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Years of use and it’s excellent
I’ve used this app for many years. I find it easy to use [ I’m not hugely computer literate ].
I have many versions and a few extras in my library.
I can flick from translation to translation so quickly.
Also using the study links I pop all over the Bible.
It’s revolutionized my bible study.bossedu
Lois
Olive Tree is an amazing app. I use ESV Strongs all the time. It’s absolutely brilliant. The many shades of meaning of the Greek and Hebrew and being able to see where the word is used throughout Scripture opens up wonderful connections and understandings... great treasure! Meanings and usage of names of people and places is also wonderful. Thank you so much for this app. I would hate to be without it! I wrote that review months ago and I love the app even more if that’s possible. I use it constantly and God has taught me so much through it. How I love your word; it is my meditation all the day!Show lessCaferiva
Just gets better and better
There are a number of things things I find are great about this app: 1. Easy navigation 2. Newly updated reading history, shows the verses most recently read as shortcuts 3. Sync across devices 4. Note and tag functions, easy to use and sync too 5. Unobtrusive reading (buying) suggestions 6. Easy shifts between texts 7. Easy to compare two texts with the study centre 8. Great integration of Strong’s ( I use NASB with enhanced Strongs dictionary) 9. Highlighting is easy too, choice of colours and underlining and it links across different versions. 10. Really handy copy feature that means I can copy across to Pages for writing messages or Keynote for presenting. (I’m using the iOS version - iPhone & iPad) 11. I love the way it’s all there and I don’t have to look for downloads (well if I stick to the purchases I’ve already made) really great when off-grid (only have to worry about power!) I have used this app for a number of years now, looked at other Bible apps but this is what works for me. Keep up the great work developer people, thank you.Show lessSparkimarke64
Great
This is my go-to personal bible study, teaching/ministering preparation app. The NKJV with Strong's is my favorite. You tap on most words and Hebrew (OT) or Greek (NT) meanings come up. Fabulous way to understand things as they were first written. I use lots of the available resources. Great NIV and NIV study notes, too. Olive Tree is responsive to customer communications. That is so appreciated. A recent upgrade was causing terrible crashes. They scrambled to fix things quickly. Much appreciated. These folks are on top of their game. They remain sensitive to folks using early iPad editions. Needs more development time: The app on my desktop Mac and laptop PC is sadly more cumbersome and less intuitive than the excellent phone and tablet versions. Word searching is clunkier, and GO TO requires a pull down menu that is less than cooperative, if those two app versions were better this would be a seven star app. One more whine/suggestion: the second window (on the phone and tablet app) would love to more intuitively remain open each time you fired things up. Seems like I either haven't yet learned (after many years!) or simply can't get it to always open when the primary window opens. Either reason, it's frustrating.Show lessBklynWoidz
Developer Response
Thank you so much! I will be happy to pass your suggestions about the desktop versions onto our development team. For the last suggestion, will you contact our Customer Support team at support@olivetree.com about this? The app should open to the last screen you had open, so they will be happy to help you further with this. God bless!I Love This App!!!
This is a fabulous app for my lifestyle: busy, Busy, BUSY!!! By any chance, do you have a study plan link available in this application? I would love to use your app for a daily devotional, and possibly with bible questions I can answer while using your app? I just deleted a Daily Devotional app because it would spontaneously make me "Log-in" But would not store my preset log-in info. I would be on a bus or subway, trying to read a devotional at 5:50AM before I transfer to the next bus or subway while heading to work, but instead I am dealing with an app that insists I have "entered the wrong password, please try again." So, instead of using the time to get into the Word, I spent the forty minute commute trying to remember a passcode and sign-in identification. Too much!!! Thus the reason why I love your app: I open it. I read the Word. I mediate on the Word. I feel the peace of God enter into my mind. I then face the world. Thank you!Show lessthejesuscat
This is no longer a viable Bible because it has been altered!
VERY CRITICAL ALERT!!!
I'm sure you know that New international version (NIV) was published by Zondervan but is now OWNED by Harper Collins
The NIV and English Standard Version (ESV)
has now removed 64,575 words from the Bible
including Jehovah, Calvary, Holy Ghost and omnipotent to name but a few...
The NIV and ESV has also now removed 45 complete verses. Most of us have the Bible on our devices and phones especially "OLIVE TREE BIBLE STUDY APP."
Try and find these scriptures in NIV and ESV
on your computer, phone or device right now if you are in doubt:
Matthew 17:21, 18:11, 23:14;
Mark 7:16, 9:44, 9:46;
Luke 17:36, 23:17;
John 5:4; Acts 8:37.
...you will not believe your eyes.
Refuse to be blinded by Satan, and do not act
like you just don't care. Let's not forget what the Lord Jesus said in John 10:10 (King James Version).
Revelations 22:18-19
THE SOLUTION:
If you must use the NIV and ESV, BUY and KEEP AN EARLIER VERSION OF the
BIBLE. A Hard Copy cannot be updated. All these changes occur when they ask you to update the app. On your phone or laptop etc.
Buy and KEEP EARLIER VERSIONS AND STORE
THEM.Show lesskidcotton
Developer Response
There are several verses in the King James Version of the Bible that are not included in modern translations, like the NIV, ESV, etc. Since the KJV text was completed in the early 1600s, we have discovered manuscripts of the Bible that are older and believed to be more accurate than the handful of manuscripts that were used to translate the KJV. As a result, newer translations do not include these verses, but they do make reference to them as footnotes. It is important to note that none of the missing verses alter any vital doctrine or theme of Scripture. As a Bible software company, Olive Tree publishes Bibles as we receive them from the publisher without altering the text at all. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to email Customer Support at support@olivetree.com. God bless!Best Bible App There is!!
I love the Olive Tree Bible App! There is within it the ability to have multiple bookmarks so that you can read from the Pentateuch, the Books of History, the Books of Poetry, the Books of The Prophets, and from The New Testament all at once! If you do this, read one chapter per day from all 5 of the different Sections of The Bible, you will read the Old Testament 1.5 times per year and The New Testament 1.4 times per year. If you want to step your game up, you can read 2 chapters from each of the different genres in the Old Testament per day, and 3 chapters from The New Testament per day. Doing this will get you through The Old Testament 3.14 times per year, and through The New Testament 4.21 times per year! Thank God that I’ve finally found a Bible App that offers multiple translations and multiple bookmarks! YouVersion is also helpful, Faithlife’s Lexham English Bible app is good (a different translation than anyone else has), Bible Hub is fantastic if you really want a deep dive into each individual word of Scripture, R.C. Sproul’s Ligonier App is wonderful also. For those brave enough for Olde English, Matthew Henry’s Commentary app is good too!
(Edit: Synching between iPhone and iPad versions is somewhat problematic.)Show lessExDroidUser
Developer Response
Thank you for your review! This sounds like a great reading plan. We do also offer reading plans within our app to help guide you as you read through the Bible. As for the syncing issue you are experiencing, please email Support@OliveTree.com. Our support team is happy to help with these issues.Intuitive, Always Improving, Inspired
I have been using Olivetree for over 15 years, maybe 20. Since it was on the Palm,remember that. I have seen them evolve into the most useful and best designed app there is. I use it every day. At your finger tips you have multiple bibles, an instant concordance, pop up views, synchronized windows, the list goes on. All the references you buy from them are sorted to the verse you are on in the Reference Guide. Very powerful. It keeps all your notes, from device to device. Like a bible you write in but there is more room and not all the paper you eventually throw away. The staff is amazing. They are always helpful, listen to feedback and if there is a bug, they are on it. You would think I am a sales person for their app at my church especially. If I see you with an ipad or smart phone, I'm telling you about Olivetree. Oh I'm not a sales person, just an electrical engineer. God bless you guys!Show lessWinenewby
The Best Bible Study App
I've tried the rest, and Olive Tree continues to be the very best. This is the most reliable Bible reader I have ever used. Other prominent Bible apps have been unreliable when not connected to wi-fi (in church), but Olive Tree never fails. Olive Tree offers the most robust note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking of any reader. You can categorize, tag, and annotate, to your heart's content, and everything syncs beautifully. You have multiple options for syncing. It will sync with your desktop app, or with third-party solutions. My thousands of notes are synced with my Evernote account, for long-term storage and yet another easy way to search, share, and review my notes. The reference library that is seamlessly tied to your Olive Tree Bible reader is worth it's weight in gold. You can add as many reference books as you like: maps, dictionaries, concordance, study Bibles, etc. As you encounter a word or verse to research, your entire reference library is already looking at the same verse, so your maps are showing you what you are reading about, the study Bible is opened to that verse, etc. If your desire is to study the Bible over the course of a lifetime, you will be best served with Olive Tree.Show lessLoganiii
Developer Response
Thank you so much!Love it and it Works pretty well with voice over IOS screen reader for the blind
Hello. I love olive tree. A friend at church one day mentioned it. They said it was great. I was sure I had tried it before only to find it didn’t work with voice over (the screen reader for the blind on IOS) but I thought I would try again. I was pleasantly surprised to find it accessible enough. At times I end up getting lost and its not always clear how to get back to where I was. I hope accessibility with voice over improves.
However olive tree has replaced logos for me as its a ton easier to use than logos. And reading content when I don’t get lost somewhere is a plasure rather than torture as it is with logos.
It does take time to learn how to use the app however. And I am still learning where the two screens (resource guide and regular screen) divide. And I haven’t a clue if there is a way to close the resource guide screen when not needed. Olive Tree Bible app probably still needs a lot of accessibility fixes to make it great. But its pretty good and is fast becoming my favorite Bible study app of choice.Show lessmsmlmaih
