Comparison

Shepherd vs KindHeart

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

KindHeart

Features
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KindHeart is a quiet, private space for cultivating universal love in daily life. Choose from eight guided practices for self-kindness, loved ones, difficult relationships, rejected parts of yourself, concern for the wider world, bedtime release and faith-oriented love for God. WHAT IS NEW IN BUILD 2 • Background audio with gentle rain, ocean, brown noise, forest, soft piano and calm music options • Volume choices from very quiet to fuller listening • Sound timer choices from one to fifteen minutes • Text size controls for more comfortable reading • Refined light and dark visual style with new final app icons • Local profile deletion and clearer support guidance OPTIONAL EMOTIONAL CHECK-INS Rate love, peace, joy, anger, fear and sadness before and after a practice. KindHeart presents a simple summary of emotional movement. Leave every starting value at zero to practice without ratings. FEATURES • Eight step-by-step paths from five to twelve minutes • Personal reflections and completed practices saved on your device • A local insights view for before-and-after emotional movement • Background audio with volume, timer, quiet looping and soft transitions • English, Serbian, Croatian and Spanish throughout the app • Light, dark, system appearance and text size options • A library of intentions and short learning resources • Optional ratings that respect a practice without emotional tracking • Clear safety guidance and boundary-aware language PRIVACY KindHeart has no account, ads, analytics or cloud profile in this version. Practice notes, ratings, audio choice, volume choice, timer choice, language choice, appearance settings and saved reflections stay on your device. The optional Love for God practice welcomes people who believe in God. KindHeart remains independent of any religion, spiritual school or psychological school. KindHeart supports personal reflection and general wellbeing. It does not provide medical diagnosis, therapy, crisis care or treatment. In an emergency, contact local emergency services or a trusted person near you.

Screenshots

Shepherd4 screens
KindHeart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: KindHeart at none against Shepherd's 9. KindHeart also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 8 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shepherd sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. KindHeart asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shepherd ships an update every 8 days, KindHeart daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Shepherd versus KindHeart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShepherdKindHeart
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimple Cohort, LLCNebojsa Lukovich

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

KindHeart

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shepherd free?
Shepherd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KindHeart free?
KindHeart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shepherd or KindHeart have ads?
Neither Shepherd nor KindHeart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shepherd or KindHeart?
Shepherd ships an update every 8 days, and KindHeart daily. Most recently, Shepherd was updated on November 4, 2026 and KindHeart on October 31, 2026.

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