# Verbum Catholic Bible Study — user reviews > 224 indexed App Store user reviews of Verbum Catholic Bible Study by Faithlife Corporation, rated 4.80/5 from 3,913 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/verbum-catholic-bible-study/id571019685/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/verbum-catholic-bible-study/id571019685.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,514 · 4★ 286 · 3★ 62 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 35 ## What do users think of Verbum Catholic Bible Study? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Great resource for study and prayer - 👍 Comprehensive library of Catholic resources - 💡 Excellent for Bible study and homily preparation - 👍 Powerful search and cross-referencing features - 👍 Helpful for deepening faith and understanding - 👍 Easy to use and navigate **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🐛 Difficult to navigate and find content - 🔒 Concerns about non-Catholic resources and perspectives - 🔒 Expensive subscription model **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on launch or during use - Highlighting and note-taking features not working properly - Syncing issues between mobile and desktop versions **Most requested features** - Offline access to all resources - Better sorting and organization of notes and highlights - More Catholic-specific resources and translations - Improved search functionality and relevance - Audio Bible and audio resources ## Newest reviews (16 of 224) ### 4/5 — Text to speech *2026-08-17, version 52.0.2* Would be 5 stars if text to speech was a feature. ### 4/5 — Finding info with A1 *2026-04-27, version 50.0.0* I love Verbum, been using it for years in doing catholic research, study, personal reading and for writing homilies. With A1 becoming so useful I wonder if a Verbum A1 assistant might be on the horizon? It sure would be helpful to me. ### 5/5 — My favorite Bible app *2025-10-23, version 45.0.1* Absolutely my favorite and I’ve shared this with friends. So amazing to have the Latin in its entire text. ### 5/5 — Verbum is amazing *2025-10-17, version 45.0.1* Get Verbum and build your personal library. It is amazing. ### 3/5 — Difficult to get back to the table of contents *2025-10-03, version 45.0.0* Easy to read and highlight. Opens where you stopped reading, which is good. The problem I have is trying to get back to the table of contents, so it makes it difficult if you want to change to a different chapter. ### 5/5 — This app is a blessing *2025-08-19* This app is the best for reading and studying the Bible and all other Catholic commentary and reference material. References and footnotes are linked to source texts if you own them. That means if you are reading the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, or any other text that references the Catechism or any other Verbum book you own, you can simply click on the reference and the reference text will pop up; and if you click on the popup, it will take you straight to section of the book from which the reference comes from. This makes it incredibly convenient to access references immediately without having to have the physical source text on a hand to find the reference within. It is immediate with one click. If you have a collection of Church documents and the works of Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, and the other Fathers, when you read the Catechism or any other book that references them, you can click on the reference and those source texts will automatically pop up in the same way. I love these features, and I love this app! ### 5/5 — Great for study and homily preparation *2025-07-23, version 43.0.1* I’ve been a user of Verbum for over 20 years. It gives me the ability to go deep into scripture and check multiple commentaries quickly. ### 5/5 — Good *2025-05-03, version 41.0.0* I love it it got the books I need ### 5/5 — Fantastic. *2025-04-04, version 40.2.2* If you are Christian and you want to read more scripture and connect things better, get it. ### 4/5 — Almost Perfect *2025-04-02, version 40.2.2* Please put Italian language. It would be the best app ever ### 5/5 — Best Bible Study Resource Available *2025-03-19, version 40.2.1* This is a Catholic’s best friend. I have been using Verbum for years as a layman. It has more than I could ever possibly need and I would argue that it has more than most academics will ever even need. It simply is the best alternative to having an entire physical library at your disposal! I will continue to use this in my faith life for its benefits are many. ### 5/5 — Great app, fantastic integration of scripture with multiple secondary sources, Church fathers *2025-02-08, version 39.0.2* As above ### 4/5 — Good App *2024-12-23, version 38.0.1* I like the app, primarily due to the volume and variety of books available. I am not completely on board with the upcoming changes, making it a subscription service, but we will see. Why does the app, or apple prompt me to review the app, when I am typing a note? It makes it impossible to do the review or finish the note. 🤷‍♂️ ### 5/5 — Overall pleased. *2024-12-11, version 38.0.1* I’ve been using this app on my iPhone and iPad and like it a lot. Overall I'm pleased. ### 5/5 — Very goood *2024-12-06, version 38.0.1* Sooooooooo bad ### 4/5 — Great app, some issues though *2024-11-12, version 37.0.3* This is one of my most used apps. Understandably it does lag behind the desktop app for features. That’s find for me I usually use it for reading on iOS. However, after using the android app for a little while I found that it is more stable than the iOS version. Highlighting can often crash and require an app reset. Another issue I have is a lack of Apple Pencil support. Of course the pencil works, but it would be nice to use the Apple Pencil pros features to switch between highlight features without extra tapping. These might be less of a concern for some. To be fair the iOS app runs better than it has for a while, and some of the lack of attention to the iOS app might be from a concern for cross compatibility. Another app I use lags behind android because of how difficult it is to implement certain features on apple versus. Will I continue using the app? Absolutely, the highlighting problem is annoying, but isn’t to difficult to rectify. Will I continue to want stability and Apple Pencil support? Also yes ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — How do i use this *2026-08-04* It's a good platform worthy of a 5star review but i am confused with the layout especially with morn and evening prayers **Developer response:** Training is available by navigating to More > Help Center ### 1/5 — Counterintuitive *2026-04-26, version 50.0.0* Unfortunately, it just doesn’t seem to flow very well. Spent multiple clicks trying to get to a book that I already purchased incredibly frustrating. For non-technical people that just simply want to have a digital book to read. I think the application is in its infancy and need some upgrade. I’m sure it will probably get better but compared to. Online applications that allow you to buy a book and read it it pails by comparison. ### 1/5 — This is for the most recent version *2025-11-06, version 46.0.0* The most recent version is terrible. The dashboard layout removed what I always used and replaced it with things I do not want (Logos version things aimed at different denominations. Verbum is the Catholic version) and can’t remove. Please fix or roll back. ### 1/5 — Upgrade ruins Verbum Mobile *2025-09-10, version 44.1.1* Recently Verbum “upgraded” Its configuration making major changes to how the search functions worked. It is a complete disaster. Instead of intuitive stair forward searches based on scripture references or catechism paragraph, the new search function responds by giving a menu of largely meaningless information. I haves used Verbum for 10!years and when I complained to them about it they said I needed training. I just hope and pray they don’t scree up the PC. Person with the same untested software revision. ### 1/5 — Crazy Expensive *2024-06-30, version 34.0.2* The study bibles in the store are incredibly expensive, some being >100$. I don’t believe you get any for free, I.e. no Haydock. Use Catena instead. Actually free and had free notes that are very good. ### 1/5 — Another disappointing update to the iOS app *2022-10-11, version 10.0.0* Here is another update that revamps the look and feel of the app without fixing any issues: 1. Notes are still sorted by last modified; still no ability to sort by any other methods. 2. Still can’t list resources which cite a particular verse or scripture passage one is studying. 3. Still can’t submit issue and help requests through the app; still can’t submit typos for correction. Does Verbum ever talk to the users to find out what they want in the iOS app? It doesn’t seem like it. ### 1/5 — Sirach 24:24-26 *2022-07-27, version 9.15.0* The above verses are not aligned with this Verbum app. I doubled and tripled checked before writing this review: I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth; in me is all hope of life and of virtue. Come to me all that desire me and be filled with my fruits (Sirach 24:24-26). Instead it has this: Sirach 24:22–26 (RSVCE): 23 All this is the book of the covenant of the Most High God, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob. 25 It fills men with wisdom, like the Pishon, and like the Tigris at the time of the first fruits. 26 It makes them full of understanding, like the Euphrates, and like the Jordan at harvest time. ### 1/5 — Constantly crashes *2020-10-02, version 8.12.7* App freezes and crashes constantly. It has become virtually unusable. Please fix! ### 1/5 — Unintuitive interface keeps getting worse *2020-02-07* I’ve used their apps for nearly five years. Their interfaces (especially on the desktop app) have always been unintuitive. Now they’ve ruined an otherwise decent mobile app. The primary way I use notes on mobile is side-by-side with my Bible so I can see the notes as I read scripture. That used to work OK on my iPad. Now it’s nearly impossible. What compelled them to force a THREE PANE VIEW on mobile? How did anyone think that was a good idea? Clearly nobody at the company who actually used it. I used to be able to simply open the notebook in split view with my Bible and scroll through the notes and tap the note icon next to a passage in scripture to load that note in the notebook pane. Now the note opens ON TOP of the scripture, preventing me from reading the scripture. Then it takes half a dozen taps to go from one note to another, then I have to scroll through the entirety of the scripture I anchored the note to just to get to my personal note that was the only reason I opened the note in the first place. Since notes are the primary reason I’m even still using this app, I’m dumping this app for one that’s actually usable. ### 1/5 — What did you do? *2018-11-17, version 8.0.3* HORRIBLE new version of a formerly fantastic app. Freezes all the time. Practically unusable. Please fix ASAP. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Outstanding and indispensable *2026-07-19* Verbum is part of my daily life. As a priest I am consulting it constantly to understand the scriptures more deeply. It makes accessing the original languages and ancient commentaries as easy as making a few clicks. The notes feature allows me to mark up scriptures and other important books so that I can remember and build on more than a decade of daily use. The collection of Catholic and other Christian resources is invaluable for research and writing. The cross-platform accessibility gives me access in the most convenient and useful ways. Verbum is a game changer. ### 5/5 — Next Level Resources *2026-05-25* I cannot remember what it was like to write Holly or research texts or read the Bible before Verbum. I also cannot imagine doing those things now without Verbum. This has completely reinvented the way I approach the Sacred texts and engage my faith. on a few occasions that I have needed to get tech-support they have been fantastic. on one occasion, I needed to change my default payment details and again they were very helpful at Faith Life. I highly recommend this tool to any preacher or student who is interested in a well balanced / powerful learning and teaching tool. ### 5/5 — Excellent resource for Bible Study *2026-03-27, version 49.0.0* I have been using Verbum for a while. I primarily use it for reading scripture on a daily basis, but also for my in depth study of the Bible. With many commentaries, interlinears, and Bible maps, it is the best tool out there for anyone who wants to delve deeper into Scripture especially Catholics ### 5/5 — There is depth here. *2026-03-27* As a practicing lay Catholic I assure you, if you want to probe and understand the depth of scripture and your faith, you will find many, many tools at your fingertips. It won’t do your Examen for you. You will still need a daily praxis and daily prayer. You will still need to surrender your will, see Christ crucified in your neighbor and quench his/her thirst, physically and spiritually. Are you ever curious as to the Greek or Hebrew behind the translation? What Augustine might have thought about this or that? There are tools to go as deep as you would like without carrying a stack of 15 books then paging around to get where you need. Want the Lectionary? It is there and all these resources are correlated. Anyway, I would sorely miss Verbum if it wasn’t around! ### 5/5 — So Complete *2026-02-24, version 48.0.2* Very thorough and many tools for study. Greatly recommended. ### 5/5 — Outstanding!!!!! *2026-02-23, version 48.0.2* The subscription price makes this one of most affordable Bible study tools available. The monthly free book is too good of a deal to pass up. For any student of Scripture this is a must have “tool” to have in your “Faith Tool Box”. Navigation in program is easy and the customer support is exceptional. ### 5/5 — Muy bueno *2025-12-16, version 46.0.2* Muchas gracias por esta ayuda a los que estudiamos la Biblia ### 5/5 — The best Catholic Bible study app *2025-12-13, version 46.0.2* Incredible app, the best for Catholic study. (Same as their Logos app). Have access to thousands of books, commentaries, Bibles, many free. And they’re commonly integrated through links. And the software has many tools. Best app by far. ### 5/5 — What a Treasure *2025-11-09* Great start for the Holy Hour. Free books are great gifts. God bless you all. ### 5/5 — I share this app even with strangers *2025-11-08* Highly highly ( repeated word on purpose) recommend this app. If you are new and trying to find verses this is the app for it. If you are looking for different versions of the bible, this is the app for it. You can highlight verses you like and my all time feature is the one where you can click on a word and you can see the original translation text giving you a deeper understanding of what the passage meant and the context of it. --- *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 2026-09-08.*