Mantis NRSV Bible Study app for iPhone and iPad


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Developer: Mantis Bible Company
19.99 USD
Current version: 4.9.18, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 12 Jul 2009
App size: 17.23 Mb

Requires iPhone OS3.0 or above.

New Revised Standard Edition

This beautiful copy of the New Revised Standard Version Bible includes:

* The full NRSV Old and New Testaments plus Apocrypha
* Inline translators notes (which can be toggled on or off individually)
* NRSV Chapter and Section Headers
* NRSV Paragraph Breaks

Now with immediate "In App Purchase". Over 150 resources are available for immediate purchase from the Apple App Store. Just tap "Buy Now" to purchase and download immediately to the app.

Mantis Bible Study is the most advanced Bible Study Tool available for any mobile platform. A long list of unique features make Mantis Bible Study stand out as the premier tool for accessing the Bible on the iPhone:

Flexible content:
• Comes with the full King James text
• Works offline -- no network connection is necessary for reading and studying [Note: A network connection is required in order to load new resources purchased from our web site or to optionally backup and restore your data.]
• Additional Bible translations, commentaries, dictionaries, devotionals and other books can be purchased and installed immediately. Check https://MantisBible.com for available titles

Great navigation options:

• Quick History
• Quick-reference chapter and section headers
• Grid Mode
• Tap the book name to navigate books
• Tap the chapter number to navigate chapters
• Tap-and-drag corners for quick access to volumes, books, chapters, and verses
• Shake to close all open items
• Auto-scroll the text for easy reading
• Email any verse along with your personal notes

Fantastic study tools:

• Build Your Own Study Bible (see http://MantisBible.com for details and an instructional video)
• Easily create bookmarks, notes, and highlights
• Inline Note Editor
• Live Scripture References inside personal notes
• Create, edit, and move bookmarks and bookmark folders
• Unique "Analyze Verse" feature
• Fast and flexible, yet simple search system
• Save search results as a named folder full of bookmarks
• Personal notes and translation notes appear inline with the text and can be toggled on and off
• Highlighting Bar allows highlighting of individual words and phrases in 4 colors
• Inline verse-display toggle links for all cross-reference links
• Jump directly to Biblical text from cross references inside commentary, dictionary, devotional, or other books
• Fantastic support for Bibles with integrated Strongs Numbers - tap a number to open a definition, tap it again to close it [Note: Strongs Number Support is only active for Bibles containing Strongs Numbers - which are sold separately]
• Additional support for Strongs Numbers: drill-down to root word(s), tap to find where a number is used throughout Scripture, then tap and preview verses, integrated support for Brown-Driver-Briggs, Thayers Greek Definitions, and other Strongs-based resources [Stongs-based resources are sold separately]

Plus much, much more!

Pros and cons of Mantis NRSV Bible Study app for iPhone and iPad

Mantis NRSV Bible Study app good for

A fantastic bible reading and study tool. Great customization options for fonts, size and colours. The inline commentaries and bible translations makes for a great interface. I tried both ccel and olive tree but this app is by far my favourite. Amazing additional content you can get as well...the complete Calvin commentaries work very well with the Mantis interface. Very highly recommended!
Allows search of Bible text itself, but not of editor-created section descriptions; thus, if you searched for Sabbath, you would not get as a hit the "Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath" shown in the sample screenshot. This would be useful, for example, to search for things like "prodigal" in the parable of the prodigal son, which doesnt actually have the word "prodigal" in the Bible text, but it is in the section description.
Im very excited about the potential this app has for my work as a minister, especially the ability to write notes. But it has a glitch in the search mode. I hit search and it wont stop searching even though init quit search. Help would be appreciated.

Some bad moments