BibleReader
By Olive Tree Bible Software, INc
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Description
BibleReader™ lets you explore the Bible on your iPhone and carry your Bible study library with you wherever you go. BibleReader™ offers powerful features for Bible reading and study, advanced personal customization, 100+ titles for free download, and a huge catalog available for in-app purchase, including Bible translations, Greek and Hebrew resources, commentaries, dictionaries, foreign language titles, and Christian eBooks.
This application includes the KJV Bible, as well as offering access to all Olive Tree free titles and letting you make in-app purchases from the Olive Tree catalog.
BibleReader™ FEATURES
• Bookmark your favorite verses. Make personal notes. Create files to sort and store them. A great organizational tool for study, personal devotions, or sermon preparation!
• Split screen reading lets you view two books at once. You can compare Bible translations, view study notes, or read commentaries and reference books side-by-side with Scripture. Sync the windows so they scroll together for easy reference and comparisons.
• With 3-touch Verse Chooser, you can navigate quickly and easily to the exact Bible verse you want by touching book, chapter, and verse.
• Quick, powerful searching lets you find words, phrases, even search in Greek and Hebrew!
• Scripture and other works are stored on your phone, so you don't need a continuous Internet connection. You have full access to your library even when you’re in airplane mode or out of wi-fi range.
• Copy a verse into notes, email, chat—anywhere inside or outside of BibleReader™.
A LIBRARY OF TITLES
BibleReader™ offers the ease of in-app purchases, and even lets you use iTunes gift cards to purchase Olive Tree books, Bibles, and Bible study tools. You’ll find these resources and more in the Olive Tree catalog:
• Popular Bible translations: NIV, NKJV, ESV, NLTse, NASB, The Message, Amplified, HCSB, NCV, Complete Jewish Bible, JPS Tanakh
• Best-selling study bibles: ESV Study Bible, NLT Study Bible, NIV Study Notes
• Bibles with deuterocanonical books: Catholic NAB, NRSV and RSV, Douay-Rheims
• Non-English Bibles: Reina-Valera, Traducción en lenguaje actual, Dios Habla Hoy (Spanish), Luther Bibel 1984, Schlachter, and Elberfelder (German), Louis Segond and La Bible du Semeur (French), and more.
• Original language Bibles: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew Old Testament), Greek New Testament (NA27)
• Strong’s Dictionaries, and KJV and NASB with Strong’s Numbers
• Commentaries and Study Tools: Bible Knowledge Commentary; Ryrie Study Bible Notes, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown; Matthew Henry’s Concise and Complete Commentaries; MacArthur’s New Testament Commentary; Gray’s; Ironside; Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge (cross references)
• Excellent free resources: John Piper’s Collected Sermons (1200+ sermons, indexed for easy searching), Bible in Basic English, classics by St. Augustine, John Wesley, and Charles Spurgeon
CUSTOMIZE YOUR READING
Make your electronic reading and study experience just right with BibleReader™’s many customizable options.
• Choose where to open notes, Strong’s numbers, or search results—in a split screen, the same screen, or a popup window. Customize your popup windows with colors, transparency, and animation styles.
• Top and bottom toolbars auto-hide for full screen reading.
• Up-down flick scrolling or left-right scrolling gestures—your choice.
• Read vertically or switch to landscape mode for wider pages. Choose auto-rotation lock to keep the screen in the orientation you’ve chosen, even if you move your device.
• Choose from 19 different fonts and pick the right size for easiest reading.
• Customize your colors for text, background, notes and hyperlinks, and the words of Jesus. Set separate colors for each reading window or popup window.
What's New In Version 4.12.4
iOS4 support enabling fast app switching where available.
Initial Retina Display support for iPhone4
Bug Fixes
Customer Reviews
It's finally here! This is one of the best Bible program on the market!
The wait is over. OliveTree's Biblereader has finally been ported to the iPhone. This is a superb program. OliveTree offers numerous translations and commentaries for your Bible study needs. I do have a few problem with this program: If you already own a large OliveTree library, you cannot transfer them to the iPhone. OliveTree, listen up - If Mantis Bible Study FOR THE IPHONE can add different versions directly from their own store website, why can't you guys? Adding Bibles, commentaries, and books does not break Apple's distribution rules. Mantis is not the only company that is selling add-ons directly from their own website, both Ereader and Stanza are also allowing people to add or buy ebooks directly from their own website, BibleReader should do the same! I shouldn't have to repurchase everything again! I will give this application more stars, if this problem can be solved.
Pros:
Continuous scrolling with a finger swip.
Large selections of Bible translations and commentaries (Coming Soon)
Be able to see the actual verse with the reference when doing a search.
Fast result when doing search.
Cons:
Can't use you existing OliveTree library.
Can't compare two different translations or see commentaries on split screen
No support for Greek and Hebrew right now.
No support for horizontal display
Final Summary:
If you are in the market for a Bible program this is the best program available right now. (I have purchased three other Bible apps for the iPhone and this is the best program right now.) If you are an existing BibleReader user, you might want to wait until they add more features. This program feels half baked. It lacks many of the features in comparison to BibleReader for the Palm and PPC. I have been checking the web store every day hoping OliveTree will release this program, and now it has I must admit I do feel a bit let down. Do get me wrong, this is an awesome Bible app, but it is not polished. Maybe Laridian will do a better job when they release their Bible app for the iPhone. If you are new to BibleReader, this program is awesome. Buy it now!
Let's Stop Picking This Apart!
Not a bad app, especially for free. Not a lot of bells & whistles, but a useful app. Why trash it when there is no Portuguese tranlation, when the description clearly states English, and all of the included translations are plainly listed? That is unfair to the developer, who spent time working on this.
I had to update my review after reading Grace Church's scathing critique. I guess maybe Olive Tree Bible Software should've charged $29.95 or more for this, so then people would have a legitimate gripe. As it stands, for a free app, it's quite good, shortcomings notwithstanding. This is an INITIAL EFFORT and, from what I've seen, it's darned good. As far as adding books, yep, maybe it'll require an update or, perhaps in a future version, you'll be able to do an over-the-air update or purchase, but there so far isn't any app I've seen here that allows you to add content through iTunes (it's evidently a restriction Apple has placed on developers). I think Apple needs to revisit its review system to prevent the occasional "I hate this app because it doesn't do EXACTLY what I want" review from bringing down the average rating. My take... if you can do better, write your own app, and don't trash those who give you something for free!
OK... updating this AGAIN after reading things like "This isn't the Palm Bible reader"! Of course it's not! If you take the time to visit the Olive Tree site, you will see this app on their front page, including what its shortcomings are, both limitations imposed by Apple and those occurring because this is a first release of the software. They also CHARGE for other platforms. This is a developer who seems genunely interested in ultimately proving the ultimate Bible reader for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Rather than slam it here, why not go to the developer site and provide CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. That would do far better than simply digging at it here.
Finally a non web based bible
I have been using the Olivetree bible reader on my PDA and I love it.
Most of the other bibles for the iPhone are web based which has been useless when I needed them the most; in church.
This is the first iteration of their reader for the iPhone which is not quite like the PDA versions yet in terms of adding notes and hightlighting verses. Olivetree bible readers always gets better.
I only wish there was a way to use my bibles that I bought for my PDA. The bibles are generally independent of the bible reader.
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$0.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated:Jun 25, 2010
- Current Version:4.12.4
- 4.12.4 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 28.3 MB
- Languages:English, German
- Seller:Olive Tree Bible Software, Inc
- © Olive Tree Bible Software, Inc
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
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