Written vs Daily Pastures
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.
Daily Pastures
Receive personalized Scripture devotionals based on your spoken or written thoughts. Features include a meditation mode for home screen display, saving highlights, and private notes. Explore faith with a free introductory journey.
- Personalized Scripture devotionals
- Meditation mode for home screen widget
- Save highlighted verses and notes
- Listen to devotionals read aloud
- Free introductory faith journey
- Choose Bible translation
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Daily Pastures — a daily word for what you're carrying. Tell Daily Pastures what's on your heart today, by text or by voice, and receive a personalised Scripture devotional written for that moment: a verse, a short reflection, a prayer, and a declaration. Meditation mode keeps today's Scripture on your home screen. Highlight the lines that spoke to you and they appear beneath it, taking turns through the day. A small piece of the morning's devotional that stays where you'll keep seeing it. • Set a focus in your own words, by text or voice. • A devotional made for today: Scripture with a reflection, a prayer, and a declaration. • Meditation mode: today's Scripture and your highlighted lines as a home-screen widget, in the size that suits you. • Keep what speaks to you: save devotionals, highlight a line, write private notes. • Listen: hear your devotional read aloud in a calm voice (Daily Pastures+). • Discover Jesus: a quiet place to explore who Jesus is, and Beginning with Jesus, a free seven-part journey for your first steps. • Share a devotional as beautifully formatted text. Your notes and focus always stay private. • A gentle daily reminder at a time you choose. • Choose your translation, free for everyone: Berean Standard Bible, World English Bible, or King James Version. Your words stay yours. Your focus, notes, and highlights are private to your account, never shared or sold, and never used to train AI. What Meditation mode shows on your home screen is kept on your device, and you can switch it off at any time. See pastures.ai/privacy. Your first seven days are free. Daily Pastures+ keeps a new devotional coming each morning, with Listen and unlimited focuses. Questions? We're at support@pastures.ai Terms of Use (EULA): https://pastures.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://pastures.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Written at none against Daily Pastures's 2. Written also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs weekly). Daily Pastures's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Daily Pastures sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Written asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Written against 5.0 for Daily Pastures. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Written ships an update every 4 days, Daily Pastures weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Written | Daily Pastures |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drew Dudney | Virtual Trade Tours LLC |
Customer experience
Written
Daily Pastures
In-app purchases
Written
No in-app purchases
Daily Pastures
- Daily Pastures+ Monthly$7.991 Month
- Daily Pastures+ Annual$59.991 Year
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