So far the Logos Bible app (for Android) hasn't impressed me as the 'most powerful Bible Study app' and I wish some folks here can help me out of my most apparent troubles with the app (because I would LOVE a good working Bible app on my phone!).
1. Searching
My first reason to use a Bible Study app on my phone is to be able to quickly find some info in the palm of my hand. However, my Logos app doesn't seem able to help me with this basic feature.
- To start with: why is the results section of the search screen so small that you can only see a few results at a time? After the selection of your Bible (NIV in the first picture below) there is a lot of wasted empty space before the results are displayed.
(Btw, this only happens with Bible search, not with basic search)
- Then, more importantly, (apart from a few seemingly randomly selected resources) I cannot select a specific resource to search in, neither in a Basic search, nor in a Bible search.
When I click on the triangle under Bible a list pops up which should give me the option to choose my resource that I want to search in. But it only gives me:
- 'Entire Library': which is useless for most of my searches that I (would) perform on my phone
- a random, seemingly unsorted list of collections (basically a selection of my commentaries collections - not all of them, and not my Grammar collections, nor my Apologetics collection, etc. etc.
- a somehow random list of a few (again unsorted) resources, including some Bibles, dictionaries and even an Greek NA28 apparatus (see picture 2 below).
To keep it simple: I just cannot even perform a search in my preferred Bible, as this Bible is not given in the list of random resources to search in. I hardly can believe that the app is developed this way, and I'm almost thinking I might have a deviant version of the app... . Can others confirm this experience?
- Thirdly, there are no parameters for limiting a search to e.g. the New Testament, or a certain book.
2. Notes
The second reason why I would love to use a mobile Logos app, is to quickly jot down a few notes and attach them to a reference.
So I open a Bible, select a word, phrase or a whole verse, in the popup bar click on 'Note', and then it is automatically attached to the particular selection in the particular Bible. There is no way to attach the note to the reference.
I just did find the option to tap the three dots, then select 'Make a Note', then choose a location from a range of verses around the verses that were being displayed. That will attach the note to the reference.
It would be awesome, though, to have that option of 'attach to reference' also in the first approach.
3. Font
I find the font Calibri superb for reading, as it is much more 'quiet' than the font Times New Roman, which seems to be used in the app. There doesn't seem to be a way to change the font type of the resources. However, e.g. the font type for my searching results is Calibri!
4. Speed
Finally, it would be nice if your Bible Study app would be fast enough to keep up with e.g. a discussion. However, with my pretty decent Samsung Galaxy S7 in my hand, I always have to wait 5-10 secs to launch the app, even when after switching apps and turning back to the Logos app.
Any advice to make me a more efficient Logos-app-for-Android user?
