The Word Is Taking Over The FREE Bible Softwares
In my previous post about FREE Bible Softwares, I presented there three Bible Softwares which are totally free namely: E-sword, Bible Times, and The Sword Project.
A past few days ago, a man commented on the bottom of the post and it mentioned about “The Word” which is also a totally free Bible Software. By this, I was excited to visit it and try this totally FREE Bible Software.
I love FREE who doesn’t? And because of this, I am sure you will also like this software as you have loved E-sword and the rest.
Now, let’s go into details of this Bible Software tool.
As A FREE Bible Software
The Word is totally free. Unlike other Bible softwares that is out there as you find them on your search in Google, most of them are only FREE for a 30 day period trial. Some are only free having a very limited book just allowing you to use it as a demo of what they give. The Word however literally means totally FREE.
It has NO:
- Registration Forms
- Payment Forms
- Spyware
- Adware
- Malware
- and even Advertisement
My personal rating would be “10”.
As A Bible Software Being Evaluated
The Word has so many “button tools” that even a novice can literally figure out the use of each button. What I like the most so far is its fast response and the NOTES within the texts. There are links within the text that functions as a commentary which is though existing in other Bible Softwares, it is rare.
The versatility of the platform is excellent and has the MOST options in the way that you want to look like and feel comfortable with in comparison to the Bible Softwares that I ever used and evaluated. And because of this, I am deeply convinced that I should make a separate review of this FREE Bible Software.
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Guess what, you can even install it in your flash drive so that you can bring it anywhere.
For the platform and the look and feel, I would rate this software a staggering “10” being it the highest from 1-10 rating.
As To The Content Of This Bible Software
Just like the E-sword, The Word depends on the FREE open source Bible copyrights. It doesn’t have the most excellent books since Publishing companies don’t want to give permission for that. After all, it’s business.
In comparison to E-sword, it also has modules that you can download and install. However, I believe that E-sword still has more books than The Word. But the most helpful FREE books exists to both softwares to which I don’t think should affect so much when it comes to usability fo the content.
For this, I would rate this software with 7
Conclusion
In my personal evaluation, I believe that The Word has overtaken E-sword in its versatility of its appearance and functionality. It simply has the most optional functions that will certainly suit your needs.
On the other hand, E-sword remains the king of the content among the FREE Bible Softwares out there.
In the end, I still wish that these two Bible Softwares will come readily available for linux because as of now, it is only for Windows users. But this doesn’t mean that you cannot use this if you are using linux.
CLICK HERE for instructions in installing these softwares if you have Linux Operating System.
Hi, You mention that e-Sword is king of content. It does have a lot of modules, but I would not place it at the king of content. Logos is probably the king. (I don’t use Logos). Having said that, Logos also is the king of charging you for public domain books also. All of their content is designed to make them money, and that is just not “Christian”, but it is purely business. That has to be taken into consideration when it comes to how people present their software-product.
I am a pastor and missionary in Mexico City, and I develop modules for theWord. My website is http://www.twmodules.com and we have around 1500 modules up since January of last year when we started the website. A lot of my modules are taken from websites that are works written by living people, but they have given me permission to put their works into theword format. This is new and recent material. I also have a tremendous amount of material that is out of copyright on my site.
Back 3-4 years ago, I was one of the principle e-Sword module producers out there when Rick Meyers’ software was just getting off the ground. I believe the many modules I put out for him (all free) was what drew people to e-Sword. Now I have switched to theWord, and I am putting my resources, time, and energy behind theWord. I also am developing Spanish language modules for theWord also.
Please note that we are also building a theWord tutorial website (started up 3 months ago), called thewordtutorial, http://www.thewordtutorial.com. I post a couple of “classes” each week. I also have a few on how to make your own modules.
One of the things that I don’t think you have found yet is that theWord can import any e-Sword module that is not encrypted into theWord format.
Also another thing, you mentioned in some of your comments on your site about using Pocket e-Sword with smart phones. That is pretty much dead, because nobody supports it any more. Without modules, that software is dead. I tried back 5 years ago to convert regular e-Sword modules into that format (PES) and it was too buggy and complicated. Moreover, the list of phones it doesn’t work on is far greater than what it does work on.
I am also developing some of my modules for MySword, an Android Bible application. The MySword platform will import any e-Sword or theWord module that is unencrypted, and as I get time, I want to move all my theWord modules into that platform also. My website for mysword is http://www.myswordmodules.com/ I don’t update it much, but little by little, I am getting modules into that format. Hopefully I will have help on that by January, and we will post weekly modules there (probably 10 per week). If you are looking for a smartphone Bible app, I would recommend MySword.
I should also make note that I don’t just make other people’s books into modules, but I write also, and have around 200 Spanish tracts, and 60 Spanish books that I have written for our church people. As I get time, I am translating them into English for English speakers. http://www.coxtracts.com/ and I haven’t translated any of my books into English yet, but I will probably put them on our ministry website, http://www.davidcoxmex.com/.
Well, this post is about “FREE Bible Software”. And I think I made this post two years ago. 🙂 So going back two years ago, I believe ESword would still come up to have a better set of modules than The Word.
No offense… but that was two years ago.
However, for the paid software, yes, I totally agree with you. Logos is the real king of content. But it’s quite expensive that ordinary pastors can’t afford it.
For TheWord, I admire this software very much. And I would like to thank you for developing the modules for theWord. 🙂 I believe they would be a huge help for the users.
By the way, I also use TheWord as my main software. I don’t use ESword anymore. TheWord is much better and is working well on my Linux laptop. I will try to go over your sites and probably make a review out of it so that it can help more people. 🙂