It's sacrilege I tell you! – BibleScope with NIV, The Message and ERV Review

I'll explain the title of my review at the end. This is a great feature rich bible application and I particularly like the fact that many different translations are available at the touch of the screen including the NIV and my favourite, the TNIV. Yes it is the most expensive bible app and it is indeed one of the most expensive applications in the app store, but you have to consider that this program utilizes copyrighted versions of the bible for which the programmer would have had to pay for. Many scholars have worked tirelessly to produce these accurate translations of the bible. If you were to buy printed versions of all these bibles you wouldn’t get much change from a couple of hundred bucks so in reality this is great value for money, and is actually cheaper than many computer bible programs that have less features than this. Not only do you get multiple bible translations, but there are also downloadable study guides and reading plans. Also the scrolling through the text on screen is wonderfully smooth. I am actually rewriting my previous review of this application and increasing my star rating from three to four. The recent update has fixed the bugs with screen rotation and now with the flick of your finger across the screen you can now advance to the next or previous chapter- a very welcome fix. If I were to be really picky I’d rather that these features could work a little more smoothly- they feel a little clunky and slow to respond, but this really is minor as they do work adequately. I really do like the wheel-spin book and chapter search and I certainly wouldn’t change this at all. However I would like also see a verse search engine too as this would be useful in a bible study group or in church- Maybe just having a verse jump to feature like the alphabet down the side of your iphone contacts list will be sufficient. All in all this is an excellent bible application. No matter where I am I can access the word of God- Once this refined and bug free I'm sure this will become a five star app. A must for any iphone owning Christian or student of the bible. Anyway to explain my review title- I recently returned from a trip and due to the ever reduced baggage limits on planes these days I decided that I don't need to take my printed bible as I have the bible on my phone now, and I could use the space to carry something else. I visited a local church on the Sunday of my trip and used biblescope- setting my phone to airplane mode so it wouldn't ring in church of course. I heard a muttering from a woman seated behind me going on about putting the bible on a cell phone is insulting to the Lord. The word was meant to be in a book! It's sacrilege! Oh well I believe Tyndale had similar comments in 1500s when he first translated the bible into English from the Latin, so whoever made this app- you are in good company!
Review by Brit_in_LA on BibleScope with NIV, The Message and ERV.