Biblical Year vs Bible Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Biblical Year
This app offers multiple Bible reading plans, including a year-long option, to help users engage with scripture daily. It allows for progress tracking and provides reminders to maintain consistency and foster spiritual growth.
- Biblical Year reading plan
- Multiple daily/weekly plans
- Progress tracking
- Motivation reminders
- Distraction-free interface
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Read the Bible your way with multiple Bible reading plans. Follow the Biblical Year plan to read the Bible in one year, or choose from a variety of daily and weekly Bible reading plans. Track your progress, stay motivated, and grow in faith—one day at a time. Features: • Biblical Year plan: read the Bible in one year • Multiple reading plans for daily or weekly use • Track your progress and milestones • Stay consistent and motivated with reminders • Simple, clean interface for distraction-free reading Perfect for personal devotion, Bible study, or small groups. Start your Bible reading journey today and follow your favorite plan!
Bible Planner
Read the entire Bible in a year with daily passages, progress tracking, and verse-level notes. Access offline Bible translations, study overviews, and AI-powered chat. Sync your progress across devices with customizable themes and font sizes.
- Offline Bible reading
- Yearly reading plans
- Progress tracking
- Verse highlighting and notes
- Daily study overviews
- Cross-device syncing
- Customizable themes
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Read the whole Bible in one year: the plan, the Bible text and the study in one app. Download your Bible translation, read the day's passage and track your progress by book, chapter and verse. THE WHOLE BIBLE, OFFLINE Pick a translation, download it once and read with no connection. All 66 books, chapter by chapter, inside the plan. TWO 1-YEAR PLANS • Books order — Genesis to Revelation • Chronological order — the events as they happened 52 weeks of short daily readings. PROGRESS AND STREAK Progress by book, chapter and verse. The plan card shows your streak, the week you are on and how much of the year is left. HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES, ON THE VERSE Highlight verses in colour and write notes straight onto the passage. STUDY AND CHAT Every reading comes with an overview of the passage, its historical context and questions to sit with — plus a chat that already knows the day's text. YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR DEVICES Sign in and your progress, highlights and notes are saved to the server and synced across iPhone and iPad. Change devices and you lose nothing. YOURS Light and dark themes, adjustable font and text size, in English, Portuguese and Spanish. FREE AND PRO Free: the reading plan, the full Bible, progress tracking and highlights. Pro: unlimited AI day study and chat, unlimited notes, and the full highlight palette. Subscription: Bible Planner Pro, monthly or annual. The price is shown on the subscription screen before purchase and varies by region. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; management and cancellation are in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.bibleplanner.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.bibleplanner.app/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Biblical Year at none against Bible Planner's 2. Biblical Year also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Bible Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). On price, rating and device support 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. Bible Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Biblical Year asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Biblical Year against 5.0 for Bible Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Biblical Year's written reviews are positive against 75% of Bible Planner's.
Biblical Year ships an update every 8 days, Bible Planner every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Biblical Year | Bible Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gadiel Reyes | Antonio Vieira |
Customer experience
Biblical Year
Bible Planner
In-app purchases
Biblical Year
No in-app purchases
Bible Planner
- Monthly Premium$5.991 Month
- Annual Premium$39.991 Year
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