Bible Study Together vs Bible Year
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bible Study Together
Engage in daily Bible reading with interconnected New and Old Testament passages, guided by insightful questions and multimedia resources. Deepen your spiritual walk through a dedicated prayer manager and connect with others in private fellowship groups for shared study and prayer.
- Chronological Bible reading plans
- Daily connected NT & OT passages
- Open-ended study questions
- Prayer manager and timed sessions
- Private fellowship groups for sharing
- Multiple Bible translations and audio
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Bible Study App: Chronological Bible Reading Plan, Study Tools & Prayer Read the Bible, study it deeply, pray, and fellowship — all in one Bible app! BIBLE STUDY APP: BIBLE READING PLANS The Bible Study Together app features our daily Bible study that connects the New and Old Testament while ordering the Bible chronologically. Each day is broken into 10-minute readings with open-ended questions to help pull out insights. Contextual maps, videos, and daily challenges help you understand the Bible and grow spiritually. BIBLE STUDY TOOLS Go deeper in any verse without leaving your Bible reading plan. Tap a verse for cross-references, commentaries, side-by-side comparison in every translation, and a Greek & Hebrew interlinear, or read a whole chapter in it. Tap any Greek or Hebrew word for a full word study: its meaning, its origin, related words in both languages, and every verse in the Bible where that word appears. Search the Bible by topic or by your own words. PRAYER APP FEATURES Deepen your daily walk with God using our prayer manager and distraction free prayer sessions. Our prayer session tool manages the clock for you. FELLOWSHIP APP: GROUP CHAT FEATURES Stay connected using our private fellowship groups. Create a group for your friends or small group so you can share what you are reading (up to 500 users). Share prayer requests and stay up-to-date while avoiding the distractions of big social networks. PRINTED STUDY GUIDE Get our printed Chronological study guide and journal at www.BibleStudyTogether.com. CHRONOLOGICAL CROSS-REFERENCE BIBLE READING PLAN - Daily readings from the New and Old Testament - Gospels woven into a single story - Chronological: read psalms & prophecies in context - Daily passages connected to show how the New Testament fulfills the Old - Choose your pace: 2 years, 1 year, 6 months, or 92 days - Each day is a full story or thought - Daily open-ended Bible study questions BIBLE STUDY TOOL FEATURES - Cross-references & classic Bible commentaries - Parallel Bible: compare verses across all translations - Read any chapter in a Greek & Hebrew interlinear - Word study: Thayer, Brown-Driver-Briggs & Liddell-Scott - Related Greek & Hebrew words - Every verse a Greek or Hebrew word appears in - Greek & Hebrew words linked to their English - Highlight in 6 colors, take notes, copy passages - Look up any Strong's number - Topical Bible search & whole Bible word search - History of every word & passage looked up PRAYER TOOL FEATURES - Prayer lists of your own & for your group - Pray in ACTS order with prayer categories - Timed prayer sessions & prayer streaks MORE APP FEATURES - Verse of the Day on your home page - Read any chapter in its own Bible App tab - Read in ESV®, NLT®, NASB®, KJV & Berean Standard - Audio Bible for every reading, highlighted as it reads - Page mode: read like a paper Bible - Dark mode - Maps of the places in each reading - Videos on every Bible book & the Holy Land - Reading schedule, progress & streaks - Prayers & highlights sync across devices - Post prayer requests, thoughts & Bible insights - Sync your Bible reading plan with your group MORE BIBLE READING PLANS - Rapid Chronological Cross-Reference Bible Reading Plan - One Year Bible Reading Plan & M'Cheyne Plan - 30-Day Gospel Harmony & The Synthesized Gospels - 26 topical plans: prayer, hope, anxiety & more - The 90 Day Big Bible Story & more Bible Study Together is a complete Bible app for personal Bible study, small groups, and churches. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. New Living Translation®, NLT®, and the New Living Translation® logo are registered trademarks of Tyndale House Ministries. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org
Bible Year
This app provides a structured daily Bible reading plan, guiding users through the ESV version in a year. It divides readings into four sections daily and includes "makeup" days to ensure sustainability and enjoyment.
- Daily ESV Bible readings
- Four reading sections per day
- Includes "makeup" days
- Spoken audio included
- Progress tracking
- Configurable start month
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This Bible reading plan app guides you through the ESV Bible in a year with readings from 4 different sections of the bible each day: • OT History & Prophets • Wisdom Books & Isaiah • Gospels • Epistles and Acts Because many Old Testament books are often more difficult for people to read through and enjoy, these books are paired with the Psalms, Gospels, and Epistles. In this way reader interest is not lost and so the soul can always find something to feed on each day while still covering the entirety of God's Word and cultivating an understanding and enjoyment of the whole Bible. This approach has proven to be more sustainable and enjoyable than simply reading the Bible cover-to-cover from Genesis to Revelation. For example, the reading for Day 1 includes: • Genesis 1-2 • Psalms 1 • Matthew 1:1-17 • Acts 1:1-11 "Makeup" days are built into the plan for each month. Each month has 25 days of readings, so you can miss a few days without getting too far behind; this practical measure helps to make this a sustainable reading plan. This application features: • ESV (English Standard Version) Bible text • Spoken audio included • Mark readings as completed to track your progress • Displays the number of days you are ahead or behind in the schedule including "makeup" days • Configurable starting month The Bible Year app allows you to choose a starting month so that you can begin reading through the Bible in a year at any time, not just on January 1st. For those who are already following the reading plan on paper, you can switch to using this application easily by setting your current progress with the "mark all completed before date" in Preferences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bible Study Together at weekly against Bible Year's every 2 months. Bible Study Together also leads on ratings volume (429 vs 19) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Bible Study Together against 4.9 for Bible Year. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bible Study Together has 429 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Bible Study Together's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bible Year's.
Bible Study Together ships an update weekly, Bible Year every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bible Study Together | Bible Year |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (429 ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 429 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Create Disciples Inc | Divine Software Limited Liability Company |
Customer experience
Bible Study Together
Bible Year
Bugs and requests
Bible Study Together
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes
- Quota limit issues causing disruptions
Requested features
3 requests- Add more Bible translations
- Improve group communication features
- Implement a dark mode option
Bible Year
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bible Study Together
No in-app purchases
Bible Year
No in-app purchases
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