Comparison

Shepherd vs Seek

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

Head to head
About

Shepherd

This app offers a customizable Bible reading experience with multiple translations and reading modes. It includes study tools like highlighting, note-taking, and smart bookmarks, along with offline access to translations. Users can also generate shareable verse images and ask questions for deeper understanding.

Highlights
  • Multiple Bible translations
  • Study Bible and text-only modes
  • Customizable themes and icons
  • Verse highlighting and searchable library
  • Note-taking on any passage
  • Smart bookmarking
  • Offline translation downloads
  • Ask questions for deeper understanding
Features
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Put Scripture on every screen you look at. Shepherd turns your iPhone into a daily reminder of God's Word — with widgets for your home screen and lock screen, an auto-updating verse wallpaper, and a studio for turning any verse into something beautiful enough to share. WIDGETS FOR EVERY SCREEN • Verse of the Day on your home screen, in small, medium, large, and iPad sizes • Lock screen widgets, so today's verse is there every time you check the time • Choose what your widget shows: the daily verse, the passage you're reading, or daily artwork • Pick your translation and theme for each widget DAILY VERSE WALLPAPER • A fresh wallpaper with today's verse, every day — set it up once and it updates automatically • Two styles: the classic antique look, or daily artwork created for each day's verse • Matches light and dark mode on its own THE VERSE IMAGE STUDIO • Turn any verse into a shareable image in seconds • 50 hand-crafted antique palettes — parchment, oxblood, sage, midnight ink, and more • A library of classic serif typefaces • Square, Story, landscape, and wallpaper formats • Use your own photos as backgrounds, or generate unique AI verse artwork A READER THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY • Six translations: KJV, NIV, ESV, NLT, NKJV, NASB • Download translations for offline reading • Highlights, notes, and a bookmark that syncs across your devices • The words of Jesus in red • Fast full-text search SHEPHERD STUDIO (optional subscription) Everything above is free — the daily verse, the widgets, the wallpaper automation, and the starter studio. Shepherd Studio unlocks the full creative toolkit: all 50 palettes, every font, your own photo backgrounds, high-resolution exports, and 20 AI verse images every month. Monthly or yearly; cancel anytime. Prefer no subscription? AI verse images are also available as simple one-time packs. No ads. No tracking. Just the Word, beautifully.

About

Seek

This app provides relevant scripture, prayers, and worship songs based on your current feelings or situation. It also offers tools for creating shareable scripture cards and tracking personal spiritual growth.

Highlights
  • Scripture chat based on user input
  • Personalized prayers and action steps
  • Worship song recommendations
  • Shareable scripture verse cards
  • Daily verse with offline access
  • Streak tracker for spiritual discipline
  • Two Bible translations (NLT, KJV)
Features
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When you are anxious, tired, grateful, hurting, or hopeful — the right scripture meets the moment. Seek finds it for you. Tell Seek what is on your heart in a few words or a few paragraphs. Within seconds, you receive 3–5 verses chosen for what you actually shared, a short prayer, an action step, and a worship song that fits the mood. Tap any verse to turn it into a beautiful shareable card. WHAT SEEK DOES Scripture chat — Type freely or pick a quick prompt like "Joy," "Anxious," or "Lonely." Receive verses with brief context, a prayer, an action step, and a worship song with Apple Music and Spotify links. Verse card creator — Eighteen pre-designed templates across nature, minimal, watercolor, and bold styles. Renders at story size for sharing or saving to your camera roll. Daily verse — A new verse every morning, themed, with pull-to-refresh. Shows the most recent saved verse if you are offline. Streak tracker — A simple counter that rewards showing up. Milestones at 7, 30, 90, and 365 days. Two translations — NLT for clarity, KJV for tradition. Switch any time in Settings. Library — Hearted verses, saved cards, saved prayers, past conversations. Re-share, edit, copy, or delete from any of them. Daily reminders — Optional morning verse and evening streak nudge. Time pickers in Settings. WHY IT IS FREE Seek is free for everyone. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads, no upsell, no premium tier. Built for the people of God, not for profit. A NOTE ON AI Seek uses Claude (Anthropic) to match scripture to your situation. Verses are real KJV or NLT scripture, not AI-generated. The empathetic intro, prayer, and worship recommendation are written for you fresh each time. Seek's servers do not persist the contents of your chat messages. A NOTE ON CRISIS If you are in crisis or thinking of harming yourself, Seek will share grounding scripture and encourage you to reach out for human help. Please contact 988 (US Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), 116 123 (Samaritans, UK), or findahelpline.com to reach a trained human. PRIVACY We collect your account info (Apple Sign In or email), your preferences (translation, notification times), basic usage stats (chats per day for rate limits), and your push token if you enable notifications. We do not use third-party analytics SDKs, AdMob, advertising identifiers, or precise location. DENOMINATIONALLY NEUTRAL Seek does not promote any particular church, doctrine, or interpretation. The verses come from the Bible. The prayers are short and broad. The worship songs span tradition and contemporary. Built with love for the people of God.

Screenshots

Shepherd4 screens
Seek4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seek at none against Shepherd's 9. Seek also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Shepherd's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Shepherd sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Seek asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Seek holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 12 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shepherd ships an update every 8 days, Seek every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Shepherd versus Seek: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShepherdSeek
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings)5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimple Cohort, LLCCasual Solution

Customer experience

Shepherd

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Seek

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Shepherd

Subscriptions5
  • Shepherd$4.991 Month
  • Shepherd Studio$7.991 Month
  • Shepherd Images Monthly$12.991 Month
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  • Shepherd Studio Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Shepherd Yearly Images$139.001 Year
One-time4
  • 1 AI Verse Image$0.99
  • Shepherd Single Image$2.99
  • 10 AI Verse Images$3.99
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  • 30 AI Verse Images$8.99
None

Seek

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shepherd free?
Shepherd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Seek free?
Seek is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shepherd or Seek?
Seek is rated higher. Shepherd averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Seek averages 5.0 from 12 ratings.
Do Shepherd or Seek have ads?
Seek shows ads; Shepherd does not.
Which is updated more often, Shepherd or Seek?
Shepherd ships an update every 8 days, and Seek every 3 weeks. Most recently, Shepherd was updated on October 26, 2026 and Seek on October 24, 2026.

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