# Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books

> Books

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id428709147](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id428709147)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id428709147`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Deseret Book Company
- **Category:** Books
- **Rating:** 4.90 / 5 (9,684 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.10.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-09
- **First published:** 2011-04-05
- **Size:** 82 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deseret-bookshelf-lds-books/id428709147)
- **Website:** [http://deseretbook.com/bookshelf](http://deseretbook.com/bookshelf)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://deseretbook.com/privacy](https://deseretbook.com/privacy)

## Description

Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books brings Deseret Book’s library to your pocket, offering wholesome eBooks, audiobooks, and podcasts for individuals and families. The app features a Free Starter Library with 8 classic Latter-day Saint titles, plus smart search, filters, and cross-device syncing. 

With Deseret Bookshelf+, you unlock thousands of premium titles and the full audiobook catalog, plus study tools like customizable fonts, highlighting, notes, and scripture-linked references. Download, read, study, and listen—anytime, anywhere.

## Rankings

- #17,677 — Overall
- #22 — company

## Review summary

Users praise the library for its broad, clean, uplifting content and the convenience of audiobooks for multitasking, with the subscription often described as worth it. However, recurring problems include frequent logouts, unreliable search/navigation, playback resume issues, and download errors, plus sign-in/trial flow loops. These reliability issues are mentioned across many reviews and significantly affect the overall experience.

### Pros

- Huge selection of wholesome, uplifting content
- Audios books enable multitasking and listening while traveling or doing chores
- Clean, family-friendly material with a focus on positive, faith-based content
- Membership/subscription is worth it and offers good value
- Extras like podcasts (e.g., Sunday on Monday) enhance the experience

### Cons

- Frequent logout/login issues; app does not stay signed in
- Search and navigation problems; hard to search, incomplete results, difficulty accessing entire catalogs, poor table-of-contents navigation
- Playback/resume problems; sometimes restarts or won’t resume where you left off, lock-screen controls bug
- Download issues; not downloading correctly and occurrences of skipped chapters or errors
- Subscription/trial sign-in loops; app not recognizing signup or forcing browser redirects

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