Logos Bible Software

Logos Bible Software is a digital library application developed by Faithlife Corporation. It is designed for electronic Bible study. In addition to basic eBook functionality, it includes extensive resource linking, note-taking functionality and linguistic analysis for study of the Bible - both in translation and in its original languages.

Logos Bible Software
Developer(s)Faithlife Corporation
Initial release1992 (1992)
Written inC#, C++[1]
Operating system
Type
LicenseFreeware[note 1]
Websitewww.logos.com

History

Windows and Macintosh versions

Logos Bible Software was launched in 1992 by two Microsoft employees, Bob Pritchett and Kiernon Reiniger, along with Bob's father, Dale Pritchett. The three quit their jobs to develop Christian software.[2] After acquiring data from the CDWordLibrary project at Dallas Theological Seminary – funded by Jim Bolton (an earlier Bible software package for use on Windows 2), Logos released an updated version called the Logos Library System platform in 1995.[3]

Logos Bible Software for Windows, v1.6

Mobile versions

An iPhone app was released alongside Logos 4 in November 2009.

An Android app was released in 2012. The initial release allowed little more than the reading of Logos books, so version 2.0 followed quickly in August 2012, which added notes, highlighting, reading plans, Bible Word Study, the Passage Guide and a split-screen view. This brought much closer parity with the iOS app.[4]

Rebranded versions

Faithlife Corporation has also produced rebranded versions of Logos Bible Software with almost identical functionality. Verbum Catholic Software is aimed at Roman Catholics (and adds databases of Catholic topics and Saints, and more data from the Deuterocanonical Books). From 2014 to 2020, Faithlife produced Noet, which focused on scholarly work in the humanities, particularly the classics and philosophy.[5]

Reception

It has been noted for being user-friendly,[6] having the largest number of resources for software of its type,[7][8] and offering unique tools and datasets not found in other products.[9] It has also received some criticism for its high cost[10] and lack of speed when compared with other Bible software packages.[8]

Notes
  1. The software itself is freeware. Most resources and datasets are paid for add-ons.

References
  1. Grainger, Bradley (2 November 2009). "Hiatus". Faithlife Code Blog. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. "High-tech survivors". Whatcom County Business Pulse. Archived from the original on 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2006-09-27.
  3. Harris, III, W Hall (February 6, 2008). "Bible Software History 101". Retrieved June 13, 2010.
  4. "Logos Brings More Parity Between Android and iOS Bible Apps" (PDF). Christian Computing Magazine. August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  5. Gallagher, Dave (25 December 2014). "Bellingham's Faithlife introduces new product for scholarly research". The Bellingham Herald. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  6. Barrett, Charles M. (April 2013). "Logos Bible Software 5" (PDF). Themelios. The Gospel Coalition. 38 (1): 84.
  7. Challies, Tim (Fall 2006). "Logos Bible Software 3". The Journal of Modern Ministry.
  8. Tabb, Brian J. (April 2014). "Logos Bible Software 5 Platinum" (PDF). Themelios. The Gospel Coalition. 39 (1): 82.
  9. Parker, David (July 2003). "Logos Bible Software Series X". Evangelical Review of Theology.
  10. Naselli, Andrew David (April 2014). "Baker Academic Biblical Studies Bundle" (PDF). Themelios. The Gospel Coalition. 39 (1): 80.

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