Life Essentials QR Reader vs 40
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Life Essentials QR Reader
Access over 1,500 biblical principles with connected teaching videos. Scan QR codes from a study Bible or select principles directly to instantly view video content. Save favorites and track your viewing history for a deeper understanding of scripture.
- Scan QR codes for video access
- Select principles for instant videos
- 1,500 teaching videos
- Save favorite videos
- Track watched videos
- Gene Getz teachings
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The Life Essentials Study Bible contains 1,500 principles to live by connected to teaching videos from Gene Getz. This app allows you to scan the QR codes in the Study Bible or select the individual principles for instant access to the 1,500 teaching videos. By using this app, you will be able to save your favorite videos and keep track of which videos you have watched. The teaching videos from Gene Getz elaborate on 1,500 principles in Scripture that are as relevant today as when the sixty- six books of the Bible were written. Distilling these truths into principles, Getz helps you more easily remember and effectively apply the Bible's wisdom to everyday life. He explains how each of these principles represents a supracultural truth - one that can and should be applied at any moment in history and in every cultural situation.
40
This app provides a structured, year-long program for intentional discipleship between Christian followers. It includes daily devotionals, reflection questions, a prayer journal, and scripture study tools to foster spiritual growth and equip users to make disciples.
- Year-long discipleship program
- Daily devotional readings
- Reflection and discussion questions
- Digital prayer journal
- Scripture study with CAMP Method
- Equips users to make disciples
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If you decided to seriously invest time and energy in helping someone become a committed disciple of Christ, would you know what to do or where to start? Dr. D.J. Horton has created a tool to help you! 40 is a one-of-a-kind app designed to be used between Christ-followers in an intentional discipleship relationship for approximately one year. This app contains the full content of D.J.’s two-part book, 40, and allows you to reuse the app as you continue discipling others. With daily devotional readings, reflection and discussion questions, a digital prayer journal, and Scripture to study using the CAMP Method created by D.J., this app will help you become a more devoted disciple of Jesus and a disciple maker for Jesus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Life Essentials QR Reader at Free against 40's $19.99. Life Essentials QR Reader also leads on ratings volume (600 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 40's advantage is chart position (#12 vs unranked). On rating, 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
Life Essentials QR Reader is free to download; 40 costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Life Essentials QR Reader against 5.0 for 40. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life Essentials QR Reader has 600 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Life Essentials QR Reader ships an update every 5 months, 40 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life Essentials QR Reader | 40 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (600 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 600 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #12 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lifeway Christian Resources | Living Worthy Ministries, LLC |
Customer experience
Life Essentials QR Reader
40
Bugs and requests
Life Essentials QR Reader
Reported bugs
2 issues- Video playback issues
- Importing data issue rendering app unusable
Requested features
2 requests- Bookmarking capability to easily pick up where left off
- Improve video playback controls
40
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Life Essentials QR Reader
No in-app purchases
40
No in-app purchases
Questions
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