Holy Scroll vs Bless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Holy Scroll
This app integrates Bible reading into your daily phone usage habits. It offers a verse-by-verse infinite scroll experience, similar to social media feeds, to make reading Scripture effortless and engaging. Users can also add notes and like verses that resonate with them.
- Verse-by-verse infinite scroll
- Habit-based reading integration
- Double-tap to like verses
- Hold to add notes
- Distraction-free interface
- Hidden features on demand
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THE BIBLE APP THAT WORKS WITH YOUR HABITS, NOT AGAINST THEM Listen. You already know you should read your Bible more. I'm not going to lecture you about that. Here's what I am going to tell you: you reach for your phone about 150 times a day. You scroll through Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, whatever. Your thumb does this thing where it just keeps moving. Swipe, swipe, swipe. You don't even think about it anymore. And every single time you do that, there's this little voice in your head that says "I should be reading Scripture instead." So you try. You download a Bible app. Maybe you've downloaded five of them. You open it with good intentions. You're going to read a chapter today. You're finally going to get through Romans. But here's what actually happens: You open the app. You hunt for where you left off. You can't remember if you were in chapter 3 or chapter 4. You finally find it. You start reading. Then a notification pops up. You swipe it away. You go back to reading. But now you're thinking about that text message. You finish the verse. You close the app. You tell yourself you'll come back to it later. You don't come back to it later. And the whole time, your thumb? Your thumb is bored. Because your thumb has been trained by ten years of Instagram to expect something different. It expects to keep moving. It expects that smooth scroll. That rhythm. That flow. Fighting that is exhausting… So stop fighting it! Holy Scroll works with the way you already use your phone, not against it. It's verse-by-verse infinite scroll. Just like your Instagram feed, just like TikTok, just like everything else on your phone. But it's Scripture. You open the app. You see your name. One button that says Continue. You tap it. You're exactly where you stopped yesterday, yesterday morning, ten minutes ago, whenever. And you just start scrolling. Verse after verse after verse. Your thumb does what it already knows how to do. You keep reading. You get into this rhythm. Time kind of disappears. You look up twenty minutes later and you've read three chapters without trying. I'm not making this up. This is what happens when the friction disappears. WRITE WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS! A verse moved you? Double tap to like a verse! God spoke to you? Hold down to add a note! Notes aren't for organization. They're for remembrance. When God speaks on the mountain write it down. Six months from now when you're in the valley and can't feel Him, you'll need proof this was real. Your notes become your ammunition. THE MOST DISTRACTION-FREE BIBLE APP IN EXISTENCE! Everything you need hides until you reach for it. Search, notes, translations, highlights, bookmarks. All there. All instant. All hidden until you want them. Power features that know their place. This is what respecting your attention looks like. WHO THIS IS FOR? This is for believers who are tired of trying harder. Who know they should read Scripture but keep choosing their feed instead. Who want to be the person who's read Romans, not the person who keeps starting and quitting. This is for people who are hungry but exhausted. If you've been losing the attention war on your phone, Holy Scroll is what you've been looking for. DOWNLOAD HOLY SCROLL TODAY! Holy Scroll is what happens when you stop fighting your habits and start working with them. You're going to scroll anyway. You might as well scroll Scripture. That's it. That's the whole idea. You can download it right now. It's free. Open it tomorrow morning instead of social media. See what happens. I think you'll finish books of the Bible you never thought you'd read. I think you'll become the person who actually knows where verses are instead of just nodding along when someone mentions them. I think this might be the thing that finally makes Bible reading feel easy instead of exhausting. But hey, don't take my word for it. Download it. Try it for a week. See if I'm lying. Your thumb already knows what to do.
Bless
Explore the Catholic Bible presented as a scrollable feed, with each verse on its own screen. Access commentary from saints and Church documents, detailed study tools, and daily liturgical information. Personalize your experience with notes and reading streaks.
- Scrollable verse feed
- Commentary from saints and Church documents
- Verse study with original languages
- Liturgical calendar and saint of the day
- Daily verse and theme discovery
- Private notes and reading streaks
- Offline functionality
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You'll scroll either way. Scroll Scripture. Bless turns the Catholic Bible into a feed: one verse per screen, all 35,804 verses across all 73 books, beautifully set in dark ink and gold, or on warm parchment in light mode. Swipe at your own pace or let the feed carry you. WHERE THE SAINTS ARE THE COMMENTS Open the comments on any verse and you won't find anonymous opinions. You'll find Augustine, Aquinas, Thérèse of Lisieux, John Chrysostom, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Every quote is labeled with its source, and honesty is the rule: "On this verse," "On this theme," or "Attributed," never invented, never anonymous. STUDY PROPERLY Every single verse carries a full study page: • Context: what's happening around the verse, chapter by chapter, plus an introduction to every book of the Bible. • Study: the verse in the Clementine Vulgate Latin; real Hebrew and Greek word study with transliteration and glosses, built from the Leningrad Codex and the Byzantine Majority Text; classic annotations; Catechism references. • Your Life: what this verse asks of you today. THE CHURCH'S OWN CALENDAR Today shows the liturgical season, the day's Mass readings resolved to full text, and the saint of the day. There is a saint for every day of the year, with biography, feast, and their own words. DISCOVER A daily deal of twelve cards connecting verses, themes, saints, and the Catechism, a different dozen every day. YOURS PRIVATELY Save verses, keep private notes, build a reading streak, see how much of the canon you've read. Widgets bring a verse and the saint of the day to your Home Screen. FREE AND HONEST ABOUT IT The Bible is free. Always. Unlimited reading, both translations, every comment, saving, search, Today, and sharing, free forever, no ads. Bless Premium adds the full Study depth (Hebrew and Greek word study, Challoner's annotations, Catechism links, Your Life), Discover's deep sections, private notes, and widgets. Monthly with a 3-day free trial, or yearly with a 7-day free trial. BUILT FOR PRIVACY No account. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. Nothing leaves your iPhone: the entire Bible, the calendar, and every quote ship inside the app, so it works completely offline. Optional AI features run entirely on your device with Apple Intelligence. BLESS PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Auto-renewing subscriptions are available: monthly ($4.99 with a 3-day free trial) or yearly ($29.99 with a 7-day free trial); prices may vary by territory. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, after any free trial. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions can be managed or canceled in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://funnmedia.com/blessprivacy.html Terms of Use: https://funnmedia.com/bless-terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Holy Scroll at none against Bless's 2. Holy Scroll also leads on ratings volume (49 vs 1). Bless's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Bless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Holy Scroll asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Holy Scroll against 5.0 for Bless. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Holy Scroll has 49 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Holy Scroll ships an update every 3 weeks, Bless weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Holy Scroll | Bless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (49 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 270 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Discipleship Tech, Inc. | Funn Apps |
Customer experience
Holy Scroll
Bless
In-app purchases
Holy Scroll
No in-app purchases
Bless
- Bless Premium Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Bless Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year








