LCWords vs Daybread
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LCWords
Access daily inspirational Bible verses, meditate on their meaning, and categorize them. Create shareable images with verses on attractive backgrounds. Search or browse for specific messages.
- Daily inspirational Bible verse
- Meditate and categorize verses
- Share verses on attractive backgrounds
- Search and browse verse database
- Multiple language support
Read full descriptionHide full description
Read, meditate on & share words from the Bible with the LCWords app! * Read a new inspirational verse from the Bible each day. * Meditate on it and assign a category that best fits the verse from your perspective. * Place the verse on an attractive background and share with others. * Search or browse our database if you need a different message to choose from. Best of all, the app is totally free, contains no ads and Lifewords does not collect any of your personal data. P.S. The app and the biblical texts are available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
Daybread
Receive a single, curated Bible verse on your home screen each morning. Reflect on scripture privately with an integrated journal and build a daily reading habit. Supports offline access and multiple translations.
- Daily curated Bible verses
- Home screen widget
- Gentle daily reminders
- Private journaling
- Streak counter for habit building
- Offline access to two translations
- Verse sharing
Read full descriptionHide full description
One verse. Every morning. That's the whole app. Daybread delivers a single hand-picked Bible verse to your home screen each day. No feeds. No ads. No accounts. No distractions. Just a quiet moment of scripture, made for daily reading. ONE VERSE A DAY 400 carefully curated verses across themes of comfort, hope, strength, faith, grace, joy, prayer, gratitude, wisdom, and more. Every morning a different one. Same verse on all your Apple devices. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Pin Daybread to your home screen and see today's verse without opening the app. Small and Medium widget sizes. Updates automatically each morning. GENTLE DAILY REMINDER Pick a time and Daybread will send one calm notification when your verse is ready. 6:00 AM by default. Change it anytime in Settings, or skip notifications entirely. PRIVATE JOURNAL Write a short reflection on any verse. Your notes stay only on your device — they never leave your phone. Browse your past reflections in the Journal tab. Like quiet morning pages, one verse at a time. BUILD A HABIT A streak counter tracks how many days in a row you've read. Designed to encourage a habit, not to punish you for missing. TWO TRANSLATIONS, OFFLINE • Berean Standard Bible (BSB) — clear, modern, public domain. Recommended for everyday reading. • King James Version (KJV) — the classic 1611 translation. Both are bundled with the app and work without an internet connection. PRIVACY BY DESIGN • Zero ads • Zero tracking • Zero analytics • No accounts, no email, no sign-up • No backend servers — your data physically cannot leave your device because we have nowhere to send it • iOS encrypts your notes at rest SHARE GENEROUSLY Send a verse to a friend in any messaging app, perfectly formatted with reference and translation. Made for daily quiet — no community to scroll, no lessons to buy, no tier to upgrade. Just one verse, every morning, for you. Start your day with scripture. Simple. Quiet. Daily.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: LCWords at 93 against Daybread's 3. LCWords also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Daybread's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daybread holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LCWords has 93 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of LCWords's written reviews are positive against 100% of Daybread's.
LCWords ships an update every 2 months, Daybread fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LCWords | Daybread |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (93 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SGM Lifewords Ltd | Andrew Howlett |
Customer experience
LCWords
Daybread
In-app purchases
LCWords
No in-app purchases
Daybread
No in-app purchases









