Spectrum Bible vs HarmonyOfTheGospels

This is a free Bible app with distinctives. First, the guy that wrote it was AOL's Chief Architect so it is easy to use. Second, this guy also has a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary so he makes the Greek and Hebrew easy to use and the differences between Bible translations understandable. Most apps present Bible translations like a smorgasbord of choices without giving any way to choose between them. This app places the Greek and Hebrew alongside a spectrum of translations--from the most literal to the most paraphrased. It also color codes them so you know what each one is good at: blues are word-for-word translations and are accurate to the specific words, greens are phrase-for-phrase translations and are accurate to the phrase, and earth tones are thought-for-thought translations and are good at thoughts. Finally, it doesn't need the Internet or WiFi. You can go out under a tree somewhere and have full and fast access to all the Bibles. You might think of this app as the "AOL" (the simple one) of Bible apps.

Harmony of the Gospels puts the four accounts of the Savior's life next to each other, so you can see at a glance who recorded what — and read every passage without leaving the app. The harmony follows 335 events across eight sections, from the prologue and the ministry of John the Baptist through the Atonement and the Resurrection. Each event shows what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote, along with latter-day revelation where it applies. The full King James text of all four gospels is included — 4,439 verses — so the whole harmony reads with no network connection. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Compare the accounts side by side. On iPad and Mac the gospel columns sit next to one another; on iPhone they stack in order. • See at a glance which writers recorded an event, with a badge for each book. • Search everything — event titles, places, scripture references, and the verse text itself. A multi-word search looks for the exact phrase first, then falls back to entries containing every word, and quotation marks force an exact phrase. • Type references the short way: mt 5, lk 2, and jn 1 all work. • Filter by section, by place, by which books report an event, by parables, or by events with more than one witness. • Open the harmony table on iPad and Mac for the classic grid view of the whole ministry. • Bookmark events, and let the app keep track of what you have read. • Read comfortably: dark mode, Dynamic Type, adjustable scripture size, a serif or sans-serif typeface, and selectable text. FOR STUDY, NOT FOR DATA No account. No advertising. No analytics. No network connection required. Bookmarks and reading progress stay on your device and are never sent anywhere. SOURCES The references were adapted from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website, and every reference in the app links back to the official page it came from. The scripture text is the public-domain King James Version.