verses vs SeraphGlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
verses
Display your favorite Bible verses on your home and lock screens. Customize fonts, colors, and backgrounds to keep scripture visible at a glance. This app prioritizes privacy with no accounts or data tracking.
- Home and lock screen scripture display
- Customizable fonts and colors
- Personalized background images
- User-defined verse selection
- Privacy-focused design
- Widget customization
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Keep the verses from the Bible you want to memorize or see in front of you, always. When we open our phones, Scripture should be the first thing we see. No questionnaire to figure out who you are and no collecting of your data. Simply download, type or paste the reference and the verse itself, then set it as your widget on your Home Screen and/or Lock Screen. Then in the app make every verse your own with custom fonts, colors, alignment, text sizes, and your own background images, positioned for each widget size. See exactly how it will look before you set it with the always in view preview on the customization screen. In the app, organize the verses you save into collections like anxiety, hope, peace, healing, and strength, or create your own with the name and color you choose. Point your widget at one verse, or let a whole collection rotate so a different one meets you through the day. Have a super long passage? No problem, paste it in and your verse will auto format to every widget for you. Simply tap the verses on your widget if it's longer to continue it and go back to the beginning. Your verses stay yours. Everything syncs privately through your own iCloud, with no account to create and no one watching. You choose the verses that the Lord has placed on your heart to see everyday, not the other way around. Enjoy and may this app enrich, grow, and deepen your relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SeraphGlow
Display trustworthy Bible passages on your Home and Lock Screens with customizable widgets. Choose from four translations, explore curated verses by topic, and save your favorites. An optional one-time purchase unlocks additional verses, themes, and features.
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Multiple Bible translations (KJV, WEB, BSB, FBV)
- Curated verses by topic
- Save favorite verses
- Customizable change cadence
- Shareable verse cards
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Keep trustworthy Scripture close with elegant Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, meaningful photo backgrounds, and sacred wallpapers. SeraphGlow includes 120 curated Bible passages free in four clearly labeled translations: KJV, WEB, BSB, and FBV. Choose a topic, compare translations, search by reference or words, save favorites, revisit recent verses, and create share cards without an account. WIDGETS FOR EVERY SPACE • Small, Medium, and Large Home Screen widgets • Inline, Rectangular, and Circular Lock Screen widgets • Configure each widget's translation, topic, and change cadence • Keep the reference and translation visible • Choose an adaptive background or a clear style for the rectangular Lock Screen widget SACRED ART FOR YOUR SCREEN Explore 23 image-only wallpapers, including six free designs and 17 more with Supporter. Discover Bible scenes, angel artwork, stained-glass Our Lady of Guadalupe, Rosary of Light, and sacred designs. Preview a piece, save the complete artwork to Photos, and set it as your wallpaper using Apple's wallpaper settings. The collection is available offline. MAKE YOUR WIDGETS PERSONAL With Supporter, place your own photo behind your Home Screen Scripture. Adjust its framing, choose your lettering, and soften the background with photo dimming. Your selected photo is stored on your device. A GENTLE DAILY RHYTHM • Daily, weekly, or manually pinned verse changes • One optional exact-Scripture reminder included free • No streaks, scores, guilt prompts, ads, analytics, or tracking OPTIONAL SERAPHGLOW SUPPORTER One non-consumable purchase unlocks the full wallpaper collection, personal photo widgets, 60 more curated verses, five more topics, named verse collections, private on-device reflection notes, collection and favorite widget rotation, multiple reminder times, six additional themes, typography choices, and expanded square, Story, wallpaper, and print exports. All new Supporter features are included for existing Supporters. No subscription is required. Scripture stays Scripture. SeraphGlow does not generate, paraphrase, or mix AI text into Bible passages. Full edition, source, copyright, attribution, and license details are available inside the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: verses at 13 against SeraphGlow's 2. verses also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. verses sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SeraphGlow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for verses against 5.0 for SeraphGlow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: verses has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
verses ships an update every 5 days, SeraphGlow every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | verses | SeraphGlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | TD Studios, LLC | S Wave Digital LLC |
Customer experience
verses
SeraphGlow
In-app purchases
verses
- verses full version$4.99
SeraphGlow
- SeraphGlow Supporter$7.99








