erasmus Bible app vs Sacred Scriptorium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
erasmus Bible app
A free Bible study tool offering customized reading plans, note-taking, and verse memorization. It includes 13 Bible versions and downloadable resources like commentaries and maps.
- Customized Bible reading plans
- Editable lists and highlighting
- Text search and multipane view
- Side-by-side parallel passage view
- Prayer journal
- Verse memorization tool
- Reference library with 13 Bible versions
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The erasmus Bible app is a free Bible Study tool that supports customized Bible Reading plans, editable lists, highlighting, text search, multipane view, side-by-side parallel passage view, a prayer journal, and a verse memorization tool. The app includes a reference library of 13 Bible versions: AKJV, ASV, Darby, Douay-Rheims, ERV, KJV, Reina Valera, Textus Receptus 1550 Greek, WEB, Webster, Westminster Leningrad Code Hebrew, Weymouth, and YLT. Additional free libraries can be downloaded from within the app which include commentaries, dictionaries, devotionals, lexicons, maps, hymns, and more.
Sacred Scriptorium
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Every day, Sacred Scriptorium sets a small portion of Scripture on your desk — the next few untranslated verses of the book you've chosen, in the original Greek or Hebrew. You render them in your own words. That's the whole practice: ten minutes, most days, and verse by verse the Scriptures become your own translation. MADE FOR REAL PROGRESS • Today's portion picks up exactly where you left off — no syllabus, no falling behind • Tap any word for its dictionary form, meaning, and full parsing; help when you want it, silence when you don't • Optional transliteration under the Greek while your alphabet confidence grows • A daily streak, and Stats that show how much of the New Testament is in your own words • Peek at the Berean Standard Bible on demand — hidden by default, so the rendering stays yours THE COMPLETE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT All 27 books of the SBL Greek New Testament ship in the app, with word-by-word morphology and the SBLGNT's own critical apparatus for readers who want to see the textual variants. THE HEBREW BIBLE, BOOK BY BOOK A growing set of Hebrew Bible books (Westminster Leningrad Codex) with morpheme-level analysis — prefixes, suffixes, and stems each explained, with qere/ketiv notes. YOUR TRANSLATION, ACCUMULATING • The My Translation shelf fills in verse by verse, book by book • Revise any verse; keep parallel translation sets (a literal pass, a colloquial one) • Write chapter notes right from the translation desk • Study any chapter in side-by-side panes: original, your translation(s), the Berean Standard Bible, and your notes — two panes on iPhone, up to four on iPad and Mac • Compose and share any span of verses as clean prose, with your own paragraphing VOCABULARY THAT STICKS A spaced-repetition trainer built from New Testament frequency tiers quietly grows what you can read unaided — and everything you translate feeds what the app knows you know. FREE TO START, ONE PURCHASE FOR EVERYTHING John, Philippians, and 1 John in Greek, and Jonah and Ruth in Hebrew, are free forever — months of daily practice. A single small one-time purchase unlocks every other book of the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Bible as it grows. No subscription, ever. QUIET BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your translations sync privately through your own iCloud, visible to no one but you. Works fully offline. For pastors keeping a promise to their Greek, students who want daily contact with the text, and curious readers ready to meet the Scriptures in their original languages. Privacy Policy: https://stevenhovater.com/scriptorium-privacy Offered under Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: erasmus Bible app at none against Sacred Scriptorium's 1. erasmus Bible app also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Sacred Scriptorium's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months). On price, ads 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. Sacred Scriptorium sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. erasmus Bible app asks for nothing beyond the download.
erasmus Bible app ships an update every 5 months, Sacred Scriptorium every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 12, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | erasmus Bible app | Sacred Scriptorium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edward Conroy | Steven Hovater |
In-app purchases
erasmus Bible app
No in-app purchases
Sacred Scriptorium
- Pro Unlock$1.99
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