Comparison

Shepherd vs Clear Days

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

Clear Days

Track your progress in quitting habits with customizable cards. See your days, months, and years free, with milestone alerts and a progress line. Works offline and is designed for privacy with no ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Customizable habit cards
  • Clear day counts
  • Milestone alerts
  • Progress line visualization
  • Light and dark mode
  • Offline functionality
  • Private by design
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Clear Days is a simple, cute counter for the things you quit. Add a card for anything you're leaving behind: weed, alcohol, cigs, vaping, sugar, caffeine, doomscrolling, whatever it is for you. Type what you quit and the app handles the rest. Each card shows how many days you've been free, the years, months, and days, and a clock that keeps ticking. WHAT YOU GET - Big, clear day counts you'll actually want to show off - Share any card as a pretty image for your story or a friend - As many cards as you want, each with its own icon and color - Milestone alerts at 1 day, 1 week, 30 days, 100 days, every year, and plenty in between - A little progress line showing your next milestone - Start over anytime and your best run is saved, because those days still count - Light and dark mode, or let it follow your phone - Works with larger text and VoiceOver - Works offline PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your cards live on your phone and in your own iCloud, so they come with you to a new phone. Nobody else sees them, including me. A NOTE FROM ME I made Clear Days for myself. I was using two different apps to track quitting weed and quitting drinking, and I wanted one place that felt calm and looked like me. When I shared my screenshots, people kept asking where to get it. So here it is. Clear Days is a personal tracker and isn't medical advice. If you're having a hard time, SAMHSA's free, confidential National Helpline is open 24/7 at 1-800-662-4357. You can also find it anytime by tapping the i in the app.

Screenshots

Shepherd4 screens
Clear Days4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clear Days at none against Shepherd's 9. Clear Days also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Clear Days asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clear Days holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shepherd ships an update every 8 days, Clear Days every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Shepherd versus Clear Days: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShepherdClear Days
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSimple Cohort, LLCElise Swopes

Customer experience

Shepherd

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

Clear Days

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 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

Clear Days

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shepherd free?
Shepherd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clear Days free?
Clear Days is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shepherd or Clear Days?
Clear Days is rated higher. Shepherd averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Clear Days averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Shepherd or Clear Days have ads?
Neither Shepherd nor Clear Days shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shepherd or Clear Days?
Shepherd ships an update every 8 days, and Clear Days every 4 days. Most recently, Shepherd was updated on November 4, 2026 and Clear Days on November 6, 2026.

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