Roku / faith_based / MY BIBLE STUDY
REVIEW
My Bible Study turns the TV into a quiet study desk.
A faith-study channel that sits between sermon-clip TikTok and an app-store Bible reader, built for the couch and the family room rather than the phone.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
My Bible Study
SUBSPLASH, INC.
OUR SCORE
7.0
ROKU
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Religious channels on Roku tend to fall into two shapes. One is the rolling-broadcast network — a 24/7 stream of sermons and worship music that runs in the background like a TV station. The other is a video-on-demand bundle, more or less Netflix-for-Christians, optimised for movies and series. My Bible Study sits in neither bucket. It treats the television less like a broadcast surface and more like a reading lamp pointed at scripture, and that small reframing is the most interesting thing about it.
The premise is simple. Pick a topic — a marriage in a rough patch, a season of doubt, a parent trying to figure out how to explain death to a six-year-old — and the channel hands back a short, structured study session built around a scripture passage. A host walks through the passage, the verses sit on screen as text, and the session closes with a few discussion questions that work for one person, a couple, or a small group. It is closer to a guided Bible-study booklet than to streaming television, just rendered for a remote and a couch.
That mode is rare on this platform. The execution is sometimes uneven and the library has clear gaps, but the underlying idea — short study sessions, scripture on screen, no phone required — is right.
It treats the television less like a broadcast surface and more like a reading lamp pointed at scripture.
FEATURES
My Bible Study is a Roku channel built around guided scripture sessions — short topical studies (faith, prayer, marriage, grief, parenting, doubt) that pair a scripture passage on screen with a host walking through commentary and discussion prompts. Episodes typically run 12 to 25 minutes, the right length for a weeknight after dinner or a Sunday-morning warm-up before church.
The interface is straightforward: a home rail of recent studies, a topical browse grid (Old Testament, New Testament, Devotionals, Family), and a continue-watching row that remembers where you left off across sessions. Studies render the passage as on-screen text alongside the video, so a viewer can read along without juggling a phone or a printed Bible.
Playback is the standard Roku channel set — pause, rewind, fast-forward — with closed captions on the longer-form sessions. The channel is free to install with no subscription gate; some of the deeper study series sit behind a one-time unlock, others stay open.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The format choice is the right one for the platform. A Bible-study channel on Roku is competing with YouTube sermon clips and Pure Flix, and most of the category tries to be either passive television (auto-playing sermon reels) or a full Bible app shoehorned onto a remote. My Bible Study picks a third lane — short, structured, study-shaped sessions that assume two or three people on a couch — and that lane is genuinely underserved.
The on-screen passage text matters more than it sounds. Reading scripture along with a host instead of trying to find the verse on a phone keeps the focus on the screen and on the people in the room. For a couple or a small group, that's the difference between watching and studying.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Search and topical filtering are thin. The channel browses well if you already know what kind of study you want, but there is no real cross-cutting search ("show me everything on grief", "show me everything that uses Romans 8"). For a library aimed at long-running personal study, that gap shows up quickly.
There is also no companion mobile experience to take notes or bookmark verses, which means anything a viewer wants to remember has to go into a separate notes app or a paper journal. A lightweight push-to-phone bookmark feature — even just an email of the session's key verses — would close a real loop. Audio quality across the back-catalogue is uneven; older studies were clearly recorded on cheaper microphones, and the contrast is audible when you skip between recent and legacy episodes.
CONCLUSION
Install it if you want a structured, couch-friendly study habit and you've been bouncing between YouTube sermons and a printed devotional. Skip it if you mainly want a Bible app to look up verses — that job belongs to YouVersion on a phone, not a TV channel. Worth watching for a paid tier that adds notes and a real search index.