Comparison

Ask The Word vs Truth

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

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About

Ask The Word

Explore the meaning of Scripture with instant explanations and AI-generated insights. Tap any verse to gain deeper understanding, ask your own questions, and organize your study with notes and verse groups. Supports multiple Bible translations and 32 languages.

Highlights
  • Instant verse explanations
  • AI-generated contextual summaries
  • Personalized verse notes
  • Organize verses into groups
  • Cross-translation comparison
  • Offline reading capability
  • Support for 32 languages
Features
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Go deeper in your Bible study—anytime, anywhere. Ask The Word helps you explore the meaning of Scripture in a clear and personal way. Whether you're reading a single verse, a full chapter, or an entire book, the app gives you instant explanations that bring greater understanding of God's Word. With a simple, modern design, Ask The Word makes Bible study interactive and meaningful. Tap any verse to receive thoughtful commentary, ask your own questions for deeper insight, and share your discoveries with friends and study groups to inspire others. Key Features - Instant Understanding — Tap any verse, range, or chapter to receive clear, easy-to-read explanations. - Ask The Word — Use built-in study prompts or type your own questions to explore deeper meaning. - AI-Generated Insights — Gain contextual summaries that highlight themes, background, and lessons from each passage. - Favorites — Save your favorite verses for quick access. A star marks each favorited verse in the reader. - Verse Groups — Organize verses into named groups for study guides, sermon prep, or topical collections. Get AI insights on your entire group. - Verse Notes — Add personal notes to any verse. A marker appears next to verses with notes so you never lose a thought. - Dark Mode — Switch between light and dark themes to suit your reading preference. - Share Insights — Send verses and your insights to friends or post them on social media to spark discussion and encouragement. - Multiple Bible Sources — Compare modern translations and languages within a clean, intuitive reader. - 32 Languages — Full UI support for 32 languages including Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu with RTL layout. - Personal Study History — All your questions and answers are saved so you can revisit past insights anytime. - Verse and Chapter Navigation — Quickly move between books, chapters, and translations without losing your place. - Offline Reading — Read your saved Bible texts even without an internet connection. - Built for iPhone and iPad — Enjoy a seamless reading and study experience on any screen size, including landscape with side-by-side panels. Designed for Learning and Reflection Ask The Word is for anyone who wants to better understand Scripture—whether you're opening the Bible for the first time or have studied it for years. Each insight is written to deepen your faith, strengthen your daily walk, and help you share God's Word with others.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Ask The Word4 screens
Truth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ask The Word at none against Truth's 4. Ask The Word also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Truth's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Truth sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Ask The Word asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ask The Word holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Truth has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ask The Word ships an update every 8 days, Truth weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ask The Word versus Truth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsk The WordTruth
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings110 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB306 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdward JudenCurtis Waldner

Customer experience

Ask The Word

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Truth

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ask The Word

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Truth

One-time4
  • Supporter$2.99
  • Friend$5.99
  • Patron$11.99
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  • Founding Supporter$24.99

Questions

Is Ask The Word free?
Ask The Word is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Truth free?
Truth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ask The Word or Truth?
Ask The Word is rated higher. Ask The Word averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Truth averages 4.8 from 10 ratings.
Do Ask The Word or Truth have ads?
Neither Ask The Word nor Truth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ask The Word or Truth?
Ask The Word ships an update every 8 days, and Truth weekly. Most recently, Ask The Word was updated on October 12, 2026 and Truth on October 17, 2026.

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