The Superbook Kids Bible App from The Christian Broadcasting Network offers families a free Bible for children alongside games and the Superbook animated series.^1 It is free on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Kindle Fire,^1 and Google Play shows no ads and no in-app purchases.^2
Kids get a full, easy-to-understand Bible with multiple versions and audio for the New Living Translation, and the Superbook site also lists audio Bibles for the NIV.^2 They can watch all sixty-eight Superbook episodes, download them to watch offline, and play more than twenty trivia, word, and action games, earning XP and customizing their own character.^2 Interactive Quests devotionals, the Superbook Q&A Contraption, and more than eighty topics written from a biblical worldview, covering anxiety, friendship, self-image, and prayer, sit alongside the text.^2 Kids can highlight verses, take notes, and explore profiles of people, places, and artifacts in Scripture.^2 In the animated series, best friends Chris and Joy, with their robot Gizmo, travel back to biblical times to solve a problem they face at home.^5
Superbook began in Japan. CBN first partnered with Tatsunoko Productions and TV Tokyo on the 1981 anime, which ran fifty-two episodes.^6 CBN then produced a reboot that ran five seasons and sixty-eight episodes from 2011 through 2021, with Gordon Robertson as an executive producer.^5 Robertson, who founded CBN Asia with his father Pat, explained the reboot's aim in an interview for the In Depth With Stephen Strang podcast: "The idea was 'Let's introduce the plan of salvation in 13 episodes,'"^7 Families describe the experience in their own words on the Superbook site:
"The best Bible app for kids! My grandchildren love the Superbook episodes and Bible games, and I love that they are learning about God!" - Aiden's PawPaw^4
"I'm so thankful for this app. My grandchildren aged 3-10 have been blessed by the content and I never have to worry about anything inappropriate." - Brenda Lynne^4
Notable:
- Episodes, Bibles, and games can be downloaded for offline use.^4
- On Google Play the app is available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, French, and Hindi, with full Superbook episodes available in many more languages.^3
- The network's statement of faith affirms the Bible as inspired and authoritative, one God eternally existent in three persons, and redemption through Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.^8
