Discover the Bible vs Bible Explained
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Discover the Bible
This app offers a guided approach to understanding the Bible through simple, memorable studies. It's designed to help users engage with scripture personally, especially in group settings, and is available in multiple languages with text and audio options.
- Thirty simple studies from Creation to Christ
- Text and audio for all studies
- Offline download facility
- Available in 25 languages
- Group study focus
- Facilitates Disciple Making Movements
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In thirty simple studies from Creation to Christ, Discover the Bible enables you to encounter the Bible for yourself. Best used in a group context, these studies help you to ask simple questions of the text, which are easily remembered and easily applied - but are surprisingly powerful in enabling you to understand God's word for your life. Features • Available in twenty five languages including English, Arabic, Somali, Dari, Pashto, Turkish, Urdu, Devanagari and Indonesian • Text and audio available for all studies • Download facility to enable offline use • Sharing allows app audio files to be passed on easily A Discovery Bible Study (DBS) app which allows users to explore the Bible for themselves. Ideal for catalysing Disciple Making Movements (DMM) in remote contexts.
Bible Explained
Understand the entire Bible story in a single hour of reading. Content is divided into five-minute segments, ideal for quick study sessions. Features helpful diagrams to illustrate God's plan from creation to New Creation.
- Bible story in one hour
- Five-minute reading chunks
- Helpful diagrams
- Creation to New Creation overview
- No sign-up required
- Data privacy
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Want to understand the Bible, but just don’t know where to start? Our Bible in an Hour notes will take you through the whole Bible story, in just one hour of reading. We’ve broken it up into five-minute chunks, perfect for reading on your commute, over a morning coffee, or during your quiet time! With helpful diagrams, we walk through the whole Bible story: God’s plan for our world, from creation to New Creation. The app is entirely free of charge, and you don’t need to sign up or sign in to anything. We don’t collect any of your data either. We simply want you to discover God’s big plan! Got feedback? We’d love to hear it, especially if it’s something we need to improve. Please feel free to get in touch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bible Explained at 5.0 against Discover the Bible's 4.4. Bible Explained also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). Discover the Bible's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 16.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bible Explained holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Discover the Bible has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Discover the Bible's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bible Explained's.
Discover the Bible ships an update every 2 months, Bible Explained every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Discover the Bible | Bible Explained |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ian Coleman | SIMON ANDREW RAFFERTY |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Discover the Bible
No in-app purchases
Bible Explained
No in-app purchases
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