Sacred Hours vs BiblePath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sacred Hours
This app provides daily morning and evening devotions tailored to specific Christian traditions. It features Scripture readings, reflections, prayers, and a liturgical calendar to foster consistent spiritual practice. Audio options are available for reflections and prayers.
- Tradition-specific devotions (Catholic, Anglican, etc.)
- Morning and evening prayer routines
- Scripture readings and reflections
- Liturgical calendar integration
- Weekly virtue focus
- Audio playback for content
- Minimalist, calm interface
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Sacred Hours is a Christian prayer app and daily devotional. It brings a calm, unhurried rhythm of morning and evening prayer, rooted in Scripture and centered on Christ. Choose your tradition: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, or non-denominational. Or begin with Exploring Christianity if you are returning to faith or exploring it for the first time. Sacred Hours adapts its prayers, reflections, and calendar to your tradition, so daily devotion feels rooted and familiar rather than generic. It combines Scripture, reflection, and prayer with a calendar attuned to your tradition, giving your practice structure without making it feel scripted. Whether you think of it as a devotion or a rule of life, a few unhurried minutes at dawn and dusk become a steady rhythm of returning to Christ, day after day. A COMPLETE DAILY RHYTHM First Light (morning devotion) offers Scripture, reflection, and a short prayer to begin the day in faith and love. Day's End (evening devotion) offers Scripture, reflection, an examen that gently reviews the day, and a closing prayer that entrusts your life to God's mercy and rest. KEEP THE RHYTHM See your mornings and evenings as they add up, and keep a private journal for your own reflections and prayers. The goal is small, steady faithfulness, one day at a time. SHAPED BY THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Sacred Hours follows the rhythm of the Christian year as your tradition keeps it: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and the feasts and observances your tradition holds dear. Seasons differ across traditions, but the purpose is the same: to let holy time shape daily prayer rather than generic themes. DEVOTIONS THAT SOUND LIKE HOME Scripture stays at the center of every devotion. Reflections and prayers are written to feel at home in your tradition, without flattening its distinctives into generic language. The aim is not novelty but a steady voice you can trust: reverent, readable, and grounded in the gospel. VIRTUE FORMATION, WEEK BY WEEK Each week highlights a virtue as a practice of discipleship, grounded in Scripture and received as a response to grace. Virtues become habits to practice in ordinary life, shaping your attention, speech, and action in love of God and neighbor. LISTEN, NOT JUST READ Listen to Scripture passages, reflections, prayers, and virtue content. Listen on a commute, during a walk, or in a quiet room when you would rather listen than look at a screen. DESIGNED FOR CALM, CONSISTENT PRACTICE No feed. No ads. No clutter. Just a clean, minimalist page that reads like a book, not a stream. A familiar structure and gentle morning and evening reminders make it easy to return. WHO IT'S FOR Sacred Hours is for busy people with only a few minutes, longtime believers who want structure for morning and evening prayer, and anyone returning to faith or exploring it for the first time. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S INCLUDED Free mode includes today's First Light in full, the current virtue of the week, the current season, and your three most recent journal entries. Subscribers unlock Day's End, audio listening, devotions from the past 30 days to revisit, all four seasonal virtues, the complete calendar for your tradition, and an unlimited journal. FREE TRIAL AND SUBSCRIPTION Sacred Hours offers an optional monthly or annual subscription. Both plans include a free three-day trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://sacredhours.app/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://sacredhours.app/privacy-policy/ PRIVACY AND SUPPORT We treat your data with care and do not sell personal data. For help, contact serve@sacredhours.app. Pause. Pray. Become.
BiblePath
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BiblePath helps you read the whole Bible and see your progress, one chapter at a time. Nine Bibles in English, Spanish and Portuguese are built in and work offline. There is no account, no ads and no tracking. READ THE BIBLE, BUILT IN • Nine Bibles in three languages, all inside the app and ready offline • In English, the King James Version, the Berean Standard Bible and the World English Bible • In Spanish, the Reina-Valera 1909, the Reina-Valera 1865 and the Biblia Libre para el Mundo • In Portuguese, the Bíblia Livre, the Nova Versão de Acesso Livre and the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial • Adjust the text size, spacing, alignment and typeface (six fonts, serif or modern) • Chapters are marked read when you reach the end, or with one tap • Search any word or phrase in the Bible you are reading HIGHLIGHT, SAVE AND STUDY • Tap a verse to highlight it in one of eight colors, chosen to stay easy to read on every theme • Save verses and passages, and write a personal note on any of them • Compare a verse in every Bible in the app • Open the cross references of a verse • Find your highlights again by color, in Bible order or by date • Turn a verse into an image to share HIDE GOD'S WORD IN YOUR HEART • Scripture memory with short daily reviews that bring each verse back at growing intervals • Add any verse or passage from the reader, or start with suggested verses • Rate each review Again, Hard, Good or Easy, and watch your verses move forward LEARN THE FAITH • Keach's Baptist Catechism (1695) and Spurgeon's Puritan Catechism, with their Scripture proofs • Practice the questions and answers, and see a question of the week on your Today screen • A clear presentation of the gospel • A 15-lesson discipleship course with short quizzes, written for new believers FOLLOW A PLAN • Eight reading plans, including Bible in One Year, New Testament in 90 Days, Psalms in 30 Days and Proverbs in 31 Days • Each day is balanced by length and shows about how many minutes it takes • Or build your own. Choose the books, the length, your reading days and the order • BiblePath shows what to read today and opens it in the reader TRACK EVERY CHAPTER • See your progress by book, by testament and by section • Read the Bible again and again. Each read-through starts a fresh chapter grid, and every reading still counts • Streaks with an optional grace day, milestones, a reading heatmap, your pace and a projected finish date • Protestant canon (66 books, 1,189 chapters) or Catholic canon (73 books, 1,334 chapters, with the deuterocanonical books in the World English Bible, the Biblia Libre para el Mundo and the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial) • Switch canon or Bible at any time without losing anything you have recorded KEEP A JOURNAL • Write about what you read, add a photo or record a voice note • Quote the verses you selected straight into a new entry • React with hearts and emotions, and add dated reflections over time STAY ON TRACK • A smart daily reminder names today's reading and about how long it takes, and stays quiet once you have done that reading • An optional evening nudge, only on days you have not read yet • Add accountability partners and send them your progress by email from your own mail app, daily, weekly or monthly IN YOUR LANGUAGE • The whole app in English, Spanish and Portuguese, including the catechisms, the gospel and the discipleship course • Change the language in Settings at any time MAKE IT YOURS • Five color themes, each in light and dark. Heritage, Stained Glass, Sunrise, Olive & Fig and Rainbow PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no tracking • Back up your data to a file and restore it at any time • BiblePath is free, with no in-app purchases
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BiblePath at none against Sacred Hours's 2. BiblePath also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). Sacred Hours's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Sacred Hours sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. BiblePath asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sacred Hours ships an update every 4 weeks, BiblePath weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sacred Hours | BiblePath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eudemonia | NELSON DAVID MONCAYO ROSAS |
In-app purchases
Sacred Hours
- Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year
BiblePath
No in-app purchases
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