Comparison

Oakseed Bible vs Scripture Alone Bible

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

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About

Oakseed Bible

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Oakseed Bible puts the great teachers of the church on every page. Tap a verse and read what Matthew Henry, Calvin, Spurgeon, Charles Hodge, J.C. Ryle, Poole and Trapp said about it — side by side, in a study Bible that is genuinely free. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. Everything below is included. STUDY WITH THE CLASSICS • Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the whole Bible • John Calvin's Commentaries — Genesis to the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistles • Charles Hodge on Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians • J.C. Ryle's Expository Thoughts on the Gospels • Matthew Poole's Annotations and John Trapp's Commentary • Spurgeon's Treasury of David on the Psalms, plus thousands of his sermons as a free in-app download • Over 67,000 commentary entries, cross-references on every verse A WORD FOR EVERY DAY • Spurgeon's Morning & Evening — two readings a day, all year • F.B. Meyer's Through the Bible Day by Day • The Upper Loft — Dr. Ed Bradley's daily devotional • 49 reading plans — M'Cheyne, chronological, the Gospels, the Psalms, the Horner system and more — with a gentle daily reminder if you want one READ AND DIG DEEPER • 11 Bible translations built in, including KJV, WEB, ASV and the Berean Standard Bible — plus ESV, NIV, NLT and NKJV streamed from their publishers • Touch any word for its Greek or Hebrew — Strong's lexicon, 14,000 entries • Search every verse and every commentary in an instant • Clean, book-like pages: adjustable type, serif or sans, and warm, white, dark or match-your-device themes MAKE IT YOURS • Highlights in four colors, bookmarks, and verse notes • A private prayer journal with categories and answered-prayer tracking • A free account backs up your notes and syncs across your devices — export everything, or delete your account and data, any time IN YOUR LANGUAGE Read in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Bengali, Burmese, or Amharic — each with its own Bible, and the commentaries and devotionals translated too (Hodge is English-only). Oakseed Bible is built by Oakseed Ministries and supported by donors so it can stay completely free. No ads today, no ads ever.

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Scripture Alone Bible

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Scripture Alone is a Bible for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, built for one thing: studying God's word without anything in the way. No ads. No trackers. No accounts. The Bible lives on your device, so it works anywhere, with or without a connection. Read the whole Bible, offline The New American Standard Bible — NASB 2020 is on your device from the moment it installs. The NASB 1995, American Standard Version, Berean Standard Bible and King James Version download once, when you first choose one. Full-text search, the words of Christ in red, poetry set as poetry, and footnotes a tap away. What the Bible says about what you're going through Topics gathers passages for 72 themes — anxiety, grief, loneliness, fear, marriage, waiting and more — in the translation you read. Type a feeling like "anxious" in Go To and its topic comes up. In English, Nave's Topical Bible is there too, A to Z. Bring your own Bibles Import a DRM-free ePub, a Bible PDF with a text layer or a USFM file you own, or browse the openly licensed translations on eBible.org. A study Bible brings its notes, introductions, essays and maps; the words of Christ carry over in red; and your imports reach your other devices through your own iCloud. The ESV, CSB and NKJV can be read with your own publisher key, or from a copy you've imported. In your language Also in Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese and Italian, each with a whole Bible of its own. Make it comfortable Seven typefaces, adjustable size and spacing, five themes, paragraphs or verse by verse, full Dynamic Type, two columns on a wide screen, and auto-scroll into the next chapter. Go straight there Type "jn 3 16" or "rom 8:28-39" to jump to a passage, or search any word or phrase. Highlight, note and favorite Highlight in five colors, favorite the verses you return to, and attach notes to one or more passages — a Sunday sermon on Romans 8:1–17, say. The Highlights list gathers every marked verse in Bible order, and Notes, Highlights and Favorites narrow to one book or chapter. Export notes as PDF, Markdown or text, or bring years of them in from Life Bible (formerly Tecarta) or a CSV. Snap the sermon slide Photograph the slide at church and Scripture Alone starts your note: titled, linked to every passage on the slide, its points ready to fill in. The photo is read on your device, never uploaded. Listen Hear any chapter read aloud with your device's voices, the spoken verse marked as it goes — or in Studio voices with a Mi Speaks Premium subscription (a separate app). Study mode, a toggle away Ranked cross-references, commentary from Calvin, Gill and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, the Hebrew and Greek word by word with parsing, Strong's numbers and a lexicon in every translation, and Context for every chapter: an overview, a map of the places it names, its era on a timeline, and charts of the kings, Paul's journeys, the tribes and the feasts. Share beautifully Design a verse image from eight templates, or share a link that rebuilds it in any browser — nothing is stored on a server. On your wrist and Home Screen Verse of the Day and Favorites widgets, and an Apple Watch app with the NASB 2020 built in and a complication. It reads offline, follows your iPhone's translation and carries your highlights, favorites and notes, in the accent color you chose on your iPhone. A Bible to hand down Make a Keepsake Bible: a file of your highlights and notes, with a dedication, that your family can open and read as you marked it — a digital "Dad's Bible". Private by design Your highlights, notes and favorites sync across your devices through your own private iCloud. No server, no account, and the developer never sees your data. Scripture Alone is open source under the AGPL, so anyone can read exactly what it does. Built to help people study God's word and grow closer to Christ. NASB 2020 and NASB 1995 Ā© The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. www.Lockman.org

Screenshots

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Scripture Alone Bible4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Oakseed Bible at 15.1 against Scripture Alone Bible's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Oakseed Bible versus Scripture Alone Bible: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOakseed BibleScripture Alone Bible
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size362 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOakseed Ministries InternationalBlaine Miller

In-app purchases

None

Oakseed Bible

No in-app purchases

None

Scripture Alone Bible

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Oakseed Bible free?
Oakseed Bible is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scripture Alone Bible free?
Scripture Alone Bible is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Oakseed Bible or Scripture Alone Bible have ads?
Neither Oakseed Bible nor Scripture Alone Bible shows ads.

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