Orthodox Study Bible App Reviews

Well Pleased!. I came across some passages online, talking about how the NKJV New Testament aligns better with the Septuagint. It’s a bit confusing at first, cross referencing. The Septuagint by Brenton is a tad bit easier to use as a cross referencing tool, in my opinion. But once you are able to get through the whole numbering system, this Orthodox study Bible is spot on. For example, cross referencing Hebrews 10:5 with Psalm 40:6. In the Brenton version of the Septuagint, it would be Psalm 39:6. Here in the Orthodox Bible, it’s Psalm 39:7. And I want to say that is because the title of the chapter is being accounted as verse 1? I’m still new and trying to understand that part. I don’t have the Brenton version of the Septuagint, yet.

Topic Articles Alone Make It Worth Buying. If you only buy this app for the purpose of having the topical articles available at your fingertips, you will still be pleased with the price you pay for the purchase. I use the daily readings nearly every Sunday morning before I go to my local Greek Orthodox Church as I like to get a head start on the scripture reading.

Lectionary reading PLUS yearly reading. With this app one can keep up with podcast of reading through Orthodox Bible in a year on Ancient Faith. One can also keep up with lectionary reading from yearly calendar that the Church year follows, plus many more features.

Great Study Bible to add to your library. This is an electronic version of the Orthodox Study Bible published by Thomas Nelson. The app is less expensive than the various ebooks. It has all the various additional sections plus the OT and NT. There is Morning and Evening prayers for each day of the week that come up tied to the current day. It is a great introduction to the Eastern Orthodox Church with various articles and the study notes have tie-ins back to the writtungs of the Church Fathers. The navigation is straight forward to get to a verse and to then see the notes.

Love this app!!. While there are a number of apps which I have found useful, none have really gotten me excited enough to write a review - until now. I own a hard copy of the Orthodox Study Bible which was purchased shortly after I became Orthodox. While I like it, it isn't exactly portable enough to carry around. I had considered a Kindle version but the app far surpasses what a Kindle edition is capable of. Further, the app has features which I can see even supplanting my hard copy version. A GREAT bargain at this price when you consider the content and capabilities. I'd rate this 10 stars.

Facebook sharing not working. I really enjoy the Orthodox Study Bible app! I am only writing this review to inform the app developer that the share to Facebook option is not working. I will take down this review when I know this feature has been fixed. Thank you.

Best bible app out there hands down. AWESOME APP!!! Looked at many other bible apps and this is the one if your looking for something with more spiritual depth. Love the topical articles, daily readings, and all the extras it has to offer. I use it everyday and just wish there was more reading material in the topical articles. Other than that this is the bible app to get, well worth the money.

Good value, great convenience. This app is a good value as it is priced below what I paid for the Kindle ebook version of this particular Bible translation. As an app, it is easier to navigate than the ebook versions, as you can go to a particular verse in much fewer steps than can be accomplished through an ebook's Table of Contents. The greatest convenience though is the app's daily reading feature, which presents the multiple readings for today on a single page, so you don't have to jump back and forth between a lectionary with hyperlinks. Thank you for creating this app just in time for Great Lent. Please keep up the good work.

Bible study. In my busy life as a dad and husband this is so needed on a daily

My favorite Bible on iPad.. The problems I had were resolved with the latest update. Thanks.

Frustrated. I LOVE the app, but why am I not able to find the app for my iPad Pro???????

Great convenient app!. I love the layout of this app. It has all of the information in the study bible within the app, and it keeps track of where you left off last within each section. For example, if you read Wisdom chapter 1 yesterday, it will say that this is the last chapter of Wisdom you read when you choose it as the book of the Bible you wanted to read. I am Protestant, but I am coming to appreciate and value many things out of the Orthodox tradition because of this study bible!

Easy to navigate. I have this bible on kindle but this is the best. It is easy to find things. Many apps are difficult but not this one. My only regret is why I waited so long to purchase it. Greatest gift I gave myself.

Beautiful work. Such a beautiful Bible app. I wish it would read it to you too. Maybe in your next update that could be done. Love the commentary of the Fathers and the layout of the app. Highly recommend

THE BEST APP EVER!!!!. Guys, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for making this app!! Seriously it is such a blessing to have such a beautiful well put together a Orthodox app that we can use to study the Bible! I love the fact that it has actually the full Orthodox Bible, including all of the old testament books, and the fact that it has all of the expansion articles on certain themes, and all of the study notes. I also really love the highlights portion and how well it’s been approved overtime. I also really love on top of that the reading plans with both one year to year mixed and chronological. The daily readings are absolutely phenomenal and one of my favorite parts. Just amazing way to start the day. I also love the organization of each section of the Bible and have that part is organized. I love organization in general, and this is just music to my ears. I love, especially how all of Paul’s epistles our grouped together. And the Torah, history, wisdom, major and minor prophets, all of that stuff. I really love the organization. If you guys are reading this, here’s a couple of things that would be really great to see in future updates 1. Would be great to add the introduction at the beginning of every book the same way, the original Orthodox study Bible has. I personally really loved reading the overview and getting a better idea for what I’m about to start reading at the beginning of every book. 2. It would be nice if you can add different colors for the highlight and a yellow color that is a little bit softer. The current yellow color is a little bit harsh and it would be nice if there were more colors just so that you can identify different things when you highlight them. 3. It would be nice to add toggle bookmark on and off instead of current process. (I appreciate all of the last few updates that you guys have done with the highlights. It’s become a lot better.) 4. This is a big one, but if you can eventually add a voice reader, that would be incredible. 5. This is another big one, but would be really great if there were also the Saints of the day in addition to readings for the day both maybe old and new calendar. (I know it’s hard because it varies based on church in terms of which saints they celebrate but maybe a general one would be great). Or maybe if you guys can just make a separate app for that as well that would be amazing. I just really appreciate how clean simple and modern this app is. We definitely need more of that with more orthodox apps. And I’m recommending this app to everyone! The $10 bucks is totally worth it and you guys again just did a wonderful job. Seriously Glory to God! And thank you for all your incredible and dedicated hard work!

A joy. Convenient version of a gem - thank you!

Review. This has been an extremely educational book/app. I recently converted to the Greek Orthodox Religion. I have always lived in a Christian home, but once I began learning about the Orthodox religion, I felt a calling to convert. This book/app has helped me easily learn the beliefs and ways of the Greek Orthodox Church. It is very educational and has helped me greatly in my new faith. Thank you for writing this book/app. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn more about the Greek Orthodox faith.

Book marking and highlighting in the footnotes. It would be very helpful if we could highlight and bookmark the footnoted. Thanks for this awesome resource!

Perfect timing. Here in the beginning of lent.... I'm SO blessed to have stumbled upon this app. Complete with daily reading AND daily prayers, right at my fingertips. Looking forward to this Lent, with this app by my side. I'll be sharing this with friends!

Needs iPhone X Support. The Bible is sensational but the app needs to support the new iPhone screen size, it’s a ton of wasted real-estate.

Great!. This is just SO helpful! If you are on the go, or want to discuss with someone and don't have your hard copy handy! Very easy to use & clear! A must have!

App appears abandoned. This app hasn’t been updated in ages, and consequently does not support the newer iPhone X, XR, and XS screen sizes properly. This reduces the visible screen space quite a bit. Issue has persisted for nearly two years now.

App freezes a LOT!!. This app freezes often and I always have to go back to App Store, search for it and download again. THEN I can go back to it and it works. This is getting very tiresome. Never had an app before that has given me so much trouble. I gave this two stars instead of one only because I do like its features.

My Favorite App. I'm very pleased with this purchase. Absolutely worth it.

New update of Orthodox Study Buble. Thank you for this Orthodox Study Bible app! It is among the most useful Bible apps available. I have just again been able to open this app after a short time of being unable to. This app is easier for me to see than my hardbound copy. Thanks!

Excellent app!. Works great! Super helpful to have. They even added the Old Calendar readings as well, which is super cool! Thanks!

Where your treasure is, your heart will be there too.. The Orthodox Study Bible is a treasure. This mobile app is great too. It’s very easy to read a chapter and the footnotes. It has the morning and evening prayers, which help with prayer when away from home. It has the topical articles. And, I appreciate the daily readings feature. This app is helping me to repent, and for that I will be forever grateful.

Great! But can I sync?. No major complaints. It's a great, on-the-go Bible. I just wish my bookmarks would automatically sync between my devices.

My Favorite Bible App. Great to have the entire OSB in an app. Love the commentary, the prayers and the reading plans. I highly recommend.

Perfect! Everything I was hoping for in a Bible app, and EASY to use!!!. This app is how a Biblical study tool should be. It’s packed with passages for every holy day, lots of useful articles, a daily reading that covers the entire Bible in one or two years, and most importantly this app is very easy to use. You can cut & paste verses, and save highlights to iCloud. And finding any verse in the Old or New Testament only takes a few seconds. This app is indeed the perfect companion to The Orthodox Study Bible (hardcover copy.) I don’t write reviews often, but this OSB app was was well worth the $10 price, and makes the project I’m working on incredibly fast and easy to research.

A wonderful study Bible and a great app. I have this downloaded on my iPad and my smart phone. It is high quality. No matter where I am either traveling or sitting on my sofa it is at my fingertips. I love to begin my day with the Morning Prayer and close my day with the Evening Prayer. It covers everything. This is a beautiful Bible and it is comforting no matter where I am the Bible is close to me.

IPhone X. Please optimize for iPhone X. Otherwise a great app!

Overall, Pretty Good. I have both the IPhone app version and the Kindle version. The iPhone app has far superior graphics and style. Finding a particular book, chapter, or verse is much quicker, but it lacks landscape mode that kindle version has, which is a drag. Also, the iPhone app version does not include cross references in the commentary, which the kindle version has. I find this very useful. Finally, the kindle version includes a cross, which, when pressed takes you directly to that verse's commentary. On the iPhone app, you have to scroll until you find the corresponding commentary.

iPad version please. I really hate to give a bad review of the Bible, especially enjoyed for a long time. However, can we please have a version for the iPad? You know it's a problem when I have my iPad in my lap but reach for my printed version because it is easier to use and easier to read.

Outstanding - must have. My go-to reference.

Amazing App!. I have been using this for about 3 years now and I must say it’s quite a great app. Yes it costs money but I believe it was worth every penny and they are still updating it.

OSB. This is a great app for any Orthodox Christian. It comes in handy when you need to look up a verse or when your on the go or out and about when you do not have your Bible in hand. Also it allows me to paste verses to Facebook using the septuagint Old Testament:)

My Favorite App for 2014. I've had this app for a while -but just started using it. I love the way I can now have the daily readings, prayers and additional helpful Orthodox information all in one place. I would love the Prologue attached too - but I am very content with this! Thank you for providing it! I use it the most on my IPad by the way.

So thankful!. So thankful this was made into an app! I had been just trying to use the Kindle version. This is nice to have on hand.

Five reasons that I love this app.. Great app that allows me to have my Orthodox Study Bible with me wherever I go. It is packed with features but here are my favorites: —Navigating to certain books and passages is quick and easy and I can access all the study notes for that page with a tap. —There is a separate area for daily reading plans that remembers my last stopping place. There are lots of reading plans to choose from. —The Psalm reading in the daily prayers updates automatically to the current days Psalm; no scrolling through the previous 6 days of Psalm readings to get to the Saturday Psalm. —All of the topical articles that are in the printed book are available here, accessed in the text as they appear in the print edition or listed in a drop down menu. —I use this app on an iPad and it has always worked perfectly, and works offline as well. The only thing I miss over my hardcover Bible is the beautiful images of icons on color plates. There are no images in the app.

Great app and intuitive UI. I love this app. It’s simple and gets the job done. Will we be seeing iPhone X support in the near future?

Great App!!. Wonderful app!! A huge update request would be an audio option to be made available.

Got me to read. I have had two different hard copies of this for years and have never picked them up. I am very proud to say that my New Year's resolution for 2016 was to read the Bible. With the HELP of this app I have successfully read the OT and NT! My son and I each read it following the "chronological plan". Thank you so much for making this version. I look forward to reading the daily readings and additional prayers as needed.

JV. Excellent resource for all Orthodox or anyone wanting to about a Orthodoxy! The Old Testament is Septuagint version which is excellent! System for daily readings is great! Now we need the Lenten Triodian full version and the Holy Week Book!!

iCloud backup/note-taking. Great app! Wish there was a way to type out personal notes and switch between different color highlights, that would definitely be a plus for me. My only concern is the iCloud backup. I have been having issues syncing from my phone to tablet as it crashes. However, I’m sure this can be resolved with a software update. Keep up the good work!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this app. I've been wanting to read this Bible from cover-to-cover, and now there is this great app to assist me! I recommend the "Bible in one year mixed reading plan"! I love the notes section that helps interpret the reading. In my humble opinion, I strongly recommend this app. However I have found one bug - the book of Proverbs was blank.

Thankyou. I read the daily passages and often use the information icon on the top right to see what the Holy Fathers have to say about certain passages. Today is leap year and I noticed that the information icon for todays passage in 1 John 1 crashes the app. I hope you still read reviews and are able to fix this. God Bless you and your work.

Great App. This app is a great tool when you do not have an OSB right in front of you. The only thing that could make this better is the ability to have an audio reading of both the scripture and the commentary.

Awesome App! Highly Recommend!. The Orthodox Study bible is a great resource for any and all Christians. I was recommended a physical copy from my priest which I got and love. However, the physical copy is very large in size and doesn’t really leave the house. The app does everything the book does and more, my favorite feature is giving the daily readings I made a goal to read the Bible everyday that really helps. The best part is your bible can come with you wherever you go, even without an internet connection. I would recommend this to any Christian who wants to invest more in their faith, and I can’t say enough good things about the book itself either. Have a blessed day.

Needs more work. It wasn’t what I expected it to be, I was hoping for more features. There are no options to add or write margin notes which can be extremely helpful if using an iPad with an Apple Pencil. Also you're forced to highlight one complete verse, instead of being able to choose what you prefer to highlight. If I knew it was this limited I would've never purchased it and just used Coptic Reader which is free. Can you please put in a feature to use different color highlights and to be able to add margin notes for the readers own records?

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My Saviour!. Great work, many thanks :)

Illuminating. Most recommended. The study tabs within and alongside the text deliver wholistic and rich explanation to any one portion of the scripture, drawing closer even the most casual reader to the ‘study’ of the Bible. This cannot be underestimated for the benefits of insight and application it imparts. Overall the experience of the OSB feels like you are in church with Christianity’s most sage and spiritual helping you turn the pages, and your life moving forward... Always some room for improvement... eg took me a while to figure Samuels 1 and 2 in other bibles are actually Kingdoms 1 and 2 in the Orthodox Bible. Also some simple line drawings, even with faceless stick figures will help ‘flesh out’ and ‘lighten’ the volume of text. Thank you for a most amazing reference and gift of the Word delivered and explained.

Praise The Lord. Being able to have your bible with you wherever you go and in particular the Orthodox Study Bible is a blessing. I use my App morning and night to do my prayers. Thank you

Thank you for making this app.. The only OSB app on Appstore. It has all the commentaries which are placed in an organised way and can be accessed easily unlike other online versions where you have to move to other pages to find the commentaries of a particular chapter you’re reading. Thanks for creating this app. It’s very helpful.

Thankyou!!. Thankyou so much!!! Excellent resource I've been waiting for this app for a long time. God Bless!

Refund. I can not refund the money I had spent on this App, I had tried in searching ways to remove, uninstall and receive to refund my money that was due. Your platform has not the option to do this, apart from this in gving me a run around and grief. Please refund all monies owing. Thanking you Kind Regards Sylvia

recommended. Waited long time for this app. Highly recommended. Commentaries are a great resource for anyone studying scriptures.

Update please. Great app but needs more support and updates. Daily readings is currently broken. Has been for a few weeks. Please fix.

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A must-have for Orthodox Christians. This is a excellent app, and the content is faithful to the hardcopy original. It’s easy to use, well laid out with a clean interface. I love that all of the topical articles, daily prayers, lectionary and study articles, as well as the textual footnotes are included as well. It even has night mode which is a great feature. You can also bookmark and highlight your favourite verses. All in all, it’s a fantastic app.

Great app but it needs ipad version soon!. I love this app but reading it on my iphone is terrible for my eyes. Ipad version would be very much appreciated and very useful.

Highly recommended to any Christian!. This includes the best English translation of the Holy Bible, NKJV. The footnotes are amazing. Best app in the app store, worth every penny!

Really good App!. Every Orthodox Christian should have this!

LOVE it!. I have the printed copy and this is the perfect addition to it ! Great app, I love this study bible!❤️

Needs version update. I’ve had this OSB app since it came out .. bought it expensive!! Unfortunately the developer stopped coming up with upgrades to properly display on newer iPhones !! Not sure if this app is still supported

Great...needs iPad version. Great, but it needs a version for iPad!

More Graphics & iphoneX support. I have always been using the OSB, and was thrilled when I saw the app and got it right away. It is considered expensive but I thought I would be getting an equal to the book. But wasn’t very happy with it to be honest. It’s a good step, but needs the same/similar graphics to the OSB. Also needs support for different proportion phones like the iPhone X. Also if the introduction to the book is available upfront like the chapters and not in the info box. Hope to see more and more updates and make it closer and closer to the actual book! Bless your work! Thanks!

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What happened?. I agree with the other reviews. What happened to the attractive design?

A+. Well worth the download!!!

A joy. Convenient version of a gem - thank you!

Frustrated. I LOVE the app, but why am I not able to find the app for my iPad Pro???????

Interesting. I have recently been interested in the Orthodox Church. This translation intrigues me and am glad to have a Bible with theApocryphal works in it. I have also become more repetitive and meditational in my prayer life. The liturgical prayers were a big feature that drew me to this app. As much as I am looking forward to reading this and praying the prayers, I guess I was expecting the prayers to be laid out in a bit more of a notification friendly way. I was hoping for a daily reminder for the different reading plans and prayers (i.e. morning and evening prayers). While my expectations may have been lofty and not exactly realistic based on the product description, I am nonetheless disappointed that my $10.00 did not receive what I thought it would in return. Regardless of my misgivings resulting in this mediocre review, I look forward to incorporating an Orthodox view of my biblical studies.

Going to miss this.... I love this app. It has worked perfectly since I got it years ago. I just switched to an Android phone and am so disappointed that I can’t find the same app on the Google Play store.

Please make for iPad!!. Amazing app! Great commentaries and articles. Please make for the iPad also! :)

Android. I would love to have this app on my Android. Please consider making one.

Proverbs are BLANK. Therefore 4star app

My Favorite Bible App. Great to have the entire OSB in an app. Love the commentary, the prayers and the reading plans. I highly recommend.

App crashes. Crashes anytime I try to open any chapter

Orthodox study bible. Needs work on the daily readings. It doesn't work on my bible.

Orthodox study Bible. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! I DID IT!!! I followed the ONE YEAR PLAN and read the whole BIBLE IN ONE YEAR( started 4/16/17 done 4/13/18) thanks be to our Risen Lord. Christ is Risen!!!!!!!! Indeed He is Risen!!!!! I love every aspect of this app. It's very easy and convenient to use. It helps me to stick to my commitment to read the Bible in one year. I was worried that I wouldn't understand what I was reading, but that's no longer an issue due to the that magic exclamation point that gives me an overview of what I'm reading. I look forward to reading my Bible, because I'm learning something new everyday. I'm recommending this app to everyone I know and everyone who's reluctant to read the Bible for any reason. This app casts out all doubt and fear of reading the Bible. God Bless you☦️

What a GIFT to Christianity today!. Thank you so much for releasing the Orthodox Study Bible on iPhone. I am not "orthodox" but have longed for a bible that combines NKJV and LXX. Great work on the parts of both the translators (of the LXX) and the app developers. The best part of this bible is that we finally have an accessible LXX (aka Septuagint, the early Greek translation of the original Hebrew OT) - the same Old Testament manuscripts that Jesus and the Apostles used and quoted from, unlike the Masoretic Hebrew texts that all bibles have been using since Jerome (who gave us the Latin Vulgate) decided to switch to on the persuasion of the Jews at that time. Praise the Lord for this reformation! It's great... Take the time to compare all the NT quotations to your standard bible's OT then compare those scriptures to this OSB OT version of the LXX and you will see there is no more contradictions. Look at Hebrews 10:5-7 and 1 Peter 4:18. Plus we have the return of what is referred to as the dueterocanon or apocrypha - those books that provide much rich study and more insights into history. These books were once a part of ALL bibles, even the KJV, but gradually disappeared for the later (1800s) Protestant communities. But the early Christian writers (90ad-700ad) quoted from these books all the time. The beautiful anabaptists, like Michael Sattler, also extensively quotes from these rich books. Thank God for the return of His Word to His people. What an awesome time we live in. To have the original manuscripts on the powerful devices, to search and study with such ease and power unlike any who have gone before us. But what responsibility we saints have with what God has given, too. To whom much is given, much will be required.

My Favorite App. I'm very pleased with this purchase. Absolutely worth it.

Amazing app. This app is the best of it’s kind. I hope there will be an Android version!

It's ok. I'd give a 5 star to the original app I bought, but one star to the update. I want it back how it was!!!

K. Love this app and this bible!

Question. Is this bad for a Christian to read? Because Maccabees are not in kjv.

OSB. Excellent App. Always have the osb wherever I go. And it is laid out very neatly.