Nearly 20 new services have been made available to Google Home users this week, including lots of ways to control smart home devices and the best Bible-reading action to date. (Actions are like voice-only apps for Google Assistant, akin to skills for Alexa and Cortana.)
More than 150 actions have been made by third-party developers since the launch of Actions on the Google platform last December.
Complete with a narrator, the YouVersion action will read you a Bible verse everyday or make you a Bible reading plan. You can even tell the action things like “I’m feeling sad” or “I’m feeling angry,” and YouVersion will read you scripture that matches your mood or provides support.
The YouVersion action comes from Life.Church, creator of the most-downloaded Bible app in App Store and Google Play markets. Last December, Life.Church reported that its Bible app surpassed the 250 million download mark.
The YouVersion action can create reading plans based on pretty much whatever you want to do. You can tell it to make you a reading plan based on the Old Testament, New Testament, a specific book in the Bible, or the entire Bible, and you can set the time span. Ask YouVersion about your progress, and it will tell you how you’re doing with your plan.
YouVersion is the fourth Bible-reading action available for Google Home — following the release of Today’s Bible Verse, YouVersion Stories, and Faithlife — but YouVersion is by far the best Bible reader available today on Google Home.
In other religious services on Google Home, the Divine Song action plays songs from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita. Life.Church is also maker of the YouVersion Stories action for kids and families, and the Verse of the Day Alexa skill, which launched…