Accordance

Accordance is a computer program the company OakTree software to study the Bible.

Accordance is among other things due to its extensive search capabilities and its multiple possibilities of working on fundamental Biblical Text in the scientific and academic area very popular. Accordance runs on Mac OS, iOS and Microsoft Windows. About Wine the use of the Windows version on Linux is possible.

Accordance is modular and can be expanded with numerous Bible translations in different languages ​​and tools such as dictionaries and encyclopedias.

History

Roy Brown, the chairman of OakTree software and application developers, with ThePerfectWord in 1988 created one of the first Bible programs for the Macintosh. ThePerfectWord was later bought by another company and renamed MacBible. In the early 1990s there were a number of good programs to study the Bible for the Mac. However, Brown saw the need for a new program should allow the more sophisticated types of Bible study for scientists and pastors can conduct detailed studies of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible reason. Accordance 1 was released in February 1994 and appreciated for its performance and usability.

A rewritten version of Accordance 5 that ran natively under Mac OS X, was released in early 2002. The company has the software since then constantly improved and expanded to include functions such as the native Quartz rendering system. With Accordance 8, the Universal Binary version for Intel-based Macs was introduced in May 2008. Version 9 was released in September 2010. Accordance with 10 sweeping changes appeared in August 2012. September 30, first time in 2013 appeared a standalone Windows version of Accordance.

Accordance for iOS was released on December 30, 2010 as a free app for Apple iOS.