Scripture vs Truth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scripture
Listen to the Bible read aloud, one chapter at a time. This ad-free app helps you build a daily reading habit with a natural voice and offline playback. Track your progress and find peace with focused, minimalist design.
- Listen to Bible chapters read aloud
- Natural AI voice narration
- Word-by-word highlighting
- Offline playback
- Background playback
- Daily reading habit tracking
- Minimalist design
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Scripture reads the Bible aloud - one chapter at a time. A simple, clean audio Bible reader with no ads, designed to help you build a daily reading habit. Press play and listen to Scripture read in a calm, natural voice. Whether you have five minutes in the morning or an hour on a walk, one chapter a day is all it takes. WHY PEOPLE COME BACK EVERY DAY A single chapter builds a daily Bible reading habit that sticks Return when you need peace, clarity, or comfort Find verses to sit with and meditate on Track your scripture reading progress with daily goals DESIGNED FOR LISTENING Audio Bible reader with a natural AI voice Word-by-word highlighting follows along as you listen Works offline -- no internet needed to listen Background playback -- lock your phone and keep listening SIMPLE BY DESIGN No ads. No clutter. No sign-up required. A clean, minimalist Bible reader built for focus Free to use, with an optional plan to support development Start today. One chapter is all it takes. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://scriptureapp.com/privacy
Truth
This app offers a peaceful, offline Bible reading experience with multiple ways to engage with scripture. It includes study tools like commentaries, cross-references, memory cards, and reading plans, all without AI or tracking.
- Offline Bible access
- Verse Scroll and Page-Curl reader
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Cross-Reference Graph
- Memory Cards with spaced repetition
- 40+ Reading Plans
- Prayer Journal and Verse Collections
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The whole Bible on your device, in a reader that gets out of the way — and a study library underneath it for the days you want to go deeper. The King James text lives on your device, so Truth opens instantly and reads with no signal at all. READ YOUR WAY Choose how Scripture reaches you: Classic, a chapter to a page; Continuous, the whole Bible as one unbroken scroll from Genesis to Revelation; or Verse Scroll, one verse at a time. On iPad, Book Mode sets it as a real book with pages you turn. Verses or paragraphs, your size and typeface, and the words of Jesus in red. Highlight, write notes and leave bookmarks, all gathered in one place, and Truth keeps your place to the verse. 27 TRANSLATIONS The King James is built in, and 26 more download once and then work offline: the Berean Standard Bible, the Literal Standard Version, Young's Literal, the Geneva Bible, the ASV, the World English Bible, the Douay–Rheims, six German Bibles including Luther 1912 and Schlachter 1951, and the Hebrew and Greek texts, from the Westminster Leningrad Codex to the Textus Receptus and the Septuagint. Compare any verse across the ones you have. HEAR IT READ Human-narrated Audio Bibles, in plain narration or full-cast drama. On the King James and ESV readings, the verse being spoken lights up as it goes. Keeps playing with the screen off and picks up where you stopped. Recordings from Bible Brain, provided by Faith Comes By Hearing. STUDY ANYTHING Tap a verse for the Hebrew and Greek behind it, cross-references, Matthew Henry's commentary, the people and places in it, and old words explained in plain English. Every person and place has a page of its own, and Chapter Study shows where the New Testament quotes the Old, from either side. The library holds Easton's Bible Dictionary, a full concordance, Nave's Topical Bible, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, a map and a timeline. Commentary is always labelled as commentary, never mixed in with Scripture. STUDY DESK AND PDF BUILDER Lay a study out as cards, group them into sections, connect them with labelled links, and add voice notes. Then turn it into a handout: passages, fill-in-the-blank verses, lines for writing and an answer key, printed on US Letter or A4 or read on a Kindle Scribe, on sixteen paper colours. Keep your copy with your notes and share a clean one. KEEP Your highlights, notes, prayers, plans and progress on every device you read on, with no account and no password. It stays off until you turn it on, and you choose what each device keeps. ON IPAD Book Mode, Split for two translations side by side, a Study Desk with room to spread out, keyboard shortcuts, and Apple Pencil: write in the margin beside any verse, and your ink stays with it. ON APPLE WATCH Read a chapter, hear it narrated, log a prayer, note something you're grateful for, and keep your streak, from your wrist. ALSO • Reading plans laid out as a path, each day ticked off as you read • Memorise verses, trivia, Copywork, and a course in the old German script • Verse of the Day, with a daily reminder • Quiet mode on iPhone: just the Word, with everything else a tap away • Widgets, twenty app icons, and themes including warm parchment • Share a verse as an image, or set it as your wallpaper • Search by word, by reference, or by plain question • 59 How-To guides, and a chat where a real person answers No ads. No account needed. No tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scripture at 5.0 against Truth's 4.8. Truth's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Scripture sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year and Truth sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Scripture holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Scripture ships an update every 4 days, Truth weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scripture | Truth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.8 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 434 MB | 306 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ScriptureApp | Curtis Waldner |
Customer experience
Scripture
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In-app purchases
Scripture
- Unlimited access$6.991 Year
- Scripture Pro - Annual Pass$9.99
Truth
- Supporter$2.99
- Friend$5.99
- Patron$11.99
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- Founding Supporter$24.99









