Lux Bible vs 1189
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.
1189
Track your progress through all 1,189 Bible chapters with a visual map that fills in as you read. Mark chapters, attach notes, and review your reading history with monthly and yearly recaps. Offers a built-in reader and syncs across devices.
- Visual Bible chapter map
- Mark read/studied chapters
- Built-in Bible reader
- Chapter journaling with notes
- Monthly and yearly reading recaps
- Streaks with grace option
- iCloud sync across devices
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Ever set out to read the whole Bible and lose track of where you are? Or finish a plan and wonder which chapters you have actually read over the years? That's where 1189 comes in. It is a personal map of all 1,189 chapters of the Bible that fills in as you read, across any plan, any pace, any Bible, for as long as you keep reading. Some of the top features: - The Map: Every book and every chapter, colored by section, so you can see your whole Bible at a glance and exactly what is left. - Paper Bible first: Read from your own Bible and mark a chapter or a range in seconds. No scrolling required. - Built-in Reader: Read in the app when you want to, with the Berean Standard Bible, World English Bible, and King James Version included. - Read or Studied: Two levels of marking. Read means you read it. Studied means you went deeper. - Streaks with grace: Pick your reading days and your streak survives the days you planned to rest. Turn streaks off entirely if you prefer. - Recaps: Monthly and yearly recaps of your reading, with share cards you can send to anyone. - Journal: Attach a note to any chapter, with optional prompts to get you started, and share it as a card or plain text. - Stats: Percent read, your pace, and an estimate of when you will finish. - Achievements: Quiet milestones along the way, never a leaderboard. - Passes: Finish the whole Bible and start again. Every pass is kept, and nothing you have read is ever erased. - iCloud Sync: Your reading lives in your own iCloud and stays in step across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. - Private by design: No accounts, no feed, no comments. Share only what you choose to share. The whole reading loop is free: the map, marking, the reader, journaling, recaps, achievements, and reminders. With an upgrade to 1189 Pro, you get: - Advanced stats and charts - Achievements history - Share card styles - Journal export as PDF - Alternate app icons Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lux Bible at none against 1189's 3. Lux Bible also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). 1189's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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. 1189 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Lux Bible asks for nothing beyond the download.
1189 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lux Bible has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Lux Bible ships an update every 4 days, 1189 every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Lux Bible | 1189 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 333 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JLogical LLC | Semper Phoenix LLC |
Customer experience
Lux Bible
1189
In-app purchases
Lux Bible
No in-app purchases
1189
- 1189 Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- 1189 Pro Annual$19.991 Year
- 1189 Pro Lifetime$49.99









