1Bible vs Heavenly Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
1Bible
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Open your Bible. Make time for God’s Word. 1Bible includes the English NIV and the Simplified Chinese Union Version. Read, search, and revisit your bookmarks offline, with no ads or distracting feeds. Mark a passage. Return to it in color. Highlight a verse or a continuous passage in eight colors. Browse your saved verses as colorful cards, search them, arrange them, and filter by color to find what you want to read again. Read your way. Choose vertical scrolling or page-by-page reading, a comfortable font and text size, and a light or dark theme. Thoughtful typography gives English prose and poetry room to breathe, with careful spacing for Chinese punctuation, quotation marks, and paragraphs. Find a verse in its context. Search in English, Chinese, or both in the same field. Open a result in the passage around it. Matching words stay highlighted as you read; clear the query to remove the search highlights. A visual map of all 66 books and saved navigation history help you return to familiar passages. More room for Scripture. Use a sidebar for books, search, or bookmarks, or put it away for immersive two-page reading. Read English and Chinese side by side, with synchronized or independent scrolling. On supported foldable displays, your reading position carries between the outer display and the active right-hand reading area when you fold or unfold the device. System split-screen and multiple windows are supported. Take Scripture into your day. Copy a verse or paragraph, or create a passage card to share. At home, on your commute, or in airplane mode, your Bible is ready to read. Requires iOS 18 or later.
Heavenly Light
Access a collection of Bible study resources, including publications in English, Chinese, and Japanese. This app supports in-depth study of the Harvest Message from The Studies in the Scriptures series.
- Bible study publications
- English, Chinese, Japanese languages
- Harvest Message support
- Studies in the Scriptures series
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This is a Bible Study app that includes Bible Student Bible Student publications in English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Japanese. It is a collection of resources from which support the Harvest Message recorded in The Studies in the Scriptures publication series.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Heavenly Light at Free against 1Bible's $3.99. Heavenly Light also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). 1Bible's advantage is update cadence (every 8 months vs every 32 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Heavenly Light is free to download; 1Bible costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
1Bible ships an update every 8 months, Heavenly Light every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 1Bible | Heavenly Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 丁坤 姜 | Kreber Graphics, Inc |
In-app purchases
1Bible
No in-app purchases
Heavenly Light
No in-app purchases







