Review of QuickVerse 2005 Deluxe Edition

One look at the included titles is pretty impressive, but the program itself is hard to use and poorly designed. I have used many different bible study programs including e-Sword, Bibleworks 6, Logos, WordSearch, Online Bible, SwordSearcher and others. Quickverse 2005 is worse than all of these in terms of it's useability.

It's not so much that it is hard to use, but just is annoying to get around and the features are poorly implimented. One example would be the popup verse refrences. When you put your mouse over a verse refrence while reading a verse, a new window pops up with the verse. The problem is that it has this annoying thick border around it as compared to a tooltip style used by most other programs. Once this thing pops up it is hard to get rid of it! There is no way of closing it except to move your mouse to another refrence (popping up a new refrence) and quickly away to a sectionof the text with no refrence. Many times I have switched active windows to another program only to have this annoying popup in the way, which forces me to return to Quickverse to get rid of it.

There are other examples, but the point is that either this program is in an early stage of development, which shouldn't be the case at version 9, or the developers are not very skilled at writing user friendly software. They make it look good in an advertisment, but it's disappointing to say the least.

Having used all major Bible software programs out there, I would suggest that if you want a comprehensive suite and you can spend hundreds of dollars, buy LOGOS. You can find the Scholars edition for around $400 discounted on the net.

If Quickverse offers some resources you must have and you can't afford LOGOS, then be sure to look around for a deal. I have seen Quickverse 2005 Deluxe selling new for $125.00 plus shipping (which says a lot since the "retail" is $299.00).

You would do even better to just download e-sword, which is free and offers a much better set of tools than Quickverse and has a large number of free Bibles, commentaries and other resources available. It's more than what most people need and you can send the money you saved to support a missionary!



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