Comparison

Book End vs My Smart Bible

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

Head to head
About

Book End

Easily track your reading progress with this app. Scan or import books, log reading sessions, and receive personalized statistics like reading speed and time remaining predictions. Develop your reading habit with helpful insights.

Highlights
  • Scan, search, and import books
  • Log reading sessions with a timer
  • Generate personalized reading statistics
  • Predict time remaining for books
  • Track reading speed and pages per hour
  • Develop reading habits
Features
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Book End is an app that helps you keep track of the books you're reading and generates reading statistics. Just like how a physical bookend holds up books on a shelf, this app helps you keep your books and reading organised. Book End allows you to easily scan, search and import books that you're reading into the app. Once you have your physical book open, you can use Book End to set a reading session timer. After completing your reading session, return to the app to log it, and it will automatically create personalized statistics for you. These include precise time remaining predictions for each book and exclusive metrics like your reading speed, and average pages read per hour. Overall, Book End helps you stay on track and develop your reading habit.

About

My Smart Bible

Features
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My Smart Bible is built for the quiet moments when you open Scripture and want to stay there. Not a social feed. Not a maze of tabs. Just God's Word, clear study tools, and space to pray, so your heart can keep pace with what you read. Whether you are starting a daily habit, returning after a dry season, or digging into a hard passage, My Smart Bible helps you read with focus, understand with confidence, and carry what you learn into prayer. Open the app and you are in the Word, with tools that serve the verse in front of you. WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM A GREAT BIBLE APP The foundations are here, done simply: • Clean chapter reader with easy book and chapter navigation • Continue where you left off so you never lose your place • 7 Bible translations: KJV, ASV, BSB, UKJV, Jubilee Bible 2000, LITV, and Revised Webster • Preferred translation and reading font size (S to XL) • Highlight verses in 10 colors and find them later • Verse-linked notes, plus freeform notes when a thought needs room • Tag verses with presets like Hope and Peace, or create your own • Share verses through your device share sheet • Reading plans: Bible in a Year, New Testament in 60 Days, Psalms, Proverbs, John, Peace, Anxiety to Trust, and Marriage • Today's plan card, mark complete, and a reading streak that celebrates consistency • Gentle daily reminders for your plan • Private prayer journal with categories, search, and status (Praying, Answered, Not Answered) • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email and password so notes, highlights, and prayers sync • Profile tools for stats, newsletter, and account deletion Serious Bible reading tools, kept clear, private, and close to the text. Scripture always comes first. OPTIONAL STUDY HELP, WHEN YOU WANT IT Many people prefer to keep digital tools humble around the Bible. My Smart Bible includes optional study help that can offer context and plainer language when a passage feels distant or hard to grasp. You never have to leave the chapter to understand what you are reading. Optional tools can offer context, key points, and plainer language (Standard, Simple, or Simplest), help shape a prayer from the verse, save insights to your notes, or let you listen when your eyes are busy. Use them when they serve your reading. Skip them when you want silence with the text alone. • Explain a verse with context and key points, without leaving the reader • Modernize meaning into everyday language (Standard, Simple, or Simplest) • Shape a prayer from a verse, then save it to your journal with the Scripture reference • Save study insights to your notes beside the verse that sparked them • Listen to individual verses with on-demand audio • Weekly encouragement on Home with optional audio • One calm Home hub: greeting, streak, today's plan, continue reading, and encouragement Tap a verse and help opens only if you choose. It supports understanding; it does not replace your pastor, church, or prayerful reading. Generated content is disclosed clearly. OPTIONAL SUPPORT If you choose optional in-app support, it helps keep My Smart Bible available with no ads and no paywalls. Monthly support renews until you cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Cancel anytime. One-time support is also available. Scripture is never locked behind a purchase. KEEP OPENING SCRIPTURE That is the whole aim: a calm place to read, understand, and pray, so God's Word can shape the day you are living. Your notes stay private. Come back whenever you are ready. LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mysmartbible.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Book End4 screens
My Smart Bible4 screens

Verdict

The call

Book End and My Smart Bible are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Book End sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and My Smart Bible sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Book End versus My Smart Bible: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook EndMy Smart Bible
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBenjamin WheelerHiveRef Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Book End

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
3 purchases

My Smart Bible

Subscriptions3
  • Supporter$2.991 Month
  • Contributor$5.991 Month
  • Patron$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Book End free?
Book End is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Smart Bible free?
My Smart Bible is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Book End or My Smart Bible have ads?
Neither Book End nor My Smart Bible shows ads.

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