Maybe tagging would still be useful with SS, but I haven't thought of how just yet.ĮDIT: I forgot to include the fact that Logos does auto-sync their notes to their servers, so you have an off-line backup. If you really need that kind of complexity, it's there with Logos, but it's not really needed with SS.

That probably denigrates the power of Logo's methodology a bit, but just keep in mind effort-vs-reward. That fulfills 2 common anchor-tags right there without thinking about it, and goes with the normal flow of Bible study. With SwordSearcher, you create a book/commentary for notes and they are automatically attached to the verses as you create them (well, you do 'set' the verse, but it's a little quicker than anchoring). You need to have a plan for how you want to organize your notes, make sure you remember to anchor and tag as you go (documentation, documentation), then you can run filters on those anchor-tags to pull them up. This allows for more flexibility, but it is more time consuming and complicated. Logos uses anchors, tagging and notebooks for notes organization. So SS wins the reading/navigation ease-of-use category for me. So you have to look at the search window to know where you're at, and it's easy to scroll beyond where you intend to be. Logos is a continuous scroll Bible, with just the verse number most of the time. SS includes the book, chapter and verse inline as you read the Bible, and each chapter is contained in its own window (which I like). It's not bad in Logos, but SS has it down to a science, as they say. The navigation to other books/chapters in SS is really awesome and quick.

With Logos, the Bible scrolls in chunks, which is fairly annoying for me in actual usage as I will scroll too far up or down. The Bible display and navigation in SS is a little nicer IMO (slightly more readable), and when I scroll, I can scroll each line smoothly/individually at a time.

I have paid for the full version of SS, and $20 for the Strong's Concordance to go with the free Logos application. I have them both set up very similarly - dark mode, 2 columns with tabs, Bible(s) on the left, notes/commentaries on the right, using the same fonts throughout. So here is my limited comparison experience. But I like SwordSearcher's navigation and notes configuration, not to mention value. I've been using the free version of Logos as a secondary/backup for my Bible notes, just as a hedge because Bible programs don't always continue forever.

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