Comparison

Message Bible (MSG) Audio* vs My Smart Bible

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Message Bible (MSG) Audio*

Access and study the Message translation of the Holy Bible with audio playback, reading plans, and customization options. Features include offline access, shareable verse images, and note-taking capabilities.

Highlights
  • Offline reading
  • Audio Bible playback
  • Customizable fonts and text size
  • Verse image creation
  • Highlighting and bookmarking
  • Verse sharing
  • Note-taking
Features
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Read Message Bible (MSG) Audio with Audio, Many Reading Plans, Attractive UI and much more. Download Now! Message Bible (MSG) Audio is the best Application to carry God’s Word. Have the Holy Bible at your fingertips anytime and anywhere you go. Message Bible (MSG) Audio app contains the Old Testament and New Testament, providing an easier way to feel God’s word in your heart and to feel heaven closer to you and your loved ones. Carry Message Bible (MSG) Audio wherever and whenever you want to help enlighten your mind with the most complete, fast and easy to use daily Bible. The Holy Bible includes: Works Offline: Reach the spiritual objective by reading all the Books, chapters and verses from Message Bible (MSG) Audio App on your device. Audio Bible: Listen the high-quality audio version when you have internet. Listen the speech to text service when you don’t have internet connection. Easy Reading: The Holy Bible has made reading much easier by customizing the fonts, text size, and brightness. Read over image: Message Bible (MSG) Audio has set of high-quality images to make the test verses into HD verse images to be shared for, to all your friends across the world. Awesome UI: Attractive User Interface to have pleasant reading experience Customize your Holy Bible: Daily verse: Create the amazing bible verse images with an easy designing tools of Holy Bible app. Highlights: Select custom colors to highlight the verses. Bookmark: Bookmark the page for easy resuming to read, find and for the memorizing of favourites in every chapter in The Holy Bible app Share verses with friends: The Holy Bible app serves to share your love for Jesus with friends across the world on social media via email, or SMS/text Notes: The Holy Bible app protects the user’s privacy to keep the notes private and also in public to share with friends Start your day fresh with a Daily Verse and Carry your soft-copy of Message Bible (MSG) Audio with you anytime and anyplace you are or wish to go, and share God's Word to spread light and love to your close ones. Message Bible (MSG) Audio offers immaculate friendly features that will make your daily Bible reading a wonderful experience. Download Now! Help us spread God’s word by sharing Message Bible (MSG) Audio with your friends. Subscriptions are available for purchase inside this app. Life time subscription 1-Year subscription (automatically renewed until canceled) Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the same price for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period unless you change your subscription preferences in your account settings. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription of that publication, wherever applicable. Please visit http://bibleall.net/Privacy_Policy.html for our Privacy Policy and http://bibleall.net/Terms_Conditions.html for our Terms & Conditions. We value your feedback and welcome any comments you may have to help improve our services. Please write to us at feedback@bibleall.net and we'll be happy to hear from you. Join with Us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BibleAllOfficial Web: https://www.bibleall.net

About

My Smart Bible

Features
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My Smart Bible is built for the quiet moments when you open Scripture and want to stay there. Not a social feed. Not a maze of tabs. Just God's Word, clear study tools, and space to pray, so your heart can keep pace with what you read. Whether you are starting a daily habit, returning after a dry season, or digging into a hard passage, My Smart Bible helps you read with focus, understand with confidence, and carry what you learn into prayer. Open the app and you are in the Word, with tools that serve the verse in front of you. WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM A GREAT BIBLE APP The foundations are here, done simply: • Clean chapter reader with easy book and chapter navigation • Continue where you left off so you never lose your place • 7 Bible translations: KJV, ASV, BSB, UKJV, Jubilee Bible 2000, LITV, and Revised Webster • Preferred translation and reading font size (S to XL) • Highlight verses in 10 colors and find them later • Verse-linked notes, plus freeform notes when a thought needs room • Tag verses with presets like Hope and Peace, or create your own • Share verses through your device share sheet • Reading plans: Bible in a Year, New Testament in 60 Days, Psalms, Proverbs, John, Peace, Anxiety to Trust, and Marriage • Today's plan card, mark complete, and a reading streak that celebrates consistency • Gentle daily reminders for your plan • Private prayer journal with categories, search, and status (Praying, Answered, Not Answered) • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email and password so notes, highlights, and prayers sync • Profile tools for stats, newsletter, and account deletion Serious Bible reading tools, kept clear, private, and close to the text. Scripture always comes first. OPTIONAL STUDY HELP, WHEN YOU WANT IT Many people prefer to keep digital tools humble around the Bible. My Smart Bible includes optional study help that can offer context and plainer language when a passage feels distant or hard to grasp. You never have to leave the chapter to understand what you are reading. Optional tools can offer context, key points, and plainer language (Standard, Simple, or Simplest), help shape a prayer from the verse, save insights to your notes, or let you listen when your eyes are busy. Use them when they serve your reading. Skip them when you want silence with the text alone. • Explain a verse with context and key points, without leaving the reader • Modernize meaning into everyday language (Standard, Simple, or Simplest) • Shape a prayer from a verse, then save it to your journal with the Scripture reference • Save study insights to your notes beside the verse that sparked them • Listen to individual verses with on-demand audio • Weekly encouragement on Home with optional audio • One calm Home hub: greeting, streak, today's plan, continue reading, and encouragement Tap a verse and help opens only if you choose. It supports understanding; it does not replace your pastor, church, or prayerful reading. Generated content is disclosed clearly. OPTIONAL SUPPORT If you choose optional in-app support, it helps keep My Smart Bible available with no ads and no paywalls. Monthly support renews until you cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Cancel anytime. One-time support is also available. Scripture is never locked behind a purchase. KEEP OPENING SCRIPTURE That is the whole aim: a calm place to read, understand, and pray, so God's Word can shape the day you are living. Your notes stay private. Come back whenever you are ready. LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mysmartbible.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Message Bible (MSG) Audio*4 screens
My Smart Bible4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: My Smart Bible at none against Message Bible (MSG) Audio*'s shown. Message Bible (MSG) Audio*'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Message Bible (MSG) Audio* sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per year and My Smart Bible sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Message Bible (MSG) Audio* versus My Smart Bible: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMessage Bible (MSG) Audio*My Smart Bible
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 42 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRAVINDHIRAN ANANDHiveRef Pty Ltd

Bugs and requests

Message Bible (MSG) Audio*

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Audio reading from different Bible version
  • App gets stuck on cover page
  • Verses showing future dates
  • Feedback page not working

Requested features

3 requests
  • Fix difficulty creating images
  • Add copy-paste option for verses
  • Improve text formatting and wrapping

My Smart Bible

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Message Bible (MSG) Audio*

Subscriptions1
  • Ads Free Version - AutoOneYear$5.491 Year
One-time2
  • Ads Free Version - One Year$4.99
  • Ads Free Version - Life Time$7.99
3 purchases

My Smart Bible

Subscriptions3
  • Supporter$2.991 Month
  • Contributor$5.991 Month
  • Patron$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Message Bible (MSG) Audio* free?
Message Bible (MSG) Audio* is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Smart Bible free?
My Smart Bible is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Message Bible (MSG) Audio* or My Smart Bible have ads?
Message Bible (MSG) Audio* shows ads; My Smart Bible does not.

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