Released before it’s time – Verbum Catholic Bible Study Review

Overall, this WAS THE BEST bible app any Catholic could get. In many ways I still believe that. The shear amount of bibles, books, maps, and references specifically for Catholics can’t be beat. That is still true today. The way you can open up bibles, highlight passages, add notes, and cross reference can not be matched. Unfortunately, this latest release, that includes tabbed documents introduced many bugs, that I feel should have been caught before release. I’ve been using this app for years without any problems. But I only been using this new tabbed documents version for a few days and every day I find a new bug. The list that I have so far is: 1) From “Todays Readings” list on the home page documents fail to open. Have to click on multiple times to get the document to open. 2) From a document window, when opening up a reference, a preview window opens up. But from that window you may not be able to “jump to reference” (open another tab that contains that reference). 3) From a prayer list, completing a prayer on that list forces a screen re-draw (it shouldn’t). 4) Fonts are messed up in my notes document. 5) Can no longer use the iOS “Look Up” function to check meaning of words in documents. Support is aware of all of these issues. This is typically the best app that I have on my phone. But because of this latest release I can now say that it’s one of the buggiest. The only other app that’s just as buggy is my Garmin Connect app. This app along with my Garmin app both have had major UI redesigns that broke functionality. Simply put, too much change and not enough testing. I found most of these problems within the first day of using the app. Bottom line, hold off on getting this app until all of these basic bugs are fixed. I’m guessing that may take a while to fix. As a software engineer I realize that this may not be easy to fix. What I don’t understand is how these bugs were not found during development and testing. Once these bugs are fixed; I’m sure that it will be back on my list of best iPhone apps.
Review by Mjm60193 on Verbum Catholic Bible Study.