Don't Forget God's Word vs Engrave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Don't Forget God's Word
This app aids in memorizing and retaining scripture through daily review and verse downloading. It offers audio playback of verses and reminders, with iCloud sync for cross-device access. The application is completely free and ad-free.
- Daily scripture review
- Verse downloading
- Audio playback of verses
- Optional daily reminders
- iCloud sync across devices
- Ad-free experience
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It's easy to memorize scripture, and hard to keep it memorized. Don't Forget God's Word gives you a short daily review of the verses you've learned, so they stay with you. YOUR VERSES • Add a verse by its reference and download it in your translation, or type it in yourself. • The King James Version, Bible in Basic English, Webster's Bible and Young's Literal Translation are built in and work offline. • Translations and book names are suggested as you type, and a downloaded passage's section heading becomes its theme. • Downloaded verses look like your Bible: poetry keeps its lines and indents, "LORD" is in small caps, and the words of Jesus are in red where your translation marks them. • Find any verse by its reference, theme or words, listed in Bible order. A DAILY REVIEW • Each morning at 7, the verses due today come back. Mark each one Memorized, or Skip it for now. • Choose how often each verse comes back, or let Auto-Manage spread them out: daily for a verse's first 30 reviews, about weekly until 100, then about monthly. • Sort by date added, by reference, by number of reviews, or randomly. • A new verse opens in full, so you can read it before you're tested on it. TEST YOURSELF • Hide the theme, the reference or the verse, and press and hold to peek. • Slide to hide part of a verse, a word at a time. • Hide Words hides a share of the words out of order, more as you learn. • Test Me: type the first letter of each hidden word to reveal it. • Hear the theme, reference and verse read aloud. • Hands-free: hold a hand over the top of your iPhone for a moment, or shake it, to mark a verse memorized. STAY WITH IT • An optional reminder each morning, and a badge with the number of verses left today. • Four themes: Dark, Leather, Watermelon and Light. • Share a verse, or email it. • Your verses, review progress and preferences sync across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud. • Back up every verse to a file, and open it on any device to bring them back. FREE AND PRIVATE No account, no ads, no tracking and no in-app purchases. Your verses stay on your devices and in your own iCloud, never with us. Downloaded translations come from the YouVersion Platform under licences from their publishers, and each verse shows its publisher's notice.
Engrave
This app helps users memorize scripture through a structured, daily review process. It guides you through reading, reciting, and cumulative review to ensure long-term retention of biblical passages. Multiple translations and offline functionality are included.
- Daily verse learning and cumulative review
- Six popular Bible translations
- Offline access to passages
- Optional progress sharing with friends/groups
- Minimalist, quiet design with gentle reminders
- Structured memorization phases
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People who memorize whole books of the Bible do not have unusual memories. They showed up every day and did the review. That is the whole method. Engrave exists to make that daily showing-up as frictionless as possible. HOW IT WORKS Phase one. Read the passage aloud fifty times, three or four times a day. You are not memorizing yet. You are letting the words become familiar, which makes everything after it dramatically easier. Phase two. One verse a day, with cumulative review. Each day you recite everything you have learned so far from the reference alone, then learn one new verse. The review is the part that works. It is also the part people skip, so Engrave holds the new verse back until the review is done. Phase three. Once the last verse is learned, recite the whole passage once a day for two or three weeks. That is what turns something you can just about remember into something you still have in a year. SIX TRANSLATIONS English Standard Version, New International Version, New American Standard Bible 1995, Berean Standard Bible, King James Version and World English Bible. WORKS OFFLINE Passages are stored on your device when you add them. After that, every day's work runs with no connection at all. QUIET BY DESIGN One reminder in the morning naming the passage you are working on, and a quiet one in the evening if the day has slipped away. Nothing else. No streak warnings dressed up as encouragement, no badges, and no leaderboards. FRIENDS AND GROUPS Share your progress with a few friends, or work through a passage together as a group. They see which phase you are in, how far along you are, and your streak. They never see your verses or your notes. FREE Engrave is free. There are no in-app purchases, no subscription, no advertising, and your data is never sold. Bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. — Proverbs 3:3
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Engrave at 5.0 against Don't Forget God's Word's 4.4. Engrave also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Don't Forget God's Word's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Don't Forget God's Word sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Engrave asks for nothing beyond the download.
Engrave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Don't Forget God's Word has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Don't Forget God's Word ships an update every 3 months, Engrave every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Don't Forget God's Word | Engrave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dawson Toth | David Hamm |
In-app purchases
Don't Forget God's Word
- 10 More$0.99
- 25 More$1.99
- 50 More$2.99
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- 75 More$3.99
- 100 More$4.99
Engrave
No in-app purchases







