Your guide to getting the most out of Filament: the app that connects directly to your Filament Edition Bible. 

Find step-by-step help for setup, app features, navigation, reading plans, and troubleshooting, plus quick video walkthroughs.

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Discover what makes Filament Edition Bible's unlike any Bible app you've used before. Learn how the app connects directly to your physical Bible and what that means for your reading, study, and worship experience.

Filament Bible App Basics

The Filament Bible App is a free app that connects directly to Filament Edition, physical Bibles. By scanning a page number with your phone or tablet, the Filament Bible App instantly delivers study notes, articles, reflections, videos, interactive maps, and worship music, all curated for the exact Scripture you're reading. You get the portability of a lightweight Bible with the depth of a full study Bible, without the bulk.

What is the Filament Bible App?

The Filament Bible App only works in connection to print, Filament Edition Bibles.

Filament Edition Bibles

Filament Edition Bibles pair a beautiful print Bible with the free Filament app, giving you instant access to study notes, devotionals, videos, maps, and audio for the page you’re reading. This guide shows you where to shop for one.

Where to Buy a Filament Bible

Everything you need to get up and running with Filament.Everything you need to get up and running with Filament. From downloading the app and creating your account to connecting your Bible and managing your setup. Start here and you'll be ready to go in minutes.

Getting Started

The Filament Bible App is a free companion app that unlocks additional content linked to Tyndale’s Filament Edition, print Bibles. This article walks you through downloading and setting it up on your iOS/iPadOS or Android device.

Downloading the Filament Bible App

Just got your first Filament Edition Bible? This guide walks you through downloading the app, creating your account, and getting your Bible and device fully connected.


Creating and Setting Up Your Account

Because the Filament Bible App connects directly to your physical Filament Edition Bible, it's important that the app knows exactly which Bible you're using. If the content shown doesn't match the page in front of you, you may be connected to the wrong edition. Here's how to check and fix it.

Connecting a Filament Edition Bible

The Filament Bible App connects directly to your physical Bible. If you have a new Bible from the Filament collection, you'll need to activate it in the app so it can deliver the right content for each page.

Adding More than One Filament Bible

If your list of Bibles gets long, you can remove editions you’re no longer using. 

Removing a Bible

You can update your name, email address, password, and time zone directly from within the Filament app at any time.

Managing Your Account

Learn how to move through your Bible and the app with ease. Whether you're scanning a page, navigating by book and chapter, or adjusting your settings; everything you need for a smooth reading experience is right here.

Reading & Navigation

Each page in a Filament Edition Bible is mapped to specific scripture. When you scan a page number, the app looks up that mapping for your activated edition and returns content in the form of videos, articles, devotionals, and more, tied to exactly what's on that page. This is why activating the correct Bible edition matters: page numbers differ between editions.

Scanning the Filament Icon

Filament keeps your app and physical Bible in sync through four different navigation methods. Use whichever fits best for how you're reading.

Navigating in Four Different Ways

The navigation menu will help get you where you need to go. Accessing settings will let you customize how the app looks and behaves. Quick Settings gives you fast access to your active Bible edition and key app preferences from the home screen.

Navigation & Adjusting Settings

No matter where you are in the Filament app, getting back to the home screen is always one tap away.

Getting Back to the Home Screen

Explore everything the Filament app has to offer. Dive into study notes, interactive maps, illustrations, audio Bible, worship music, and more; all connected to the Scripture you're reading.

Filament Bible App Features

The study section is one of Filament's most powerful features, delivering rich study content tied directly to the page you're reading. Here's a guide to everything available inside it.

Exploring the STUDY Section

The Reflect section delivers devotionals tied directly to the scripture on the page you're reading. Each devotional is written to help you go deeper with the passage in front of you with no searching needed. Just open Reflect and see what's waiting for you on that page.

Exploring the REFLECT Section

The See section surfaces visual and video content connected to the page you're reading: maps, videos, infographics, and worship videos all in one place.

Exploring the SEE Section

The Filament Bible App includes interactive maps that let you visually explore the biblical world. Zoom in on locations, toggle map layers, and tap places to discover events, photos, as wellas historical context.

Using Interactive Maps

The Filament Bible App includes detailed illustrations and infographics that bring biblical context to life visually. Many are interactive: tap into labeled areas to uncover deeper information, additional illustrations, and more.

Using Interactive Illustrations

The Filament Bible App includes a streaming Audio Bible tool that syncs directly to the page you're reading. Listen alongside your Bible, navigate by verse, and keep the rest of the app fully accessible while audio plays.

Using the Audio Bible Tool

The Filament Bible App offers worship music videos connected to the scripture on the page you're reading. Videos play the music with lyrics displayed on screen.

Accessing Worship Music

Build a consistent habit of engaging with Scripture. Explore available reading plans, track your progress, and manage multiple plans running at once.

Reading Plans

Reading plans help you build a consistent habit of engaging with Scripture. Set up a plan, track your progress, and pick up right where you left off, even across multiple devices.

Exploring Reading Plans

The Filament Bible App gives you full control over your reading plans. Pause, reactivate, restart, adjust notifications, and track progress all from one place.

Managing Reading Plans

Reading plan settings let you configure how the app handles notifications and badges for all your reading plans at once, separate from the settings of any individual plan.

Reading Plan Settings

Listening to a reading plan? The audio player lets you control playback, follow along verse by verse, sync back to the passage being read, and choose how far the audio keeps going. 

Reading Plan Playback

Find answers to common questions and get back on track quickly. From troubleshooting app issues and resetting your password to finding in-app tutorials and support. Help is always close by.

FAQ & Troubleshooting

Below are answers to the questions we hear most often, grouped by topic. 

Frequently Asked Questions

The Filament Bible App has built-in tutorials and several support options to help you get the most out of every feature. 

Accessing Tutorials & Help In-App

If the app is crashing, freezing, or showing database errors, a quick refresh usually clears things up. Work through the steps below in order: most issues are resolved before reaching the last one.

Troubleshooting the Filament Bible App

If you’ve forgotten your Filament Bible account password, or you’d simply like to change it, you can reset it directly from within the Filament Bible app, with no separate website visit required. This article walks through the steps for both iOS and Android.

Resetting Account Password

This article explains how to request deletion of your Filament Bible App account, what happens during the process, and what to expect afterward.

Deleting Your Account

Filament is built to make Bible study richer for everyone. This article covers the accessibility options available in the app today, how to pair access your device’s own built in accessibility tools, and where to get help if something is not working for you.

Accessibility

Prefer to learn by watching? These short videos walk you through getting started, using the app's features, and setting up your reading plans, all in just a few minutes.

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