Coptic Bible vs Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium
Access biographies of saints for any day on the Coptic calendar. Search for saints by title and receive daily reminders to read their stories. This reference tool is available for free.
- Read saint biographies of the day
- Find biographies by Coptic calendar date
- Search biographies by title
- Receive daily saint notifications
- Audio biographies
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Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium allows you to: Read the saint biographies of the day, Find saint biographies by date on the Coptic calendar Search for saint biographies by title Get notifications and reminders to read the biography of today's saint Download for free today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Coptic Bible at 230 against Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium's 8. Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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 — 4.9 for Coptic Bible against 5.0 for Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coptic Bible has 230 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Coptic Bible's written reviews are positive against 100% of Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium's.
| Parameter | Coptic Bible | Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (230 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 230 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mina D. Makar | Serve Continually |
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Coptic Bible
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In-app purchases
Coptic Bible
No in-app purchases
Coptic Orthodox Synaxarium
No in-app purchases
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