# Altar: Bible & Study — Read. Reflect. Grow. > Read. Reflect. Grow. (iPhone/iPad app by David Filipe Sousa Alves Pinto Sorreluz.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/altar-bible-and-study/id6760019910 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [David Filipe Sousa Alves Pinto Sorreluz](https://appshunter.io/developer/1882349585) - Category: Reference, Books - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 105 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-03-31 - Data updated: 2026-08-13 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/altar-bible-and-study/id6760019910/reviews.md ## What is Altar? Altar is a warm, beautifully designed Bible app built for Christians who want to read Scripture together with their church and go deeper on their own. READ THE BIBLE Open any book, chapter, and verse across four translations. Bookmark your favorite passages, highlight in five colors, and search across the entire Bible. Sermon Mode gives you large, distraction-free text perfect for following along during worship. GENERATED STUDY Tap any verse for a plain-language explanation. Ask follow-up Study Room questions. Get chapter summaries, mood-based verse suggestions, devotionals, weekly reflections, and fill-in-the-blank memorization prompts. Free users receive 3 generated study uses per day. Altar Study unlocks unlimited generated study responses. SPIRITUAL PRACTICES Lectio Divina guides you through a four-step contemplative reading with gentle timers. The Daily Examen offers a five-step evening reflection based on the Ignatian tradition. Both practices are always free. MEMORIZE SCRIPTURE Flashcard-based memorization uses spaced repetition to help you retain verses over time. Review your cards for free; Altar Study can generate new fill-in-the-blank prompts when you want extra help. READING PLANS Browse curated multi-day plans, from a 7-day journey through grief to the Bible in a Year. Track daily progress and journal your reflections. JOIN YOUR CHURCH Your pastor creates a church on Altar and shares a simple invite code. Each week they assign readings, and Altar splits them into a daily plan for your group. Check in each day and see who's reading alongside you. CHURCH COMMUNITY Read announcements from your pastor. Watch linked sermons. Post prayer requests to a moderated prayer wall. View upcoming church events. Stay connected between Sundays. SERMON STUDIES When your pastor posts a sermon, Altar can prepare a cached 5-day study guide drawn directly from the sermon's Scripture references so your small group can go deeper all week. THE GARDEN Watch a botanical garden grow as you build a daily reading habit. New flowers, birds, butterflies, and paths unlock as milestones. Your garden never wilts; it just pauses when you do. PRIVACY No ads. No third-party tracking. Your reading activity is stored securely to power your personal stats and church group features. ALTAR STUDY Altar Study is an optional monthly subscription for unlimited generated study responses, including study explanations, Study Room questions, chapter summaries, weekly reflections, and new memorization flashcard generation. Bible reading, church content, Garden, stats, highlights, bookmarks, reading plans, Lectio, Examen, and memorization review remain free. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://altarbible.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://altarbible.com/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Altar Study | $2.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.10.8 — 2026-07-30 This update fixes a few rough edges: • Shared Study Room cards no longer show tiny, unreadable text — excerpts now display at full size. • Stray "---" separators from AI answers no longer leak into shared cards. • Button labels in the verse menu no longer overflow, including longer translated labels. ### 2.10.7 — 2026-07-04 - Church rhythm home base. The Church tab now centers the member experience around the current church rhythm, with clearer weekly readings, gatherings, community activity, and next actions. - Feelings check-in flow. Mood taps now open a dedicated feelings screen so reflection has its own focused surface instead of being a dead-end gesture. - Nearby church discovery support. The app now requests approximate location only when using nearby discovery and can use stored church coordinates for location-aware directory results. - Today, Study, and You tab positioning. Core tabs now point more deliberately toward church participation, daily rhythm, and recent activity so the app feels less like disconnected tools. - Church dashboard settings. Dashboard church settings now support location fields needed for mobile nearby discovery and cleaner public church listings. - Church and member display fallbacks. User names, directory rows, and join-request updates are more resilient when profile fields are sparse or updated concurrently. - Release test determinism. Unit tests now clear local simulator auth env so social sign-in tests exercise Apple and Google flows consistently during release automation. - Dependency and route hardening. Updated server/client dependencies and pinned the router path matcher to keep release builds on patched, deterministic versions. ### 2.10.6 — 2026-06-15 - Activity replaces Bookmarks. Saved highlights and AI insights now live in one Activity surface, with clean AI insight previews and saved insights opening directly instead of jumping back to the chapter. - AI explanation sharing stays text-first. Shared AI insights now send a single AI · Explain · Reference heading followed by the cleaned explanation text. - More AI results are shareable. Mood guidance, Daily Devotional, and Weekly Reflection results now use the native share sheet with cleaned text output. - Chapter AI paywall flow. Exhausted free AI usage now opens the subscription page instead of inserting a large paywall card above the chapter. - AI explanation overlay clarity. AI explanations now open as an opaque full-screen reader so chapter text no longer appears behind the insight. - Chapter reading surface cleanup. The bottom “Try AI Explain” prompt no longer appears after reaching the end of a chapter. - Bible chapter navigation polish. Chapter grid spacing is tighter on shorter books, and vertical scrolling no longer accidentally advances to the next chapter. - Church detail polish. Empty About Church cards are hidden, and configured church details/logos render cleanly. ### 2.10.5 — 2026-06-13 - Activity replaces Bookmarks. Saved highlights and AI insights now live in one Activity surface, with clean AI insight previews and saved insights opening directly instead of jumping back to the chapter. - AI explanation sharing stays text-first. Shared AI insights now send a single AI · Explain · Reference heading followed by the cleaned explanation text. - More AI results are shareable. Mood guidance, Daily Devotional, and Weekly Reflection results now use the native share sheet with cleaned text output. - Chapter AI paywall flow. Exhausted free AI usage now opens the subscription page instead of inserting a large paywall card above the chapter. - AI explanation overlay clarity. AI explanations now open as an opaque full-screen reader so chapter text no longer appears behind the insight. - Chapter reading surface cleanup. The bottom “Try AI Explain” prompt no longer appears after reaching the end of a chapter. - Bible chapter navigation polish. Chapter grid spacing is tighter on shorter books, and vertical scrolling no longer accidentally advances to the next chapter. - Church detail polish. Empty About Church cards are hidden, and configured church details/logos render cleanly. ### 2.10.4 — 2026-06-07 Fixes AI explanation limits and account creation flows. AI explanations now open in a shareable overlay, save to the AI archive, and show the correct quota state. Google sign-in and create-account paths now return users to the app cleanly. ## Apps similar to Altar | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Altar: Prayer & Devotional](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/altar-prayer-and-devotional/id6753877571) | — | Free | Reference | | [Lectio: Bible Reading Plans](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lectio-bible-reading-plans/id6768569272) | — | Free | Reference | | [AI Faith Companion](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ai-faith-companion/id6759991687) | 5.0 (3) | Free | Reference | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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