![]() Prior to being taken over by Lifeway, WORDsearch had released three versions integrating and improving upon functionality from a legacy, STEP-based WORDsearch platform, and an HTML/XML-based platform adopted from the former Epiphany Software Bible Explorer application, which WORDsearch had bought in 2003. New features included a morphological search tool linked to a Friberg-tagged UBS4 Greek text, Info and History windows, user-built “books”, a Sermons & Illustrations content management tool, an odd verse/passage-based search tool called Verse Explorer, Desktop Templates to help with window management, and Twitter integration, of all things. Version 10 (December 2011, with feature update 10.5 in June 2012) was mostly an effort at incorporating features similar to those in the QuickVerse program which WORDsearch had purchased in May of 2011, just prior to the company’s own sale to Lifeway in July. I reviewed the new features of version 11 in late 2015. Version 11 (September 2015) had introduced the NoteStacks tool to improve annotation for non-Bibles, cloud-based backup of user data, a poorly-implemented (and not yet improved) option for 2nd monitor support, and a tabbed interface sporting a thumbnail-based library view. I discussed the new features in a blog post in June 2018, and will not revisit them here. Remarkably, it introduces very little over the almost three years since version 11: a new Lexicon Explorer window, some half-baked integration with OneDrive, and a couple other tweaks. It is the third major version release since the product was sold to Lifeway in July of 2011. The current major version (Wordsearch 12) was released in May 2018. Wordsearch Bible Software: Product Evaluation This page will soon either be gracefully retired, or converted to a functional comparison of legacy Wordsearch features and their Logos replacements. User accounts have been migrated to Logos, and library resources not previously available in Logos are in the process of being being ported to Logos format, where they will be available to Wordsearch license holders using the superior Logos application. Note: Lifeway has discontinued Wordsearch. ![]()
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