# Catena: Bible & Commentaries — user reviews > 464 indexed App Store user reviews of Catena by David Salib, rated 4.90/5 from 4,985 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/catena-bible-and-commentaries/id1218663640/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/catena-bible-and-commentaries/id1218663640.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,722 · 4★ 201 · 3★ 36 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 16 ## What do users think of Catena? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🙏 Thank you for your hard work - 👍 Helpful commentaries and insights - 🔍 Great for Bible study and learning - 🕰️ Useful daily quotes from Church Fathers - 🧭 Easy to navigate and use - 🌍 Diverse perspectives from different traditions **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes - 🔍 Missing some commentaries or translations - 🔌 Offline functionality could be improved **Commonly reported bugs** - Verse navigation sometimes gets stuck - Difficulty accessing certain Bible versions - Occasional freezing or white screen issues **Most requested features** - Add more Bible translations - Improve sharing and note-taking features - Include Orthodox lectionary and liturgical calendar - Provide source links for commentaries ## Newest reviews (20 of 464) ### 5/5 — 1000% *2026-08-11, version 5.5.1* Definitely blessed by God ### 5/5 — Great Bible Resorce *2026-08-07, version 5.5.1* I’ve used the Catena app for over a year and like it for two reasons. 1. It’s an excellent Bible for daily reading, meditation and Lectio Divina. 2. It’s a great resource for commentary by the early church fathers as well as other scholars and lights of the Catholic faith. ### 4/5 — Good but ecumenist. *2026-08-06, version 5.5.1* BEGOME ORTODOX: lots of quotes from the pre and post Chalcedon Fathers but they lump in protestants, jesuits and monophysites with Saints like John Damascene bc their all “post 700 western Fathers”. ### 5/5 — Helpful *2026-08-05, version 5.5.1* It’s really helpful ### 5/5 — Protestant here, and l love this *2026-08-04, version 5.5.1* I use this more than any other bible app. I love the wisdom from the fathers. Incredible! ### 5/5 — A Wonderful Resource *2026-08-03, version 5.5.1* I am very grateful for this collection of Orthodox readings and guidance of the church fathers. It has some immensely useful features like organizing commentaries of the church fathers by your own topics and headings. The way it tracks and organizes reading plans is also remarkably frictionless and easy to employ. ### 5/5 — Depth of content *2026-07-30, version 5.5.1* Well organized app. I love the depth of content. Especially commentary by the saints. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Improvements *2026-07-29, version 5.5.1* With the NKJV translation there have quite frequently been periods of misspelling. I’m sure it nothing AI can’t help you guys scan and fix. ### 5/5 — LOVE THIS APP *2026-07-29, version 5.5.1* I really like the features of this app especially the fact that I can switch the languages. One suggestion I have is to enable the audible features in it. This would really make it a game changes for hearing impairs persons. Thank you & God bless! ### 5/5 — Helpful *2026-07-24, version 5.5.1* It’s so good for finding what people who spent their lives studying Gods word believed ### 5/5 — AWESOME *2026-07-23, version 5.5.1* Being able to read the early church father’s writings on every verse with one click is game changing ! ### 5/5 — History Matters *2026-07-20, version 5.5.1* Getting the prospective or earlier Crunch fathers in invaluable. ### 5/5 — Very Good *2026-07-17, version 5.5.1* Very good app very introspective and informative. I thank God for it ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-07-16, version 5.5.1* Really good ### 5/5 — Love it love it love it *2026-07-15, version 5.5.1* So grateful for this app! Wow! I’m not the brightest bulb in the box so it may take me some time to totally comprehend what is being said but boy, what an incredible resource! ### 4/5 — Wisdom 1:13-15 *2026-07-14, version 5.5.1* Its supposed to say drugs. St Benedict proved this also the app glitches and gets stuck on certain chapters that are not the chapter it is supposed to be on. ### 5/5 — The best Bible App *2026-07-14, version 5.5.1* I highly recommend this app to anyone interested in reading the Bible. No ads, just connecting you closer to God. ### 5/5 — . *2026-07-11, version 5.5.1* Incredible resource ### 5/5 — Glory to God!! *2026-07-09, version 5.5.1* This is what I’ve been searching for. I want to thank Jesus Christ for leading me to this app! The accounts of the early church fathers are so important and having them so easily accessible within almost all the verses is such a blessing. Also, thank you to the creators of this app for actually persevering and bringing your ideas to reality. ### 4/5 — Add more languages *2026-07-08, version 5.5.1* I absolutely love this app, but it has only two language options each for UI, Scripture, and commentary. Please add more languages! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Inaccessible commentaries *2026-06-26, version 5.5.1* The links to full commentaries do not work ### 1/5 — Saints *2026-03-15, version 5.5.1* The app is generally good but it includes to many non-saints post Chalcedon while including no post Chalcedonian saints ### 1/5 — Forced Review *2025-01-09, version 5.5.1* I actually love this app. However, when I just logged on, it pushed me to the review page and filled out a five star rating. I find that repulsive and unprofessional. I’ll remove the review, as soon as I hear you’re not redirecting users to reviews while they are in the app. ### 1/5 — You are stuck with a rubbish KJV2000 bible *2020-04-05, version 4.0.1* Give the option for the original KJV ### 2/5 — Great app. No tech support! *2026-02-25, version 5.5.1* Used for 2+ years. Love it! Since switching fm iphone 11 to 16 many problems. Daily readings were the same for 7 days straight!Reported problem. No response! Will delete and find something else. 😢😢😢 ### 2/5 — Quote mining. *2024-04-14, version 5.5.1* Though somewhat useful, this is A very deficient app in the writinings of the Holy Fathers. Many are missing for certain places in the Scripture, and others are attributed wrogly, or they are incomplete, or Even quote mining. Also, I don’t need to see heretic commentators (Sever of Antioch, Thomas Aquinas, etc.) ### 3/5 — Roman Liturgy and Lectionary Needed *2025-03-29, version 5.5.1* As a Catholic of the Latin rite, I love this app, just wish it had the Roman Lectionary as an option so that I can solely use this app instead of having other ones in addition. That said, this is a good resource to the Coptic and Greek Lectionaries and Liturgies. ### 3/5 — Nice *2024-09-05, version 5.5.1* Good App, a little bit buggy. Sometimes when I select a scripture, it doesn’t change ### 3/5 — Rating *2024-04-24, version 5.5.1* Il rating mani ### 3/5 — Crashes when I create an account. *2020-04-09, version 4.1.2* Great app in terms of Biblical content and commentary. However I cannot create an account. Doing so crashes the app and the only way to restore it is to delete and redownload. When I try to create an account, I get a white screen. Closing it and reopening takes me back to the same white screen. Please fix. Thanks. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best bible reader *2026-08-30, version 5.5.1* Great app that have everything that could be asked for and very stable. I love all the references. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Amazing. The best *2026-08-28, version 5.5.1* Refer it to every Christian. We all read commentaries largely printed widely distributed but it doesn't have to be this way. Catena give a you the titans of the faith to accompany you. ### 5/5 — Useful and a great companion *2026-08-27, version 5.5.1* I recommend especially these days ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-27, version 5.5.1* This is a fantastic app one of my favorites. Such a plethora of information from the church fathers it is truly a blessing. Praise be to God. ### 5/5 — Love the quote of the day *2026-08-22, version 5.5.1* This is a very good easy to use app, the quote of the day from the saints is always encouraging. ### 5/5 — Amazing Bible App *2026-08-21, version 5.5.1* One of the best out there, not only are you able to have multiple church fathers to read from but also being able to access them for free, most places don’t usually have all of this for free. The only thing I wish was in the app is to highlight and click on multiple verses and or passages at once, plus to see where the church father quotes from coming from, for instance, if the quote is coming from one of their commentaries or from a specific work they wrote on. Other than that, amazing App. ### 5/5 — Great app honestly *2026-08-20, version 5.5.1* Will there be any updates? It’s been 3 years since the last update ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2026-08-18, version 5.5.1* I love this app! Being a Protestant who’s exploring the orthodox faith this is a great app to support the journey. ### 5/5 — Glory to God!! *2026-08-18, version 5.5.1* Catena is what exactly I’ve been searching for. I want to thank My Lord Jesus Christ for leading me to this app! I’m am part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and I’ve never found an English Bible that directly translates the Amharic to English until Catena. The accounts of the early church fathers are so important and having them so easily accessible within almost all the verses is such a blessing. The sermons tied to most verses is the best thing ever! Also, thank you to the creators and everyone who was involved in building this app, God bless you!! ### 5/5 — Bible/commentary *2026-08-16, version 5.5.1* It is amazing --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*