this week’s reading is already waiting: the dates, the chapters, the story, and everything your family can do with it, all on one page.Free Illustrated story beatsThe week’s story told one moment at a time, each with its own painting and the verse it comes from.Free Meet the peopleEvery week introduces the people in the reading, with a friendly portrait, who they were, and often what their name means.Free Study It OutA deeper dive into the week for anyone who wants more: an overview of the reading, chapter-by-chapter summaries, the history and culture behind it, and hand-picked resources, plus the conference talks, songs and magazine articles that use these same chapters.Free Daily ThoughtsShort videos of thoughts written while studying the week’s reading, most just a minute or two long.Free Take notes on the weekTap Take Notes and the app builds a study for the week with every verse of the reading already in it, one page per chapter.Free PrintablesSheets made from the week’s own reading to print and do together at the table: coloring pages, word searches, crosswords, bingo cards and story cards to put in order.Free Finish the LessonA short, gentle quiz to wrap up the week.Free InsightsA place for everyone studying the same week to share what stood out to them.Premium StickersStickers are hidden in the verses of each week.Free Progress and streaksWatch your study add up: a lamp that stays lit for every day in a row you study, points, weeks finished, and a simple checklist of things to do with this week’s lesson.Premium BadgesForty badges to earn by studying week after week, in eight families such as days in a row, lessons finished, games played and people met.Premium

Scripture and your studies

Read, mark and keep what you find.

Read the scripturesOpen any chapter of the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants or Pearl of Great Price and simply read.Free StudiesA study is your own collection of verses on one subject, with your notes, colors, highlights and saved tool results kept together in one place you can come back to.Free Highlights, colors and notesMark up the verses in a study the way you would a printed set of scriptures: color them by theme, highlight the words that matter, add an emoji, bookmark your place and write notes.Free Study pagesSplit a long study into named pages, like one page per chapter or one per speaker, so a hundred verses become a few short lists you can work through.Free Keyword heat mapGive a study a few keywords and see at a glance how often each one comes up in every book of the study, then open a book to see exactly which verses say them.Free Full-screen readingRead the verses in a study with the whole screen to yourself: the top bar and the buttons along the bottom step aside so there is nothing between you and the text.Free Footnoted wordsWords that carry a footnote in the Church's edition of the scriptures are shown in light blue, just like a printed set, so you can see where there is more to learn and go straight to it.Free Hebrew and Greek word studySee an Old or New Testament verse in the Hebrew or Greek it was written in, tap any word for its lexicon entry, and keep your own notes on the words you study.Premium Talks, songs and articlesFind the General Conference talks, hymns and children's songs, and Church magazine articles that cite a verse, or browse them all by title and see which verses each one uses.Premium JournalA simple place to write about what you are reading: dated entries, a page for quick thoughts, and types you can sort them by.Premium LessonsBuild a lesson as a slide show out of anything in the app, then present it full screen: the week's story and pictures, its people, its verses, questions, games and printables, your own saved results, and text boxes in your own words.Premium ScreensKeep several things going at once, like a chapter you are reading, your journal and this week's lesson, and jump between them the way you switch between tabs.Free

Study tools

Ways to see patterns in the text.

Look upType a reference and read the verses.Free SearchFind every verse that uses a word or phrase, across all the standard works.Free PeopleWalk the family lines of the Bible and the Book of Mormon, with lifespans and the places each person lived.Free TopicsA library of gospel topics and symbols, each studied out with the scriptures, the history around it and resources to explore.Free HeatmapSee where a handful of words land across every book of scripture, with darker squares where they gather.Premium Theme setsGroup several words into one theme, because a symbol is rarely a single word.Premium ParallelsFind other passages that reuse the same language, like Isaiah quoted in 2 Nephi or the Sermon on the Mount in 3 Nephi.Premium OverlapSee how often two words appear on their own, and where they meet in the same verse or chapter.Free Count and CompareFind which words a passage leans on most, and which of them keep showing up together.Premium StructureSpot the repeated phrases and refrains that give a passage its shape.Premium DistributionSee where a word concentrates across all of scripture, and which books lean on it most.Free Multi DistributionLay several words over the same scripture and compare where each one falls.Premium CompanionsFind the words that travel with a word: its neighbors, the set phrases it lives in, and the words that share its verses.Premium LemmasStudy a Hebrew or Greek word itself: its lexicon entry and every verse that uses it.Premium TranslationsTake one Hebrew or Greek word and see every English word it became, with how many verses each.Premium Taught TogetherSee which other scriptures General Conference talks teach alongside a verse, and open the talks behind each connection.Premium DossierBuild a one-page profile of a symbol: how often it appears, where, what it travels with, and your own notes on what it means.Premium Word CloudTurn a passage into a word cloud, so the words it uses most stand out at a glance.Premium Reports and dashboardsAsk your own question of scripture and conference talks: pick what to count, how to group it, and how to draw it.Premium GraphDraw a map of how verses connect, from links you make yourself or the verses in one of your studies.Premium PathsChain verses into a line of reasoning, with a note on each link that explains how one scripture leads to the next.Premium Mind mapPut an idea at the center and branch out to verses and your own themes around it.Premium Thematic gridSet scriptures down the side and themes across the top, and see at a glance which verses speak to which theme.Premium CompareSet two passages side by side and capture the phrases that match, with your own note on each pair.Premium CollectionsA simple place to gather verses: a title, a note, and the scriptures you put in it.Premium

Games

Every game is made out of the verses you are studying.

CatchphraseA scripture phrase appears and your team has to say it before the buzzer, without you saying any of its words.Free Scripture JeopardyPick a clue off the board by category and value, then answer it.Premium Gospel FeudSix answers are hidden on a board.Premium HangmanGuess a scripture phrase one letter at a time, before the drawing is finished.Free Church BingoA bingo card full of things you really will hear, in sacrament meeting, at general conference, or in this week’s reading.Premium Color by NumberEvery piece of a picture carries a number, and every number has a color.Premium CrosswordA crossword for every Come, Follow Me week, built from that week’s own people and questions.Premium Match the FacesA memory game for young children: turn over two tiles and find the two faces that are the same person.Free CrossoverYou are dealt six words.Premium ScrambleFive words have gone missing from a verse and are shuffled underneath it.Premium Connect the DotsAnswer a question about a verse to draw each line of a hidden picture.Premium Guess WhoThirty faces from scripture, and one of them is the secret person.Premium Scripture GolfA word appears and the clock starts.Premium Scripture BattleshipThe classic hide-and-hunt game, played on a week of Come, Follow Me, where every square on the board is a real verse.Premium Scripture MemoryA simple way to learn a verse by heart.Premium Picture PuzzleA first puzzle for little ones.Free Coloring BookLine-art pictures of the moments in each week's reading, ready to color on your phone or tablet.Premium Sticker BookBlank pages to draw and paint on, and a book of stickers to collect.Premium Hidden GemsBusy search-and-find pictures from each week's reading, with around ten things hidden in each one.Premium Word SearchA word search for every Come, Follow Me week, filled with the people, places and things that week's reading names.Free Story OrderThe week's story, told in a handful of moments and shuffled.Free ScriptionaryA drawing game made from the scriptures.Premium

Ways to play

On your own, around the table, with a friend or a whole room.

Your account and family

Settings, sharing and keeping your work.