Comparison

Leavn vs Margin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Leavn

This app integrates Bible study, guided reflection, prayer journaling, and community care features. It offers AI-assisted scripture understanding and tools to build a consistent prayer habit. Designed for daily faith practices, it keeps users connected to their spiritual life and community.

Highlights
  • AI-assisted scripture study
  • Guided reflection and journaling
  • Prayer tracking and organization
  • Community prayer requests and encouragement
  • Structured Bible reading plans
  • Voice and audio recording for notes
Features
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Leavn helps you stay connected to Scripture, prayer, and your church community every day — not just on Sundays. Built for daily faith rhythms, Leavn brings Bible reading, guided reflection, prayer journaling, AI-assisted study, and community care into one clean, privacy-first app. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH LEAVN • Read and study Scripture Explore the Bible with clean reading views, multiple translations, highlights, notes, reading plans, and quick search. • Ask deeper questions with AI Scripture help Use AI-assisted Bible study to understand difficult passages, explore context, surface cross-references, and turn curiosity into clearer reflection. • Build a real prayer habit Capture prayers, track what you are carrying, revisit answered prayers, and keep your spiritual life organized without turning it into another noisy feed. • Stay connected with community care Share prayer requests, encourage others, and help your church or small group stay aware of needs throughout the week. • Reflect with voice, audio, and journaling tools Record thoughts, sermon notes, and prayer reflections. Supported speech and audio experiences help you capture what matters when typing is not the easiest option. • Follow structured reading plans Choose guided paths for consistent study, including daily Bible reading, topical plans, and devotional rhythms built for real life. • Sync when you want, stay private by default Leavn supports sign-in and sync for connected features, while keeping privacy at the center. No ads. No selling personal data. You stay in control of what you save, sync, and share. BUILT FOR BELIEVERS AND MINISTRY LEADERS Leavn is useful for personal devotion, small groups, church teams, and ministry leaders who want a better way to keep Scripture, prayer, and care connected between Sundays. Use Leavn to read, pray, reflect, study, and care for people with more consistency. Download Leavn and build a daily rhythm of faith that lasts beyond the weekend. Terms of Use: https://www.leavn.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.leavn.app/privacy

About

Margin

Features
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You know the moment: mid-sermon, the phone next to you lights up with a full-screen ad. Or you open a Bible app to read one verse and land in a feed instead. Margin is what's left when you take all of that away: the text, set with real care, and study tools deep enough to keep you here. No feed. No ads. No account required. Scripture is free in Margin, forever, and it always will be. THE COVENANT We built the business model around the complaints people leave on every other Bible app. - Scripture is free, always. Charging for God's word isn't something we're willing to do. - One honest price for the study toolset, and no subscription anywhere in the app. Buy it once, like a good study Bible, instead of renting it every month. - No account, ever. Highlights and notes sync through your own private iCloud. We never see them. - Nothing that's free today gets taken away later. - We never ask you to rate the app, and reading-plan streaks forgive a missed day instead of resetting to zero. READ, THE WAY A PRINTED BIBLE READS (free, always) - Three complete translations bundled offline: Berean Standard, World English, and King James - Real book typography: poetry set as poetry, psalm titles where they belong, section headings that orient you - True black for reading at night, sepia for a paper-like calm, and a font-size range built for eyes that need it - Opens exactly where you left off, every time STUDY AS DEEP AS YOU WANT (Margin Pro, one-time purchase) - Tap any word for the Greek or Hebrew behind it: lemma, transliteration, and a full definition from a 14,000-entry Strong's lexicon, entirely offline - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, sitting beside the passage, offline - Two translations, side by side - Search the way a concordance works: exact phrases, Old or New Testament filters, results in the Bible's own order - Follow a cross-reference, then tap once to come back, like keeping your finger in the page - Listen to any chapter read aloud: real human narration (World English Bible, public domain), with adjustable speed and a sleep timer - Family Sharing included: one purchase covers your household SHARE A VERSE LIKE YOU MEAN IT (free for everyone) Most Bible apps turn a verse into a stock quote graphic. Margin turns it into something you'd actually send to the one person you were already thinking of: your own words in the margin, written by hand with Apple's own pencil tools, not a font pretending to be your handwriting. Put someone's name on it, or keep it plain. It's free for everyone, because getting Scripture into someone's hands shouldn't cost either of you anything. BUILD THE HABIT WITHOUT THE SHAME - Reading plans from John in 21 days to the whole Bible in a year: scripture only, no devotional filler - A missed day never breaks your streak, and you can turn streaks off completely - Highlights in six colors and notes on any verse, all in one browse-everything screen, independent of translation BUILT FOR IPHONE, NOT PORTED TO IT - Verse-of-the-day widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen - Shortcuts that jump straight back to your place - Fast and native, with Dynamic Type that holds up at any size AN AI THAT POINTS, NEVER SPEAKS FOR GOD (three free questions a day) Ask about the chapter you have open, or find passages by theme: "anxiety about the future," "forgiving someone who isn't sorry." Every verse it shows is pulled from your Bible rather than written by the model, and every claim cites book and chapter. It admits what it doesn't know, and it never claims to speak for God. Three questions a day are free for everyone. No account, no card, nothing to cancel. Margin Pro lifts the count for good. This used to be a separate monthly subscription. The cost of running it dropped far enough that charging monthly would have meant charging you for almost nothing, so we folded it into the one-time price and dropped the subscription. Margin. A Bible with nothing between you and the text.

Screenshots

Leavn4 screens
Margin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Leavn at 4 against Margin's 1. Margin's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 27.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Leavn sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Margin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Leavn ships an update every 2 weeks, Margin weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Leavn versus Margin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeavnMargin
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS27.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size310 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam Sigmondeniz misirli

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Leavn

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Leavn Premium Lifetime$149.00
1 purchases

Margin

One-time1
  • Margin Pro$39.99

Questions

Is Leavn free?
Leavn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Margin free?
Margin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Leavn or Margin have ads?
Neither Leavn nor Margin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Leavn or Margin?
Leavn ships an update every 2 weeks, and Margin weekly. Most recently, Leavn was updated on October 18, 2026 and Margin on October 14, 2026.

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