KJV Bible Reader & Notes vs Reform Study
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KJV Bible Reader & Notes
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Bible Notes & Study is a quiet KJV-first Bible reader for private study. Read Scripture offline, save notes and bookmarks, and keep a gentle reading rhythm without ads or a required account. Built for focused Bible reading Open the app and start reading. Bible Notes & Study keeps the experience simple: Scripture, notes, bookmarks, search, reading plans, and sharing tools without social feeds, ads, or a required sign-in. What you can do - Read the KJV and other built-in public-domain Bible translations - Continue from your last reading place - Search KJV verses by word or phrase - Save notes, bookmarks, and highlights while you read - Follow gentle reading plans with daily chapter readings - Skip or shift missed days without guilt-based progress messages - Read, save, and share a local Daily Verse - Create clean verse image cards with code-generated templates - Export your notes to Markdown Private by design Bible Notes & Study does not require an account to read, take notes, or use the core study features. Your reading notes and bookmarks are stored on your device by default. If you choose to use iCloud sync as a Plus feature, syncing is handled through Apple's iCloud for your Apple ID. For notes and study Use the app as a simple study journal: - Save reflections on verses - Bookmark passages you want to revisit - Keep phrase highlights and tags with Plus - Export notes for your own archive - Share Scripture as text or image cards Gentle reading plans Reading plans should help you return to Scripture, not make you feel behind. Bible Notes & Study can show what to read today, help you continue from the next chapter, and handle missed days with gentle options such as skipping, shifting, or spreading readings forward. Optional Plus features Bible Notes & Study Plus is optional. The free app includes core Bible reading, basic KJV search, notes, bookmarks, one gentle reading plan, Daily Verse, basic verse image sharing, and Markdown export. Plus unlocks deeper and heavier-use features, including: - Unlimited reading plans - Phrase highlights, tags, and Study Journal Pro features - Advanced search filters and search across other English translations - Selected study references and starter lexicon notes - Advanced verse image templates - PDF export - Optional iCloud sync - KJV Heritage Voice access and playback controls where available Study content note Study references, starter lexicon notes, and commentary-style prompts are designed as helpful study aids. They are not a complete Strong's concordance, full cross-reference library, or verse-by-verse commentary system. Subscription note Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple through your App Store account. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID settings. Restore Purchase is available in the app. Bible Notes & Study is for people who want a quiet place to read Scripture, keep notes, and build a steady reading rhythm without ads or a required account. Privacy Policy: https://luckcoding78.github.io/Bible-Notes/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://luckcoding78.github.io/Bible-Notes/terms.html
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 KJV Bible Reader & Notes's 2. Reform Study also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). KJV Bible Reader & Notes's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. KJV Bible Reader & Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Reform Study asks for nothing beyond the download.
KJV Bible Reader & Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, Reform Study every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KJV Bible Reader & Notes | Reform Study |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 慧琴 王 | Elliott Maguire |
In-app purchases
KJV Bible Reader & Notes
- PureBible Plus Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- PureBible Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Reform Study
No in-app purchases
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