BibleReader for iPad – Coming Soon!
January 29th, 2010Along with technology blogs and Twitter feeds everywhere, Olive Tree’s office has been buzzing with excitement since Wednesday’s announcement of the new Apple iPad. The iPad is the latest device in the iPhone OS family, a tablet with iPhone’s familiar multi-touch interface, a larger screen, and massive possibilities for expanding what Bible study looks like for mobile devices.
iPad is built on the iPhone OS (operating system), which means that iPhone BibleReader runs on iPad today. Here at Olive Tree, we downloaded the iPad emulator on Wednesday afternoon and got our first glimpse of BibleReader on the iPad’s new larger screen. BibleReader is one of the many apps that will transfer directly to iPad when it ships in March, so you can expect to see BibleReader for iPad available from day one.
But, of course, we’re looking to do more. We’re committed to bringing the best Bible Study experience to iPhone OS, which now includes the iPad. And iPad’s new features give us the room to dream big.
Olive Tree has always specialized in mobile technology, and we’re excited about the iPad because it signals the direction all mobile technology is headed—becoming powerful, flexible, and useful enough to fit more than one category, transcending the current boundaries between mobile computing devices and other computers.
And that’s where BibleReader is headed too. We plan to make the BibleReader experience far more than just reading a book. And we’re glad the new Apple iPad will give us the opportunity to create a deeper experience of the Bible.
January 29th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
I am very, VERY excited along with you guys. I have been using olive tree on every mobile platform I’ve owned for years. I’m excites to see it moving to a larger screen and now able to take advantage of more robust hardware and an extremely popular platform. No other bible reader I know of has the feature set you currently offer on the iPhone OS. The idea of you porting that innovative thinking further is electrifying. Even if you just ported what you currently offer it would blow me away.
I love what you do! God bless you as you have been a blessing to me and my spiritual growth.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Could you post screenshots of what the reader will look like unmodified on the ipad screen? I’m very curious to see if fonts/text renders properly or if it to is blown up with straight pixel doubling.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
The ipad version is not pixel doubling. It renders the entire screen.
March 5th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Will you be producing anything for windows or mac. I presently have to purchase books for my software on windows and again for mobile. I have tried the logos app but it is not as good as olive tree.
March 6th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Excellent!
It’s good to hear that the best Bible reader for the iPhone will be making to the ipad.
Keep up the good work.