Truth For Life vs Trails Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Trails Connect
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Read the Word together, between Sundays. Trails Connect is the weekly study companion for The Trails Church. Each week your small group works through the same passage — a short pastor-written study with honest questions, answered right in the app. Your reflections autosave and stay private to you and your pastors. WEEKLY STUDY — A guided study for each week: Scripture, teaching, and a few questions worth sitting with. Five short days, at your pace. YOUR GROUP — See your people, share prayer requests, mark "I prayed," and celebrate answered prayers. Meeting Mode walks your group through a simple 30-minute gathering — coffee, Scripture, real conversation. SCRIPTURE MEMORY — Hide the Word in your heart with a gentle daily rhythm: the Emphasis Ladder, fill-in-the-blanks, first letters, and spaced-repetition review. Start from the church's verse pack or add your own. READ — Look up any passage in the ESV, with section headings and poetry formatting, right inside the app. Made for the members of The Trails Church. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible, © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission.
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Verdict
Truth For Life and Trails Connect are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Truth For Life ships an update monthly, Trails Connect every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Truth For Life | Trails Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (424 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 424 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Truth For Life | Brain Builder |
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
Trails Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Truth For Life
No in-app purchases
Trails Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Truth For Life free?
Is Trails Connect free?
Do Truth For Life or Trails Connect have ads?
Which is updated more often, Truth For Life or Trails Connect?
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