Bible Growth vs Minerva
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bible Growth
This app helps you read and track your Bible reading goals. It offers multiple translations, customizable reading plans, progress tracking with badges, and study tools like highlighting and notes. Your data is stored on your device with optional iCloud sync.
- Multiple Bible translations
- Customizable reading plans
- Progress tracking and badges
- Highlighting, bookmarks, and notes
- Full-Bible search
- Optional iCloud sync
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Bible Growth is your all-in-one Bible reading companion—built to help you read Scripture consistently, track your progress, and stay motivated every day. READ THE BIBLE YOUR WAY • Multiple Bible translations, including English, Kinyarwanda, French, Spanish, Swahili, German, Dutch, Luganda, Kirundi, and more where available in the app • Clean, readable chapter view with verse numbers, highlights, bookmarks, and notes • Full-Bible search to find passages quickly • Customizable reading themes (light, dark, sepia, and night-style reading) PERSONAL READING PLANS • Set goals with start and end dates—including plans that begin on a future date • See today’s reading, mark chapters complete, and follow your schedule • Optional auto-mark chapters as read when you’ve genuinely finished a chapter • Daily reminders and streak tracking to keep your habit going TRACK PROGRESS & CELEBRATE GROWTH • Mark chapters and books as read • Earn badges as you complete books and reach milestones • View your progress at a glance on the home screen STUDY TOOLS • Highlight verses in color • Bookmark favorite passages • Add chapter notes and reflections • Share verses as text or images YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE • Reading progress and preferences stored on your device • Optional iCloud sync across your Apple devices when signed in to iCloud • Export and import your data for backup BUILT WITH CARE • Translation publisher and copyright information in Settings • Discover more apps from Wolf Designs • Polished interface with improved dark mode Whether you read at church, at home, or on the go, Bible Reader helps you make Scripture a meaningful part of everyday life. Questions or feedback: support@wolfyapps.com Privacy Policy: https://wolfyapps.com/privacy/bible-growth/
Minerva
Track your reading progress, log pages or minutes, and discover what friends are reading. Connect with others, join book clubs, and get reading insights.
- Log reading progress (pages, minutes, percentage)
- Scan barcodes to add books
- Sync with KOReader for automatic logging
- View reading statistics and streaks
- Follow friends and see their reading activity
- Create and manage book clubs
- Import reading history from other platforms
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Minerva is a reading log you share with your friends. Log the days you read, rate and review the books you finish, and see what your friends thought of the same books. Log your reading - Log pages, minutes, or a percentage in a couple of taps, or just mark that you read today. - Scan a barcode to add a book. - If you read with KOReader on a Kobo or PocketBook, connect it once and Minerva logs your reading days for you. - Put the book you're reading on your home screen with a widget. - Turn on a daily reminder if you want one. Look back - See your year: how many books, pages, and days you read, and your longest streak. - Read a book again and it gets its own entry, with its own dates. - Open an author to see which of their books you've read and how you rated them. - On the 1st of each month, flip through a few cards about the month before, and share any of them as a picture. Friends - Follow people you know and see what they finish and what they think of it. - See which books you and a friend agree on, and which you don't. - Recommend a book to a friend. Book clubs - Start a club, choose books by vote or by turns, and compare ratings when everyone finishes. Import - Bring your history from Goodreads or StoryGraph. Buy a copy - Tap a book's title to find it on Bookshop.org, which supports independent bookstores. Minerva earns a commission. Only readers you let follow you can see your shelf. Nobody else can see your reading log.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Minerva at every 10 days against Bible Growth's every 6 months. Bible Growth's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bible Growth against 5.0 for Minerva. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Bible Growth ships an update every 6 months, Minerva every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bible Growth | Minerva |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Tuyishime | Julia Chou |
In-app purchases
Bible Growth
No in-app purchases
Minerva
No in-app purchases









