JW Apps

iSilo – The Best Watchtower Library App for iPhone and iPad

Share on TwitterShare on Facebook+1Email this article Share

This post could be called the “only” Watchtower Library app on the iPhone and iPad. iSilo is more of a container app in the same sense that Microsoft Word is a container and it needs files to work. iSilo gives iPhone users the ability to view old Palm Pilot .pdb files. This is the common format the Watchtower Library is converted to every year. So you’ll still need to get the .pdb files. Once you have those you can open them with iSilo and you’re set to study on your iDevice. The video below describes how to use iSilo on your iPhone and iPad as well as how to load the Watchtower Library pdb files.

iSilo is just one of our favorite iPhone and iPad apps for Jehovah’s Witnesses. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

icon
iSiloDarren ChiProductivity$9.99Download

Here are a couple of our other picks of the best iPhone and iPad apps for Jehovah’s Witnesses:

MyTime – The Best Field Service Tracking App

Now that you have an iPad, you don't need to carry around all those loose paper slips with your return visit notes scribbled on them. Even an organized call book isn't as safe and secure as keeping your field service records on your iPad. The app you'll want to use ...

JW Companion – Organizing your theocratic documents on iPhone and iPad

Having all your literature in one place is a good way to get more efficient at the meetings and in field service. Ideally, the official JW Library app will help all of us annotate and highlight the near future. Until that time comes, we're able to rely on some pretty ...

Related Posts

4 Comments

  1. observer1959
    December 24, 2012 @ 1:47 am

    This is where to find the files.
    http://www.meekspace.com

    My personal favorite files for the iPad are the “WSM with links” iSilo files.  These files include the entire weeks study materials including, daily text, meeting publications, scriptures, and songs all in one easy to navigate format.

  2. Lauri Cole
    January 7, 2016 @ 3:30 pm

    Thank you for sharing your tips and videos. I am only now discovering your site.

    I just viewed the video iSilo/to view on iPad or iPhone. I began using iSilo before iPhones or iPads. When there were legal questions about using the WT Library on it I stopped updating my iSilo Library. Back in the day the only way I knew how to get WT Library onto my Mac G5 & MBP was with Vertual Windows. I hated that software. I saw you have WT Library on your iMac. What did you use to get it there since the CD’s are only for Windows. I have given up many years ago on trying to install WT Library, and I’ve missed it greatly.

    Also, once I get my WT Lib onto my iMac and MBP, and drag it onto my devices will it merge with my old WT Lib that is currently in my iSilo (dated 2008), or will it replace old library with the newer versus ion, loosing old data?

    Lastly, is the JW Companion app currently the best tool for studying/annotations, etc. I cannot decipher the date of your reviews.

    Thank you for your time and sharing your knowledge.

    Lauri

  3. sheryl
    January 17, 2016 @ 3:49 pm

    hello. i also have same question as lauri. will isilo replace old library w newer version of the library each year? thanks very much.

  4. AppChasers
    January 17, 2016 @ 4:17 pm

    Hello, no the makers of the WTLib pdb files for iSilo said that 2013 was their last version. That’s because the Watchtower Online Library has all the post 2000 publications and the last pdb has all the pre 2000 publications.

Leave a Reply