Hymns Mobile vs Original Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hymns Mobile
Access a vast collection of Christian hymns from various eras and languages. Features include lyrics, chords, sheet music, and offline access. Easily search, share, and organize your favorite hymns.
- Thousands of Christian hymns
- Multi-language support
- Chords and sheet music
- Offline access
- Keyword search
- Share lyrics
- Adjustable font size
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This digital hymnal/hymnbook features: - Thousands of Christian hymns, spanning the best of Christian sentiment from the third century to the present day. - Database of hymns including classics, new tunes, new songs, scripture songs, and children's songs. - Multiple language support, including Cebuano, Dutch, French, Spanish, Tagalog, and Chinese traditional and simplified, with pinyin transliteration. - Chords and sheet music for guitar and piano (requires network connection). - Hymn information, including key, time signature, meter, and scripture reference. Special features: - Access hymn lyrics both online and offline. - Look up hymns quickly using the standardized hymn numbers 1-1348 as published in Hymns, by Living Stream Ministry. - Search full hymn lyrics with keyword search feature. - Swipe to browse between consecutive hymns. - Easily share lyrics to external apps including SMS, GroupMe, Facebook, WhatsApp, WeChat, and more. - Adjust font size. - Play hymn instrumentals with pop-up music player controls (requires network connection). - Tag hymns with custom categories for future access. Coming soon: - Advanced search options (search by first line only, exact phrase, etc.). - Quick hymn lookup in other language versions. - Dark mode
Original Bible
A customizable reader for scripture that allows you to personalize your reading experience with color options and a powerful index. Save, copy, learn, and share verses easily. Your preferences are saved locally without needing an account.
- Customizable reader
- Color options
- Powerful index
- Save verses
- Copy verses
- Share verses
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Original Bible is a seamless, and customizable reader for Scripture. Open the Word, pick your colors, browse a powerful Index, save verses, copy, learn and share! Preferences stay on your device. No account required. Created by Christ Supply.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Original Bible at none against Hymns Mobile's 3. Original Bible also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Hymns Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (90 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Hymns Mobile sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Original Bible asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Hymns Mobile against 5.0 for Original Bible. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hymns Mobile has 90 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Hymns Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Original Bible's.
Hymns Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, Original Bible fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hymns Mobile | Original Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (90 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 90 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chong Lu | Luis Rodriguez |
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Hymns Mobile
Original Bible
In-app purchases
Hymns Mobile
- 1 Coffee$4.99
- 5 Coffees$24.99
- 10 Coffees$49.99
Original Bible
No in-app purchases
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