Official: You Can Now Get Early Access to the Next Version of Logos
Later this year, we’ll launch the next version of Logos as a subscription. The subscription will have several tiers and eventually replace Preaching Suite, Faithlife Connect, and other Logos feature sets.
We’re living in a period of significant technological change, and only a subscription model enables us to continuously release new features and improvements as soon as they are built. Many of you don’t want to wait up to two years for improvements that could significantly benefit your Bible study. Subscription also allows us to include AI features which we can’t offer with permanent licenses due to the significant ongoing costs and rapidly changing technology.
Subscriptions aren’t required to maintain access to your existing content. They’re for those who want access to new and improved features. With Logos, your content investment is always safe, and you’ll always be able to access it for free. The subscription benefits listed above for features don’t apply to books in the same way, so we don’t foresee a time when we’ll stop selling perpetual licenses to books.
Can I get these subscriptions today?
One of the tiers of the forthcoming subscription will be called Logos Pro, and it will be aimed specifically at pastors. The full launch of these subscriptions won’t happen until later in the year, but if you own the Logos 10 Full Feature Set or subscribe to Faithlife Connect (excluding Starter and Mobile), you can get early access to Logos Pro today at a very special price.
Logos Pro includes most of the Logos 10 Full Feature Set, a library of more than 400 books to help you experience the power of Logos, and all the new features and improvements we’re developing for Logos 11. If you subscribe today, you’ll get five new features (Smart Search, Search Results Summaries, Summarization Sidebar, Sermon Assistant, and Instant Dark/Light Mode), and approximately once a quarter, we’ll add new and improved features to the subscription—not just this year, but every year.
How much will early access to Logos Pro cost?
Customers who own the Logos 10 Full Feature Set or subscribe to Faithlife Connect (excluding Starter and Mobile) can purchase the subscription for just $9.99/month. When Logos Pro launches in the fall with the other tiers of subscription, you’ll have the option to maintain your subscription to Logos Pro or switch to one of the other subscription tiers at a continued large discount.
How do I get it?
If you qualify, you can get early access to Logos Pro today at www.logos.com/early-access.
What is in Logos Pro?
We, and our beta testers, are excited by the features we’re adding to Logos Pro and later to the other subscription tiers. At the time of writing, Logos Pro includes most of the Logos 10 Full Feature Set, a library of more than 400 books to help you experience the power of Logos, and five new features described below. More features will be added regularly throughout the year and beyond.
Smart Search is a brand-new search engine built right into Logos. Just like the search engines you’re familiar with online, Smart Search doesn’t just search for the words in your query—it uses AI to search for articles that discuss the meaning of those words and then shows the most relevant place in that article in the search snippets. It makes searching your Logos library as easy as you’ve always hoped it would be.
Search Results Summaries allows you, with one click, to turn any brief search snippet into an AI-generated summary of the entire article, allowing you to better understand what each article covers, saving you time and helping you find the best content to dig into.
Summarization Sidebar enables you to use AI to summarize any article or chapter in almost any of your Logos books. The new Summarize tool can help you digest a lengthy article more quickly, simplify a complex article, or determine whether the full article is worth your time reading in full.
Sermon Assistant is an AI-powered tool that helps preachers overcome creative block and makes it easier to create materials to help the congregation better engage with the message. Currently:
- The Illustrations Generator suggests several short sermon illustrations you can use to explain doctrinal or other concepts.
- The Discussion Questions Generator takes a completed sermon and creates a series of discussion questions based on the sermon that could be used in a church bulletin or for small group, family, or personal study.
More than 400 commentaries, dictionaries, systematic theologies, journals, and other books to help you experience the distinctive power of Logos, including:
- 17 volumes of the Lexham Research Commentary series
- 10 volumes of the Spurgeon Commentary series
- 30 volumes of the Bible Study Magazine
- More than 350 additional volumes
Instant Dark/Light Mode allows you to switch between light and dark mode on desktop without requiring you to restart Logos.
And much more still to come!
That’s a lot of AI! Are all the new features going to be AI-powered?
We’re excited by the possibilities that AI—responsibly leveraged—brings to Logos, and we want to make the most of this technology. But we also want to equip you with the best tools for Bible study, using the most suitable technology for the task. So while there are plenty of AI-powered improvements in Logos Pro, and several more coming, we’ll also bring non-AI feature improvements, too.
Does AI really have a place in Bible study?
Christians have always been at the forefront of technology when it comes to accessing and understanding the Bible, whether adopting the codex in the second century or the printing press in the fifteenth. However, AI has limitations, fallibilities, and biases because it mirrors and sometimes amplifies those same weaknesses found in all human authors. That’s why Logos always lets you know when the content you’re reading is generated by AI. In addition, Logos’s AI tools are backed by your Logos library and designed to ensure AI is used responsibly and in a way appropriate for Bible study.
I don’t own the Logos 10 Full Feature Set. When can I subscribe to Logos Pro?
If you don’t own the Logos 10 Full Feature Set, you’ll be able to subscribe later in the year at a higher price. Or, you could purchase the Full Feature Upgrade now and immediately become eligible to subscribe at the discounted price.
Is early access to Logos Pro a beta program?
No. Each feature is beta-tested before it becomes part of Logos Pro. The purpose of early access is not for testing—it’s so that you can enjoy these new and improved features without waiting for the major release in the fall.
Can I cancel at any time?
Yes. Just visit https://www.logos.com/account/subscriptions.
Where does this leave subscriptions like Faithlife Connect and Preaching Suite?
The subscription that will launch later in the year will replace Faithlife Connect and Preaching Suite. The tier we're launching today, Logos Pro, includes exclusive new features, but there are a few tools and datasets in Connect and Preaching Suite that aren’t in Logos Pro but will be in another tier of the subscription. Most of the books in Logos Pro are different from those included in the existing subscriptions.
If you subscribe to those products, we’ll contact you later in the year to explain how you can painlessly switch to the new subscription. Until then, we recommend keeping your existing subscription to ensure you don’t lose any perks, features, or books. In the meantime, you could add Logos Pro to your existing subscription if you’re eligible.
Will I be forced to subscribe to Logos in the future? What about all the books I’ve already bought?
No one will be forced to subscribe to Logos to retain access to their existing content. You will always be able to access all the books you’ve purchased without further payment. Your books are your books. Subscriptions are for those who want access to the latest improvements, which aim to help you uncover deeper insights in less time.
Does this mean Logos will be subscription-only? Will I be able to buy Logos in the future?
Logos subscriptions aren’t new. More than ten thousand people have been subscribing to Logos for nearly a decade. But we’re now embracing subscription for our software because doing so has five distinct advantages.
- New users can have much lower upfront costs and try Logos with much less commitment.
- It allows us to continuously release new features and improvements as soon as they are built, rather than holding them back for a major release every two years. That’s especially important at a time of rapid technological change.
- It allows us to include features like AI, which we can’t offer permanent licenses to because of the significant ongoing costs.
- It’s a sustainable way of ensuring we can keep delivering improvements for decades to come.
- Releasing early and often significantly shortens the feedback loop, enabling us to continually tweak our improvements to ensure they’re really solving the most important things for all our customers.
With books, it’s different. The content of books isn’t continually improved—once they’re published, they’re done. And while we bear small ongoing costs to allow you to download and interact with your books, those costs are orders of magnitude lower than that of AI and similar services. Therefore, you will still be able to buy permanent access to Logos libraries and any other books from our catalog. In the future, we may add rental options for those who want it, but we don’t foresee a time when we’ll stop selling perpetual licenses to books.
We’re still thinking through what that means for purchasable feature sets, and we’d value your feedback on whether the option to purchase would be important to you, knowing that you’d miss out on all the AI and cloud-backed features along with regular updates.
We’re excited about the benefits of a Logos subscription. We’re already building new features and improvements that will be released in the coming months, and we can’t wait to share them with early access customers soon and the rest of our users in the fall.
If you’re eligible and want to subscribe, visit www.logos.com/early-access.
Comments
Ok, I was pretty doom and gloom about AI in general, but now that I've tried it in Logos, the smart search and summarize are brilliant tools, nice work Logos.
Also after seeing what Sermon Audio is doing with AI it is great to see how Christians are using technology like this to the glory of God.
"Your speech must always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person." - Colossians 4:6
What results does it give if you ask when the rapture will be?
It is not a chatbot for answering questions. It is an AI enhanced search for search resources. My library is light on the topic but the first 3 screens are:
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
It is not a chatbot for answering questions.
Then why is it called "Intelligence" ?
There are several kinds of artificial intelligence, some that have been in use for decades. Advances in chips (Nvidia) allowed the growth of LLM's (large language models) which power chatbots as well as other artificial intelligence applications. Logos is taking advantage of the AI apps most appropriate for use within Logos.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
I was tempted to buy more books through the ALL search. I no longer use it. I search my books.Shouldn't use of those books all be included in the monthly subscription?
ALL searches the Logos catalog and gives results for books you do not own! Subscription only provides access to a selected number of books that you do not own i.e. ones you can download to Library, Search, read, highlight etc.
Dave
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Windows 11 & Android 13
I am as serious as those who use a higher percentage of the app. So, L10 forever would be great.
Don't we already have L10 forever if we purchased it?
I apologise for jumping in here at page 64 and asking a dumb/obvious question. I only just found out about these changes. The OP states:
Logos Pro includes most of the Logos 10 Full Feature Set
I understand that existing users won't lose books, but do we lose functionality? I have invested in ancient ms. tools/datasets, and would hate to lose those kinds of features in Pro.
I understand that existing users won't lose books, but do we lose functionality? I have invested in ancient ms. tools/datasets, and would hate to lose those kinds of features in Pro.
Logos licenses (including for features) are additive: when you subscribe to Logos Pro, you'll get access to everything in Pro that you don't already have, not be downgraded to only what's in Pro.
Any plans for Logos Pro to be able to search my sermons as well, the text of the document? Would be extremely helpful finding quotes and such I've used before. Sometimes searching just the title doesn't work. Not even sure it needs to be a Logos Pro feature, but with better search it would be nice.
Any plans for Logos Pro to be able to search my sermons as well, the text of the document?
Doesn't the search meet your needs?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
I understand that existing users won't lose books, but do we lose functionality? I have invested in ancient ms. tools/datasets, and would hate to lose those kinds of features in Pro.
Logos licenses (including for features) are additive: when you subscribe to Logos Pro, you'll get access to everything in Pro that you don't already have, and not be downgraded to only what's in Pro.
I think I had a question about the subscription model: do we lose functionality? In other words, with products like Microsoft 365, I can not lose functionality if they go out of business or if there is no internet access. With Logos, there is functionality within the purchased product only available with the internet. Should Logos for whatever reason decide to withhold access there goes my purchase at least in part. I did not worry about that until now because I thought it like Microsoft it would last forever. Now with a subscription-only model I have some fear.
Now with a subscription-only model I have some fear.
Claude, they've repeated over and over, what you buy is yours. Books and features. They use the term 'forever', though Mark used the term 'forseeable future' (which is a more honest appraisal). A new owner can have their own policies (or current owners change their minds).
But regarding subscriptions:
- If you subscribed, it's as good as the subscription terms. Unlikely to just 'turn it off'. But they could end a plan, after a subscription completes. That's happened before.
- But they are more likely to alter subscriptions and terms over time. This year's plan is this years plan. Next year, who knows. Prices, content.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
Claude,
Disclaimer: I am NOT part part of Logos so what I am going to say is speculation on my part but I think logical.
Any feature, subscription or not, that relies on an internet connection to access a Faithlife server in order to do its thing would necessarily no longer work if that server were no longer available. Assuming Logos ceased as a company and no one picked up the software to continue the business, then yes those (and only those) features that NEED access to Logos servers would no longer work.
An example of a "feature" that requires such access and is currently part of an L10 Feature Set (not under subscription) would be the Bible Browser.
Other "Features" that are owned outright and do not require a internet connection would continue to work as normal.
Any feature, subscription or not, that relies on an internet connection to access a Faithlife server in order to do its thing would necessarily no longer work if that server were no longer available. Assuming Logos ceased as a company and no one picked up the software to continue the business,
However, if one lives in the vicinity, one is more concerned with their business resumption plan for a major earthquake. Decades before Logos, Russian bombs were only slightly below earthquakes in disaster recovery. I would assume that Logos is a mature enough company to have well-off-site recovery plans. Earthquake study suggests the 'big one' could be much worse than expected - The Weather Network
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
However, if one lives in the vicinity, one is more concerned with their business resumption plan for a major earthquake. Decades before Logos, Russian bombs were only slightly below earthquakes in disaster recovery. I would assume that Logos is a mature enough company to have well-off-site recovery plans. Earthquake study suggests the 'big one' could be much worse than expected - The Weather Network
I loved that response.[:D]
I am a part-time minister who uses Logos for both my personal study and sermon prep. For awhile now I have been wanting to purchase the "Logos 10 Silver Feature upgrade." I am wanting to do so for some of the exclusive iPad features this enables in logos. There are also some interlinears and datasets included, which I am wanting.
The $300+ dollars is what has prevented me from making this purchase. Now I am wondering whether this is my last chance to get these features without having to enroll in an ongoing subscription model (which I prefer not to do).
So, will I lose the option to purchase these features if I don't do so now?
So, will I lose the option to purchase these features if I don't do so now?
I have been wondering that too.
I understand that existing users won't lose books, but do we lose functionality?
Internet based functionality could be a thing we lose.
My question is what happens if I don't subscribe and features get "upgraded" to the point that my one-year-old purchased feature hasn't really been deprecated, but doesn't work anymore because it's been upgraded. I can't buy the upgrade, because it's, you know, internet dependent now. But I can subscribe to make my purchase work again. In 2-3 years, how many of my purchased features will still work because they have been upgraded? Maybe someone will make a living inventing legacy feature crutches. Or maybe Logos will make sure legacy features still work. Not that I expect that (imagine your own antecedent for "that")...but it's worth mentioning.
The $300+ dollars is what has prevented me from making this purchase. Now I am wondering whether this is my last chance to get these features without having to enroll in an ongoing subscription model (which I prefer not to do).
So, will I lose the option to purchase these features if I don't do so now?
Mark has made clear elsewhere that there will be plenty of notice for users to purchase feature sets if they choose before they are cut off. It is also possible that they will go on a final sale before you lose the opportunity.
Disclaimer: I hate using messaging, texting, and email for real communication. If anything that I type to you seems like anything other than humble and respectful, then I have not done a good job typing my thoughts.
After reading hundreds of posts and replies, I still don't know what I am getting into. But since I use AI for data science (my day job), I am going to fall in the error of innovation.
Can you expand a little on this? I am an existing connect member. It sounds like there are a few features/datasets I currently have that are not in Pro. I would prefer to wait and learn more about the plans before switching but want to know what is meant by special price. If I wait will I be losing out on a special early-access price that will continue into the future or will I have similar pricing options when the final plans are announced?That's a great question. We'll make sure that customers who follow our advice and wait until they hear more about our plans for Connect subscribers aren't disadvantaged.
So, customers who followed the advice given from Logos...what is the final plan for connect subscribers?
So instead of fixing the broken/dead service of Logos Connect, you guys just add another service on top of the old one with the same price with LESS FEATURES?
So.. Logos Connect $150 + Logos Pro $120 = $270 per year.
Is this where this company is going?
No, that's not where we're going.
The subscription that will launch later in the year will replace Faithlife Connect and Preaching Suite. So the future state is not Faithlife Connect + Logos Pro. Faithlife Connect will be going away. The future state is just Logos Pro or one of the other subscription tiers.
Right now, we're not ready with that subscription, so we can't migrate people from Connect to Logos Pro. But later in the year, once we've built out more features and have a migration plan in place, we will be moving customers from Connect to Logos Pro or one of the other tiers. So, right now, you can choose to stay with Connect or get both Connect and Pro. (Theoretically, you could get Pro and then cancel Connect, but we don't recommend it because you'd lose your perks and some features and books.)
But Connect+Pro is a temporary situation, only during the early access period.
So are we still suppose to wait if we have Connect and Pro?
So instead of fixing the broken/dead service of Logos Connect, you guys just add another service on top of the old one with the same price with LESS FEATURES?
So.. Logos Connect $150 + Logos Pro $120 = $270 per year.
Is this where this company is going?
No, that's not where we're going.
The subscription that will launch later in the year will replace Faithlife Connect and Preaching Suite. So the future state is not Faithlife Connect + Logos Pro. Faithlife Connect will be going away. The future state is just Logos Pro or one of the other subscription tiers.
Right now, we're not ready with that subscription, so we can't migrate people from Connect to Logos Pro. But later in the year, once we've built out more features and have a migration plan in place, we will be moving customers from Connect to Logos Pro or one of the other tiers. So, right now, you can choose to stay with Connect or get both Connect and Pro. (Theoretically, you could get Pro and then cancel Connect, but we don't recommend it because you'd lose your perks and some features and books.)
But Connect+Pro is a temporary situation, only during the early access period.
So are we still suppose to wait if we have Connect and Pro?
My plan is to wait as I believe that is what they are saying. From what I can tell from above we won't lose out. Official confirmation would be nice though. I hope they come up with a plan soon though...
My plan is to wait as I believe that is what they are saying. From what I can tell from above we won't lose out. Official confirmation would be nice though. I hope they come up with a plan soon though...
So I am correct to be confused.
My plan is to wait as I believe that is what they are saying. From what I can tell from above we won't lose out. Official confirmation would be nice though. I hope they come up with a plan soon though...
I am an early adopter of Pro, own Logos 10 feature set and was on Connect from month one. I am interested if my years of Connect qualify me for any further discounts than what is currently being displayed. We were told in the beginning of this transition to hold tight on the Connect transition. It would be nice to get an update.
My plan is to wait as I believe that is what they are saying. From what I can tell from above we won't lose out. Official confirmation would be nice though. I hope they come up with a plan soon though...
I am an early adopter of Pro, own Logos 10 feature set and was on Connect from month one. I am interested if my years of Connect qualify me for any further discounts than what is currently being displayed. We were told in the beginning of this transition to hold tight on the Connect transition. It would be nice to get an update.
Read Mark's Post here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/223375.aspx?PageIndex=6
I'm going to try to quote it...
Mine renews in November. I know someone else has theirs renewing in August. I guess this is my question. I am not 100% sure how the process will work and Mark has not been very clear about it. While it is okay for Mark not to know exactly how it will work, assurances from time to time are helpful.
What would happen if I cancel my FC Essentials annual subscription now and just upgrade to Max? Would I be reimbursed for the 3 months I did not use FC?
At the risk of repeating myself, I am sorry that Connect subscribers are somewhat stuck at the moment. We are doing our best to get the migrations planned as fast as we can.
At some point between now and the launch, we will email existing Connect subscribers, giving a date for migration. In that email, we'll explain what you'll gain and lose (if anything) due to the migration. We will ensure we migrate the unused portion of your subscription, along with the 2% cashback you've accumulated.
If you cancel before that, I'm afraid we won't be able to reimburse you for the unused portion of your subscription, and you will likely lose any cashback you've accumulated.
Pastor, Mt. Leonard Baptist Church, SBC
Friends, peace and good. Please, for those who have already migrated, does AI support allow searches also in personal books and also in notes created by the user?
Mark, I've had Logos since 1995, when it was QuickVerse, and watched it develop over time. I use it everyday and am concerned with the subscription model and features; how much is lost if there is no Internet connection? Thanks for the great program that has been put together. I own the Silver Edition, Logos Full Feature Set. 😎
Logos was never QuickVerse, that was whole different company & software.
Here is an older message from Bob P. when he still owned Logos...
When we started there were lots of DOS programs, and soon many Windows ones... QuickVerse, Ask God, BibleWindows, GRAMCORD, Wordsearch, CDWordLibrary, Online Bible, PC Study Bible, etc.
Sorry, I worded it wrong probably. At the time, it was either bought out or purchased and rerouted to a few other companies, like WordSearch; which eventually ended with me owning a version of Logos.
...I use it everyday and am concerned with the subscription model and features; how much is lost if there is no Internet connection? Thanks for the great program that has been put together. I own the Silver Edition, Logos Full Feature Set.
If you mean working offline then search the Logos Help manual for "Net" as those features will require the Internet whether you subscribe or not.
To find features that require AI/online, then search for "AI Credits" as these also require a subscription.
Dave
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Windows 11 & Android 13
May I ask
It says that if I keep logos 10 subscription for 2 years
What do I get to keep ?
Is it an actual logos 10 program? Do I get to keep feature sets? Like gold?
Can anyone help me understand
I can't find what data sets are included
Features sets like read aloud mobile app or sermon builder
And what in liners
I can't find any list
May I ask
It says that if I keep logos 10 subscription for 2 years
What do I get to keep ?
Is it an actual logos 10 program? Do I get to keep feature sets? Like gold?
Can anyone help me understand
May I ask
What feature sets and data sets and in liners are included in logos max subscription
What do I get to keep ?
See my reply at https://community.logos.com/forums/t/224151.aspx
I can't find any list
There is no list. You will know know after 2 years, but have a pretty good idea during that time.
Dave
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Windows 11 & Android 13
There is no list. You will know know after 2 years, but have a pretty good idea during that time.
And this is still a massive PR problem - Subscribe and turn the handle like the old gumball machines to find out what you get....
Hopefully we will get an accurate list of included features for each subscription option, as well as a well defined list of what would be kept after two years of payments.... Somewhere in the posts, Mark in some way admitted that he's not sure what's coming in the future - so as has been said elsewhere by others - users could wind up with zero to keep for their investment....
***Found it -
Another question that may be good to have the answer to before launch.....Yes. Let's say you subscribe to Logos Pro for one year, and then upgrade to Logos Max.
After two years, you'll be eligible for a Logos Pro fallback license. After a further year, that would get upgraded to a Logos Max fallback license.
I doubt that there would be an option to pay the difference, but we're two years away from that being an issue, so I can't be dogmatic. I appreciate that puts L10 full-feature set owners wanting to get the most value from the fallback license in something of a quandary. Do you pay for Logos Max from day one, even though there's not much difference between that and Logos Pro right now, in the hope that it will snag you a better fallback license in two years' time?
No one can answer that question because no one knows (not even me!) exactly what might go into Logos Max over the next two years.
As of now - for your up to $260 investment (if you have the discount) - you get to keep instant dark/light mode.... Anything else? That's right - it's being "worked on"
Logos 10 - OpenSuse Tumbleweed, Windows 11, Android 16 & Android 14
Do u think the full features upgrade will be available to purchase when the new subscription comes?
Do u think the full features upgrade will be available to purchase when the new subscription comes?
Do u think the full features upgrade will be available to purchase when the new subscription comes?