Scripture Earth vs Wayfold
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scripture Earth
Access and engage with religious texts in over 1,000 languages through reading, listening, and watching. This app helps integrate daily study with features like note-taking, verse marking, and sharing capabilities.
- Read, listen, and watch religious texts
- Over 1,000 languages supported
- Offline access to content
- Personalized notes and bookmarks
- Verse of the day
- Daily reading reminders
- Share verses on social media
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The ScriptureEarth Bible app allows millions of people to read, listen, and watch God's Word in over 1,000 languages from all over the world, and that number is growing daily. It assists in helping you make God's Word a part of your life, each and every day. Use it to read and study His Word—recording your notes so you can carry them wherever you go, even offline. Use it to share God's Word with your friends. Many languages include audio, Bible reading plans, video books, and glossaries. Features: • Mark a verse with color. • Add bookmarks. • Add personal notes to a verse, copy it, or share it. • Verse of the day. • Daily reading reminder. • Choose between multiple interface languages. • Enable Automatic text highlighting while the audio plays. • Link to Scripture videos on the Web. • Share a verse image on social media.
Wayfold
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Bible study you can lead: read a chapter, answer the questions, and see the exact verse that proves each answer. Start free with Ruth and Jonah, including their printable small-group leader guides. Made for personal study, Bible study groups and small-group leaders who want to follow the text closely: what happens, in what order, where, and which words prove it. STUDY A BOOK, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER Six study books, 21 chapters: Ruth and Jonah free; Philippians, James, Habakkuk and Philemon with Premium Lifetime. • Read the full chapter in the World English Bible, or have it read aloud • Answer a few questions about what happened, then see the exact words in the chapter that answer each one • Trace: put the chapter's main events in order, each tied to the verse where it happens • Find the verse: you get a prompt, then tap the line in the chapter that answers it • Go deeper: short notes on history, language and meaning, each marked as what the text says, history, interpretation or debated • Write a notebook entry for every chapter, and export your notebook LEAD A SMALL GROUP • Printable leader guides (PDF) for a single chapter or a whole book • Each session has an introduction, the outline in order, questions with an answer key and verses, a background note, the places named and a reflection question • Print, save to Files, AirDrop or email them. The Ruth and Jonah guides are free A BIBLE MAP FOR EVERY CHAPTER • 774 of the Bible's 1,189 chapters mention a place, and Wayfold shows those places on a map • Open a chapter in the reader to see the places it mentions; open a place to see every chapter that mentions it • 64 key places on Apple Maps, each labeled with how sure scholars are of the location: well established, likely, debated, uncertain or unknown (map tiles need a connection) • 10 journeys to step through stop by stop, including Abraham, the Exodus, Ruth and Naomi, David, Elijah, Jonah, the life of Jesus and Paul's travels to Rome • A Bible timeline of 27 events, each marked as a firm date, approximate, traditional or debated, or undated BACKGROUND, WHEN YOU NEED IT • 63 short background lessons on people, places and covenants, from Creation to the early Church • 60 connections between passages written centuries apart, revealed inside the lessons • 113 plain-English notes on words like covenant, tabernacle and Son of Man, tappable inside the reader • 93 people with their passages and the journeys they took HONEST BY DESIGN • Scripture is quoted word for word, never paraphrased • Every explanation is labeled: In the text, History, Interpretation, Traditions differ, or Debated • Sources named for history and language notes • Protestant (66 books) and Catholic (73 books) Bibles both included; choose yours • Nothing is generated while you use it; every quotation is checked against the bundled Bible text AN OFFLINE BIBLE READER • The complete World English Bible on your device • Listen with your device's built-in voice, with a sleep timer • Highlights and private notes (Premium) • Search people, places, ideas and verses PRIVATE No account, no ads, no tracking. Your notes and progress stay on your device. FREE: the Ruth and Jonah studies and their leader guides, the complete Bible reader with read-aloud and search, the map with all 64 places and the places in every chapter, the timeline, 4 of the 10 journeys and 7 of the 63 background lessons. WAYFOLD PREMIUM LIFETIME: one optional, one-time purchase. No subscription and nothing renews. Adds the Philippians, James, Habakkuk and Philemon studies and their leader guides, all 10 journeys, all 63 background lessons, highlights and notes. Restore it on any device signed in to your Apple Account. Free study guides and Bible place pages: https://wayfold.rork.app/bible-study-guides Terms: https://wayfold.rork.app/terms Privacy: https://wayfold.rork.app/privacy Scripture quotations: World English Bible (public domain). Place data: OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scripture Earth at none against Wayfold's 1. Scripture Earth also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Wayfold's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 8 months). On price, ads 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. Wayfold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scripture Earth asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scripture Earth ships an update every 8 months, Wayfold daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scripture Earth | Wayfold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc (SIL) | James Gray |
In-app purchases
Scripture Earth
No in-app purchases
Wayfold
- Wayfold Lifetime$89.99






