Authentic Hadith vs Reform Study
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Authentic Hadith
Explore and study authentic hadiths from the most trusted Islamic collections. Features an AI assistant for scholarly context, daily readings, and personalized organization. Offers structured learning paths and gamified progress tracking.
- Authentic hadith collections (Sahihayn)
- AI-powered scholarly assistant
- Daily hadith readings
- Personalized folders and annotations
- Structured learning paths
- Gamified progress tracking
- Offline progress tracking
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Discover and study authentic hadiths from the most trusted collections in Islamic scholarship. WHAT YOU GET: - Browse hadiths from the Sahihayn — Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, the two most rigorously authenticated collections in Islamic scholarship — with full Arabic text and English translations - AI-powered hadith assistant that answers your questions with scholarly context - Daily hadith readings to build a consistent learning habit - Save, organize, and annotate hadiths in personal folders - Structured learning paths with lessons on key Islamic topics - Gamified progress tracking with streaks, XP, and achievements - Progress tracking that keeps working even with a spotty connection - Dark mode, light mode, and multiple language preferences WHY AUTHENTIC HADITH: Hadiths in the app are sourced exclusively from the Sahihayn — Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. These are the two most rigorously authenticated hadith collections in Islamic scholarship, agreed upon by the Ummah for over 1,000 years. No grading ambiguity. No disputed chains. Only the most authentic. The AI assistant provides context and background, not religious rulings (fatwa). It helps you explore hadith meaning, historical context, and connections between narrations while encouraging you to consult qualified scholars for matters of jurisprudence. PREMIUM FEATURES: - Unlimited AI assistant conversations - Advanced learning paths and quizzes - Priority access to new features Sign in to keep your account, saved hadiths, and premium access with you across devices. Built with care for the Muslim ummah by byRed LLC, San Diego, California. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://byredllc.com/privacy
Reform Study
This app offers in-depth Bible study tools, combining a digital library with intuitive reading features. Explore original languages, commentaries, cross-references, and visual aids. Collaborate with others and take notes offline.
- Word-by-word analysis of original languages
- Integrated classic commentaries
- Ranked cross-references and theological connections
- Visual passage mapping
- Side-by-side translation comparison
- Note-taking with version history
- AI-assisted study assistant
- Offline access to all study materials
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Reform sits in the space between a Bible app and a research library. It is built for reading that goes deep, without asking you to learn a desk full of software first. Open the app and the passage is simply there, set like a book, in the translation you choose. Read a chapter, or turn reading straight on and go through the end of one book into the next. Then go as far down as the text invites: - Turn any chapter word by word: the tagged Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, each word with its pronunciation, its gloss, and its full parsing said in plain English. Tap a word for its dictionary entry and a concordance of everywhere it is used. - Set a classic commentator beside the text: Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, Keil and Delitzsch, Spurgeon on the Psalms, and more, folded at the divisions the commentator himself made. - Tap a verse and see what speaks there: cross references ranked by usefulness, where the passage is told again across the testaments, which articles of the creeds and confessions stand on it, and which of the church fathers cite it, out of eighteen centuries of reading. - Or see that drawn. The same shelf as a picture: the passages that speak to a verse, and the ones that turn out to be speaking to each other rather than only to the verse in the middle. It is walked in both directions, so what points at a passage is there as well as what it points at, and only a third of that is the same set. Pan it, zoom it, glance at any place to read it, and draw the picture again around wherever you land. - Read one verse as the other translations have it, side by side, without leaving the page. - Leave your own mark on a verse. A mark waits in the margin it was made in, and the record of everywhere your hand has rested reads in the order a printed Bible has. - Keep your notes beside the passage, in plain markdown, saved as you pause, with every save a version you can return to. Study one passage, or walk a whole book chapter by chapter. - Talk it through with an assistant that will not do your reading for you. It opens only after your notes hold a first pass of your own, and then it reads the same text and the same library you do, questions your claims, and tells you when it is recalling rather than reading. - Read offline. Take a book down and everything that speaks to it comes with it: every translation, the marks, the original languages, and all nine reference shelves. What you have already opened stays with you as well. - Read at night with the lamp turned down, the page black and the words grey. Dark mode is a daytime thing; this is for a dark room. Nobody should prepare alone. Share a study with a link, send a sermon to somebody to read and argue with, or prepare on a team's shared desk, with the discussion riding alongside the work and a tap on the shoulder when somebody answers. A small group leader gets the sheets: the leader's copy of each week's handout, blanks filled, on the phone that is actually in the living room on a Sunday. A group is joined in the room it meets in: hold the door up on your screen as a code, and whoever scans it asks to come in. On an iPad the whole desk opens: a sermon's five files beside the passage, the handout and the slides built by hand, the lectern for standing up to preach, and printing straight from the page. Reform is not a devotional feed, and it is not a seminary workstation. It is a study desk: the text, the library, your own thinking, and nothing between you and the passage. The reader and the library are open: install it and all of it is there, with no account and nothing to buy. Signing up adds what is yours, the studies, the notes, the marks, and the team. The assistant runs on a shared key and opens once your account has been approved.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reform Study at none against Authentic Hadith's 1. Reform Study also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Authentic Hadith's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Authentic Hadith sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Reform Study asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Authentic Hadith against 5.0 for Reform Study. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Authentic Hadith ships an update every 2 weeks, Reform Study every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Authentic Hadith | Reform Study |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | By Red, LLC. | Elliott Maguire |
Customer experience
Authentic Hadith
Reform Study
In-app purchases
Authentic Hadith
- Lifetime Premium$99.99
Reform Study
No in-app purchases
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