Comparison

Interlinear Study vs The Social Scripture

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

Head to head
About

Interlinear Study

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Read the Bible in its original Hebrew and Greek with word-by-word English translations. Interlinear Study puts the original languages right next to English so you can see exactly what each word means. WORD-BY-WORD INTERLINEAR Every Hebrew and Greek word is displayed with its transliteration and English gloss. Tap any word to see detailed definitions and Strong's concordance numbers. TWO ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Choose between the King James Version (KJV) and the Berean Standard Bible (BSB) for your English text panel. AUDIO PLAYBACK Listen to chapters read aloud in English, Hebrew, or Greek with word-by-word highlighting that follows along. Adjustable speed from 0.1× to 2×. FLEXIBLE LAYOUTS View in side-by-side or top-and-bottom layout. Works beautifully on both iPhone and iPad with full dark mode support. COMPLETE BIBLE All 66 books — Old Testament in Hebrew and New Testament in Greek — with interlinear data for every verse. FULLY OFFLINE All text and interlinear data is bundled with the app. No internet connection required for reading. No accounts, no sign-ups, no ads. PRIVACY FIRST No analytics, no tracking, no data collection. Your reading habits stay on your device.

About

The Social Scripture

This app allows for in-depth Bible study with original language tools and collaborative features. Users can take notes, share them, and engage in structured debates on public notes and topics. It also facilitates group study and direct messaging.

Highlights
  • Original language Bible versions
  • Word parsing and dictionary lookup
  • Private and public note-taking
  • Group study and messaging
  • Structured written, video, and verbal debates
  • Community voting on debates
Features
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Social Scripture is a Bible app for people who read closely, write down what they find, and are willing to defend it. READ IN THE ORIGINAL The King James Version alongside the American Standard, World English, and 1599 Geneva Bibles. Read the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew and the New Testament in the Greek of Westcott and Hort. Hold any word to see its parsing — stem, tense, person, gender, number — and its dictionary entry, drawn from 8,674 Hebrew and 5,523 Greek lexicon entries. Morphology covers the Old Testament in Hebrew and 7,938 of the 7,940 verses of the Greek New Testament. BEYOND THE SIXTY-SIX The Apocrypha. Twenty-five works of the early church fathers, dated and in order. The complete Mishnah, arranged by its six orders. All searchable, all quotable, all in the same reader. NOTES THAT GO SOMEWHERE Highlight a verse or a single word. Write notes and keep them private, share them with friends, post them to a study group, or publish them to the Public Bible where anyone can read and comment. Tag any verse from anywhere in the app and tap the tag to jump straight to it. Build topics that gather passages across books. STUDY WITH OTHERS Follow people whose reading you trust. Start a group for your church or your class, with roles, moderation, and a shared wall. Message directly. See who is online. THEN DEBATE IT This is what makes Social Scripture different. Challenge a public note or topic and the author is shown exactly what you disagree with and why — you cannot issue a challenge without writing your objection first. Debates run in three formats. Written debates follow a formal structure, with constructives, rebuttals, and closing arguments on timed deadlines. Video debates run on your own stream. Verbal debates happen in an in-app audio room: debaters and a moderator speak, everyone else listens, and the moderator can mute a mic. Both debaters must agree on the time, and on a moderator if they want one — the challenge card passes back and forth until you settle it. When the debate closes, the room locks and voting opens for seven days. The community decides. Voting is locked until the debate is over, you cannot vote for yourself, and a result only stands once enough people have voted. RECORDED, WITH CONSENT Verbal debates are recorded only after every debater and moderator agrees on a consent screen. Listeners are never recorded, and a notice appears in the room whenever recording is active. Recordings are stored privately and deleted automatically when voting closes. YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR TERMS Export your notes. Delete your account and its data from inside the app. Report or block anyone. Group leaders and moderators can remove content from their own spaces.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: The Social Scripture at 3 against Interlinear Study's —. The Social Scripture also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Interlinear Study versus The Social Scripture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterlinear StudyThe Social Scripture
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 days
Ads—Yes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Ad-supported
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB56 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLance StalkerRyan Hamilton

In-app purchases

None

Interlinear Study

No in-app purchases

None

The Social Scripture

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Interlinear Study free?
Interlinear Study is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Social Scripture free?
The Social Scripture is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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