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Features

Ezra Bible App comes with the features listed below. An overview of changes per release is available in the Change Log.

Bible browsing

• Bible books are opened entirely and you can scroll through the chapters seamlessly and quickly.
• The text is shown with book introductions, section headers, cross references and foot notes.
• You can compare the Bible translations of the selected verses based on a comparison function in the side panel.
• When looking at verse lists (Tagged verse lists, X-Refs or search results) you can load the context of the current verse based on a button in the verse context menu.
• You can copy the selected verses to the clipboard by pressing CTRL + c.
• Access to all Bible translations available from CrossWire’s repositories.
• Ezra Bible App uses the local Sword directories as any other Sword frontend.

Tagging (topical verse lists)

• Organize your tags as a flat list or within several tag groups.
• Tag within the currently opened book or verse list.
• Lookup all verses of a tag (show verses in the main browsing window).
• Lookup all verses of a tag in the context of a book or verse list (show verses in small popup).
• Export a tagged verse list to a document.
• Show tag statistics for the currently opened book in the side panel. The tag statistics can be further filtered by selecting a tag group.
• The last used tag can be used quickly with a dedicated button in the verse context menu.

Note taking

• Take notes for individual verses.
• The notes can be formatted using Markdown syntax.
• The note editor offers syntax highlighting and convenience features for editing Markdown (see this cheatsheet).
• The currently edited note can be saved with the shortcut CTRL/CMD + enter.
• The notes can either be permanently shown in a column or on demand as one individual box when clicking on the notes indicator.
• When hovering over the notes indicator, the first part of the notes text is shown.

Search

• Search within the currently opened book or verse list (CTRL/CMD + f).
• Search within the full Bible translation.
• Search with multiple words, exact phrase or Strong’s number.
• Search results are highlighted.

Dictionary

• Strong’s transcriptions/original word are displayed as hint/pop-up above the word when hovering the mouse over the corresponding word while pressing SHIFT.
• Detailed Strong’s information is shown on the bottom left in a separate box.
• Strong’s based search with link ‘Find all occurrances’.
• Additional Strong’s based dictionaries can be installed. All Strong’s related dictionary entries are shown in the dictionary info box.

Bible Commentary

• Access to all Bible commentaries available from CrossWire’s repositories.
• Available Bible commentaries are shown for the currently selected verse in the side panel.

User interface features

• Tabs
  • Each tab either shows a book, a tagged verse list, cross references or search results.
  • Previously opened tabs are loaded again on program start and the scroll position is also restored.
  • The font size for the Bible text and tags/notes text can be adjusted.
• Switchable light/dark color theme
  • You can easily and quickly switch between a light and a dark color theme.
  • This is configured automatically on macOS based on the system settings.
• User interface available in the following languages:
  • English, Spanish, German, Dutch, French, Slovakian, Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese

Miscellaneous features

• Dropbox integration
  • Connect Dropbox via official Dropbox linking mechanism.
  • Sync database after linking Dropbox account for the first time.
  • Sync database on startup.
  • Option to sync database after every change.
  • Sync database when closing app.
  • Option to sync database only when WiFi is used.
  • Sync database when turning on Wifi (only Android).
  • Show dropbox sync status in small popup each team the sync was performed.