Written vs Vyrse.App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Written
This app facilitates focused Bible reading and personal reflection. It offers tools for memorization, prayer tracking, and daily gratitude, with widgets for quick access to your study.
- Chapter progress tracking
- Verse memorization modes
- Prayer request management
- Daily gratitude journaling
- Custom study chains
- Lock screen and home screen widgets
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Written: Bible Study is a personal Scripture study app built for focused reading and daily reflection. Read the Bible with chapter progress, bookmarks, highlights, notes, cross-references, commentary, word study, audio playback, and widgets that help you return to where you left off. Capture sermons with formatted notes, photos, embedded Scripture, related passages, folders, and PDF sharing. Return to your verse notes alongside their passages while reading. Memorize verses with practice modes for first letters, fill-in-the-blanks, typing, speaking, and hearing the passage aloud. Save each verse with its own translation and organize verses into collections. Keep prayer requests, praises, and daily gratitude entries close to your study workflow. Add photos to gratitude entries, mark prayers answered, and return to meaningful moments from widgets. The app also includes custom study chains, physical Bible mode, and lock screen/home screen widgets for quick access.
Vyrse.App
This app provides the full text of the Bible with sourced notes addressing contradictions, scientific issues, moral concerns, and failed prophecies. It presents both apologist rebuttals and skeptic counter-arguments for each point, allowing users to explore evidence and form their own conclusions.
- Full Bible text (Berean Standard Bible)
- Sourced 'Receipts' on difficult verses
- Apologist rebuttals and skeptic counter-arguments
- Deep dives into church history
- Debates with other readers
- Verse, receipt, and topic search
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Vyrse is the Bible for people who ask hard questions. Read the full text (Berean Standard Bible), and on every verse that has a tension — a contradiction, a scientific problem, a moral horror, a failed prophecy — you'll find a Receipt: a short, sourced note that lays out the issue and links to where it's documented. No hand-waving, no "you just have to have faith." Every claim is cited. > And because one side is never the whole story, Receipts thread into a debate: the strongest apologist rebuttal, and the skeptic's counter — each cited too. You decide who's convincing. WHO IT'S FOR • Skeptics and atheists who want the actual sources, not memes • People deconstructing their faith who are tired of being told to stop asking • Believers who'd rather face the hard questions than dodge them • Anyone who just wants to understand the Bible honestly WHAT'S INSIDE • The full Bible, readable and clean • Cited "Receipts" on the hard verses — contradictions, history, science, morality, prophecy • Both sides: apologist rebuttals and skeptic counters, all sourced • Holy Hell — long-form, heavily-cited deep dives into the darkest chapters of church history • Debates — argue it out with other readers, receipts in hand • Search across verses, receipts, and topics OUR ONE RULE Cited sources only. We bust inflated myths in both directions and use the conservative, defensible number — because the truth is more damning than the exaggeration, and a single bad citation hands the other side a free win. The gate is the product. Vyrse isn't here to tell you what to believe. It's here to show you the evidence, both ways, and get out of the way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Written at 10 against Vyrse.App's 1. Vyrse.App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Written against 5.0 for Vyrse.App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Written has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Written ships an update every 4 days, Vyrse.App weekly. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Written | Vyrse.App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Drew Dudney | Brandon James |
Customer experience
Written
Vyrse.App
In-app purchases
Written
No in-app purchases
Vyrse.App
No in-app purchases








