Comparison

Truth vs Scriptly

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

Head to head
About

Truth

This app offers a peaceful, offline Bible reading experience with multiple ways to engage with scripture. It includes study tools like commentaries, cross-references, memory cards, and reading plans, all without AI or tracking.

Highlights
  • Offline Bible access
  • Verse Scroll and Page-Curl reader
  • Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
  • Cross-Reference Graph
  • Memory Cards with spaced repetition
  • 40+ Reading Plans
  • Prayer Journal and Verse Collections
Features
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The whole Bible on your device, in a reader that gets out of the way — and a study library underneath it for the days you want to go deeper. The King James text lives on your device, so Truth opens instantly and reads with no signal at all. READ YOUR WAY Choose how Scripture reaches you: Classic, a chapter to a page; Continuous, the whole Bible as one unbroken scroll from Genesis to Revelation; or Verse Scroll, one verse at a time. On iPad, Book Mode sets it as a real book with pages you turn. Verses or paragraphs, your size and typeface, and the words of Jesus in red. Highlight, write notes and leave bookmarks, all gathered in one place, and Truth keeps your place to the verse. 27 TRANSLATIONS The King James is built in, and 26 more download once and then work offline: the Berean Standard Bible, the Literal Standard Version, Young's Literal, the Geneva Bible, the ASV, the World English Bible, the Douay–Rheims, six German Bibles including Luther 1912 and Schlachter 1951, and the Hebrew and Greek texts, from the Westminster Leningrad Codex to the Textus Receptus and the Septuagint. Compare any verse across the ones you have. HEAR IT READ Human-narrated Audio Bibles, in plain narration or full-cast drama. On the King James and ESV readings, the verse being spoken lights up as it goes. Keeps playing with the screen off and picks up where you stopped. Recordings from Bible Brain, provided by Faith Comes By Hearing. STUDY ANYTHING Tap a verse for the Hebrew and Greek behind it, cross-references, Matthew Henry's commentary, the people and places in it, and old words explained in plain English. Every person and place has a page of its own, and Chapter Study shows where the New Testament quotes the Old, from either side. The library holds Easton's Bible Dictionary, a full concordance, Nave's Topical Bible, the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, a map and a timeline. Commentary is always labelled as commentary, never mixed in with Scripture. STUDY DESK AND PDF BUILDER Lay a study out as cards, group them into sections, connect them with labelled links, and add voice notes. Then turn it into a handout: passages, fill-in-the-blank verses, lines for writing and an answer key, printed on US Letter or A4 or read on a Kindle Scribe, on sixteen paper colours. Keep your copy with your notes and share a clean one. KEEP Your highlights, notes, prayers, plans and progress on every device you read on, with no account and no password. It stays off until you turn it on, and you choose what each device keeps. ON IPAD Book Mode, Split for two translations side by side, a Study Desk with room to spread out, keyboard shortcuts, and Apple Pencil: write in the margin beside any verse, and your ink stays with it. ON APPLE WATCH Read a chapter, hear it narrated, log a prayer, note something you're grateful for, and keep your streak, from your wrist. ALSO • Reading plans laid out as a path, each day ticked off as you read • Memorise verses, trivia, Copywork, and a course in the old German script • Verse of the Day, with a daily reminder • Quiet mode on iPhone: just the Word, with everything else a tap away • Widgets, twenty app icons, and themes including warm parchment • Share a verse as an image, or set it as your wallpaper • Search by word, by reference, or by plain question • 59 How-To guides, and a chat where a real person answers No ads. No account needed. No tracking.

About

Scriptly

Features
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Scriptly is a Bible for reading, hearing, and thinking in. Read it in your own language, hear it read aloud, and keep what you think beside the verse that prompted it. READ • Several translations, in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish. • Text that flows to your screen, at whatever size reads easily. • Or a real page — ruled, squared, dotted or blank — with a margin wide enough to think in. LISTEN • Any chapter read aloud, in any of the four languages. • Choose who reads it: most languages have several recordings, plain or dramatized. • It keeps playing while you read on, or with the screen locked. GO DEEPER • Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it, with its lexicon entry. • See everywhere else that word appears, and open any of those verses in place. • Study notes on the history, the customs, the turn of phrase the first readers would have caught. A DEVOTION EVERY MORNING • My Utmost for His Highest and Daily Light on the Daily Path, in your own language. • And a page to answer them on, if you want one. KEEP WHAT YOU THINK • Highlight a verse, or type a note against it. • Or write in the margin by hand — pen, highlighter and eraser, in your own colours. • Scribble out to erase: draw back and forth over a stroke, and only what you cross goes. YOURS, AND PRIVATE • No account, no sign-in, no ads. • Your notes live on your device, and we have no server that could hold them. • Anonymous counts of chapters opened — never the text, never your handwriting, never who you are — feed the “Around the world” screen, and can be turned off in Settings. Everything you mark, type or write follows you between your devices through your own private iCloud, automatically, in a container we can neither see nor reach. On iPhone and iPad. An Apple Pencil is a pleasure, not a requirement.

Screenshots

Truth4 screens
Scriptly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scriptly at none against Truth's 4. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Truth sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Scriptly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Truth ships an update weekly, Scriptly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Truth versus Scriptly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTruthScriptly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size306 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCurtis Waldnerk5Software

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Truth

One-time4
  • Supporter$2.99
  • Friend$5.99
  • Patron$11.99
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  • Founding Supporter$24.99
None

Scriptly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Truth free?
Truth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scriptly free?
Scriptly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Truth or Scriptly have ads?
Neither Truth nor Scriptly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Truth or Scriptly?
Truth ships an update weekly, and Scriptly every 5 days. Most recently, Truth was updated on October 10, 2026 and Scriptly on October 8, 2026.

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