Comparison

Bible vs Scriptly

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

Head to head
About

Bible

This app offers a comprehensive Bible study experience with multiple languages and popular translations. Customize your reading with extensive markup options and take detailed notes using a rich text editor. Explore biblical maps, guided notations, and original language lexicons to deepen your understanding of scripture.

Highlights
  • Multiple languages and translations
  • Highlight, underline, and annotate verses
  • Rich text editor for detailed notes
  • Biblical maps and guided notations
  • Hebrew and Greek lexicon for original meanings
Features
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Welcome to Bible-Companion! Bible-Companion is a rich study and content focused app with a wide range of functionality. Features support for 1,000+ languages with audio support for select versions! Supports a wide array of markup for customizing and tailoring style to you! Highlight, underline, bold, and annotate verses in a way that fits you! Support for simple version viewing, have multiple Bibles open in different tabs, with the option for multiple languages, versions for each. This allows a rich study experience to see how translations differ. Bible Companion Also has deep audio stupport for versions which support it. You can listen to the bible and have guided audio sessions, or choose background listening while you are relaxing or on the go! Let Bible Companion be a study tool you can use to deepen your walk with God and be a blessing to you.

About

Scriptly

Features
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Scriptly is a Bible for reading, hearing, and thinking in. Read it in your own language, hear it read aloud, and keep what you think beside the verse that prompted it. READ • Several translations, in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish. • Text that flows to your screen, at whatever size reads easily. • Or a real page — ruled, squared, dotted or blank — with a margin wide enough to think in. LISTEN • Any chapter read aloud, in any of the four languages. • Choose who reads it: most languages have several recordings, plain or dramatized. • It keeps playing while you read on, or with the screen locked. GO DEEPER • Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it, with its lexicon entry. • See everywhere else that word appears, and open any of those verses in place. • Study notes on the history, the customs, the turn of phrase the first readers would have caught. A DEVOTION EVERY MORNING • My Utmost for His Highest and Daily Light on the Daily Path, in your own language. • And a page to answer them on, if you want one. KEEP WHAT YOU THINK • Highlight a verse, or type a note against it. • Or write in the margin by hand — pen, highlighter and eraser, in your own colours. • Scribble out to erase: draw back and forth over a stroke, and only what you cross goes. YOURS, AND PRIVATE • No account, no sign-in, no ads. • Your notes live on your device, and we have no server that could hold them. • Anonymous counts of chapters opened — never the text, never your handwriting, never who you are — feed the “Around the world” screen, and can be turned off in Settings. Everything you mark, type or write follows you between your devices through your own private iCloud, automatically, in a container we can neither see nor reach. On iPhone and iPad. An Apple Pencil is a pleasure, not a requirement.

Screenshots

Bible4 screens
Scriptly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Scriptly at 16.4 against Bible's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bible ships an update every 4 days, Scriptly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Bible versus Scriptly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBibleScriptly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua Garciak5Software

In-app purchases

None

Bible

No in-app purchases

None

Scriptly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bible free?
Bible is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scriptly free?
Scriptly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bible or Scriptly have ads?
Neither Bible nor Scriptly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bible or Scriptly?
Bible ships an update every 4 days, and Scriptly every 5 days. Most recently, Bible was updated on October 11, 2026 and Scriptly on October 8, 2026.

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