Comparison

Truth For Life vs Renewing Your Mind

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

Head to head
About

Truth For Life

Access daily Bible teaching and devotionals from Alistair Begg. Explore a free sermon library, follow a Bible reading plan, and read articles on various topics. The app also includes the ESV Bible with audio playback.

Highlights
  • Daily Bible teaching programs
  • Daily devotional readings
  • Bible reading plan
  • Free searchable sermon library
  • ESV Bible with audio
  • Save favorite content
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The Truth For Life app brings you daily Bible teaching from Alistair Begg. Learn how to apply God’s Word to your everyday life by listening to the daily program, reading or listening to the daily devotional, and learning from the free sermon library. Features: • Easily listen to today’s program from Alistair Begg. • Begin or end your day reading or listening to Alistair Begg’s daily devotional. • Follow the daily Bible reading plan to read or listen to the entire Bible in one year. • Read articles from Alistair Begg that explore what Scripture teaches on a wide variety of topics. • View or listen to nearly 3,000 sermons in the free searchable sermon library. • Access the complete ESV Bible, and even choose to have the text read to you. • Save your favorite devotions or sermons in your personal library. For more information about Truth For Life or Alistair Begg, please visit https://www.tfl.org/about. To submit a bug or feature request, visit https://www.tfl.org/contact.

About

Renewing Your Mind

This daily devotional guide offers a verse or short passage for memorization, meditation, and understanding. It aims to facilitate spiritual transformation through daily scripture engagement, guided by the Holy Spirit.

Highlights
  • Daily scripture verse or passage
  • Memorization prompts
  • Meditation guidance
  • Scripture meaning exploration
  • Spiritual transformation focus
Features
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The purpose of this daily devotional guide is simply to facilitate this process by providing a verse or short passage to memorize, meditate upon, learn the meaning of, and delight upon each day. If you will read, think, and meditate upon these Scriptures, you will find that the Holy Spirit will make transformation take place.

Screenshots

Truth For Life4 screens
Renewing Your Mind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Renewing Your Mind at 5.0 against Truth For Life's 4.5. Renewing Your Mind also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). Truth For Life's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (424 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Renewing Your Mind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Truth For Life has 424 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Truth For Life ships an update monthly, Renewing Your Mind every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Truth For Life versus Renewing Your Mind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTruth For LifeRenewing Your Mind
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (424 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings424 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.18.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTruth For LifeMaterna Communications Sp. z o.o.

Customer experience

Truth For Life

All ratings424 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral4.5%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews81 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

Renewing Your Mind

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Truth For Life

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App crashes when resuming previously played sermons
  • Blank white screen when selecting sermons
  • Favorites page freezes and becomes unresponsive
  • Audio playback stops after a few minutes of listening
  • App loops back to archive when selecting wallpaper types
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  • Landscape mode not functioning properly on iPad
  • Downloads won't play offline
  • App won't connect to downloads using cellular data
  • Audio continues playing over Bluetooth after app closure
  • Lock screen causes audio to pause unexpectedly
  • App crashes on older iOS versions

Requested features

10 requests
  • Playback speed options (1.5x, 2x speed)
  • Play all option for sermon series
  • Listening history/resume feature
  • Landscape mode support for devotionals
  • Audio narration for daily Bible readings
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  • Easier access to downloaded sermons
  • Continuous playback without returning to devotional page
  • Ability to go back to previous app version
  • Improved search and filter functionality
  • Offline access to past daily programs

Renewing Your Mind

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Truth For Life

No in-app purchases

None

Renewing Your Mind

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Truth For Life free?
Truth For Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Renewing Your Mind free?
Renewing Your Mind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Truth For Life or Renewing Your Mind?
Renewing Your Mind is rated higher. Truth For Life averages 4.5 out of 5 from 424 ratings, while Renewing Your Mind averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Truth For Life or Renewing Your Mind have ads?
Neither Truth For Life nor Renewing Your Mind shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Truth For Life or Renewing Your Mind?
Truth For Life ships an update monthly, and Renewing Your Mind every 8 months. Most recently, Truth For Life was updated on November 1, 2026 and Renewing Your Mind on November 2, 2026.

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