Exegesis vs The Social Scripture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Exegesis
This app provides a comprehensive Bible study experience, offering multiple translations, original language tools, and extensive commentaries from historical Christian figures. It includes features for in-depth analysis, personal note-taking, and offline access to your library.
- Multiple Bible translations
- Original language lexicons
- Historical commentaries
- Creeds and confessions
- Verse cross-referencing
- Personal notes and highlights
- Offline access
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Exegesis is a Bible study app built on a conviction: Scripture is best read with the church — the Fathers, the Reformers, and the Puritans at the table. READ • Multiple Bible translations, with Strong's-tagged text for original-language word study • Continuous scrolling, serif reading fonts, stained-glass themes, and chapter audio with a synced verse cursor • Greek, Hebrew, and Latin lexicons, plus a classic Bible encyclopedia STUDY WITH THE CHURCH • Classic commentators spanning the 1st to the 19th century — Chrysostom, Augustine, Calvin, Matthew Henry, Spurgeon, and more — keyed to the verse in front of you • Creeds, confessions, and catechisms with side-by-side comparison and narrated audio • Letters from authors across traditions — from Augustine to John Newton — with narrated audio • A hymn library organized by topic and tradition GO DEEPER • Cross-reference maps and topic connections for every verse • Analytical tools that weigh topics, interpretive traditions, and cross-references, with clear visual breakdowns • A study assistant for your questions, grounded in your library MAKE IT YOURS • Notes, highlights, verse marks, and a sermon journal with review quizzes and flashcards • Daily devotional with streaks, reading plans, home-screen widgets, and gentle reminders • Offline-first: your library lives on your device, and sync keeps every device in step Exegesis is free to use. An optional Premium and Max subscription unlocks the analytical suite and AI assistance; manage it anytime in your account settings. Questions? support@exegesisbible.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://exegesisbible.com/privacy
The Social Scripture
This app allows for in-depth Bible study with original language tools and collaborative features. Users can take notes, share them, and engage in structured debates on public notes and topics. It also facilitates group study and direct messaging.
- Original language Bible versions
- Word parsing and dictionary lookup
- Private and public note-taking
- Group study and messaging
- Structured written, video, and verbal debates
- Community voting on debates
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Social Scripture is a Bible app for people who read closely, write down what they find, and are willing to defend it. READ IN THE ORIGINAL The King James Version alongside the American Standard, World English, and 1599 Geneva Bibles. Read the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew and the New Testament in the Greek of Westcott and Hort. Hold any word to see its parsing — stem, tense, person, gender, number — and its dictionary entry, drawn from 8,674 Hebrew and 5,523 Greek lexicon entries. Morphology covers the Old Testament in Hebrew and 7,938 of the 7,940 verses of the Greek New Testament. BEYOND THE SIXTY-SIX The Apocrypha. Twenty-five works of the early church fathers, dated and in order. The complete Mishnah, arranged by its six orders. All searchable, all quotable, all in the same reader. NOTES THAT GO SOMEWHERE Highlight a verse or a single word. Write notes and keep them private, share them with friends, post them to a study group, or publish them to the Public Bible where anyone can read and comment. Tag any verse from anywhere in the app and tap the tag to jump straight to it. Build topics that gather passages across books. STUDY WITH OTHERS Follow people whose reading you trust. Start a group for your church or your class, with roles, moderation, and a shared wall. Message directly. See who is online. THEN DEBATE IT This is what makes Social Scripture different. Challenge a public note or topic and the author is shown exactly what you disagree with and why — you cannot issue a challenge without writing your objection first. Debates run in three formats. Written debates follow a formal structure, with constructives, rebuttals, and closing arguments on timed deadlines. Video debates run on your own stream. Verbal debates happen in an in-app audio room: debaters and a moderator speak, everyone else listens, and the moderator can mute a mic. Both debaters must agree on the time, and on a moderator if they want one — the challenge card passes back and forth until you settle it. When the debate closes, the room locks and voting opens for seven days. The community decides. Voting is locked until the debate is over, you cannot vote for yourself, and a result only stands once enough people have voted. RECORDED, WITH CONSENT Verbal debates are recorded only after every debater and moderator agrees on a consent screen. Listeners are never recorded, and a notice appears in the room whenever recording is active. Recordings are stored privately and deleted automatically when voting closes. YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR TERMS Export your notes. Delete your account and its data from inside the app. Report or block anyone. Group leaders and moderators can remove content from their own spaces.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Exegesis at 100% against The Social Scripture's 50%. Exegesis also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). The Social Scripture's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Exegesis sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. The Social Scripture asks for nothing beyond the download.
Exegesis holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Exegesis's written reviews are positive against 50% of The Social Scripture's.
Exegesis ships an update every 2 days, The Social Scripture every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Exegesis | The Social Scripture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 291 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CV Concierge A.I., LLC | Ryan Hamilton |
Customer experience
Exegesis
The Social Scripture
In-app purchases
Exegesis
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Max (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$34.991 Year
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- Max (Yearly)$89.991 Year
- 50 AI Credits$2.99
- 200 AI Credits$9.99
The Social Scripture
No in-app purchases
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