After a while of intense using some annoying things about Accordance came to light:

* Every minor update (9.5.2 -> 9.5.3) needs a complete download of the whole Accordance Package (45 MB). Make it like Firefox or any other modern Mac software that only downloads the parts of the program that have changed (1 or 2 MB instead of always 45 MB).

* Drop this antique VISE installer, since this is totally annoying, complicated and MacOS Classic like. I know no other serious program that is still using this installer. Use instead a DMG image from where the user can drop the program to his Applications folder or a modern package install.

* I want in every window of Accordance a Back and Forward button like in every web browser. If I go in an Accordance window to another "page", I simply cannot go back to the former "page". This is extremely annoying! Some windows have a kind of For and Back arrows, but they never work as expected and jump somewhere but never back.

* Another pain in the rear is how Accordance is handling image enlarging. Images are always imprisoned in those tiny windows in the Workspace. Totally unintuitive is how to enlarge them fullscreen and minimize them afterwards again. Often I close the whole Workspace and everything is gone. Annoying!

* Zooming images is another pain! Clicking + and - is crazy since in real OSX programs it goes simply by using two fingers on the trackpad. I guess Accordance developers are stuck in MacOS Classic thinking.

* I want smooth scrolling of Bible texts not this annoying jumping from line to line. Make it smooth please!

* When displaying search results of word searches using this context slider, the search results should have different colored backgrounds to differentiate for example Matth 19:3-5 from Mark 10:5-7. Right now it all becomes a hardly readable text soup.

Very important: Please drop support for the antique MacOS Classic. Support for this dinosaur prevents progress in improving Accordance for the modern OSX version! Accordance is extremely OS Classic like and lacks in many parts the modern use and feel of OSX!

In the last days I had the opportunity to test drive Accordance 9.5.1. I'm impressed.

Here is the good news: Searching texts and Bibles is light speed fast. Results appear immediately. The software is of course Intel-optimized on OSX, but you can use the actual Accordance still on System 7.5! The GUI has greatly improved since my old Accordance 7. It looks more modern and is very usable. The learning curve is shallow. Modules and updates are conveniently installed within Accordance's update mechanism. I must admit that Accordance is a serious Bible study software now and it is very powerful. Now you can copy Greek and Hebrew texts in Unicode instead via the incompatible function of former Accordance versions. Also the long missed main Russian bible is now available as a module. Many old modules like the KJV have been updated to KJVS (with Strong's). The standard install has already a list of impressive (and useful) modules in the Starters Pack. No cheap horse manure!

The bad news is: Accordance comes with an ultra-slow VISE installer from stone age. I almost had forgotten about this "Classic" installer from 10 years back; I would prefer to drop the app from the DMG on the Applications folder. But this install you do only once. Be careful if you have installed a former Accordance version! I had to remove every trace of Accordance 7 or Version 9.5.1 would do a lot of crazy things including not finding its own resources for a proper start-up.

The "System 7.5"-style Preferences window opens very slow (like in Accordance 7). If you play with the font preferences for a while to find the best display font for yourself the program will crash. A cleanup of the Prefs code is necessary. Version 9 installs the Bible modules in Application Support and and the User Tools in Documents. Very inconsistent. I like to have the files in the program's folder like in older versions. I'm to lazy to always search my stuff especially when moving to another machine.

Accordance offers besides a huge load of excellent study tools a list of obscure Catholic modules. Is there really a need to address those anti-christian demographics and offer them "study tools" for their way to eternal damnation?

I miss a way to edit Bibles and Study Notes. For Copyright reasons maybe not the Bibles and notes from Accordance's official and commercial channel. But third-party (freeware, public domain) Bibles and notes that often have mistakes and errors included.

Finally: Good software has a price. That's why MS Office is much better, much more mature, much less a pain than the free LibreOffice. There are a lot of free Bible programs as well. But nothing compares to the power, accuracy and ease of use of Accordance. Commercial Logos and BibleWorks (on Windows) might be close competitors. The price of Accordance is high. Not so much for the program and the first bundled module packs. But later, when you want to expand your library it really becomes expensive. Modules cost from 25 to 100 and even more dollars. Most are about 30 to 50. But if you are in language studies you need a deep wallet. But then again most of these books are more expensive as books than as modules. And nothing beats the flexibility you can use all those digital data on your MacBook everywhere: at school, in bed or on a plane. Look for holiday special bundles. The Accordance world is still expensive, but special actions can save you a lot.

Latest warning: Don't invest all your money in electronic books. Buy also real Bibles, real commentaries, real study helps ... as paper books. The world economy crisis will kill the dollar and the euro. Prepare for a long time without electricity, without Internet, without computers.

I wonder why I've failed to down load it. I've tried several time.

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I have Accordance and Logos for Mac and QuickVerse as well as several others. I have limited experience with them all. I believe it is a little presumptive in some of these reviews to assert the superiority of one over another UNLESS you have extensive experience with those apps you are speaking of. I tend to use Accordance the most, but it is the one I am most familiar with. I have found that Accordance doesn't seem to be as open to suggestions for new modules/books as Logos. Logos offers the greatest selection of works. QuickVerse is probably the most inexpensive for the number of works. Accordance doesn't offer a as continuous an upgrade path as Logos in my opinion - they have several product lines: Catholic, Jewish, Hebrew, and the two main product lines: Library and Scholar. Library and Scholar have 3 levels: Intro, Standard, and Premier, but they stop there. Although they have somewhat recently added the Bible Study Bundle, the Original Languages Bundle, and a combination of these two called the Mega Bundle. There is no upgrade price from the Premiers to the newly added bundles.

I like Accordance and Logos best for their interfaces, but both are pricey. One example is that Accordance charges $60 ($50) on sale for the Archaeological Study Bible which you can buy online from $20 for an e-book version to about $30 for a hardcopy. I opted to buy a hardcopy for this reason.

Like I said, I use Accordance the most and I like it. I hope this comment (I'm not read to rate it yet) will be helpful.

good softwae

interface is very old fashion
9.03 is still a beta - there are a lof of crashes and problems so wait with the update…