Poems vs Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poems
This app helps users memorize poems and long texts through spaced repetition, a method designed for long-term retention. It offers import/export functionality for your learning data, keeping it solely on your device for enhanced security.
- Spaced repetition learning method
- Long-term information retention
- Import and export learning data
- Device-only data storage
- Verification of rhyming knowledge
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Bring poems, speeches and favorite passages into your memory. Choose a poem from the library or add your own text. Learn poems, speeches and other texts with spaced repetition. Reviews adapt to your answers. Practice individual words, or a whole sentence when at least half its words need practice. Answer with first letters. Once you have covered the text, test the whole poem with one initial per sentence. For poems, put each verse on a separate line. Prose is divided into sentences. • New poem • Test the whole poem • Export backup • Import backup
Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev)
This application helps users memorize Bible verses through daily practice and review. It employs a spaced repetition system to optimize learning, allowing users to organize verses into collections and receive hints when needed.
- Organize verses into collections
- Spaced repetition learning
- Daily practice and review
- Verse hinting system
- Quote verses for practice
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This app provides an easy and effective way to learn Bible verses by heart. It assumes that you'll spend at least a few minutes every day learning new verses or reviewing old ones. Features: - Organize your verses into collections. - The practice page will ask you to quote whichever verses are due that day. - Quote the verse to yourself and then click the Show button to see the answer. - If you almost know the verse but can't quite remember it, you can ask for a hint. - The app uses a spaced repetition learning strategy where you practice difficult verses every day and easy verses less frequently.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev) at every 9 days against Poems's monthly. Poems's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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 Poems against 4.8 for Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Poems ships an update monthly, Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev) every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poems | Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RANKA s.r.o. | EthnosDev |
Customer experience
Poems
Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev)
In-app purchases
Poems
No in-app purchases
Memorize Scripture (EthnosDev)
No in-app purchases
