Comparison

Written vs Daily Pastures

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Chapter progress tracking
  • Verse memorization modes
  • Prayer request management
  • Daily gratitude journaling
  • Custom study chains
  • Lock screen and home screen widgets
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Written4 screens
Daily Pastures4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Written ships an update every 4 days, Daily Pastures weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Written versus Daily Pastures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrittenDaily Pastures
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB45 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDrew DudneyVirtual Trade Tours LLC

Customer experience

Written

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Daily Pastures

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Written

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Daily Pastures

Subscriptions2
  • Daily Pastures+ Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Daily Pastures+ Annual$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Written free?
Written is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daily Pastures free?
Daily Pastures is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Written or Daily Pastures?
Written and Daily Pastures are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Written or Daily Pastures have ads?
Neither Written nor Daily Pastures shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Written or Daily Pastures?
Written ships an update every 4 days, and Daily Pastures weekly. Most recently, Written was updated on October 31, 2026 and Daily Pastures on November 5, 2026.

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