Comparison

Written vs The Bible Study App

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

The Bible Study App

Explore scripture through focused, in-depth, or devotional study. Access original language tools, historical context, and scholarly insights. Features verifiable sources and a conversational interface for deeper understanding.

Highlights
  • Quick study for focused answers
  • Deep study with original languages
  • Devotional mode for personal reflection
  • Verifiable scholarly sources
  • Conversational follow-up questions
  • Offline history storage
  • Multiple public-domain translations
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Three ways to open the Bible, and one standard behind them all. QUICK STUDY gives you a focused, sourced answer in minutes: the key passage in context, what the original words carry, and where scholars agree or differ. DEEP STUDY goes as far as you want to go: original-language word cards with lemma and parsing, cultural and historical setting, geography, archaeology, comparative ancient context. Six layers you control, every claim attributed to named scholars and reference works. DEVOTIONAL is different on purpose. It uses the depth scholars know to help you feel what the text cost the people in it. A passage, its weight, one honest question, a prayer shaped like the prayers of Scripture, and a small invitation for your day. EVERY STUDY IS A LIVING PAGE Tap any verse reference to read the full passage in your translation and add it to the study. Greek and Hebrew words sit under each quoted verse; tap one for its meaning and range, or view every word in the passage. Grow a passage for more context, remove what you don't need, and shape the study as you go. PLANS AND LISTENING PRAYER Multi-day devotional plans for grief, gratitude, and beginnings, or ask for a plan on any topic and read its days in whatever order you like. Listening Prayer gives you a passage, one line to hold, and a few quiet minutes before God. BUILT FOR TRUST - Real Scripture to check against: fourteen translations. Six public-domain Bibles (KJV, BSB, WEB, ASV, YLT, Darby) live inside the app; eight licensed translations (NASB 2020, NLT, NKJV, The Message, CSB, Amplified, Good News, CEV) are served word-for-word from their publishers' authorized libraries, with their copyright lines shown. Tap "Check this passage" under any referenced quote to compare it with the actual text. - Every interpretive claim is sourced. Uncertainty is marked, never hidden. - Broadly orthodox and honoring of different traditions, never pushing one. - AI-generated commentary is a starting point for study, and the app says so. YOUR CONVERSATION, CONTINUED Ask follow-ups and go deeper; the thread remembers where you've been. History stays on your device. No account required, ever. FAIR, SIMPLE PRICING Four studies every week, free, for life: Quick, Deep, or Devotional, whatever that week asks for. No trial countdown. Follow-up questions ride with their study instead of counting as new ones; a very long conversation counts as another study. Daily Devotional unlocks unlimited devotionals, plan days, and Listening Prayer. Everything unlimited comes as a monthly or a yearly plan. Founders Lifetime is a one-time purchase, yours forever, limited to the first 500. Every price is shown in your own currency in the In-App Purchases list on this page. All subscriptions auto-renew and cancel anytime in App Store settings. Built to grow your time in Scripture. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://trythebiblestudy.app/privacy.html · App terms: https://trythebiblestudy.app/terms.html

Screenshots

Written4 screens
The Bible Study App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Written at none against The Bible Study App's 3. The Bible Study App's advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 10). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. The Bible Study App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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 4.9 for The Bible Study App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 34 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Written ships an update every 4 days, The Bible Study App every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Written versus The Bible Study App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrittenThe Bible Study App
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better4.9 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1034 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB108 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDrew DudneyLuke Burger

Customer experience

Written

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

The Bible Study App

All ratings34 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral2.9%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Written

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

The Bible Study App

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Annual$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • Founders Lifetime$149.99

Questions

Is Written free?
Written is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Bible Study App free?
The Bible Study App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Written or The Bible Study App?
Written is rated higher. Written averages 5.0 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while The Bible Study App averages 4.9 from 34 ratings.
Do Written or The Bible Study App have ads?
Neither Written nor The Bible Study App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Written or The Bible Study App?
Written ships an update every 4 days, and The Bible Study App every 5 days. Most recently, Written was updated on October 13, 2026 and The Bible Study App on October 10, 2026.

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