Comparison

eBookTreasures vs Manuscript Study Bible

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

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About

eBookTreasures

Explore a curated collection of historically significant handwritten books and manuscripts from renowned figures and institutions. High-resolution images and accompanying text/audio interpretations bring these literary treasures to life. Discover classics like the Gutenberg Bible and Shakespeare's First Folio.

Highlights
  • Collection of original handwritten books and manuscripts
  • High-resolution photography
  • Accompanying text and audio interpretation
  • Includes Gutenberg Bible, Shakespeare's First Folio, etc.
  • Free Medieval Bestiary download
  • In-app purchases for additional books
Features
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eBookTreasures is a growing collection of some of the greatest books in the world. These are the original handwritten books and manuscripts from Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare and many others; the ones that shaped art, science, faith and the world around us. The books are selected from special collections of the great libraries and museums of the world and include the Gutenberg Bible, Shakespeare's First Folio, The Lindisfarne Gospels, Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Arundel and the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland. All the books have been specially photographed in high resolution and many have accompanying text and audio interpretation. The books are available for in-app purchase and we've included an amazing Medieval Bestiary from the British Library to download for free.

About

Manuscript Study Bible

This app provides a Bible translation based exclusively on the earliest manuscript evidence and scholarly consensus, removing texts not attributed to original authors. It allows users to browse original manuscripts behind each verse and experience the text as it was originally written.

Highlights
  • Authentic Bible translation
  • Based on earliest manuscript evidence
  • Removes unverified texts
  • Browse original manuscripts
  • Manuscript Mode for original reading experience
  • Scholarly consensus curation
Features
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Every Bible on the market includes texts that scholars have proven were not written by who they claim. The Manuscript Study Bible is the first to remove them. Built on the KO3 Codex, this is the only Bible app in existence curated exclusively from earliest manuscript evidence and scholarly consensus. Not church councils. Not tradition. Evidence. Containing only the earliest source text of all 4 original Gospels, and only pure accurate theological translation for crucial doctrine WHAT IS NOT INSIDE (AND WHY): No Old Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls proved that scribes were adding material to Old Testament books for centuries, inserting phrases like "thus says the LORD" to give human additions divine authority. Jewish scribal tradition itself admits to at least 18 deliberate changes to the Hebrew text. Multiple competing text traditions (Masoretic, Septuagint, Samaritan, Dead Sea Scroll variants) prove there was never one authoritative Old Testament text. Christ fulfilled the law (Matthew 5:17) and Paul called it obsolete (Galatians 3:23-25). The original manuscripts are gone. What survives cannot be verified. No 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, or Titus. Scholarly consensus identifies these as pseudepigrapha, not written by Paul. No Ephesians, Colossians, or 2 Thessalonians. Disputed authorship with majority scholarly opinion leaning against Pauline origin. No 2 Peter. Nearly universally recognized as one of the latest and least authentic texts in the New Testament. No Revelation. No Hebrews. If it cannot be traced to a verified author or the earliest manuscript tradition, it was excluded No authentic pauline letters either. Paul is often seen as being chosen to come after christ, but going off of the source text that is not what is stated. Jesus was talking about the holy spirit guiding them and being with them, not another physical human. Paul himself thought that the end would come in his lifetime, and it did not. The book of acts has 3 different contradictory conversion accounts as well Paul's own authentic letters can tell us some things about the apostles and christ, but paul himself is not to be trusted as the word of christ, for christ said that the apostles were given the holy spirit, not paul. Christ never even mentioned paul MANUSCRIPT VAULT: Browse the actual manuscripts behind every verse. P46 (~175-225 AD), the earliest collection of Pauline letters. P66 (~200 AD), one of the oldest copies of the Gospel of John. P75 (~175-225 AD), containing Luke and John. Codex Sinaiticus (~330-360 AD) and Codex Vaticanus (~300-325 AD), two of the most complete early manuscripts in existence. Every verse shows which manuscript it comes from and when that manuscript was written. You see the evidence. You decide. MANUSCRIPT MODE: No other Bible app has this. Manuscript Mode strips away the verse numbers, chapter breaks, and formatting that were added centuries after the text was written. The original manuscripts had none of that. The apostles never read numbered verses. Christ never opened a chapter. These were pages of papyrus with continuous lines of Greek text, read straight through the way any letter or document would be read. Manuscript Mode recreates that experience. You read the text the way the people who wrote it and the people who first received it actually read it. No artificial breaks. No imposed structure. Just the words as they were originally set down. It is the most authentic Bible reading experience. Ever WHY THIS EXISTS: For 1,700 years, every major Bible translation has been filtered through the theological conclusions of the Council of Nicaea (325 AD). Translators chose words that supported those conclusions, even when the original Greek allowed for other meanings. The Manuscript Study Bible goes back before that filter. It presents the text as the earliest manuscripts recorded it, with the tools to study the original languages yourself. No agenda. No interpretation forced on you. Just the manuscripts

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eBookTreasures3 screens
Manuscript Study Bible3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Manuscript Study Bible at every 2 months against eBookTreasures's every 21 months. Manuscript Study Bible also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). eBookTreasures's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 27.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. eBookTreasures sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Manuscript Study Bible sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for eBookTreasures against 5.0 for Manuscript Study Bible. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eBookTreasures ships an update every 21 months, Manuscript Study Bible every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
eBookTreasures versus Manuscript Study Bible: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereBookTreasuresManuscript Study Bible
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB17 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperArmadillo SystemsKenneth Schmidt

Customer experience

eBookTreasures

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Manuscript Study Bible

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

14 purchases

eBookTreasures

One-time14
  • Medieval BestiaryFree
  • Alice's Adventures Underground$4.99
  • A Christmas Carol$4.99
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  • The Luttrell Psalter$4.99
  • The Rylands Haggadah$4.99
  • The Lindisfarne Gospels$4.99
  • Sultan Baybars' Qur'an$4.99
  • The Bedford Hours$5.99
  • Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Arundel$5.99
  • The Kelmscott Chaucer$5.99
  • The Gutenberg Bible$5.99
  • Henry VIII's Psalter$5.99
  • The Tyndale Bible$5.99
  • Shakespeare's First Folio$6.99
3 purchases

Manuscript Study Bible

One-time3
  • 5$$4.99
  • 20$$19.99
  • 70$$69.99

Questions

Is eBookTreasures free?
eBookTreasures is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Manuscript Study Bible free?
Manuscript Study Bible is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, eBookTreasures or Manuscript Study Bible?
eBookTreasures and Manuscript Study Bible are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do eBookTreasures or Manuscript Study Bible have ads?
Neither eBookTreasures nor Manuscript Study Bible shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eBookTreasures or Manuscript Study Bible?
eBookTreasures ships an update every 21 months, and Manuscript Study Bible every 2 months. Most recently, eBookTreasures was updated on October 23, 2026 and Manuscript Study Bible on October 24, 2026.

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