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Logos: Deep Bible Study App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Love using the app but...It would be good if the prayer cards had delete prayer on a left to right rather than with answer or pray. Too many times I’ve dragged to click the pray function and it’s deleted the prayer. Otherwise love using the app as I can catchup on reading or study wherever I am..Version: 9.2
✓ Hope and disappointmentLogos has always had a habit of adding new features yet refusing to fix old issues. Sure we’ve now got tabbed browsing. But the way Logos sorts books remains terrible. Sure I can upload my church’s bulletin but attempting a local word search remains difficult - why is the Apocrypha listed higher than the NT in filtering results? It’s great I can link panels but there’s still only a back button. How hard would it be to also add a forward button? And why oh why does search now bring up an entirely new panel? The shrink/zoom animation for such a simple task is frustrating. And if you think tabbed browsing would be similar to a web browser you’d be wrong. More shrink/zoom panel effects. This is not a new thing. Logos has always been this way. Their never ending quest to add features yet neglect current ones is unsurprising. Each Logos update brings hope and disappointment in equal measure..Version: 6.0.1
✓ IPad app glitchConstantly having an issue with the top tool bar freezing and unresponsive. Try to navigate to a new scripture reference or click on the menu dots but nothing responds. Have to close that page and open new one. Very annoying..Version: 9.11.1
✓ New version of mobile app is terribleI have been using Logos for years and have loved not just the vast amount of resources, the powerful search engine, but also the simple and neat user interface. I recently updated to version 6.0.5 and the new user interface on the mobile app is significantly worse. The tabs feature feels very clunky and every sequence that I used to be able to do easily is now difficult and frustrating. A telltale sign of the poor quality of the app: there are two in-progress indicators — the bar and the wheel. I’m trying to downgrade the version of the app — does anyone have copies of the older versions? Please just bring the old version back..Version: 6.1.1
✓ A ‘Could-a-been Great’ AppI have been a user of Logos for years now. As a pastor, it has been my #1 app/software for serious Bible study and ministry preparation. It’s depth of resources and functionality has been unparalleled. That said, there has been one area that has consistently let the app down - the notes section. Other apps provide a descent hierarchical structure for filing notes. E.g. I could have a notebook/folder on Psalms, under that a series of folders, one for each Psalm, and inside each folder all my notes for each verse or paragraph. I cannot do this with Logos and that’s a serious flaw. I had big hopes this would be radically improved in the latest Logos 8 update but sadly, no. To make things worse, I’ve discovered some of the reference links to my previous notes have been broken and now lead back to the wrong Scripture reference. “Not Happy Jan.” Come on guys. If you really want to be the go-to app for Pastors, you need to seriously overhaul the functionality of your notes section. Version 8 was nothing more than a pretty dress-up. Pastor Steve.Version: 8.0.2
✓ Pretty good...But where's the niv version at? It is very difficult to locate, and I've only ever heard rumours that logos actually has it. The niv version needs to be much more easily accessible to make me 100% satisfied with logos. Everything else is fantastic though!.Version: 2.1.6
✓ Great content, but very underwhelming user experienceI have been a logos user for about 4 years now. Primarily my time is spent on the desktop version. I have invested more in this software than any other type of software. I have no complaints about the desktop version, but the app just continues to disappoint. I keep expecting it to improve, at least to the standard of an average free Bible app, but it has not reached that level in my opinion. I have countless quality resources on here, but it is so glitchy that I rarely do anything more than read on it. Sermon writing is very difficult on my iPad Pro, and I always end up finishing it on desktop. I love Faithlife and all the products they have released to help us grow in our understanding of the Word, and I only include these comments in hope that it will be improved soon so that we can benefit from the accessibility of mobile versions..Version: 25.0.2
✓ Powerful, but also frustratingThe Logos app is extremely powerful, but in order to really tap into that power you have to spend a lot of money in order to have the resources in your library and the datasets to utilize that library. That’s only the beginning of the frustration. Once you do have the resources, highlighting or copying on Apple iPhones and iPads can be a nightmare. So much so that I end up using Tecarta Bible app instead. Logos just can’t seem to get copying and highlighting to work consistently…when it does work. The app has a difficult time differentiating between the magnifying glass, dictionary lookup, selecting text to highlight or selecting text to copy. Plus, half the time it doesn’t respond at all to dragging across text to highlight. You end up shutting down the app and restarting before it finally responds. I was instructed by the app support staff at Logos to uninstall it, shut down my iPhone 12 Pro, restart and reinstall. Didn’t help at all (and doesn’t explain why I have the same issues on my iPad). So, powerful, but not what it could or should be..Version: 9.15.0
✓ Not user friendlyIn the past, i used bible on line. Far behind logos for ressources but Easy to manipulate..Version: 9.16.0
✓ Good Christian ResourceExcellent Bible apps. But would give 5 ⭐️ if will provide offline deluxe version of the Bible as OliveTree does. Also, I just purchased the NLT Bible but didn’t downloaded into my library. Pls verify my account. It billed me C$9.03 via PayPal. Thanks.Version: 31.0.1
✓ Good but not yet greatLogos mobile is my go-to bible and biblical resource app. I use mobile and laptop versions multiple times a day. I love that I have many resources available on one app and these are all tied together across devices - although there are other providers that do this (and perhaps do that core business better). I like that most resources in print are available as a logos linked resource. But some core use suffers. Even when resources are downloaded to the app, when offline, most are not useable - very frustrating! A simple bible search is cumbersome (open new tab, choose type of search and resource, why not just have a search window in the resource you are using??). My iPad version suffers from many bugs which I have reported and they persist. Some I reported over 6 months ago - providing video as well. These are not small bugs — content not showing or loading, wrong content showing, big issues. Logos mobile threatens to be masterful but needs to pay attention to core use issues. I am tied to using it because of the number of resources I have. I hope they focus on making the app bullet proof, reliable, and very useable, rather than adding any more ‘features’.Version: 8.4.0
✓ Good but...a few tweaksI have evolved in my use of logos so my experience has touched all platforms, desktop, iPads, and now iPhone. Now iPhone has been my go to platform for its mobility, it slips into my pocket right? The others can’t do that. I talk to a lot of people one on one about the gospel and theological issues. This app gives me freedom to do that without leaving notes behind. At any moment I can be talking to someone and have all resources at my thumbs. So where is the rub so to say? Imagine this; you could still Ike up a conversation with a stranger on the street. I always assume I have only minutes to give the gospel into their hands. Most of the time I don’t need logos but when I do I need turbo performance. I pull my phone out get up logos find reference, easy enough right? The next move is a cap shoot, when I need the drop down options to pop out at the top and bottom of the phone. They as mad to hide, which is good. I swipe up, nothing, I swipe down, nothing, left right tap tap tap, what the heck is the problem. Then later when the conversation is over, there it is like a mole. Can you spell FRUSTRATION... three stars for now. Too I hav a major frustration with the desktop app. I have to call in for that. Can’t type that fast..Version: 8.7.1
✓ Functionality hit&missI am a long term user & have always been generally happy. But... sometimes simple functionality suffers. Since last update, daily readings no longer functions correctly on iPad, but does on iPhone. Often searching resources (even downloaded resources is snail pace). I saw someone else’s review urging a (Bullet proof) app before chasing added bells & whistles. I couldn’t agree more. God bless.Version: 8.4.0
✓ Logos setupHad logos at one stage but could never do updates so I thought maybe it would be better to delete it and start over again ... WRONG. Tried umpteen times to install logos onto my windows based laptop .... even followed all the blog material on the internet .... all without any luck at all. Absolutely useless and the phone app is not the same. So frustrated so am concentrating on building the Wordsearch Bible program.Version: 5.17.1
✓ IPad limitationsWhile I give Logos 5 stars on my MacBook Pro, on the iPad Pro it is very deficient..Version: 9.11.1
✓ Resources paid for not accessibleUpgrade to a new device has always been difficult, I still do not have all the resources I have paid for, despite many emails..Version: 9.13.1
✓ World-class. Occasionally frustrating.Logos is an amazingly powerful tool with no equal. That said, using it on iPad (or mobile) is occasionally incredibly frustrating. Somehow, mouse integration doesn’t really work; you have to resort to tapping, since the app stops responding to clicks. Highlighting acts bizarrely; it will either highlight too much or not enough. Finally, the app is not 1:1, capability-wise, with the desktop app. There are random things you can’t do unless you use Logos on Windows or Mac. For example, if you want to use the Text Comparison tool, you’re unable to pick the bibles to choose from unless you do so on desktop. Unfortunately for me, I don’t have a computer running Mac or Windows, so I have no ability to choose my translations. There are also other tools, like the Psalm Explorer, that inexplicably aren’t available on iOS despite being available on web..Version: 23.0.1
✓ Needs So Much WorkThis app needs much work. There’s no apparent way to edit tags made in notes. For instance, I want to delete a tag completely from my tags list and there’s no way to do that. I want to edit a tag and there’s no way to do that. I have to restart the app several times as the select feature stops working and will only work again once I restart the app. Every time I want to search on a word or perform another task in another resource, even though an instance of that resource is already open, it opens another instance of that same resource making it so that I have multiples of the same resource open. I’m guessing some folks might like that however a choice would be most helpful. What I find with the scrolling feature when 2 books are synced to scroll together, they don’t scroll to the exact same verse. Notes filter doesn’t work well if I want to work with 2 or 3 different notebooks at the same time. Also while working with notes, whenever I move to another resource and come back to my open bible/notes, my place in my notes has to be located again and it appears that some of my notes are missing (though by clicking on the note name, I discover that they hadn’t gone anywhere—just temporarily appear to be missing.) At least one open resource doesn’t allow to get back to any other open resource without restarting the app. This wonky app makes bible study time-consuming with no easy flow..Version: 9.7.1
✓ Long time user ... long time frustrationsLogos appears to be in a field where there is not much to compare with them, and the lack of competition shows. Features keep getting added such that users get easily lost. Many features don’t follow simple, accepted ways of interacting with users. E.g. Logos is only just coming to grips with scrolling vertically through a document - rather than paging sideways. I think Logos have such a massive legacy of poorly implemented features that they probably cannot recover easily. Perhaps they should spend the massive upgrade fees on fixing what they have, rather than adding more features. Despite all that Logos is still my favourite Bible tool..Version: 6.2.2
✓ Logos booksWould be great if my library were better arranged. But I have so much difficulty finding books. There is no way I can find of just getting an alphabetical list of the books I actually have. Need to search by topic. I prefer to be able to browse my list. Why is this simple option not provided?.Version: 9.1.1
✓ New font hard to readGreat App for Bible study and personal devotions. The best around. However the new font is very hard to read compared to the previous one. How about giving us the option to go back to the previous font?.Version: 8.0.3
✓ Good but I have lost with every update.I bought the software many years ago for $500 plus. The reason I purchased it was because of all the resources. With every update I lost books and even purchased books. I can now buy books I used to have with my original purchase! Totally ridiculous. At least I got to keep the ones that are public domain. I am incredibly unhappy. Those of you who purchased the “newer” version at least you do get to upgrade to the newer functionality. I was told I get to buy a whole new version to get this particular advance. I have had the software for 20 years. I get it its old but those of us who helped in the beginning shouldn’t have to pay for an entirely new software. As I said before I lost a lot of resources because of all these wonderful upgrades and updates. As they say: ”We’re a tech company committed to the Church.” That is true. As long as one can afford it..Version: 8.12.5
✓ App and company needs helpCan’t believe how much a paid app collects so much data and private information ? Isn’t this app suppose to be for the study of Gods word ? Why so much data harvesting? I would be ashamed if I called myself a Christian company and did this ..Version: 23.0.1
✓ Difficult to useI started out with this software when it was Thompson Chain Bible Study for computer in 1998. It’s been sold and renamed many times over the years. When it was Wordsearch it was the easiest to use and then technology moved to tablets. When I went to iPad instead of computer wordsearch wouldn’t transfer my books to the app and said I would have to buy my books again so I went to Olive Tree app. When I got the notice that another company have bought wordsearch and my books would finally transfer I use it as read only because I had so many notes in Olive Tree. Now logos has the app. I’m sorry buy I find it very difficult to use his app. I want to like it but I don’t see it happening. It highlights when I don’t want it, simply by trying to move down the page to read. I can’t delete the highlight. The help in totally useless. It wasn’t bad until the last 2 update. I find it very irritating because over the years I have invested thousands of dollars in books that can only be used in the app, I have over 5,000. I admit many I don’t use anymore, the commentaries are the ones I use the most. Please make logos more user friendly or restore wordsearch..Version: 23.0.2
✓ LogosI love using this app on my I-pad and have started my daily readings in a translation before unread by me. I find the cross references and footnotes convenient. I look forward to improvements especially the ability to highlight texts. Offline mode is great.Version: 1.7.2
✓ Great content but iPad app lacks usabilityI usually use the desktop app. It would be convenient to be able to use the iPad app, but there are too many shortcomings for me. No stacked tabs, so I have to swipe, but I have multiple panes on a single tab and what I want is often on a different tab that is out of view. Writing notes, circling text, highlighting, etc could be so much easier if I could just choose a pen. One major drawback of any platform, there is no easy way to go to the next/prev annotation in a resource. I have to open the notes and filter on resource. But then the notes are in chronological order, not page order, and highlights and underlines don't show the text being annotated. It's even more tedious on the pad, where I have to click on so many things to do things that other apps do naturally with the pencil. I'll be trying to scroll through the list of annotations, and end up drawing, or swiping to another tab. I just want to go to the next note/annotation and it seems like the app just fights me..Version: 31.0.1
✓ BuggyA month of using this app after a 2 year hiatus … a new ui but the old bugs are still there. Worse than that, there are now more. More serious bugs revolving around linking resources, display refreshing, ‘tools’ and features. This app is regressing. Each new coat adds to the unfilled cracks of the previous version. Do not invest in Logos if this is your intended primary interface..Version: 28.0.3
✓ Can’t look up GreekVery frustrating! I’m on an iPhone with iOS 12.1.4. SBL Greek text and its apparatus open fine and are easy to read. But when I click on a word to look up its meaning the wheel turns but it never gives a meaning. It used to, and was perfect, but for maybe a year now it hasn’t. I’ve tried to find a way to get help from Logos but get nothing. Searching the web for answers hasn’t got me anywhere either. Hence my frustration has led me to writing this..Version: 8.1.2
✓ It ok.Personally all I use Logos for is t read commentaries. I have tried other features without a lot of success. I do most of my reading on an iPad. It would be nice to see what book I am actually reading up the top when I have several opened..Version: 22.0.1
✓ Confusing interfaceThis is potentially a great app, but it feels easy to get lost in. The icon bar at the bottom should function a bit like a task bar, letting you switch between modes. Instead, for example, the Home button brings up a new “screen” over whatever you were last doing, and now the icon bar vanishes so you can only close it by reaching up for the “Done” link at the top. It’s perhaps a minor thing, but it leaves the impression of being confusing and unnatural to use. It feels like the interface could do with a redesign - or perhaps, it was never really “designed” in the first place, and just grew organically? (You can refer to the YouVersion iPhone app for a more intuitive icon bar implementation.).Version: 9.0.1
✓ LackingLogos has some powerful content but the User Interface makes it painful to access and work with in depth. If you want a simple Bible reader, fine. If you want to do more in-depth Bible study, it makes you a little sad inside..Version: 9.4.1
✓ Mobile App 2022 Not as Good as it WasUsing the mobile App on iPad the highlighting is basic and doesn’t have the versatility it did have to be able to highlight multiple choices over a word or sentence. The screen is not as versatile as it was before where you could slide the dividing line between books/Bible and make it the size you wanted or needed; now your choice in size and layout is pre-determined. Why they made these changes when they had an exceptional App to begin with makes it irritating to use to limit the flexibility it did have & dumbs a person down. UPDATE: The highlighting remains as versatile as it was before, but the pop-up box is not large enough to show what a person has highlighted and can make additional highlighting or highlight over those same words. On my screen it is very difficult to see a person needs to scroll or slide up to see there is more in that pop-up box. Sometimes the pop-up box shows specific highlight and sometimes it isn’t visible unless you know to slide the pop-up box screen up. The screen is pre-determined with options to size it, but I haven’t found the center slider that lets you make your own size dividing/splitting the screen between books/Bibles..Version: 22.0.1
✓ The App is so basic, not the full thing you would expectI like the Logos software for my MacBook. So I gave it three stars. However, the Mobile App for my new iPad Pro is sad and at first frustrating. I have to do all my study on my Mac but then can access some, not all, some of what I am doing on the iPad. I got the iPad to replace the laptop because it has more capabilities than the laptop. Unfortunately, logos doesn’t pair well if you want all the bells and whistles. For instance, nope can’t use the Apple Pencil, sorry! And nope you can’t log out, really you can’t logout on the app. You have to uninstall and reinstall and log in. Nope you cant download your books, so some searching is a no go. Basically the app is a bible reading software with some ways to look up commentary on your phone and that is it! Really. Faithlife calls it a “reader app” if you are looking for a desktop app for your new 2020 iPad Pro with all the bells and whistles this is not it..Version: 8.12.6
✓ IOS capabilityI love the program but it has not been made for iPad iOS. They need to add Apple Pencil functionality so I can circle and make notes with the pencil..Version: 24.0.1
✓ Good app but font is horribleIt's a shame you cannot change the font, just size. Why can't we have the option of changing the text to display in a font for the user to choose. The default (and only) one is ugly. I would prefer a more classical, more pronounced serif one. Those are better for reading long texts. Some people like sans serif, though. People with dyslexia can really benefit from the Open Dyslexia font. Some people like monospace. Give us options. Olive Tree does a really good job at this, why can't you give us font options? Also, I have over two thousand resources. We should be able to favorite the resources we use the most in a separate section so that we can readily access them at any time. And please categorize the resources we own into bibles, devotionals, magazines, etc. like you do in the Logos store (check how Olive Tree does it). You already do that for the daily readings section with devotionals. Just apply it to all resources..Version: 6.0.5
✓ Taking Notes and View Scripture is STILL a PainThe new version is an improvement, but my issues still remain unaddressed. Please let us open AND CREATE by default our notes and community notes as a secondary document. Original Review: I really enjoy using Logos on my computer. I use the iOS application to keep track of my prayer list, do my daily scripture/devotional reading, and review bible study notes before bible study. One major things keeps me from giving this application five stars. It is essentially impossible using my old iPad (4th generation) or even my new iPad Pro 10.5” to simultaneously take notes and review scripture. This is a HUGE drawback. If you try to review surrounding scripture, it closes (and saves) your note. If you are doing a public note, you CANNOT edit the note after it saves. iOS now allows me to use the ESV bible app with the Logos app so I now can (finally) not have several bibles out during worship services (I look like I am working on a term paper each Sunday morning). Logos should allow me to take public notes while using their application by default. I cannot imagine a circumstance using an iPad where you want the note to freeze your reading materials..Version: 6.0.3
✓ Remove these stupid highlights..Too many features for a bible app. Give me an easy way to remove highlights in the app itself and I will give you a higher rating. On a touchscreen or tablet merely brushing the screen in wrong place adds highlights to bodies of text that were never intended. Stop highlighting everything! Great access to the bible. But way Too easy to highlight text by mistake on a touchscreen device and not easy to work out how to remove highlights. On the touch screen it seems to be too easy to select text which gets auto highlighted for some reason. Removing accidental highlights on mobile is very hard to do if not impossible. I had to resort to the version installed on the desktop to remove these highlights..Version: 23.0.1
✓ WoefulThis app continues to disappoint. Note taking is by far the worst aspect of this app. You cannot create notes that link from different books. You cannot add clippings to notes. Double clicking the same word in a Bible translation brings up a different Louw Nida reference to when doing it on the desktop app in the same resource on the same word, how is that even possible?!!! Copying bible verses gives you a useless hyperlink. As ever, if you have no internet connection this app is dead in the water. Apart from reading downloaded resources, nearly no other functionality works. Considering the amount of money spent by users on this company, this app should be way better. There is no comparison between studying on the iPad to studying on the desktop. The experience and results are no way near the same. The desktop is streets ahead giving you functionality totally missing from the iPad app. The only thing you can do is study on your desktop and read it on your iPad. If you're looking at this to replace your desktop or even being an effective study tool, there is too much missing no matter what library you have and you will be sorely disappointed. I find Tecarta and Olive Tree streets ahead of this app..Version: 9.15.0
✓ A must have appAbsolutely love it. Very helpful tool to study the Bible..Version: 9.16.0
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