Sefer Mormon vs Traverse Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sefer Mormon
This app offers the Book of Mormon translated into Hebrew, featuring Hebrew text, narration, and comparative Hebrew-English versions. It explores the book's history and its connection to the God of Israel through Jewish prophetic traditions.
- Hebrew text translation
- Hebrew narration
- Comparative Hebrew-English text
- Explores Jewish prophetic traditions
- Focuses on the God of Israel
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Completed in the years 2018–2024 by a team of four professional Israeli linguists, this excellent Hebrew translation of the 1830 English edition of the Book of Mormon is available in several formats—Hebrew text, Hebrew narration, and comparative Hebrew–English text. The Book of Mormon’s history of Jewish prophet-migrants from Jerusalem to the Americas in 600 B.C., until the demise of their civilization in A.D. 421, serves as another witness to humanity of the God of Israel besides the Old and New Testaments. Drawing on Hebrew prophetic methodology and Jewish scribal tradition, historical records kept by Jewish prophets over a thousand years here appear crafted into a sophisticated scriptural masterpiece, showing the richness of the Hebrew translation to be native to the book’s content. Those who seek to know the God of Israel in the person of Israel’s Messiah will find that his first coming in the Meridian of Time and his second coming in glory are in direct fulfillment of covenants he had made with his people Israel.
Traverse Bible
This app offers an in-depth Bible study experience with multiple translations, original language tools, audio Bibles, and extensive cross-references. It allows users to explore commentaries, biblical figures, and topics, all while working offline. Features include note-taking, bookmarking, and powerful search capabilities.
- Twelve Bible translations
- Audio Bible narrations
- Original Hebrew and Greek languages
- Strong's concordance and lexicons
- Verse-by-verse commentaries
- Extensive cross-references
- Biblical people, places, and maps
- Offline functionality
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Read Scripture closely. Explore the writings around it. Keep a full study library with you, even offline. Traverse Bible brings twelve English translations, Hebrew and Greek study tools, and connected reference works into one free iPhone app. Follow a word, compare a passage, or save a note without losing your place. NEW IN 1.2.0 • Early Christian Writings — Read 28 entries from the Apostolic Fathers and Early Apologists in a separate historical library. Search them alongside Scripture, with clearly labeled results and context about authorship, dating, and reception. • Surviving Evidence — Explore what survives for all 116 Bible-book and historical-writing entries. Read a survival summary and known limits for each entry, including manuscripts, languages, textual forms, and gaps in the evidence. Greek Septuagint, Hebrew, and other witnesses are distinguished from modern editions and translations. • Book Introductions — Open a book's guide from the reader for introductions and surviving evidence. Introductions share a consistent reading style, with links for explicit verse references. READ AND COMPARE • Twelve translations, including KJV, ASV, WEB, the 1599 Geneva Bible, and the Berean Standard Bible. Compare passages across translations that contain them. • Apocrypha and Ethiopian books, including 1 Enoch and Jubilees, whose complete forms are preserved in Ge'ez, and the Rest of the Words of Baruch with Greek text. Book collections vary by edition and tradition. • Eleven study guides covering the Bible, canon traditions, manuscripts, languages, translations, and study tools. FOLLOW THE CONNECTIONS • Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament texts with transliterations and glosses, plus the Greek Septuagint and two Greek New Testament editions. • Strong's, Abbott-Smith, Thayer's, Brown-Driver-Briggs, and Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicons, with links to word occurrences. • More than 340,000 cross-references, available in both directions. • Over 4,000 biblical people and places, with family links, name meanings, reference articles, and map locations. • Topics from Nave's and Torrey's, connected to the verses they cite. • Nine commentaries and study-note collections, available as a free optional download. MAKE IT YOUR STUDY LIBRARY • Color-coded bookmarks, formatted notes, custom tags, and reading history. Private iCloud sync when available, with backup export. • Search across translations, historical writings, lexicons, names, topics, and your notes. • Seven free downloadable recordings: KJV, ASV, WEB, Douay-Rheims, Berean, 1 Enoch, and Jubilees. Follow the highlighted verse, adjust playback speed, use lock-screen controls, or set a sleep timer. On-device text-to-speech is also available. No ads, purchases, subscriptions, or Traverse account. Bundled texts and study tools work offline. Optional audio, commentaries, and place photos require a download before offline use. iCloud sync and opening external links require a connection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Traverse Bible at 100% against Sefer Mormon's 50%. Traverse Bible also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Sefer Mormon's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Traverse Bible holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Sefer Mormon's written reviews are positive against 100% of Traverse Bible's.
Sefer Mormon ships an update every 6 weeks, Traverse Bible every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sefer Mormon | Traverse Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 240 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Institute of Ancient Studies | Ktisis Web, LLC |
Customer experience
Sefer Mormon
Traverse Bible
In-app purchases
Sefer Mormon
No in-app purchases
Traverse Bible
No in-app purchases
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