Bound Bible vs Pure Bible Focus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bound Bible
This app offers a distraction-free reading experience of the Bible, with over 30 translations available offline. Share verses easily as images or text, and enjoy a clean, bookmark-like tab system. It's completely free with no ads or subscriptions.
- 36+ offline Bible translations
- Share verses as image or text
- Tab system for bookmarking
- Dark mode
- Localized for international readers
- Bible Drill for verse exploration
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The Bible app that gets out of your way. Bound Bible is free, offline, and completely ad-free. No account. No subscription. Just open it and read. Millions of people want a simple Bible app that doesn't ask for anything — no sign-ups, no upsells, no notifications begging you to come back. Bound Bible is that app. 30+ translations, all offline KJV, WEB, NIV-style, and many more — downloaded to your device so you always have access, even without Wi-Fi or cell service. Share a verse in seconds Send any verse as a beautiful image or plain text. Perfect for texting a friend, posting on social media, or saving for yourself. Feels like a real Bible The tab system works like ribbon bookmarks. The typography is clean. The pages are calm. No clutter, no distractions — just Scripture. Available in multiple languages Bound Bible is now localized for readers around the world. What you won't find here No ads. No paywalled content. No account required. No subscription — ever. Features • 36+ Bible translations, fully offline • Share verses as an image or text • Tab system — like ribbon bookmarks in a physical Bible • Dark mode with enhanced readability • Localized for international readers • Bible Drill for verse exploration • Completely free — no ads, no subscription
Pure Bible Focus
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Pure Bible Focus is for learning a passage by heart. It shows you the King James text with some of it taken away, and gives it back the moment you ask. BUILD THE VERSE FROM ITS OWN WORDS Tap the quiz button and some of the verse's words go missing, set out beneath it as shuffled chips. Put them back in the order the verse says them. You begin with five words missing and move Easier or Harder — three, five, eight, thirteen and on, each level about as much again as the last two — and each verse remembers its own level. Every press brings different words and a fresh shuffle, so a verse is learned by heart rather than by where the chips sat. Repeated words share one chip, the blank to fill next is lit, and the words of Christ stay in red. PROGRESS A calendar of the days you practiced, and the verses you have not come back to. No percentages and no streak to break. THE SPEED READER One word at a time — or two, or three — comes to the middle of the screen and gives way to the next, so your eyes never move. Set the pace and the size, read a verse, a range or the whole chapter, and let it come round again until you stop it. ONE VERSE AT A TIME Put a single verse alone on the page, sized to fit, and swipe up for the next. HIDE THE WORDS YOU KNOW Choose the words to take out of the page — any word the King James uses, or a wildcard like lamb* that covers lamb, lambs and every other form at once. What is hidden leaves a blank where it stood, so the shape of the verse is still there to think against. One switch on the bar puts every word back, and another puts them away again, without losing the list you built. TAKE A WORD DOWN TO A CLUE Three ways, and you choose which the switch applies: • Ends — In t-e b-------g G-d • Consonants — -n th- b-g-nn-ng G-d • Vowels — I- --e -e-i--i-- -o- Every dash stands for exactly one letter, so the line keeps its length and a word you half-remember is still the right shape on the page. READ IT BACKWARDS Reverse the words of every verse and the sentence you have been reciting from memory stops carrying you along. The punctuation stays where the text put it; only the words move. PRESS A VERSE TO SEE IT WHOLE Hold any verse and it comes back in full — nothing hidden, nothing masked, in its own order. Hold it again and it goes back under the lens. Several verses can stand open at once, and turning the page forgets them, because it is a glance rather than a setting. GIVE A WORD WEIGHT Mark the words a passage turns on and they stand out in size and colour wherever they appear. Nothing is reordered and nothing is added — emphasis changes how a word looks and never what the verse says. THE WHOLE KING JAMES, IN YOUR HAND The 1769 King James is inside the app: 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses. Swipe left and right to turn the page and the text follows your finger, from Genesis straight through to Revelation. Tap any word for its Strong's number, with the Hebrew or Greek word behind it, its transliteration, pronunciation and definition; for Noah Webster's 1828 — the edition that defines the English the King James is written in; and for where that word falls in the verse, the chapter, the book and the whole Bible, with its letters, vowels and consonants counted. KEEP THE VERSES YOU ARE WORKING ON Bookmark a verse from the word sheet or by holding it, file it in folders of your own, and come back to it by name. NOTHING ELSE No account. No network. No advertising, no analytics, nothing collected. The whole Bible is inside the app, so it works with the phone in airplane mode, and it is free. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE Pure Bible Focus is built on the data model of King James Pure Bible Search written by Donna Whisnant at purebiblesearch.com, and follows it deliberately, down to the text and the way it is printed. The Strong's numbers over the King James are from The Bible Foundation for the Old Testament and the KJV2003 Project at CrossWire for the New.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pure Bible Focus at every 9 days against Bound Bible's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bound Bible ships an update every 3 weeks, Pure Bible Focus every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bound Bible | Pure Bible Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Hagen | Edmund Trujillo |
In-app purchases
Bound Bible
No in-app purchases
Pure Bible Focus
No in-app purchases





