Bible Authorized Version vs Scripture Alone Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bible Authorized Version
Explore the King James Bible with an advanced search tool for word frequency and location. Features natural text interaction, customizable navigation, and the ability to save searches and verses. Study scripture locally on your device.
- Exegesis search tool
- Word frequency and location
- Natural text interaction
- Customizable navigation displays
- Save searches and verses
- Local device storage
- Dark Mode optimized
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Read everywhere and daily with Bible Authorized Version, the King James Bible app built for reading, searching, saving, and studying Scripture entirely offline, by grace from the KJB Pure Cambridge Edition 1900. Anyone interested in supporting app development may "Tip" from opening Bookcase, and selecting the ⓘ . The objective of BAV is to hide obtrusive distractions while providing advanced tools to learn the source text at a glance. Search the Bible by word or phrase, see where words appear, and compare how often they occur across the whole Bible or within a specific book. Select text naturally, save searches, save verses, and create Selection Groups for deeper study with Colloquies. The Bible is its own dictionary! 0. King James Bible is the infallible word! KJB is 100% free, and for $19.99, Source Text unlock allows USFM imports, or choose to download from available non-copyrighted versions. 1. Choose how you browse: Standard, Historical, or Alphabetical Bookshelves. 2. Decide your focus: Searches will display similar searches and wording, Saved is a primary quick-access selection group, Selections gives specific control over order and grouping of verses, and Colloquies is where you may write and build your own studies now that you have organized selections and can easily track where you were in the Bible from saved searches. 3. Take your focus to a whole new level by pausing where you're at and coming back to it later. Keep studies completely separate, or use each session for one spot in the Bible. So not only can you have unlimited Bibles, you can group each set so if resuming where you left off isn't enough, then you can resume "where you left off where you left off", because each Collection of Sessions has its own "active" Session. 4. Wrap everything together with Gestures and Settings Profiles. Each Settings Profile can have its own Gestures Profile, or all your Settings Profiles can have one Gesture Profile. Gesture between Sessions, Books, Chapters, and Verses depending on your preferred setup. Bible Authorized Version is designed to stay out of your way. Hide or show the interface with one tap, focus on the text, and use widgets (Verse over Photo widget or Sessions widget), notifications, and selections as a study tool for learning scripture. Features: · Sessions and Session Collections: group sessions and maintain separation of concerns as needed to strengthen your focus. · Bookcase and Bookshelves: browse books by order and expand search results. · Reader: customize font display and size settings for comfortable reading. · Search: space-sensitive word and phrase searching by 'match' and 'broad'. · Save, Star, Select, Study: read everywhere and daily - save searches, star your focused verses, select in groups and place groups into collections, and create your own Colloquies. · Local use: works completely on your own device. · Design: intended primarily for Dark Mode use. Specifications: · No opinionated commentary, red letters, or pilcrows (App Presets can be hidden from the Manage Presets option when selecting a Colloquy preset). · Contains italics. · Pure Cambridge. · Customizable Reader: font family, spacing, and all-chapters or single-chapter view. For more information: * Contact: [1611@With.LLC](mailto:1611@With.LLC)
Scripture Alone Bible
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Scripture Alone is a Bible for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, built for one thing: studying God's word without anything in the way. No ads. No trackers. No accounts. The Bible lives on your device, so it works anywhere, with or without a connection. Read the whole Bible, offline The New American Standard Bible — NASB 2020 is on your device from the moment it installs. The NASB 1995, American Standard Version, Berean Standard Bible and King James Version download once, when you first choose one. Full-text search, the words of Christ in red, poetry set as poetry, and footnotes a tap away. What the Bible says about what you're going through Topics gathers passages for 72 themes — anxiety, grief, loneliness, fear, marriage, waiting and more — in the translation you read. Type a feeling like "anxious" in Go To and its topic comes up. In English, Nave's Topical Bible is there too, A to Z. Bring your own Bibles Import a DRM-free ePub, a Bible PDF with a text layer or a USFM file you own, or browse the openly licensed translations on eBible.org. A study Bible brings its notes, introductions, essays and maps; the words of Christ carry over in red; and your imports reach your other devices through your own iCloud. The ESV, CSB and NKJV can be read with your own publisher key, or from a copy you've imported. In your language Also in Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese and Italian, each with a whole Bible of its own. Make it comfortable Seven typefaces, adjustable size and spacing, five themes, paragraphs or verse by verse, full Dynamic Type, two columns on a wide screen, and auto-scroll into the next chapter. Go straight there Type "jn 3 16" or "rom 8:28-39" to jump to a passage, or search any word or phrase. Highlight, note and favorite Highlight in five colors, favorite the verses you return to, and attach notes to one or more passages — a Sunday sermon on Romans 8:1–17, say. The Highlights list gathers every marked verse in Bible order, and Notes, Highlights and Favorites narrow to one book or chapter. Export notes as PDF, Markdown or text, or bring years of them in from Life Bible (formerly Tecarta) or a CSV. Snap the sermon slide Photograph the slide at church and Scripture Alone starts your note: titled, linked to every passage on the slide, its points ready to fill in. The photo is read on your device, never uploaded. Listen Hear any chapter read aloud with your device's voices, the spoken verse marked as it goes — or in Studio voices with a Mi Speaks Premium subscription (a separate app). Study mode, a toggle away Ranked cross-references, commentary from Calvin, Gill and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, the Hebrew and Greek word by word with parsing, Strong's numbers and a lexicon in every translation, and Context for every chapter: an overview, a map of the places it names, its era on a timeline, and charts of the kings, Paul's journeys, the tribes and the feasts. Share beautifully Design a verse image from eight templates, or share a link that rebuilds it in any browser — nothing is stored on a server. On your wrist and Home Screen Verse of the Day and Favorites widgets, and an Apple Watch app with the NASB 2020 built in and a complication. It reads offline, follows your iPhone's translation and carries your highlights, favorites and notes, in the accent color you chose on your iPhone. A Bible to hand down Make a Keepsake Bible: a file of your highlights and notes, with a dedication, that your family can open and read as you marked it — a digital "Dad's Bible". Private by design Your highlights, notes and favorites sync across your devices through your own private iCloud. No server, no account, and the developer never sees your data. Scripture Alone is open source under the AGPL, so anyone can read exactly what it does. Built to help people study God's word and grow closer to Christ. NASB 2020 and NASB 1995 © The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scripture Alone Bible at none against Bible Authorized Version's 5. Scripture Alone Bible also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Bible Authorized Version's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Bible Authorized Version sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Scripture Alone Bible asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bible Authorized Version ships an update weekly, Scripture Alone Bible every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bible Authorized Version | Scripture Alone Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | With dot LLC | Blaine Miller |
In-app purchases
Bible Authorized Version
- Small Tip$1.00
- Generous Tip$5.00
- Huge Tip$25.00
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- Extraordinary Tip$100.00
- Wild Tip$1000.00
Scripture Alone Bible
No in-app purchases
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