Comparison

Reading Journey vs HopeScroll

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

Head to head
About

Reading Journey

Easily log your reading sessions, track your emotions, and discover your reading habits. Share your reading journey with visually appealing graphics and import your existing libraries. This app makes tracking books enjoyable, not a chore.

Highlights
  • Log reading sessions with photos
  • Track reading emotions and reactions
  • Quick book import via scanning
  • DNF (Did Not Finish) book tracking
  • Import from Goodreads and Storygraph
  • Goodreads library synchronization
Features
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Book tracking should feel like fun, not like homework. It’s a chance to explore, escape, and connect with stories. With Reading Journey, you can log your sessions, track your reactions, and discover who you are as a reader. Why you’ll love it: Easy & Fun Reading Logs: Snap a pic of your reading sessions.Record your pages and emotions. Share the Feels: Track your reactions as you read — we’ll turn it into a graphic worth sharing. Quick import: Scan books to quickly upload them to your TBR. DNF Graveyard: Bury the books you didn’t finish—they still count for something! No Streaks, No Stress: Show up for your books however you want. Import your library from GoodReads or Storygraph. GoodReads Sync: Automatically fetch and synchronize new books from GoodReads Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://readingjourney.co/privacy

About

HopeScroll

This app offers an offline, ad-free scripture reading experience with a unique scrolling interface. It includes a daily scripture game, customizable reading plans, and tools for highlighting, note-taking, and sharing verses. An optional studio feature allows for creative verse sharing.

Highlights
  • Offline scripture access
  • Daily scripture quest game
  • Customizable reading plans
  • Verse highlighting and notes
  • Scripture sharing tools
  • Home screen widget support
Features
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Doomscrolling, redeemed. HopeScroll takes the one thing the endless feed got right — the effortless scroll — and puts scripture in it. One verse fills the screen. Swipe up for the next. Nothing autoplays, nothing interrupts, and there is no feed but scripture. ALL FIVE VOLUMES, FULLY OFFLINE 41,995 verses across 87 books: Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. Every word ships inside the app. No account, no sign-in, no network. It works on a plane, in a canyon, or with the wifi off. SCRIPTURE QUEST — A DAILY GAME A new quest every morning, the same for everyone. Read a verse and find where it lives: the book and the chapter. Five questions, from a warm-up to really hard, with a quest for each volume — plus Scripture Stories, where you get a story, event, or person from anywhere in the scriptures and find the chapter it happens in. Every guess scores out of 100, getting close still counts, and each one gets a reaction, some kind and some a little sassy. Share your score with friends as an image or a row of colored squares without spoiling the answers, then keep your streak going tomorrow. READING, NOT INTERFACE Tap once to bring up the controls and again to send them away, so nothing sits over the words while you read. Drag the rail on the left to scrub through a chapter. Read in New York, Iowan Old Style, Georgia, or San Francisco, and switch between light and dark with one tap. Verses, chapters, and books check themselves off as you go — you never have to tell it what you read. DISCOVER 70 themes in 10 groups — faith, hope, repentance, covenants, temples, the Atonement, trials, family, and more — each a hand-checked list of passages rather than a raw word search. Open a theme and it becomes its own scroll. Search every volume at once, by phrase or by theme name. MAKE IT YOURS • Highlight any run of words in five colors • Write a note on any verse • Named bookmarks you move along as you read • Favorite what you want to come back to • Pin any verse to a home screen widget • Share any verse as a clean image, text, or link A PLAN YOU CAN ACTUALLY KEEP Choose a volume and either a date to finish by or an amount to read each day. HopeScroll works out the rest and tells you where to start — not where you stopped. See the month at a glance, with the chapter to reach printed on every day, your streak, and anything still left behind you. QUIET PROGRESS A ring for each volume. A streak that is honest about the days you missed. And a badge each time you finish a volume, earned by reading the last verse rather than handed to you for showing up. HOPESCROLL STUDIO Turn any verse into something worth sharing. More than 30 fonts, colors, gradients, textures, over 120 photographs or your own, and sizes for posts, stories, and wallpapers. Studio is a single optional purchase — no subscription — and shared with your family through Family Sharing. Everything else in HopeScroll is free. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No accounts. No ads. No trackers, no analytics, no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your highlights, notes, progress, and quest scores live on your device and nowhere else. Export them to a file whenever you want, and bring them back on a new phone. HopeScroll is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Intellectual Reserve, Inc.

Screenshots

Reading Journey4 screens
HopeScroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HopeScroll at 100% against Reading Journey's 73%. HopeScroll also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Reading Journey's advantage is ratings volume (389 vs 5). 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. Reading Journey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and HopeScroll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HopeScroll holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reading Journey has 389 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Reading Journey's written reviews are positive against 100% of HopeScroll's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reading Journey ships an update every 10 days, HopeScroll every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Reading Journey versus HopeScroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading JourneyHopeScroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (389 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings389 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVinh DinhMARCUS DANIEL WILLIAMS

Customer experience

Reading Journey

All ratings370 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.5%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive73.1%
Neutral17.3%
Negative9.6%

HopeScroll

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Reading Journey

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Occasional bugs and glitches reported

Requested features

3 requests
  • Option to edit book page counts
  • Additional star rating options (0.25, 0.75)
  • Ability to follow other users

HopeScroll

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Reading Journey

Subscriptions2
  • Reading Journey Plus$4.991 Month
  • Reading Journey Plus7 Days trial$29.991 Year
1 purchases

HopeScroll

One-time1
  • HopeScroll Studio$6.99

Questions

Is Reading Journey free?
Reading Journey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HopeScroll free?
HopeScroll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reading Journey or HopeScroll?
HopeScroll is rated higher. Reading Journey averages 4.8 out of 5 from 389 ratings, while HopeScroll averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Reading Journey or HopeScroll have ads?
Neither Reading Journey nor HopeScroll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reading Journey or HopeScroll?
Reading Journey ships an update every 10 days, and HopeScroll every 5 days. Most recently, Reading Journey was updated on October 30, 2026 and HopeScroll on October 29, 2026.

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