Comparison

Scroll The Bible vs HopeScroll

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

Head to head
About

Scroll The Bible

Experience Scripture with a clean, distraction-free interface designed for modern believers. Offers AI-powered study tools for deeper understanding, including explanations and cross-references. Available with various subscription plans for premium features.

Highlights
  • Infinite scrolling through scripture
  • Red Letter Edition for Jesus' words
  • Bookmark and save favorite verses
  • Add personal notes to verses
  • Powerful search functionality
  • AI-powered study explanations
  • Multiple Bible translations
Features
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What if your phone could pull you closer to God instead of further away? Scroll The Bible turns the same scrolling habit that drains your day into the one that fills it. Verse by verse. Just like your favorite social app. But this feed is the Word of God. No clutter. No noise. No comparison traps. Just Scripture, beautifully designed, one verse at a time. SCROLL THE BIBLE LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA The main feed is a smooth, full-screen, vertical scroll through every book and chapter of the Bible. Swipe up. Swipe up again. Read the Word the way your brain is already wired to consume content. Comment on verses. Share them with friends. Tap any verse to instantly unlock four powerful study tools: Deep Study breaks down the meaning, context, and life application of the verse. Original Language reveals the Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic word behind the English translation. Explain It Easier rewrites the verse in plain, modern language anyone can understand. Related Verses shows you connected passages across all of Scripture. THE DISCOVER PAGE When you do not know where to start, start here. The Discover page is a feed of random Bible verses, each one already loaded with a full deep study. Just keep scrolling. Every verse on the Discover page includes: Historical Context. Understand the world the verse was written into. Original Language. See the Greek, Hebrew, or Aramaic words and what they really meant. Life In Biblical Times. Step into the culture, customs, and daily life of the people who first heard these words. Did You Know. Surprising facts and hidden details most people never learn about Scripture. Theological Significance. Why this verse matters in the bigger story of God. Cross References. Other passages that connect to the same theme, story, or truth. Apply It. Practical, real-life ways to live the verse out today. Explore In Scripture. Related verses to take you deeper into what God is saying. VERSE SEARCH Search any single word or any single verse in the entire Bible. The results page lets you choose your study depth: Basic Study gives you a clear, simple breakdown perfect for quick understanding. Advanced Study unlocks the full theological, historical, and original language deep dive. Switch between Basic and Advanced anytime with a single tap. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU ALREADY USE YOUR PHONE This is the Bible app for the generation that grew up scrolling. Every feature is designed to make Scripture as easy to engage with as the apps you already open without thinking. Replace doom scrolling with Scripture scrolling. Replace mindless feeds with the mind of Christ. Replace the algorithm with the Word. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING Rated 4.9 stars by readers who say things like: "I constantly feel awful because I spend my mornings and nights doomscrolling. Now I am scrolling the Bible. Ten out of ten." "Scrolling through the Bible is such a novel idea and the app is so smooth and clean." "An amazing app. Thanks to the creators for sharing the Word of God." PERFECT FOR Anyone trying to break a social media habit. Daily Bible reading and quiet time. Bible study groups and small groups. New believers exploring Scripture for the first time. Long time Christians who want to go deeper. Anyone who has ever opened the Bible and not known where to start. Scroll The Bible was built by someone who believes the Word of God deserves the same design quality, the same smooth experience, and the same pull on your attention as the apps you already cannot put down. Download Scroll The Bible and turn your scroll into Scripture. Terms of Use: https://thejcbsnbrand.com/apps/scroll-the-bible/terms Privacy Policy: https://thejcbsnbrand.com/apps/scroll-the-bible/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

Scroll The Bible4 screens
HopeScroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: HopeScroll at 100% against Scroll The Bible's 63%. HopeScroll also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Scroll The Bible's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 4) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Scroll The Bible sells 8 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: Scroll The Bible has 17K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Scroll The Bible's written reviews are positive against 100% of HopeScroll's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scroll The Bible ships an update every 9 days, HopeScroll every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Scroll The Bible versus HopeScroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScroll The BibleHopeScroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#3 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGabriel JacobsonMARCUS DANIEL WILLIAMS

Customer experience

Scroll The Bible

All ratings17,035 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral1.4%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews450 reviews
Positive63.1%
Neutral9.8%
Negative27.1%

HopeScroll

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Scroll The Bible

Subscriptions8
  • Scroll The Bible - Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Scroll The Bible - Yearly Premium$5.991 Month
  • Scroll The Bible - Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
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  • Scroll The Bible - Yearly Premium3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Scroll The Bible3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Scroll The Bible - Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Scroll The Bible - Yearly Premium1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • Scroll The Bible - Yearly Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

HopeScroll

One-time1
  • HopeScroll Studio$6.99

Questions

Is Scroll The Bible free?
Scroll The Bible 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, Scroll The Bible or HopeScroll?
HopeScroll is rated higher. Scroll The Bible averages 4.8 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while HopeScroll averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Scroll The Bible or HopeScroll have ads?
Scroll The Bible shows ads; HopeScroll does not.
Which is updated more often, Scroll The Bible or HopeScroll?
Scroll The Bible ships an update every 9 days, and HopeScroll every 4 days. Most recently, Scroll The Bible was updated on October 16, 2026 and HopeScroll on October 13, 2026.

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