Lux Bible vs Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lux Bible
A modern Bible study app offering offline access to original language texts, interlinear translations, and powerful search tools. It provides in-depth study features like Strong's numbers, cross-references, and commentary, all within a user-friendly interface.
- Interlinear Greek and Hebrew texts
- Strong's lexicon and numbers
- Cross-references and commentary
- Side-by-side translation comparison
- Advanced scripture search
- Offline access to multiple translations
- Original language Bibles
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Lux Bible brings in-depth Bible study into a calm, modern reading experience. Read Scripture, take notes, explore Greek and Hebrew, dig into study notes, maps, and videos, and follow reading plans without ads, subscriptions, purchases, or an account. Powerful enough for serious study and clean enough for everyday reading. READ Choose from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), Majority Standard Bible (MSB), Christian Standard Bible (CSB), King James Version (KJV), American Standard Version (ASV), and World English Bible (WEB), available offline. AMP, NIV, NASB95, NLT, and NKJV are also available online. Additional Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Romanian, Russian, and Tagalog translations are available. Read the original texts offline with the Greek Septuagint, Textus Receptus, Byzantine Textform, Statistical Restoration Greek New Testament, and Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible. Listen to the BSB or KJV with playback speed controls, a sleep timer, and background playback. Begin each day with Verse of the Day, also available as a Home Screen widget, and set daily reminders for it or any active reading plan. Choose an included plan or create your own from passages or selected books and a duration. Import and share plans as files, follow more than one plan, and track your progress. NOTE Highlight verses, words, or phrases with color, an outline, or one of several underlines, and mark them with icons. Add notes, create your own highlight styles, and organize everything into notebooks you can share as files. Filter your annotations or hide a notebook when you want a cleaner reading view. STUDY THE TEXT Tap any word to see its Greek or Hebrew root, Strong's number, morphology, and inflection. Lux makes original-language study approachable without making the rest of the app feel like academic software. - Explore a full Greek and Hebrew interlinear - Search words, phrases, or Strong's numbers - Compare translations side by side - Follow cross-references powered by OpenBible - Look up Greek and Hebrew words in Strong's Lexicon EVERYTHING ON THE PASSAGE Open Linked Resources on any chapter or verse to see what connects to it: the people and themes it involves, dictionary articles, maps, videos, and the creeds and catechisms that cite it. Pin it as a study panel and it follows along as you read. - Read Tyndale Study Notes, with book introductions and "at a glance" summaries, alongside commentary from Matthew Henry, John Calvin, and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown - Look up people, places, and topics in the Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary - Zoom into 70 Bible maps of journeys, battles, and regions - Watch 264 BibleProject videos, each linked to the passages it explains - Read 35 historic creeds, confessions, and catechisms with their Scripture proofs MAKE IT YOURS Start with a Reader, Note-taker, or Studier setup, then customize your toolbars and shortcuts. Keep parallel Bibles, interlinear study, commentary, cross-references, and notes open in swipeable study panels while you read. On iPad, panels sit right beside the text. FREE, PRIVATE, AND OFFLINE-FIRST Bundled Bibles, original-language texts, notes, and study resources work without a connection, while BibleProject videos stream online. Your content stays on your device. Lux has no ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases, or accounts. Privacy-respecting analytics and crash reports help improve features and reliability, and are never used for ads, personalization, or cross-app tracking. Lux is free and committed to staying that way.
Bible
This app offers a peaceful and uncluttered environment for reading the Bible. Save and organize favorite passages, add highlights, and write personal notes. It provides offline access to multiple Bible versions and supports Siri integration for easy navigation and note retrieval.
- Offline Bible reading
- Save passages and notes
- Highlighting in multiple colors
- Organize passages into collections
- Siri AI and Shortcuts integration
- Customizable font and appearance
- Private iCloud sync option
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A simple Bible app, made for reading. Simply Scripture gives you a calm, uncluttered place to read the Bible, save the passages that speak to you and return to them whenever you need. NO ADS OR PURCHASES, ALWAYS FREE Everything is free, with no ads, in-app purchases or subscriptions. You don't need an account to read, save passages or write notes. DOWNLOAD YOUR FAVORITE VERSION Bibles in 11 languages are included and ready to read offline from your first launch, including the King James Version (KJV). Download the versions you want and they stay on your device, even without an internet connection. SAVE PASSAGES, HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES Select a verse or a longer passage to save it, highlight it in the color of your choice or write a personal note. Everything stays connected to the Scripture that inspired it. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Gather passages around a theme, a study or a season of life. Your saved passages, highlights and notes come together in one place. SIRI AI AND SHORTCUTS Ask Siri to open a passage, continue reading or work with your collections, or build your own shortcuts. With Siri AI on iOS 27, you can also find your notes. English-language study notes and Bible dictionary entries from Tyndale are available through Shortcuts. EVERY BOOK, BEAUTIFULLY TYPESET Choose your font and text size, light or dark appearance, and read in portrait or landscape. The screen stays on while you read. SIMPLE, QUICK NAVIGATION Jump to any book and chapter in a moment, and pick up where you left off from your recent reading. YOUR LIBRARY, KEPT PRIVATE Your notes, highlights and collections save to your device first. Sync them with your private iCloud when available, or with an optional Simply Scripture account. Siri AI features require a compatible iPhone with iOS 27 and depend on language and region. Just the Word.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lux Bible at every 4 days against Bible's every 2 weeks. Lux Bible also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Bible's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bible holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lux Bible has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lux Bible ships an update every 4 days, Bible every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lux Bible | Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 333 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JLogical LLC | Edgar Ntensibe |
Customer experience
Lux Bible
Bible
In-app purchases
Lux Bible
No in-app purchases
Bible
No in-app purchases









