Comparison

Versed vs Pure Bible Focus

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

Head to head
About

Versed

This app offers a focused approach to memorizing Bible verses through guided practice and daily review. Track your progress, build streaks, and engage with scripture in a calm, distraction-free environment. Unlock advanced tools and translations with an optional Pro subscription.

Highlights
  • Memorize Bible verses or collections
  • Guided practice stages
  • Daily review rhythm
  • Track streaks and progress
  • Add verses by reference
  • Hands-free practice
  • Accountability with friends
Features
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Versed helps you memorize Bible verses one small step at a time. Pick a verse, practice it through simple memory prompts, and come back for review before it fades. Versed gives you a calm, focused place to practice Scripture and actually remember it. Use Versed to: - Memorize individual Bible verses or full collections - Practice with guided stages that build recall - Review verses with a simple daily rhythm - Track streaks, XP, mastered verses, and collection progress - Add verses by reference, book, or chapter - Practice with NLT and KJV included - Build gentle accountability with friends and groups - Set reminders that fit your real day Versed is free to download. An optional Versed Pro monthly or annual subscription unlocks NKJV, NASB, and CSB, plus Listen & Rehearse, Weak Words, Reference Recall, and Mastery Check. You can manage or restore your subscription from Settings. Start with one verse. Come back for a few focused minutes. Let Scripture become easier to recall when you need it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Additional Terms: https://versedscripture.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://versedscripture.com/privacy

About

Pure Bible Focus

Features
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Pure Bible Focus is for learning a passage by heart. It shows you the King James text with some of it taken away, and gives it back the moment you ask. BUILD THE VERSE FROM ITS OWN WORDS Tap the quiz button and some of the verse's words go missing, set out beneath it as shuffled chips. Put them back in the order the verse says them. You begin with five words missing and move Easier or Harder — three, five, eight, thirteen and on, each level about as much again as the last two — and each verse remembers its own level. Every press brings different words and a fresh shuffle, so a verse is learned by heart rather than by where the chips sat. Repeated words share one chip, the blank to fill next is lit, and the words of Christ stay in red. PROGRESS A calendar of the days you practiced, and the verses you have not come back to. No percentages and no streak to break. THE SPEED READER One word at a time — or two, or three — comes to the middle of the screen and gives way to the next, so your eyes never move. Set the pace and the size, read a verse, a range or the whole chapter, and let it come round again until you stop it. ONE VERSE AT A TIME Put a single verse alone on the page, sized to fit, and swipe up for the next. HIDE THE WORDS YOU KNOW Choose the words to take out of the page — any word the King James uses, or a wildcard like lamb* that covers lamb, lambs and every other form at once. What is hidden leaves a blank where it stood, so the shape of the verse is still there to think against. One switch on the bar puts every word back, and another puts them away again, without losing the list you built. TAKE A WORD DOWN TO A CLUE Three ways, and you choose which the switch applies: • Ends — In t-e b-------g G-d • Consonants — -n th- b-g-nn-ng G-d • Vowels — I- --e -e-i--i-- -o- Every dash stands for exactly one letter, so the line keeps its length and a word you half-remember is still the right shape on the page. READ IT BACKWARDS Reverse the words of every verse and the sentence you have been reciting from memory stops carrying you along. The punctuation stays where the text put it; only the words move. PRESS A VERSE TO SEE IT WHOLE Hold any verse and it comes back in full — nothing hidden, nothing masked, in its own order. Hold it again and it goes back under the lens. Several verses can stand open at once, and turning the page forgets them, because it is a glance rather than a setting. GIVE A WORD WEIGHT Mark the words a passage turns on and they stand out in size and colour wherever they appear. Nothing is reordered and nothing is added — emphasis changes how a word looks and never what the verse says. THE WHOLE KING JAMES, IN YOUR HAND The 1769 King James is inside the app: 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses. Swipe left and right to turn the page and the text follows your finger, from Genesis straight through to Revelation. Tap any word for its Strong's number, with the Hebrew or Greek word behind it, its transliteration, pronunciation and definition; for Noah Webster's 1828 — the edition that defines the English the King James is written in; and for where that word falls in the verse, the chapter, the book and the whole Bible, with its letters, vowels and consonants counted. KEEP THE VERSES YOU ARE WORKING ON Bookmark a verse from the word sheet or by holding it, file it in folders of your own, and come back to it by name. NOTHING ELSE No account. No network. No advertising, no analytics, nothing collected. The whole Bible is inside the app, so it works with the phone in airplane mode, and it is free. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE Pure Bible Focus is built on the data model of King James Pure Bible Search written by Donna Whisnant at purebiblesearch.com, and follows it deliberately, down to the text and the way it is printed. The Strong's numbers over the King James are from The Bible Foundation for the Old Testament and the KJV2003 Project at CrossWire for the New.

Screenshots

Versed4 screens
Pure Bible Focus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pure Bible Focus at none against Versed's 2. Pure Bible Focus also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Versed sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Pure Bible Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Versed ships an update every 3 weeks, Pure Bible Focus every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Versed versus Pure Bible Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVersedPure Bible Focus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChris SteinbergEdmund Trujillo

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Versed

Subscriptions2
  • Versed Pro$3.991 Month
  • Versed Pro$29.991 Year
None

Pure Bible Focus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Versed free?
Versed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pure Bible Focus free?
Pure Bible Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Versed or Pure Bible Focus have ads?
Neither Versed nor Pure Bible Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Versed or Pure Bible Focus?
Versed ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pure Bible Focus every 9 days. Most recently, Versed was updated on November 9, 2026 and Pure Bible Focus on October 31, 2026.

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