Earlier this week I showed you the new Bible! 3.0 from Logos that comes with a name change, a new home screen and some other nice features., I decided to demonstrate this on video so you can see for yourself some of the new features.
Here’s the video demo:
You can get Bible! from Logos in the iTunes App Store or find out more at the Logos site.
Logos updated their iOS app for Apple iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and changed the name to Bible!, probably to get it higher in the search results sorted by alphabet. The new version still gives users access to most of their Logos books and resources while on the go, but adds some awesome new features bringing the app to version 3.0.
The biggest change you’ll notice are the new home page that looks a lot more like the Faithlife Study Bible app, the new panels that include the Passage Guide, Bible Word Study and the Text Comparison tool.
I really like the user interface of the Home page of the app. Notice above the Library view that shows either the book covers in a grid view or a list view (see below).
In the upper right panel the app shows once of 6 panels. In order they are as follows:
Above the Library list you’ll find the library search box where you can look up books by title, subject and author. The sort button lets users sort by Title, Author, User Rating and Recently opened books.
Next to the sort box the user interface shows two buttons that change between the list and grid views. Finally we get the button that shows the library in full screen mode.
Users will like the ability to still add notes and highlight passage. Searching for words and bookmarking them still exists. And the app lets users copy and paste to other apps.
Logos offers a great free app. I really like it and find it one of the best mobile Bible apps available on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
I don’t like the button used to show the resource panel that slides out from the right side of the app. You’ll find it in the image above just to the left of the reference box and left arrow. The icon’s just too small and hard to tap with my big fingers. I would like to see Logos increase the size or make it accessible with a gesture like a two finger swipe from the left edge. In fact all of the toolbar icons are too small.
Some don’t like that it doesn’t work as well offline, but I’m not as worried since I use a 4G LTE iPad.
Logos launched their new eBook reader, Vyrso today offering some great deals on eBooks offering them at just $.99 a book. The app will let you read these books as a dumbed down version of the Logos mobile app for Andoird and iOS.
You can get the apps at the following places:
I’ll be honest and say that I am not a fan of the app only because it doesn’t really offer anything that the Logos apps doesn’t have and actually many fewer features. But if you don’t see yourself needing all that the Logos mobile app offers, this might be just the thing for you.
As some of you may know, I wrote an article for iPhone Life that was released earlier this year. They are offering a free issue of the magazine this summer which you can get by clicking the icon.
iPad version of Olive Tree’s Bible Reader is available in the app store. Get it here.
