Logos Bible Software

Logos Bible Study Platform
Logos Bible Software 6 running on Windows
Developer	Faithlife Corporation
Initial release	1992 (1992)
Written in	C#, C++1
Operating system	Windows macOS iOS iPadOS Android
Type	E-Books Digital Library Bible Study
Website	www.logos.com

Logos Bible Software is a digital library application developed by Faithlife Corporation. It is designed for electronic Bible study. In addition to basic eBook functionality, it includes extensive resource linking, note-taking functionality and linguistic analysis for study of the Bible - both in translation and in its original languages.

Faithlife, LLC

Formerly	Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Company type	Private
Industry	Computer software
Founded	1992 (1992)
Founder	Bob Pritchett Dale Pritchett Kiernon Reiniger
Headquarters	Bellingham, Washington , United States
Products	Logos Bible Software
Number of employees	320 (2016)2
Website	faithlife.com/about

Faithlife Corporation publishes and produces the Logos Bible Software, but also publishes tools and resources under a number of other brands, and partners with more than 500 publishers to offer over 120,000 Christian ebooks available to users of its software.

Founded in 1992 as Logos Research Systems, Inc., when two Microsoft employees, Bob Pritchett and Kiernon Reiniger, along with Bob’s father, Dale Pritchett quit their jobs to develop Christian software.³⁴ Their first product was called Logos Bible Software for Microsoft Windows. For nearly 20 years this was the company's only major product, but more recently they have diversified into a number of other products and services. In October 2014, to reflect this change, the company was rebranded as Faithlife Corporation.⁵ In October 2022, the company announced they are refining their strategic direction, exiting church management functionality and other parts of Faithlife Equip, and instead focus on Bible study tools, content delivery, and digital discipleship.⁶ The current CEO of Faithlife is Bill McCarthy.⁷ Faithlife is a portfolio company of Cove Hill Partners.⁸

Logos Bible Software was launched in 1992 by two Microsoft employees, Bob Pritchett and Kiernon Reiniger, along with Bob's father, Dale Pritchett. The three quit their jobs to develop Christian software.⁹ After acquiring data from the CDWordLibrary project at Dallas Theological Seminary (an earlier Bible software package for use on Windows 2), Logos released an updated version called the Logos Library System platform in 1995.¹⁰

An iPhone app was released alongside Logos 4 in November 2009.¹¹

An Android app was released in 2012. The initial release allowed little more than the reading of Logos books, so version 2.0 followed quickly in August 2012, which added notes, highlighting, reading plans, Bible Word Study, the Passage Guide and a split-screen view. This brought much closer parity with the iOS app.¹²

Faithlife Corporation has also produced rebranded versions of Logos Bible Software with almost identical functionality. Verbum Catholic Software is aimed at Roman Catholics (and adds databases of Catholic topics and Saints, and more data from the Deuterocanonical Books). From 2014 to 2020, Faithlife produced Noet, which focused on scholarly work in the humanities, particularly the classics and philosophy.¹³

Faithlife also publishes a Year-End Song and Sermon Report which ranks the most popular christian songs and sermons of the year.¹⁴

It has been noted for being user-friendly,¹⁵ having the largest number of resources for software of its type,¹⁶¹⁷ and offering unique tools and datasets not found in other products.¹⁸ It has also received some criticism for its high cost¹⁹ and lack of speed when compared with other Bible software packages.¹⁷

Logos operates several publishing imprints and digital media outlets designed to complement its software ecosystem. These brands focus on biblical scholarship, original research, and instructional content for both laypeople and clergy.

Originally launched in 2004 as the Logos blog, Word by Word is the official blog and digital publication of Logos.²⁰ It is currently led by managing editor Kirk E. Miller. It serves as a primary hub for articles on biblical studies, theology, practical ministry, and Bible study and features contributions from notable scholars, authors, and ministry leaders.

Launched as both a video series and a podcast, What in the Word? is hosted by Kirk E. Miller.²¹ The program features interviews with theologians and biblical scholars to provide expert guidance on interpreting difficult or "strange" passages of Scripture. The show is distributed across platforms including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, emphasizing the application of scholarship to challenging biblical texts.

Logos Live is a cross-denominational interview program produced by Logos.²² The show features a rotating group of hosts from the Logos team, including Kirk E. Miller, who interview prominent authors, pastors, and church leaders. The program has a broad purpose of helping viewers deepen their understanding of Scripture.

Lexham Press was the in-house publishing imprint of Faithlife, LLC that specialized in books that draw from the Christian tradition and the global church to provide resources for pastors, scholars, parents, and students of the Bible. On September 23, 2025, Baker Publishing Group bought Lexham Press.²³