Comparison

Light vs TxtGod

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

Head to head
About

Light

This app facilitates Bible study by enabling users to read scripture, explore personal reflections, and generate in-depth studies on passages. It offers guided plans to deepen understanding of the Bible.

Highlights
  • Read Scripture
  • Ask questions about the Bible
  • Generate deep studies
  • Follow guided study plans
  • Personal reflection
Features
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Light is a Bible study app that helps users read Scripture, ask questions about the Bible and their personal experiences, generate deep studies on Bible passages, and follow guided study plans.

About

TxtGod

This app offers a focused and private way to read scripture, allowing users to highlight verses, write personal notes, and access multiple translations offline. It provides tools for deeper study, daily reflection, and tracking reading progress, all without an account or data tracking.

Highlights
  • Offline Bible reading
  • Private verse notes
  • Highlighting with custom tags
  • Word-by-word Hebrew/Greek lexicon
  • Cross-reference linking
  • Daily verse notifications
  • Reading progress tracking
  • Verse-to-image sharing
Features
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Six things in your current one are now wrong or missing, so this is a rewrite rather than an edit: TxtGod is the quiet, focused way to read the Bible and make it your own. Instead of writing in the margins of a paper Bible, highlight any verse and write your own notes right beside it - how you understand it, what it means to you, what you want to remember. Your notes stay private, and because they're anchored to the verse itself, they follow you across every translation and every language. READ • Four translations built in and fully offline: World English Bible (WEB), King James Version (KJV), American Standard Version (ASV), and Young's Literal Translation (YLT). • 110 languages available - download the one you read in, once, and keep it. • Parallel view - read two translations side by side. • Clean, distraction-free reading in a warm, easy-on-the-eyes design. MARK & UNDERSTAND • Highlight verses with meaning: Promise, Command, Teaching, Prophecy, Personal. • Write unlimited private notes on any verse. • Tag notes and gather them into collections. • Bookmark verses to find your place again. GO DEEPER • Every verse word by word in Hebrew or Greek, with Strong's numbers and a lexicon. • 341,000 cross-references between passages. • Deep Dive: verse-by-verse study notes through the opening of Genesis, with recorded talks that download once and play offline. A VERSE EACH DAY • One verse a day, on a theme - hope, grief, forgiveness, courage, thankfulness. • Every third day, a verse you highlighted yourself. • Sent to you each morning, if you want it. FIND IT BY HOW YOU ARE • Search the full text of scripture and your own notes. • Or start from what you're carrying - grieving, afraid, weary, looking for hope - and read the verses that speak to it. LISTEN • Have any chapter read aloud, with the verse you're hearing highlighted as it goes. • Choose the voice and the pace; keeps playing with the screen locked, with lock-screen controls, and rolls on into the next chapter. • Entirely on-device - it works with no signal at all. TRACK WHAT YOU'VE READ • Mark a chapter read when you've actually read it - nothing counts itself. • See your progress by testament and by book, a streak, and how much you've read this week. • Pick up at the first chapter you haven't read yet. THE WIDER CANON • Translations carrying the deuterocanonical books are available - the King James with Apocrypha, and the ASV Byzantine Text. They appear as their own section, only for the translations that include them, and never count toward your reading progress. SHARE • Turn any verse into an image worth sending, over a choice of backdrops or your own photo. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything you write stays on your device. No account. No tracking. No analytics. • The app downloads a language or a talk only when you ask for one, and nothing else. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://txtgod.app/privacy

Screenshots

Light4 screens
TxtGod4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Light at none against TxtGod's 5. Light also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). TxtGod's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating and ratings volume 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. TxtGod sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Light asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Light against 5.0 for TxtGod. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Light versus TxtGod: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightTxtGod
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAundrea GreggElite Performance Exclusive LLC

Customer experience

Light

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TxtGod

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Light

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

TxtGod

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Kind Tip$4.99
  • Generous Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Light free?
Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TxtGod free?
TxtGod is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Light or TxtGod?
Light and TxtGod are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Light or TxtGod have ads?
Light shows ads; TxtGod does not.

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