Logos Bible Software is a

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developed by Faithlife Corporation.It is designed for electronic Bible study. In addition to basic

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functionality, it includes extensive resource linking, note-taking functionality, and linguistic analysis for study of the

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both in translation and in its original languages.

History

Windows and Macintosh versions

Logos Bible Software was launched in 1992 by two

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employees, Bob Pritchett and Kiernon Reiniger, along with Bob's father, Dale Pritchett. The three quit their jobs to develop Christian software. After acquiring data from the CDWordLibrary project at

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(an earlier Bible software package for use on

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), Logos released an updated version called the Logos Library System platform in 1995.

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.

Rebranded versions

Faithlife Corporation has also produced rebranded versions of ''Logos Bible Software'' with almost identical functionality. ''Verbum Catholic Software'' is aimed at

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(and adds databases of Catholic topics and

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, and more data from the

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). From 2014 to 2020, Faithlife produced ''Noet'', which focused on scholarly work in the humanities, particularly the classics and philosophy.

Reception

It has been praised for being user-friendly, having the largest number of available resources of any comparable software, and offering unique tools and datasets not found in any comparable products. However, it has also received some criticisms for its high cost and lack of speed when compared with other Bible software packages.

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References

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External links

Logos Bible Software official websites:
Logos

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