need some help. I need a bible app. I been looking at bibletime but isnt there one that is as powerful like the logos app for linux?
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Do you mean an app for Android?
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no I’m looking for a Faltpak or .deb for my desktop
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@Moka_Noctis ,
Oh, I see… Logos is a web app.
You want to install it, or something like it, on Linux.
I think that has been achieved
Looks like the install requires some CLI skills.
Otherwise it is BibleTime, Xiphos, Ezra, …
There is a review here
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Just for my couriosity: what gives you a dedicated app, that a pdf does not?
I have the Bible in a pdf, it’s easy to search, to look up any verses, etc.
Why do you need an app?
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Good question. I guess the app gives ideas and related link theme that a simple search would not do ? Interesting idea
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Sometimes, yes. If it’s a real app, not just a wrapper around the browser.
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In one single file? Respect! 
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Sure, yes.
Actually smaller than an image shot with a DSLR.
It is 6MB in size.
Some of the titles already show a cross-reference, where to look for the same theme.
Maybe it’s just the way this particular pdf was edited, and it’s not usual done for different editions in other languages?
Anyway, I never felt I need an additional app. Other than the “built-in” pdf readers of course.
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bibletime is the best there is.Release v3.1.1 · bibletime/bibletime · GitHub
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Please forgive my lack of knowledge
But which bible ?
At one stage hotels in the UK always put a copy of the Gideons bible in every room, but think that has stopped. But there are so many versions and so many languages (plus so many religions) are the apps international or based on one version ?
I think protestant and catholique have different versions with bits added or taken away.
Dont want to offend anyone just interested.
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Luther took away the apokrifs. Those are couple books in the Old Testament.
Other than that they are the same.
There are different translations, I can’t really speak for the english versions, but in hungarian it is about just the wording, as for todays people a translation made in 1590 sounds strange and “oldish” though completely understandable. So today a more mdern translation is in use, but the meaning is the same.
I looked up some english translations for you as an example: my all time favourite Jn 3,16:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
This is a “new international version”
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
And this is an older, King James version.
And another, I think this is even more modern:
God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that anyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.
I hope you get the idea. The translations differ, still they tell the same.
So I would say to your question
I’d answer, whichever is in the native language of the reader.
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Thanks its yet another subject I know very little about. I did wonder when I looked at the question to start with if it was a real request or not.
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I think those apps we referred to are all English ( or American) Protestant versions of the Bible.
We used to have Gideons here in hotel rooms. That practice has vanished.
Before the days of computer apps there were printed books called Bible Commentary or Study Bible.. They are still available and may be a better option than any app.
There is also a printed book called a Bible Concordance which is like an index to every word in the bible. They are available in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin as well as modern languages. They sometimes index whole phrases and sometimes display the whole verse referenced by a word, or the Hebrew and Aramaic roots of the word.
You cant translate a concordance, it has to be built separately in each language.
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thank you guys. i may stick with Xiphos.
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Happy you found what your looking for
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A Bible study app is more than just a Bible. A good one includes Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Concordance, various commentaries and other historical works, such as the complete works of Josephus, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, and several Bible versions to choose from and compare. I personally use eSword via Wine. For Linux availability, Bible Time is about the best you’ll find, but it is no match for eSword. I have also used Logos back when I was still running Windows, but it does not compare with eSword for ease of use.
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Thank you for this explanation!
Now I see what it is good for.
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Go to jw.org, they have translations in many languages as well as videos and more.
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