Doctrinal Mastery vs Doctrinal Mastery Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doctrinal Mastery
This app aids members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in memorizing and learning key scripture passages and articles of faith. It offers interactive learning activities like flashcards and quizzes to deepen understanding and recall.
- Study doctrinal mastery passages
- Learn Articles of Faith
- Memorization activities
- Flashcard review
- Quiz feature
- Import content from Gospel Library
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The Doctrinal Mastery app helps members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints study and learn the 100 seminary doctrinal mastery passages, the Articles of Faith, and other content imported using the sharing feature within the Gospel Library app. The learning activities include memorizing, reviewing flashcards, and taking a quiz. Memorizing scriptures can provide a powerful source of inspiration in times of need.
Doctrinal Mastery Plus
This app aids students and teachers in learning seminary doctrinal mastery scriptures. It offers study modes by doctrine or course, and quiz modes with matching, multiple choice, or word slide options to test understanding of scripture verses, key statements, and summaries.
- Learn scriptures by doctrine or course
- Study modes for Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants
- Quiz modes: matching, multiple choice, word slide
- Focus study on scripture verse, key statement, or summary
- Familiarize with scriptures, summaries, and key statements
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Are you a student or teacher trying to learn the seminary doctrinal mastery scriptures? The Doctrinal Mastery Plus app will help you familiarize yourself with the scriptures, summaries and key statements. You can choose study mode and learn the doctrinal mastery scriptures by doctrine, or by course (Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, or Doctrine and Covenants). Then when you are ready to test your understanding you can choose quiz mode. You can select one of three quiz types: matching, multiple choice or word slide. In addition, you can further emphasize what you would like to study: the scripture verse, the key statement, or the summary. The Doctrinal Mastery Plus app is a fun and useful way to help you understand the key doctrines of the restoration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Doctrinal Mastery Plus at 5.0 against Doctrinal Mastery's 4.3. Doctrinal Mastery Plus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). Doctrinal Mastery's advantage is ratings volume (234 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Doctrinal Mastery Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doctrinal Mastery has 234 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Doctrinal Mastery's written reviews are positive against 100% of Doctrinal Mastery Plus's.
Doctrinal Mastery ships an update every 8 months, Doctrinal Mastery Plus every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doctrinal Mastery | Doctrinal Mastery Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (234 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 234 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | ThorderCODE |
Customer experience
Doctrinal Mastery
Doctrinal Mastery Plus
Bugs and requests
Doctrinal Mastery
Reported bugs
4 issues- Blank Articles of Faith questions
- Score always shows as '0' in quizzes
- Formatting issues with scripture display
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to delete/edit added scriptures
- Implement random order for quizzes and flashcards
- Include audio for scripture verses
- Add support for syncing across devices
- Provide option to select specific scripture sets to study
Doctrinal Mastery Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Doctrinal Mastery
No in-app purchases
Doctrinal Mastery Plus
No in-app purchases
