The headline is not in error. BibleWorks does not make an app for iPad, still, but Parallels has just released an app called Parallels Access that allows you to use an iPad to access any computer–PC or Mac, desktop and laptop alike. They write:
Parallels Access ‘applifies’ your Windows and Mac applications, letting you remotely access and experience them as if they were made for iPad. Tap, swipe, pinch and scroll any Mac or PC software application – even if they were not optimized for the iPad – and get more done on-the-go!
More about the Parallels Access app is here. It’s free in the App Store, and you get a two-week free trial. After that it’s a fairy expensive (as apps go) subscription rate of $80/year. I hope to offer further insights about the app in the future on this blog, but for now, I’m pretty impressed that you can use your desktop and laptop programs as if they were (more or less) native to the iPad.
And more to the interests of this particular blog, here is what BibleWorks (using Mac Public Preview) on iPad (!) looks like, via Parallels Access (click to enlarge):
Here are the sentence diagrams. Click to enlarge, and notice how crisp everything looks. (This is on an iPad mini.)
Most remarkable to me is that the Use Tab feature works–in the desktop/laptop version of the program, this works by hovering over a word. In the Parallels Access version of BibleWorks, a single click on a word in the Browse Window activates the feature.
Astounding. As my friend and long-time college roommate would say: We’re in the future.
Words on the Word 
well now- this raises the important question- why DOESN’T bibleworks have an ipad app?
It’s a good question. I think they’ve answered it before on their site, in a knowledge database, etc. Can’t recall offhand why–not enough resources to devote to it, maybe?
But an iPad app would be great.
Reblogged this on Theological Musings and commented:
I tried this out a few days back with Logos and it works relatively well. I hope to explore more in the next few days.
Aww, thanks.
teamviewer.com has a Free app that does this same thing on an iPad
Thanks a lot for the tip! I’ll check it out.
Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop
This is a utility that lets you connect to a desktop. Install the Splashtop Streamer utility on your Mac or PC and let it run automatically. Download the app for iPad and run it. After you log in you’ll see all of your computers running the Streamer listed. Tap the one you want to log into. It opens the computer and shows the screen.
Now you can control anything on the computer including a full desktop class Bible software program. BibleWorks seems to work well on this.
Thanks! Good to know.