Differences between Plans and Plans With Friends
When you start a plan you will see two options.
By Myself or With Friends
By Myself
- Select the arrow behind By Myself to set the privacy to Private or Visible to Friends
- Select your device type and then go to the articles under Reading Plans
- For privacy on plans and YouVersion friends select link here
With Friends
- Allows the ability to engage in God’s Word with a select group of friends in the Bible app on a specified reading plan
- Is started by a host who invites others to join
- Is for a specific time only. No Catch me Up
- On the apps the host can move start date before the plan starts under Plan Menu (three dots) and then Settings
- Each participant's progress is displayed for each day with a check mark if they have completed the reading
- Has a Talk it Over comment section as part of each day so that each participant can make comments for other participants to read
- To see the comments, select the persons icon for that day
- Plans with Friends moments are not displayed on the Home Feed
- Plans with Friends will show participant icons on the My Plans page
- On the weekly calendar, participants progress is displayed with a check mark behind the friend icon
- Comments can be viewed in the Talk it Over section for each day
- Privacy is set by the software to only participants in the group. Friends of participants or public can't see group plan activity
- Emails reception from participants is set in each plan and not in general notifications
- You can also unsubscribe by selecting the unsubscribe at the end of the email