Comparison

The Living Study Bible vs Scriptorium

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

Head to head
About

The Living Study Bible

Access the complete Old and New Testaments with audio playback, bookmarking, and note-taking features. Read the Living Bible offline, search for verses, and navigate easily between books and chapters.

Highlights
  • Old and New Testament
  • Audio playback
  • Bookmark verses
  • Highlighting
  • Note-taking
  • Verse search
  • Offline access
Features
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We are excited to launch The Living Study Bible (TLB) - an iOS application with a user-friendly UI design. This app consists of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. We have included several features such as Audio, Bookmark, Highlights, Notes, Search for a verse, and move to another book or chapter with ease. Now you can read the Living Bible anywhere at any time without the internet. Read and share the verses every day. We will add more features in the bucket list as early as possible. Enjoy your Bible journey! Download The Living Study Bible (TLB) app now! We would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions at balaklr@outlook.com Support us by rating the app. May God bless you all!

About

Scriptorium

This app helps you take sermon notes by automatically inserting Bible verses when referenced. It offers offline access to multiple Bible translations and robust note-taking features like formatting, tagging, and reminders. Share or export your notes easily.

Highlights
  • Automatic Bible verse insertion
  • Offline Bible access
  • Multiple Bible translations
  • Note organization by notebook, preacher, date, tags
  • Reminders for specific lines or verses
  • Search by word, preacher, or reference
  • Dark mode and VoiceOver support
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Scriptorium is for taking notes in church. When the preacher says "turn with me to Romans 8", write Romans 8:28 the way you'd write it anyway. Scriptorium notices the reference and offers to put the verse in; one tap and it's in your note. No flicking between your Bible app and your notes, no copy and paste, and you're still listening when the next point comes. Around that, it's a proper notes app: - Want a verse without waiting to be asked? Type @Romans 8:28, or tap Verse and search. Ranges like John 3:16-18 work too. - Three Bible translations built in: World English Bible British Edition, American Standard Version and Berean Standard Bible. Tap a verse's translation to switch it. - Works offline. The Bible and its topics are stored in the app, so you never need a signal to find a verse. - Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough for your own words. - File each note by notebook, preacher, date and tags. Sermons and Bible Study notebooks are ready from the start. - Mark a line or verse in a note with Remind me, and you'll get a notification reminding you of it a few days later, or at a time you choose. Tap it to open the note. - Search for a word, a preacher or a reference. Search John 3:16 and you'll find every note that quotes it, whichever translation you used. - Search a topic like hope or forgiveness to find verses on it, even before you've written a note. Copy one, share it or add it to a note. Tap Verse while writing and it finds topics too. - Press and hold a verse to see related verses, and add one to your note. - Notes save as you type. Delete something by mistake and it waits in Trash until you decide. - Share a note, with its preacher and date, or a whole notebook as plain text. Or export every note as one text file to read or print. - Back up all your notes to one file, and add them back on a new iPhone or iPad. - Text can go as large as you need, with dark mode and VoiceOver support. - On iPad, your library and the note you're reading sit side by side. What it doesn't do: it doesn't record audio or summarise sermons with AI, and verses on a topic come from a topic index, not AI. It doesn't sync. Your notes stay on the device you write them on until you back them up and move them. There's no account, no ads and no tracking. The app collects nothing. It's free, with no subscription and no trial that runs out. Requires iPhone or iPad on iOS 18 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://qiseda.co.uk/scriptorium/privacy

Screenshots

The Living Study Bible4 screens
Scriptorium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Living Study Bible at 4.7 against Scriptorium's 2.0. The Living Study Bible also leads on ratings volume (172 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Scriptorium's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Living Study Bible holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Living Study Bible has 172 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Living Study Bible ships an update every 2 months, Scriptorium every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
The Living Study Bible versus Scriptorium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Living Study BibleScriptorium
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (172 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings172 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBalasubramaniyan ThambusamyQiseda Ltd

Customer experience

The Living Study Bible

All ratings166 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.6%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Scriptorium

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

The Living Study Bible

No in-app purchases

None

Scriptorium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Living Study Bible free?
The Living Study Bible is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scriptorium free?
Scriptorium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Living Study Bible or Scriptorium?
The Living Study Bible is rated higher. The Living Study Bible averages 4.7 out of 5 from 172 ratings, while Scriptorium averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do The Living Study Bible or Scriptorium have ads?
The Living Study Bible shows ads; Scriptorium does not.
Which is updated more often, The Living Study Bible or Scriptorium?
The Living Study Bible ships an update every 2 months, and Scriptorium every 4 days. Most recently, The Living Study Bible was updated on November 7, 2026 and Scriptorium on November 10, 2026.

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