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Bible study and sermon preparation software

Original languages, the commentary shelf, and the road from a passage to a finished sermon.

Study software puts the text, the original languages, and the library on one desk. Three questions decide the purchase. How good is the Greek and Hebrew tooling. What will the library cost over ten years. What happens to the books you bought if you leave the platform. A pastor with a Greek New Testament, a concordance, and three commentaries read to the end is better equipped than one with four hundred unopened digital volumes.

The tools

  • Logos

    Pastors building a large digital library with deep original-language tooling

    The largest commercial library, with strong morphology, cross-references, and guided workflows. The library is where the money goes, so decide which volumes you will read before buying shelves of them. It asks a lot of older hardware.

    Who should skip it
    Skip it if you preach from two commentaries and a lexicon. You would be renting a seminary library to read four books.
    Price
    Base packages plus per-resource purchases, with a subscription option. We have not verified a current figure, so none is printed here.

  • Accordance

    Exegetical work where search precision matters more than catalog size

    Respected for fast, exact Greek and Hebrew searching and for careful scholarly modules. The interface takes real learning and the catalog is smaller than Logos. Mac-only from 1994 until the Windows version arrived in 2013, and it now runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

    Who should skip it
    Skip it if you want guided workflows and a wide popular catalog, which Logos does better.
    Price
    Collections plus per-module purchases. We have not verified a current figure, so none is printed here.

  • Olive Tree

    Daily reading and light study on a phone or tablet

    A clean reading experience that syncs across devices, and resources bought one at a time as you need them. Thin for heavy exegesis, which is a fair trade for what it is.

    Who should skip it
    Skip it as your only study tool if you preach weekly.
    Price
    The app is free. Resources are bought individually through their store.

  • Blue Letter Bible

    Free original-language reference in a browser

    Interlinears, Strong numbers, lexicon entries, and public domain commentaries at no cost, run by a donation-funded ministry. Nothing to install for the web version. The limits are real: no modern commentary sets and thin note-taking next to the paid desktops.

    Who should skip it
    Skip it as a library. It is a reference desk, and it is a good one.
    Price
    Free, and paid for by donations.

  • Berean Blue

    Church Posting partner

    New readers, pastors and scholars who want one free app

    Berean Blue is from our partner, and it shares owners with Church Posting, so weigh this row knowing that. It opens on Tuesday, December 1, 2026. It is free, and it opens the EPUB, PDF and Word files you already own, even scanned pages, beside the text.

    Church Posting partners with Berean Blue and recommends it. They share owners.

    Who should skip it
    Skip it until it opens on December 1. Blue Letter Bible covers free reference work today, and Logos and Accordance cover deep study.
    Price
    Free.

Ask for these in writing

  • Greek and Hebrew texts with morphology, and lexicons that scholars cite
  • License terms in writing covering what happens to purchased books if you cancel
  • Offline access, because study happens away from the office
  • Search across translations, original languages, and your own notes together
  • Notes that carry from the passage through to a manuscript you can preach
  • The ten year cost of the library you intend to build, not the entry price
  • An export path for your own notes in a format you can read without the software