StMarySeattle vs Coptic Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StMarySeattle
Stay connected with your church community. Receive important announcements, service schedules, and access live streams directly from the church. Future updates will bring even more features to enhance your experience.
- Congregation announcements
- Service schedule updates
- Access to live streams
- Push notifications
- Feedback submission
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The goal of this app is to centralize announcements directed to the congregation of Saint Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Lynnwood Washington. Download and enable notifications to get the latest service schedule information, announcements, and access to Livestreams from the altar of St Mary and the altar of St Joseph. More features will be forthcoming in future updates. Meanwhile we would appreciate your feedback. Please send your suggestions, comments, or concerns to administration@stmaryseattle.org
Coptic Bible
Explore the Coptic Bible with parallel Greek and English texts. Features an academic mode for in-depth word analysis and robust offline search capabilities. Access all surviving Coptic texts, digitized for modern use.
- Parallel Coptic, Greek, and English texts
- Academic mode for word analysis
- Offline Bible access
- Fast, comprehensive search
- Bookmarking, highlighting, and note-taking
- Light and dark themes
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The Coptic Bible app is a comprehensive reader app featuring all the surviving Coptic texts in every known dialect. This app showcases the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society's efforts to digitize and promote the use of the Coptic Bible, which forms the foundation of all Coptic literature. For reference, Greek and English texts have also been included. App features • Read the Coptic texts of the Bible side by side with Greek and English — up to five columns on iPad, three on iPhone • Academic mode: tap any Bohairic word to see its parts, meaning and grammar, and step word by word through the verse • Fast search across the whole Bible, including phrases that run across verses, filters by book and dialect, and ALL FORMS to find every form of a word from its root • The entire Bible is built into the app and works fully offline • Old Testament English from the Lexham English Septuagint • Bookmark, highlight, take notes, copy or share any verse, all kept in your Library • Jump to any verse in a chapter from the verse rail • Light and dark themes • Never before published texts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StMarySeattle at every 11 days against Coptic Bible's every 4 months. StMarySeattle also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Coptic Bible's advantage is ratings volume (230 vs 16). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 5.0 for StMarySeattle against 4.9 for Coptic Bible. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coptic Bible has 230 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of StMarySeattle's written reviews are positive against 86% of Coptic Bible's.
StMarySeattle ships an update every 11 days, Coptic Bible every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StMarySeattle | Coptic Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better | 4.9 (230 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 230 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Faith Software, Inc. | Mina D. Makar |
Customer experience
StMarySeattle
Coptic Bible
In-app purchases
StMarySeattle
No in-app purchases
Coptic Bible
No in-app purchases
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