Comparison

Traverse Bible vs Yahweh's Words

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Read Scripture closely. Explore the writings around it. Keep a full study library with you, even offline. Traverse Bible brings twelve English translations, Hebrew and Greek study tools, and connected reference works into one free iPhone app. Follow a word, compare a passage, or save a note without losing your place. NEW IN 1.2.0 • Early Christian Writings — Read 28 entries from the Apostolic Fathers and Early Apologists in a separate historical library. Search them alongside Scripture, with clearly labeled results and context about authorship, dating, and reception. • Surviving Evidence — Explore what survives for all 116 Bible-book and historical-writing entries. Read a survival summary and known limits for each entry, including manuscripts, languages, textual forms, and gaps in the evidence. Greek Septuagint, Hebrew, and other witnesses are distinguished from modern editions and translations. • Book Introductions — Open a book's guide from the reader for introductions and surviving evidence. Introductions share a consistent reading style, with links for explicit verse references. READ AND COMPARE • Twelve translations, including KJV, ASV, WEB, the 1599 Geneva Bible, and the Berean Standard Bible. Compare passages across translations that contain them. • Apocrypha and Ethiopian books, including 1 Enoch and Jubilees, whose complete forms are preserved in Ge'ez, and the Rest of the Words of Baruch with Greek text. Book collections vary by edition and tradition. • Eleven study guides covering the Bible, canon traditions, manuscripts, languages, translations, and study tools. FOLLOW THE CONNECTIONS • Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament texts with transliterations and glosses, plus the Greek Septuagint and two Greek New Testament editions. • Strong's, Abbott-Smith, Thayer's, Brown-Driver-Briggs, and Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicons, with links to word occurrences. • More than 340,000 cross-references, available in both directions. • Over 4,000 biblical people and places, with family links, name meanings, reference articles, and map locations. • Topics from Nave's and Torrey's, connected to the verses they cite. • Nine commentaries and study-note collections, available as a free optional download. MAKE IT YOUR STUDY LIBRARY • Color-coded bookmarks, formatted notes, custom tags, and reading history. Private iCloud sync when available, with backup export. • Search across translations, historical writings, lexicons, names, topics, and your notes. • Seven free downloadable recordings: KJV, ASV, WEB, Douay-Rheims, Berean, 1 Enoch, and Jubilees. Follow the highlighted verse, adjust playback speed, use lock-screen controls, or set a sleep timer. On-device text-to-speech is also available. No ads, purchases, subscriptions, or Traverse account. Bundled texts and study tools work offline. Optional audio, commentaries, and place photos require a download before offline use. iCloud sync and opening external links require a connection.

About

Yahweh's Words

Features
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Yahweh's Words is a Bible reader and study companion in English, Chinese and Russian, made for reading Scripture closely — in its own languages. THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES • Strong's numbers on every word, an interlinear table for each verse (Greek and Hebrew with transliteration, gloss and grammar), and a Strong's lexicon in English and Chinese. • The Hebrew Old Testament (WLC), the Greek New Testament (SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort) and the Septuagint — with the Septuagint beside the Hebrew, word by word. • Today's Hebrew word on Home and in a widget, with its Greek in the Septuagint and a verse where it stands. READ • 25 Bible versions: 和合本雅伟版 (Simplified and Traditional), 梁家铿译本, the Berean Standard Bible and the American Standard Version with the name Yahweh, KJV, LEB, CSB, NET, Russian and more. My versions keeps the ones you use; the full catalogue is searchable. • Parallel reading: up to five versions side by side, aligned verse by verse through the original languages. • 2,597 section headings, each with a short background note and the sermons that preach that passage. GROW EVERY DAY • Verse of the day from a list read verse by verse, with themes and verses for special days. • A calendar of Yahweh's appointed feasts, church days, the Chinese calendar, public and school holidays, with reminders and your own dates. • A prayer list with reminders, guided Scripture and guided prayer, a reading streak, and reading plans with friends. • 429 sermons (289 with recordings), hymns with sheet music, teaching videos. EVERYWHERE • Widgets on iPhone, iPad and Mac, on the lock screen and in StandBy; Apple Watch complications; Control Centre and Siri. No ads and no account needed. Sign in only if you want your highlights, notes, plans and prayers on all your devices.

Screenshots

Traverse Bible4 screens
Yahweh's Words4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Yahweh's Words at every 2 days against Traverse Bible's every 9 days. Yahweh's Words also leads on device support (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.1). On price, review sentiment, ads 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Traverse Bible ships an update every 9 days, Yahweh's Words every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Traverse Bible versus Yahweh's Words: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTraverse BibleYahweh's Words
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB445 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKtisis Web, LLCPaul Suyang Liu

Customer experience

Traverse Bible

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Yahweh's Words

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Traverse Bible

No in-app purchases

None

Yahweh's Words

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Traverse Bible free?
Traverse Bible is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yahweh's Words free?
Yahweh's Words is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Traverse Bible or Yahweh's Words have ads?
Neither Traverse Bible nor Yahweh's Words shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Traverse Bible or Yahweh's Words?
Traverse Bible ships an update every 9 days, and Yahweh's Words every 2 days. Most recently, Traverse Bible was updated on October 31, 2026 and Yahweh's Words on November 11, 2026.

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