Shine vs Ulysses

Wake up to professionally narrated Bible verses with beautiful background music. Start your day with Scripture, and share your morning verse with friends or family. Create multiple alarms with their own names, wake-up times, repeat days, snooze settings, and verse-pack choices. Repeating alarms stay enabled for future mornings, and the Alarms tab keeps your schedule in one place. Browse Sample, Calm, Inspired, Happy, Faithful, Motivated, and Strong in the Verse packs tab. Listen to verses, choose KJV or NIV and a male or female narrator, and enjoy Shine's familiar photography and gold design in light or dark mode. Each saved or enabled alarm chooses a recording from its selected available packs and keeps that recording for repeats. Save or re-enable an alarm to choose a recording again or apply narrator and Bible-version changes. This version uses Apple's AlarmKit and requires iOS 26 or later. Shine is free to download with a Sample pack containing verses from each of the Verse Packs. If you’d like to support Shine we have a variety of subscription options that unlock all verse packs - choose whichever price you find appropriate! Start every day with the wisdom and inspiration of God’s word! Subscriptions pricing and terms: Shine Bible Alarm offers auto-renewing yearly subscriptions for $9.99 / year, $19.99 / year, $29.99 / year and $39.99 / year, as well as a monthly subscription for $3.99 / month. All subscriptions provide unlimited access to all verse theme packs (all content) in the Shine Bible Alarm app for as long as you maintain an active subscription. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of renewal will be identified. You can manage your subscriptions and turn auto-renewal off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. You can read our terms and conditions here: https://www.shinealarm.com/shine-terms-and-conditions/index.html You can access our privacy policy here: https://www.shinealarm.com/privacy-policy/index.html

Sailing home from Troy, Ulysses had to pass the Sirens — whose song pulled every sailor into the sea. He didn't trust willpower. He had himself tied to the mast. It wasn't strength that saved him. It was the rope. Ulysses & the Sirens is a nightly self-control journal built on that three-thousand-year-old trick. Each evening, one question: what did you resist today — and what was the rope that held you? An alarm across the room. A rule you set. The phone charging in the kitchen. Name the rope, tie the knot, and watch your voyage grow. NO STREAKS. EVER. Knots only count up. Nothing you have tied can be untied by a missed day. Quiet weeks are part of every voyage. WHEN THE SIREN SINGS Temptation doesn't wait for your evening review. One tap opens a minute of guided breathing with the rope — and the ropes that have held you before, ready to use. Hold on, then tie the knot while the win is fresh. YOUR ROPES, TESTED See which ropes actually hold you and which sirens keep returning. Insight, not guilt. THE BIGGER PICTURE Art, law, ritual, science — everything people build together is a rope against some siren that sings to all of us. Read the deck of cultural ropes, anchor the ones that hold you, attach your own thoughts and photos, and braid cards of your own. ALSO ABOARD • A knot-tying ceremony for every entry, with milestones at 7, 30, and 100 • Your journal as a golden rope of knots • Apple Watch app — tie a knot from your wrist, with the question on your watch face • Home screen widgets, evening reminder, search, and full export (PDF & JSON) • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics, no trackers, no ads. Your journal lives on your devices and in your private iCloud — nowhere else. Leave any time with everything. ONE PRICE, YOURS FOREVER No subscription, no paywalls, no ads — every feature aboard, and one purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. If the rope has held you and you'd like to give more, an optional patron's tip unlocks nothing but a golden lantern icon and our gratitude.