Bible Seek vs Deep Study Bible (No Ads)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bible Seek
This app offers a comprehensive Bible study experience with multiple translations, annotation tools, and built-in reading plans. It focuses on privacy with on-device storage and no account creation. Features include Greek/Hebrew word study, journaling, and verse memorization exercises.
- Offline Bible translations
- Highlighting and note-taking
- Greek/Hebrew word study
- Journaling with PDF export
- Customizable reading plans
- Verse memorization exercises
- Verse of the Day
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Bible Seek is a tool to help build your relationship with Christ from your phone — aiming to deliver a clean reading experience and the kind of thoughtful study tools a disciple would need. Everything is on-device. No account to create, no sign-in, no cloud sync. READER: Four offline translations — *King James Version*, *American Standard Version*, *Berean Standard Bible*, and *World English Bible*. Verse-by-verse or flowing paragraph options. Red Letter edition available. Adjustable font size, themes, and auto night mode for after sunset. MARK ANYTHING: Highlight in the color of your choice. Add notes; a subtle dotted underline shows where each note lives– tap it to edit. Tag notes (prayer, promise, question, anything you like). Tap a verse for quick actions: change color, remove, or add a note. STUDY: Greek/Hebrew Word Study. Select any word within the inline wordstudy screen or the separate menu, and see the definition, transliteration, and gloss. Biblical name meanings — look up a name for the Hebrew or Greek behind it, what it means, who bore it in Scripture, and the verses where it appears. Cross-references on tap. Each verse has its own "Related" sheet if applicable. Compare versions side-by-side. See your annotations from the other translation surfaced as a badge so nothing gets buried after a version switch. KEEP A JOURNAL: Every bookmark, highlight, and note lives in the Journal. Notes show the source verse alongside your writing. Save the whole journal as a PDF for sharing or keeping. JSON backup + restore so you can move between devices safely. Recently-deleted entries linger for 7 days for easy recovery. READING PLANS: Three built-in plans: Bible in a Year, Gospels in 30 Days, New Testament in 90 Days. Build your own custom plan from any combination of books and a duration you choose. A "Continue plan" card on the home screen surfaces today's reading. Daily notification reminders at the time you choose. A celebration screen when you finish. MEMORIZE BY DOING: Memory Verses uses active recall, not passive reading. The verse appears as blanks; its words appear in a shuffled bank. Tap them in the right order to fill it in. Only when you've actually completed it does the app mark it memorized. EVERYDAY HABIT: Verse of the Day on the home screen, plus an optional iOS home-screen widget. Topics — themed verse collections on prayer, faith, grief, gratitude, forgiveness, and more. SHARE CAPABILITIES: Generate image cards of any verse or note in a range of themes — Parchment (flat/textured), Slate, Sage, and Gold — ready to drop into chats Plain quoted text with the reference attached also available. OFFLINE & PRIVATE: The full text of both translations ships inside the app. Reads anywhere — plane, mountain, basement. Your highlights, notes, and bookmarks stay on your device. No account, no analytics, no cloud. Annotations are searchable from iOS Spotlight (your data, your phone, your search). I hope this helps someone know Christ for themselves.
Deep Study Bible (No Ads)
Explore the original Greek and Hebrew texts alongside the King James Bible. Tap any word for its definition and pronunciation, all while offline. Organize your study with unlimited notes and bookmarks, and listen to narrated versions.
- Interlinear Greek and Hebrew text
- Word definitions and pronunciations
- Offline functionality
- Unlimited annotations and bookmarks
- Audio Bible playback
- Multiple translation support
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Deep Study Bible puts the original Greek and Hebrew beneath every verse of the King James text — a true interlinear, on the very page you're already reading. Pronunciations sit above each word, and the meaning of any word is a single tap away. Everything lives on your device, so it all works offline. THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES, BUILT IN • The Greek of the New Testament and the Hebrew of the Old, beneath every verse • Hebrew rendered right-to-left with transliterations above each word • Tap any word for its lexicon definition — word study without leaving the chapter • Show or hide the original languages with a single tap STUDY TOOLS FOR A DAILY HABIT • Unlimited annotations, organized with colored labels you define • Unlimited bookmarks in eight colors — whole chapters or individual verses • The words of Jesus in red, a classic red-letter edition (toggle it off if you prefer) • Reading goals — the whole Bible, the Old Testament, or the New — with progress on your Home screen • Copy and share any verse, or create a shareable link that imports your notes and bookmarks straight into a friend's app LISTEN, OFFLINE • Download narrated audio bibles and build a listening playlist of whole books • Auto-advances chapter to chapter and keeps playing with your screen locked EVERY TRANSLATION, TO READ OR TO HEAR • KJV is bundled and ready the moment you open the app • Hundreds of available versions like NKJV, NLT, NIV, ESV, ASV, AMP, GNV, BSB and more • Browse and download more text and audio versions in the built-in store; some premium translations are available as one-time purchases • Swipe between chapters with a real page-turn feel PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No ads. No tracking. • Everything is stored on your device and works fully offline — the internet is only used when you choose to download a version.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bible Seek at none against Deep Study Bible (No Ads)'s 10. Deep Study Bible (No Ads)'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Deep Study Bible (No Ads) sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Bible Seek asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bible Seek against 5.0 for Deep Study Bible (No Ads). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively.
Bible Seek ships an update weekly, Deep Study Bible (No Ads) every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Bible Seek | Deep Study Bible (No Ads) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rollin Seymour | Elastic Engineering LLC |
Customer experience
Bible Seek
Deep Study Bible (No Ads)
In-app purchases
Bible Seek
No in-app purchases
Deep Study Bible (No Ads)
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