Google Play / books_and_reference / KING JAMES BIBLE - VERSE+AUDIO
REVIEW
Ozion's King James Bible is a quiet, audio-first reader for the 1611 text.
A free Android reader of the public-domain King James Version with narrated audio and a 4.81 rating across more than 271,000 reviews. Not YouVersion. Not trying to be.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
King James Bible - Verse+Audio
OZION
OUR SCORE
7.6
GOOGLE PLAY
★ 4.8
PRICE
Free
In-app purchases
The King James Version is public-domain English that has been printed, recited, and memorised since 1611. Building an app around it is not a product-market-fit problem; the audience exists and renews every generation. The product question is what to add — and what to leave alone. Ozion’s answer is narrow on purpose: deliver the KJV cleanly, add narrated audio, keep the chrome out of the way, fund it with ads. That is the entire pitch.
It works because the pitch is honest. The dominant competitor on Android is Life.Church’s YouVersion, which carries dozens of translations, daily reading plans, community highlights, and a social layer that turns Scripture reading into a shared activity. YouVersion is excellent at what it does and most readers who want a Bible app should start there. But YouVersion’s surface area is large, and not every reader wants that. Some want the 1611 text, a chapter list, a play button, and silence. That is what this app delivers.
A 4.81 rating across 271,000-plus reviews on a Books & Reference app is not noise. It is a self-selected audience finding the tool they were looking for. The honest review is to take that at face value, name what the app does well — calm typography, verse-synced narration, a tight scope — and name the trade-off readers should expect: ads in the free tier, and a single translation. Both are addressable. The first costs money; the second costs nothing but an additional app on the home screen.
It does not try to be YouVersion. It is a King James reader with audio, and on that narrow brief it works.
FEATURES
The app ships the complete King James Version — 66 books, Old and New Testaments — with the public-domain 1611 English text that has anchored Protestant reading for four centuries. Verses are addressable individually for selection, copy, and share. Daily verse, bookmarks, highlights, and notes are local to the device.
The defining feature is audio. Each chapter has a narrated reading that can be played in the foreground or with the screen off, and a per-verse follow-along highlights the line being read. That makes the app usable as a commute companion or as a bedtime reader without staring at a phone.
Distribution is free, ad-supported, with an in-app purchase to remove ads. The listing identifies the publisher as Ozion. The app sits in Google Play's Books & Reference category and updates regularly — most recently in April 2026.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The reading experience is calm. Type renders cleanly at adjustable sizes, the chapter chrome stays out of the way, and verse-tap interactions are predictable. For a free Android reader, the typography and navigation are better than the category average.
The audio is the real win. A narrated KJV with verse-level sync is a meaningful accessibility feature — for low-vision readers, for drivers, for anyone who wants Scripture read aloud rather than scrolled. A 4.81 average across 271,000+ reviews is unusually high for any Books & Reference app on Play, and it points to something the spreadsheet review can't: the people who use this app every day trust it.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Ad density is the honest caveat. Free ad-supported reading apps interrupt the reading flow, and a Scripture reader carries that interruption heavier than a news app does. The removal IAP exists and is the right answer for daily readers; budget for it the way you'd budget for a study Bible in print.
The translation lock is the other caveat. This is a KJV-only app. Readers who want to cross-reference the ESV, NIV, NASB, or the original-language texts will need to pair it with something else — typically YouVersion's Bible app, which carries dozens of translations and a community layer this one does not attempt. Search and cross-reference here are competent for a single-translation reader; they are not a replacement for a study suite.
CONCLUSION
Install this if you want the King James Version, narrated, on Android, and you don't need parallel translations or a social layer. Pay for ad removal if you read daily. Anyone wanting multiple translations, reading plans with community, or commentary integration will be better served by YouVersion alongside or instead.