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JW Library

JW Library is a free app produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses for Bible reading and personal study.

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#1 of 57
Score
7.4
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What JW Library is

JW Library is a free app produced by Jehovah’s Witnesses for Bible reading and personal study. It offers Bible-based publications in over 1,000 languages, including more than 100 sign languages, and lets readers compare Bible translations or search for verses, content, and topics. Users can highlight text, add notes, and organize notes with tags. The app also includes videos, audio programs, music, playlists, a daily Bible text, and materials for midweek and weekend meetings. Notes, tags, highlights, favorites, and bookmarks can be backed up to a file and restored on the same or another device, but they cannot be synchronized across devices. JW Library is available on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, with offline access; the publisher says offline mode severely limits functionality. Its privacy information says personal choices and data such as notes, highlights, and playlists stay in the app rather than being sent to the publisher. Sharing diagnostic and usage data is optional and controlled in Settings, and the publisher says it does not sell that data or use it for marketing.

Good

  • Publications available in over 1,000 languages.
  • Compare Bible translations and search verses and topics.
  • Notes and highlights can be backed up to a file.
  • Optional diagnostics sharing is controlled in Settings.

Watch out

  • Study notes and highlights do not sync across devices.
  • Offline mode severely limits app functionality.

Who it suits

JW Library suits readers looking for Bible translations, Bible-based publications, and personal study tools. It is available across Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.

Verdict

JW Library combines reading, study organization, and meeting materials in a free app. Its backup option does not replace cross-device synchronization, and offline use has significant limits.

Plans and prices

From JW Library's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.

All about pricing
PlanPriceWhat it gives you
JW LibraryFreeBible translations · publications · videos · audio · music · notes · highlights · playlists

The facts

Each one read from JW Library's own pages, with the date it was checked.

What it does

Backup
Notes, tags, highlights, favorites and bookmarks can be exported to a backup file and restored on another device.checked 15 Oct 2026
Backups
Users can back up notes, tags, highlights, favorites, and bookmarks to a file and restore it on the same or a different device.checked 7 Oct 2026
Bible study
Readers can compare Bible translations and search for Bible verses, content, and topics.checked 7 Oct 2026
Bible translations
The app lets users compare Bible translations in hundreds of languages.checked 15 Oct 2026
Daily Text
A Daily Text section presents a Bible verse with accompanying comments.checked 15 Oct 2026
Data storage
The maker says personal notes, highlights, playlists, favorites and similar choices stay on the device and are not sent to it.checked 15 Oct 2026
Developer restrictions
The terms prohibit redistribution, reverse engineering and derivative applications unless Watchtower grants permission through [email protected].checked 15 Oct 2026
Diagnostics
Sharing diagnostic and usage data is optional and can be controlled in the app’s Settings; the publisher says it does not sell this data or use it for marketing.checked 7 Oct 2026
Documentation
Official help provides step-by-step tutorials and FAQs for Android, Apple and Windows, including Bible, publication, bookmark, history, search and highlighting guides.checked 15 Oct 2026
Download channels
Official download links cover Apple App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store and Amazon.checked 15 Oct 2026
Independent API project
The community JW API project exposes REST endpoints for Bible data, publications, media, languages and daily texts, plus an MCP server; it is not presented as an official Watchtower API.checked 15 Oct 2026
Independent backup finding
JW Sync describes the app as having no built-in cross-device sync and recommends using backup files to keep devices aligned.checked 15 Oct 2026
Independent file format finding
JW Fusion documents .jwlibrary backups as ZIP archives containing a manifest and SQLite user-data database with notes, highlights, bookmarks, tags and playlists.checked 15 Oct 2026
Languages
The app offers Bible-based publications in over 1,000 languages, including more than 100 sign languages.checked 7 Oct 2026
Licence
The application is licensed rather than sold, with revocable, limited, nontransferable and nonexclusive rights; Watchtower retains ownership.checked 15 Oct 2026
Limit: audio failures
Several Apple reviewers reported video sound cutting out or stopping while the picture continued.checked 15 Oct 2026
Limit: missing annotation
A Google Play reviewer said the app is helpful but requested annotation capability and reported audio or video resuming problems.checked 15 Oct 2026
Limit: no synchronization
The official FAQ says personal notes, tags, highlights, favorites and bookmarks cannot synchronize automatically between devices.checked 15 Oct 2026
Limit: requested features
Apple reviewers requested cross-device synchronization, a continue-watching area, an audio queue, song lyrics, widgets and improved landscape or Mac video support.checked 15 Oct 2026
Media
The app includes videos, audio programs, and music, and users can create playlists of music, videos, audio programs, and pictures.checked 7 Oct 2026

The company

Company founded
LinkedIn lists the organization as founded in 1884.checked 15 Oct 2026
Company headquarters
LinkedIn lists headquarters in Tuxedo Park, New York.checked 15 Oct 2026
Company type and size
LinkedIn lists Watchtower as a nonprofit religious institution with 10,001-plus employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
Legal maker
The app terms identify Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. as the contracting New York not-for-profit corporation.checked 15 Oct 2026

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