PocketSword

Published by: Nic Carter
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PocketSword is a Bible Study app for the iPad, iPhone & iPod touch (iOS 8.0 and above) that is built upon the powerful SWORD backend developed by the CrossWire Bible Society.
Modules are available for download (offline use) within the app, with permission granted by the various copyright holders to CrossWire to distribute them for use in its apps. When you download this app, it comes with the KJV & Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible pre-installed, but you can use the downloader within PocketSword (located under the More tab) to choose which additional modules you wish to download from CrossWire and have available for offline use.
MODULES
There are free modules (both Bible translations and commentaries) available in over 60 languages, including (but not limited to):
English, Greek (modern and ancient), Hebrew, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Arabic, Afrikaans, Latin, Russian, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese and many more.
* Popular Bible translations available in the English language include:
KJV, AKJV, ASV, ESV, NET, Tyndale, WEB and Young's Literal Translation.
* Popular Commentaries available in the English language include:
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible (as well as the "Concise" version), Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, John Wesley's Notes on the Bible, Abbot, Barnes, Geneva, Luther and more...
(See http://crosswire.org/sword/modules/ for a fuller list of the modules).
* Dictionaries are also available within PocketSword, including Easton's Bible Dictionary and Nave's Topical Bible Dictionary.
* Daily Devotionals are also available (under the More tab), including Spurgeon's Morning & Evening.
You can also choose to create your own modules, using the tools available from Crosswire, and install your modules directly from your computer to your iPhone.
FEATURES
The SWORD backend to PocketSword is very powerful and allows for a rich experience for the end user. Currently implemented are:
- Built-in module downloader of modules in many different languages
- Separate Bible, Commentary & Dictionary tabs for quick reference from one to the other: jump to a verse in one and it jumps to the same verse in the other
- Landscape & fullscreen modes
- Choose your font & font size for ease of reading
- Bookmark & History (of Bible & Commentary use) support
- Red Letter support & choice of reading Verse-Per-Line or using paragraphs.
- Night mode for easier reading in the dark
- Install custom-made modules (including those with non-KJV versification, commenly called "Alternative Versification" or av11n)
- Searching within Bibles and Commentaries
- Localisations in many languages.
- Copy and Paste support (of Bible verses, Commentary entries & Dictionary entries).
- Footnotes, cross-references & headings in modules that support them (ESV and KJV, for example)
- Strong's Numbers & Morphology in modules that support them
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User Rating

4.75 out of 5

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PocketSword Reviews

Excellent Bible App

Strontium23 on

Greece

This app is the best in the whole store, and it is free. Hands down better than any paid alternative. The first time I used it I wanted to say thank you to whoever made it.

Μπράβο!!!!

בורדיגן on

Greece

Καταπληκτικό! Έχει και την έκδοση του Βάμβα!

Μπράβο !!

pmos77 on

Greece

Καταπληκτική δουλειά, αξίζουν συγχαρητήρια στους δημιουργούς του!

The best!!!!!!

Leonidas1994 on

Greece

The best Bible study app for mobile phones ever. Now for the iPad too.

Επιτέλους

traianos on

Greece

Να ένα καλό πρόγραμμα με πολλά modules που είναι και δωρεάν!

Εξαιρετικό

Pastor P.D. on

Greece

Επιτέλους ένα προγραμμα με Ελληνικη γραφή Βαμβα και δωρεάν.

Vaggelis

Vaggo on

Greece

Para poli kalo programa A.grafis me metafrasi Bamva Kai dorean!!

Search selection isn’t accurately landing

J-Fray on

United States

It used to be, when you performed a search, you could click the pertinent verse and you’d land right on that verse. Now it just takes you to the beginning of the chapter and you have to scroll down to the verse. There are times you won’t accurately get to the verse either by selecting the chapter and then the verse number. It just lands you back at the top of the chapter. I’m using an iPhone 14 version 16 if that helps.

Please include the ability to highlight even in the commentaries

sln09876 on

United States

I absolutely love this app and use the Matthew Henry Commentary routinely. It has opened Scripture to me in so many ways. Please add the ability to highlight passages including in the commentaries. These passages have meaningful application, but it’s very difficult to go back and find them again.

Please Update

TRingo27 on

United States

I’ve been blessed for years by this App. Now it’s constantly crashing. Is there an update? I’m running IOS 16.5

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App Info

Category
Reference
Publisher
Nic Carter
Languages
Arabic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, Ukrainian
Recent release
1.4.8 (7 years ago )
Released on
Dec 14, 2009 (14 years ago )
Last Updated
1 week ago