Comparison

Arkive vs Deen Islamic way

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

Head to head
About

Arkive

Deepen your understanding of scripture with verse-by-verse study, original language exploration, and historical context. Organize your insights into study threads and access a comprehensive biblical library. Seamlessly sync your progress across devices.

Highlights
  • Verse-by-verse reading
  • Original Hebrew/Greek word study
  • Historical timelines and maps
  • Organize notes into study threads
  • Integrated biblical library
  • Advanced search capabilities
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Arkive is a Bible study app built around one idea: the text is the surface, and understanding is the goal. READ ONE VERSE AT A TIME Scroll through Scripture a verse per page, or switch to classic chapters with paragraphs, poetry lines and red letters, and swipe to turn the chapter. Every chapter opens with its own page, illustrated with public-domain engravings by Gustave Doré and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, and every book begins with an introduction: who wrote it, when, its outline and its key verse. Read to Me reads aloud, follows along, keeps going into the next chapter and has a sleep timer. THE ORIGINAL WORDS Tap any verse, in any translation, to see its Hebrew or Greek word by word, with transliteration, grammar, Strong's definitions, the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew lexicon and the Abbott-Smith Greek lexicon. See where a word occurs, book by book, and how it is translated. Follow it to every other verse that uses it, or open a name in four Bible dictionaries, with what the name means and every verse they cite a tap away. Every Old Testament passage quoted in the New links both ways. HISTORY AND PLACE Chronicle puts the people, places and events of the Bible on a timeline and a map. Adams' Synchronological Chart of 1878, 6,000 years on one scroll, is built in and tappable: tap a year for the events around it, or a scene for its verses. Journeys traces Abraham, the Exodus, Jesus' ministry and Paul's voyages stop by stop, and any chapter opens a map of the places it names. YOUR OWN STUDY Collect verses, word studies and notes into threads around any question or theme. Highlight whole verses or just the words that matter, bookmark and annotate, and see at a glance which verses you've already studied. Send a copy of a thread to a friend. The Explorer's Journal maps what you've read in each translation and leads you to the verses you missed, with guided walkthroughs for building a thread. Everything syncs through iCloud and can be exported at any time, and Siri and Shortcuts can open any passage or thread. A STUDY LIBRARY INSIDE Nave's Topical Index of over 5,000 topics, Names of God, prophecies and their fulfillments, the parables and miracles of Jesus, a harmony of the Gospels, the covenants, the feasts of Israel, kings and rulers, angels, a converter for biblical weights and measures, the meaning of numbers, and family trees for over 3,000 people. Every entry is tied to the verses it comes from, and every verse shows the topics and entries that cite it. SEARCH LIKE A SCHOLAR Exact phrases, OR, exclusions, prefixes, words near each other and Strong's numbers, across the whole Bible or a single book. Search the Hebrew and Greek by grammar, such as every aorist imperative in Romans, and find topics, reference entries and Bible dictionary articles alongside the verses. MADE FOR IPAD A study panel sits beside the verse with its original words, related verses, commentary, topics and history, in the scroll view and beside the chapter in landscape. Nearby verses roll past like a wheel, chapter openers spread across the screen in landscape, and keyboard shortcuts move through Scripture without lifting your hands. TRANSLATIONS AND SOURCES KJV with its translators' marginal notes, the Berean Standard Bible with its footnotes, and NASB. Six commentaries, with book introductions: Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, John Gill, Adam Clarke, John Calvin, and Keil & Delitzsch. Easton's, Smith's, the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia and Hitchcock's Bible Names, and over 89,000 cross-references. Arkive works offline, except NASB, which is read online.

About

Deen Islamic way

Features
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Deen brings your daily worship together in one calm, beautiful app — prayer times you can trust, the Quran with Kurdish tafsir, the complete Hisn al-Muslim, the Qibla, and a tasbih you can reach from your home screen. Fully available in English, Arabic, Kurdish Sorani and Kurdish Badini. PRAYER TIMES YOU CAN TRUST • Official Awqaf timetables built into the app for 36 cities — including Hawler, Slemany, Duhok, Kirkuk, Halabja, Zaxo, Ranya, Soran, Koya, Mosul and more. Not estimates: the same times your local mosque follows. • Anywhere else in the world, precise astronomical calculation from your location. • A live countdown to the next prayer, and the full monthly timetable at a glance. • Choose your city by hand, or let the app find you. THE ADHAN, THE WAY YOU WANT IT • 30 adhan recitations and gentle tones to choose from. • Turn reminders on or off for each prayer individually. • An optional nudge 30 minutes before each prayer, so you never let the last one slip by. • Morning and bedtime azkar reminders. THE HOLY QURAN • The complete Quran with clear, beautiful Arabic text. • Kurdish tafsir, offline: Tefsîra Sanahî (Badini) and Raman (Sorani) — every verse explained, no internet needed. • Translations in Kurdish Sorani, Kurdish Badini, English and Arabic. • Listen to 10 renowned reciters, and download surahs to listen offline. • Bookmark where you stopped, search by verse, and adjust the Arabic font and size to read comfortably. • Copy any verse together with its tafsir, to share or keep. AZKAR — THE COMPLETE HISN AL-MUSLIM • All 131 chapters and 266 supplications of the Fortress of the Muslim. • Arabic text with translation, transliteration and the number of repetitions. • Tap any dhikr to count it on the built-in tasbih, and watch your progress to the target. TASBIH • A clean, satisfying counter for your daily dhikr, with targets for each one. QIBLA • A precise compass that shows the exact bearing to the Kaaba, and confirms it the moment you are facing it. 99 NAMES OF ALLAH • The beautiful names, with their meanings. WIDGETS — ON YOUR HOME AND LOCK SCREEN • See the next prayer and a live countdown without opening the app. • An interactive tasbih widget: count, reset, and switch dhikr right from the home screen. IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE • English, Arabic, Kurdish Sorani and Kurdish Badini — each written properly, right to left, with fonts chosen for readability. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No ads. No tracking. • Your location is used only on your device, to work out prayer times and the Qibla — it is never collected or shared.

Screenshots

Arkive4 screens
Deen Islamic way4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deen Islamic way at none against Arkive's 4. Deen Islamic way also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.1). On price, 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. Arkive sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Deen Islamic way asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Arkive versus Deen Islamic way: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArkiveDeen Islamic way
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.114.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size340 MB94 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperGarrett FranksAlind Hajar

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Arkive

One-time4
  • Small — $1.99$1.99
  • Medium — $4.99$4.99
  • Large — $9.99$9.99
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  • XL — $24.99$24.99
None

Deen Islamic way

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arkive free?
Arkive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deen Islamic way free?
Deen Islamic way is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Arkive or Deen Islamic way have ads?
Neither Arkive nor Deen Islamic way shows ads.

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