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Accordance

software

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ339415 ↗
Source-derived summary

Accordance is a Bible study program for Apple Macintosh and iPhone, and now Windows and Android, developed by OakTree Software, Inc.

Although originally written exclusively for the Mac OS (and then iOS), Accordance was then released in a Windows-native version, although it was available prior to this by using the Basilisk II emulator. Since 2018 there has also been an Accordance app for Android.

The program is used for both private and academic study.

OakTree Software

OakTree Software, Inc. is based in Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States. The company has focused on the study of Biblical texts.

Program history

Roy Brown, OakTree Software's president and application developer, created one of the first Bible programs available for the Macintosh, known as ThePerfectWord, in 1988. ThePerfectWord was later bought by another company and renamed MacBible.

By the early 1990s there were a number of general Bible study programs for the Macintosh.

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“Accordance” enters the record as software. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Accordance and software can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Accordance and software.
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“Accordance” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Accordance and software provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q339415. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Accordance” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.