Hadith Library vs Traverse Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hadith Library
Access authentic Islamic narrations with a clean, distraction-free interface. Read Hadith in Urdu, English, and Arabic, with easy navigation through major collections and chapters for focused study.
- Read Hadith in Urdu, English, and Arabic
- Browse major Hadith books and chapter lists
- Clean and distraction-free reading interface
- Quick navigation between chapters
- Smooth experience for daily study
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Hadith helps you read authentic narrations in a simple and focused way. Explore trusted collections, open chapters quickly, and read with clean typography designed for long reading sessions. Key features: - Read Hadith in Urdu, English, and Arabic - Browse major Hadith books and chapter lists - Clean and distraction-free reading interface - Quick navigation between chapters and narrations - Smooth experience built for daily study Whether you are studying regularly or reading occasionally, Hadith keeps the content accessible, organized, and easy to follow.
Traverse Bible
This app offers an in-depth Bible study experience with multiple translations, original language tools, audio Bibles, and extensive cross-references. It allows users to explore commentaries, biblical figures, and topics, all while working offline. Features include note-taking, bookmarking, and powerful search capabilities.
- Twelve Bible translations
- Audio Bible narrations
- Original Hebrew and Greek languages
- Strong's concordance and lexicons
- Verse-by-verse commentaries
- Extensive cross-references
- Biblical people, places, and maps
- Offline functionality
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Traverse Bible is a free Bible study app for iPhone. Read Scripture, compare translations, study Hebrew and Greek, follow cross-references, explore trusted reference works, and keep your notes together in one place. The built-in study library works offline. Recorded audio, commentaries, and biblical place photographs are available as optional downloads and remain accessible offline after installation. Features: • Bible Translations: Read 12 English translations spanning the 1599 Geneva Bible to the 2023 Berean Standard Bible. Switch editions without losing your place or compare a verse across the translations that contain it. Book coverage varies by edition. • Audio Bibles: Download seven recorded readings covering the KJV, ASV, WEB, Douay-Rheims, Berean Standard Bible, 1 Enoch, and Jubilees. Verse highlighting follows the recording as it plays. Includes lock-screen controls, adjustable speed, and a sleep timer. Recorded coverage varies by reading. On-device text-to-speech is also available for every bundled English Bible text. • Hebrew and Greek: Study the Westminster Leningrad Codex for the Hebrew and Aramaic Old Testament, the Greek Septuagint, and your choice of the SBL Greek New Testament or Byzantine Majority Text. Transliteration, meanings, and grammatical details are shown where available. • Strong’s and Lexicons: Tap linked Hebrew and Greek words to see definitions, related forms, grammatical information, and occurrences throughout Scripture. Sources include Strong’s, Thayer’s, Brown-Driver-Briggs, Abbott-Smith, and LSJ. • Commentaries: Download nine commentary and study-note sources tied to the verses they discuss. The collection includes Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, John Gill, Keil and Delitzsch, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Spurgeon’s Treasury of David, Haydock’s Catholic Commentary, Tyndale Open Study Notes, and R. H. Charles’s notes on 1 Enoch and Jubilees. Coverage varies by source. • Cross-References: Follow more than 340,000 links between related passages. You can also see which other passages point back to the verse you are reading. • People, Places, and Maps: Explore more than 4,000 biblical people and places. Entries can include name meanings, family relationships, Scripture references, and material from biblical dictionaries and encyclopedias. Selected places can be opened in Apple Maps and have optional downloadable photographs. • Topics: Browse thousands of subjects from Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. When available, you can also open topics connected to the verse you are reading. • Search: Search every bundled English Bible text at once, along with lexicons, people, places, topics, and your own notes. Matching terms are highlighted in verse results. • Bookmarks, Notes, and Tags: Create color-coded bookmarks, formatted notes, and custom tags. Saved items remain on your device. When iCloud is available, they can sync through your private iCloud account. You can also create a backup file or export your notes to Markdown. • Reading History: Retrace your reading and return to recently viewed passages. • Enoch, Jubilees, and Baruch: Read English editions of 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Rest of the Words of Baruch. The Ge’ez texts of 1 Enoch and Jubilees are included with transliteration, along with the ancient Greek text of the Rest of the Words of Baruch. • Apocrypha: Read editions containing the traditional 14-book KJV Apocrypha, the Douay-Rheims deuterocanonical books, Brenton’s Septuagint, and the 81-book World English Bible edition. Traverse Bible has no ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases, tracking, or separate app account. A connection is needed only for optional downloads, iCloud sync, and opening locations in Apple Maps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Traverse Bible at 5 against Hadith Library's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hadith Library against 5.0 for Traverse Bible. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Traverse Bible has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hadith Library ships an update fortnightly, Traverse Bible weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and July 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hadith Library | Traverse Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.4 | 26.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 238 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gohar Ashraf | Nathan Noom |
Customer experience
Hadith Library
Traverse Bible
In-app purchases
Hadith Library
No in-app purchases
Traverse Bible
No in-app purchases





