Comparison

BibleGate vs Bible Verse

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

Head to head
About

BibleGate

This app helps you prioritize Bible reading by locking distracting apps until you complete daily scripture study. Earn minutes for app usage by reading passages and answering questions, encouraging consistent spiritual growth.

Highlights
  • Lock distracting apps
  • Earn app time by reading Bible
  • Offline Bible access
  • Guided Bible studies
  • Verse of the Day widget
  • Prayer board
Features
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Your phone gets the first hour of your day. Your Bible gets whatever is left, and on most days that is nothing. BibleGate changes the order. You choose the apps that take too much of your time, like Instagram, TikTok or YouTube. BibleGate keeps them locked until you have read your Bible. Read a short passage, answer one question about what you read, and you earn minutes to spend on those apps. When the minutes run out, the apps lock again, and your Bible is one tap away. It doesn’t depend on willpower, and there’s no reading plan to fall behind on. It simply puts Scripture in front of the scroll, every time you reach for it. HOW IT WORKS • Pick the apps you want to lock. BibleGate uses Apple’s Screen Time, so your choices stay on your phone. • Open BibleGate and read. The Bible is a feed you swipe through, one verse per screen. • Every few verses, answer a short question about what you just read to earn minutes. • Spend the minutes on your apps. When they run out, read again. We keep earned time modest on purpose. The point is more time in God’s Word, not more time on your feed. READ YOUR BIBLE • The whole Bible, any book or chapter, in several translations, with red letter text. It works offline. • Verse of the Day and Chapter of the Week, which both earn you minutes. • Read-aloud, so you can listen while you walk or drive. • Bible Stats show how much of the Bible you have read. • Save the verses you love to Favorites. A VERSE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN • The Hourly Verse widget shows a new verse every hour, on your Lock Screen or Home Screen. • Tap it to open the verse in the app. LEARN WHAT YOU READ • 11 guided studies, including How to Read the Bible, How to Pray with Scripture, The Church Fathers, The Dead Sea Scrolls and The Reformation. • Guided journeys through books of the Bible. • Devotionals from voices across church history, like Augustine, Brother Lawrence and Julian of Norwich. STAY CONSISTENT • Reading streaks, with Grace Days for the days life gets in the way. • A weekly rest day. • A home screen widget and Live Activity that show your Time Bank. PRAY AND GIVE TOGETHER • A prayer board to share requests and pray for one another. • Each month BibleGate gives to ministries. Pro subscriptions help fund it, and members vote on how the giving is shared, with a receipt for every gift. WHO IT’S FOR People who want to read their Bible every day but keep losing the morning to their phone. Parents who want to be present with their family instead of on a screen. Anyone coming back to Scripture after years away. And anyone who started a reading plan and stopped by the second week. BibleGate is available in English and Portuguese. SUBSCRIPTION BibleGate Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly. New subscribers may be offered a free trial. The price and any trial are always shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.getbiblegate.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Bible Verse

Receive daily Bible verses, prayers, and Christian quotes directly on your lock and home screens. This app offers customizable widgets and a calm feed to integrate scripture into your day, with an AI-powered prayer chat feature. It's designed for those seeking daily spiritual encouragement without needing to open a separate app.

Highlights
  • Daily Bible verses on lock screen
  • Home screen widgets
  • Christian quotes and affirmations
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • AI-powered prayer chat
  • Daily Bible quiz
  • Habit tracking streak
Features
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A new Bible verse on your lock screen every morning. Prayers, Christian quotes and encouragement on your home screen, so God's word is the first thing you see. You pick up your phone dozens of times a day. Steeple turns those moments into a short pause with scripture: a verse on the lock screen, a prayer in a widget, a quote that fits what you are going through. WHAT YOU GET • Lock screen and home screen widgets in several sizes and styles, with a fresh verse, prayer or quote each day. • A calm feed of Bible verses, prayers, Christian quotes and affirmations, one card at a time. Save favorites, build collections, and share any card as an image. • Topics for the moment you are in: faith, hope, healing, grief, gratitude, inner peace, self worth, letting go and more. • Themes for every card, plus a theme editor to use your own photo, fonts and colors. • Reminders at the times you choose, so a verse arrives before the day gets loud. • A streak that keeps the habit going. • Prayer chat: ask about a passage, a worry or a decision and get a reply grounded in scripture, with the verses it draws on. Replies are written by AI and can be imperfect. • A daily Bible quiz. MADE FOR Anyone who wants scripture in their day without another app to open: busy parents, students, people new to faith, and anyone who finds the full Bible hard to start. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the feed with a daily limit, the core topics, 15 themes, one reminder, one custom widget, one collection, and a taste of Prayer chat and the quiz. Steeple Premium unlocks every topic, theme, mix and font, unlimited reminders and widgets, premium voices that read cards aloud, more chat, unlimited quizzes, and backup and sync across devices. Steeple Premium is $39.99 a year or $14.99 a month. Both plans start with a 7 day free trial. Turn on the trial reminder and we tell you 24 hours before it ends. Your plan renews until you cancel, and you can cancel any time in Settings. No weekly plans. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account needed. Signed out, your favorites, collections, settings and streak stay on your iPhone. Sign in with Apple or Google is optional; with Premium it backs up your data so it follows you to a new phone. Prayer chat and premium voices send your text to our server and to OpenAI to write or read a reply. We do not keep your chat messages. Steeple uses Google Firebase for usage statistics and crash reports, RevenueCat to manage subscriptions, and Adjust and Meta to measure our own ads. No ads in the app. We measure our own advertising with Adjust, Meta and TikTok, and your advertising identifier is read only if you allow tracking. Steeple never sells your information. You can delete your account and everything synced with it from inside the app. Scripture is from the World English Bible, a modern English translation in the public domain. Questions: arshpreet@billionweb.co Terms of Use: https://arsh1219.github.io/steeple-pages/terms Privacy Policy: https://arsh1219.github.io/steeple-pages/privacy

Screenshots

BibleGate4 screens
Bible Verse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bible Verse at 17.0 against BibleGate's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. BibleGate sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Bible Verse sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for BibleGate against 4.9 for Bible Verse. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 9 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BibleGate versus Bible Verse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBibleGateBible Verse
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (25 ratings)4.9 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB112 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRae Legacy LLCBillion Web Pte. Ltd.

Customer experience

BibleGate

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

Bible Verse

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

BibleGate

Subscriptions10
  • BibleGate Pro3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • BibleGate Pro Weekly$5.997 Days
  • BibleGate Pro$5.991 Month
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  • BibleGate Pro$7.991 Month
  • BibleGate Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • BibleGate Pro$12.991 Month
  • BibleGate Pro$29.991 Year
  • BibleGate Pro3 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • BibleGate Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • BibleGate Pro7 Days trial$69.991 Year
5 purchases

Bible Verse

Subscriptions4
  • Steeple Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Steeple Premium$29.991 Year
  • Steeple Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Steeple Premium3 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Steeple Premium Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is BibleGate free?
BibleGate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bible Verse free?
Bible Verse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BibleGate or Bible Verse?
Bible Verse is rated higher. BibleGate averages 4.8 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Bible Verse averages 4.9 from 9 ratings.
Do BibleGate or Bible Verse have ads?
Both BibleGate and Bible Verse show ads.
Which is updated more often, BibleGate or Bible Verse?
BibleGate ships an update every 4 days, and Bible Verse every 4 days. Most recently, BibleGate was updated on November 9, 2026 and Bible Verse on November 10, 2026.

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