LaParola

LaParola is a comprehensive and accessible application designed to be a feature-rich book reader and editor, providing many useful functions, not only to read the Bible but also for creating various documents. It comes with a measurement unit and quiz tools.

Unfortunately, the offered layout is outdated and cluttered, making it hard, especially for novices, to easily access its features. The icons are quite small even in full-screen and requires some time to get familiarized with its menu.

LaParola only comes with a single version of the Bible, the American one, which obligates the user to import its own books and study them. It supports TXT and RTF file formats, while for the images, JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP and TIF. In order for the utility to run, .NET Framework needs to be present on the computer or updated to the latest version.

In addition to the standard edit elements (undo, redo, copy, paste, delete), the app comes with several formatting options, like font types, sizes, and styles, along with bullet lists, indent, paragraph alignment, and page break. From one of the toolbars, you are able to change the chapter, verse and book view.

A nice touch is the navigator, which sends you directly to a particular location in the book. If you want to find a word in the whole record, right-clicking and pressing the search action, underlines all the results.

Optional built-in functions are the passages, concordance, additional information about a term, as well as measurement unit converter, and a simple quiz. Unfortunately, the test is written in another language, and may be difficult to understand the question. Plus you can manage the additional notes and edit them with ease.

Taking everything into account, LaParola is a sophisticated and intuitive application that comes bundled with a wide variety of features to offer a complete method to read the Bible, highlight essential words, bookmark favorite chapters, and apply corrections.