Come Behold vs Berean
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Come Behold
This app helps users understand the Bible by focusing on its structure and themes. It offers tools for detailed reading, note-taking, and visual aids to grasp complex passages and biblical events. It keeps all study materials linked directly to the text for a cohesive experience.
- Offline Bible reading (KJV, ASV, NKJV, NASB 1995)
- Verse-level annotations (notes, highlights, voice memos)
- Original language tools (Strong's lookup)
- Visual study aids (timelines, maps, schematics)
- Reading plans and memorization tools
- Curated passage notes and cross-references
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Come Behold is a Bible study app for readers who want to see the shape of Scripture, not just search for verses. Read the text, mark what you notice, trace cross-references, follow themes, and open visual tools that make places, timelines, people, and patterns easier to understand. Come Behold is built for careful first-hand reading: quiet enough for daily Scripture, deep enough for teaching prep, and visual enough to make complex passages easier to grasp. Instead of scattering your study across a Bible app, notes app, browser tabs, PDFs, and image searches, Come Behold keeps the work close to the passage. Your notes, highlights, word studies, maps, timelines, schematics, reading plans, and memorization all live where you are reading. Use Come Behold to: - Read Scripture with KJV, ASV, NKJV, and NASB 1995 available offline. - Mark the text with highlights, notes, ink drawings, and voice memos anchored to verse ranges. - Understand original-language connections with Strong's Hebrew and Greek lookup, inline word tools, and morphology helps. - Follow the Bible's larger structure through timelines, gospel harmony, genealogies, character relationships, topical threads, and journey maps. - Prepare studies and teaching material with visual references, passage notes, cross-references, schematics, and exportable study aids. - Build habits with reading plans, memorization review, and a prayer request journal. Come Behold also includes more than 12,000 curated passage notes, cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, visual study tools for major biblical events and themes, and an offline-first design with no ads and no tracking. THE BEREAN The Berean is an optional upgrade for readers who want the full visual library and sync experience. It unlocks image-backed references for biblical events, miracles, places, people, journey maps, and major schematics such as the Tabernacle, Solomon's Temple, Noah's Ark, Jerusalem, the High Priest, and the Armor of God. The Berean also enables cross-device sync for study notes, annotations, prayer requests, and memorization, plus access to future visual additions as they ship. PRIVACY Come Behold does not require an account to read, annotate, or use the free study tools. Optional Sign in with Apple is available for Berean sync. There is no ad tracking. Your annotations stay on your device unless you choose backup or sync. Come Behold is made for pastors, teachers, students, families, and serious Bible readers who want a study app that helps them observe the text more clearly and remember what they have seen.
Berean
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Berean is a Bible study app for people who want to know if Christianity is true and understand it deeply. Read Scripture in a calm, print-like reader. Search the local Bible and use paid Source Search across Scripture and commercial-safe Christian sources. Ask hard questions and get answers grounded in cited passages, creeds, catechisms, confessions, commentary, dictionary entries, cross-references, and Greek and Hebrew word-study. Follow structured study paths for apologetics, biblical literacy, and serious reflection. Memorize Scripture with spaced repetition and honest recall. Berean is not a social feed, celebrity devotional platform, or soft wellness app. It is a study desk for Scripture, doctrine, and hard questions. Key features: - World English Bible, KJV, and Bible in Basic English reader with comparison - Semantic source search across Scripture, doctrine, Matthew Henry and JFB commentary, Easton's and Smith's Bible dictionaries, Torrey and Nave topical indexes, Strong's Greek and Hebrew Dictionary entries, and cross-references - Doctrine-aware Study Companion with visible citations - Structured apologetics and Bible-literacy paths - Hard Questions for skeptics and returning Christians - Spaced-repetition Scripture memorization - Verse highlighting and source context - No social feed, no contacts permission, no location permission Berean Premium subscription unlocks Source Search, Study Companion, and full library access. Auto-renewable subscriptions: Berean Monthly ($9.99/month) and Berean Annual ($69.99/year). Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://getberean.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://getberean.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Come Behold at every 3 days against Berean's every 2 months. Berean's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Come Behold sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Berean sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Come Behold ships an update every 3 days, Berean every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Come Behold | Berean |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.0 GB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Berean Studios LLC | Mitaanshu Agarwal |
In-app purchases
Come Behold
- The Berean Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- The Berean Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- The Berean Founder Lifetime$149.00
- The Berean Lifetime$229.00
Berean
- Berean Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Berean Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year









