Comparison

Bible Bit By Bit vs John 1

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

Head to head
About

Bible Bit By Bit

Features
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Bible Bit By Bit is a calm, distraction free Bible reader built around one simple idea: read one verse at a time. Swipe through Scripture at your own pace. Every verse you pass is remembered, so you always pick up exactly where you left off. Watch your progress grow chapter by chapter, book by book, all the way through the Bible. ELEVEN TRANSLATIONS IN SIX LANGUAGES - King James Version (KJV) - World English Bible (WEB) - Bible in Basic English (BBE) - Berean Standard Bible (BSB) - Danish 1931 (Dansk) - Luther 1545 (Deutsch) - Luther 1912 (Deutsch) - Reina-Valera 1909 (Español) - Louis Segond 1910 (Français) - Almeida 1911 (Português) - Bíblia Livre 2018 (Português) Your reading progress is tracked separately for each translation. HIGHLIGHTS AND NOTES - Highlight the words that matter in four gentle colours, tuned for light and dark - Write a short, personal note on any verse and read it back, keyboard free - Find everything in one Notes tab, with sorting and colour filters - Fully private and offline, like the rest of your reading IPAD AND ICLOUD - A full iPad experience with a calm sidebar and a spacious reading view - Draw right on the verse with Apple Pencil — underline, circle, scribble a thought - iPhone and iPad stay in sync through your own private iCloud: progress, favorites, highlights, notes and reading plans BUILT FOR A DAILY HABIT - Streaks that count the days you read in a row - Badges for milestones along the way - Optional weekday reminders - A reading log of everything you have read MADE FOR READING - Save your favorite verses and share any verse as an image - Six carefully tuned typefaces, serif, sans and mono - Three text sizes and a beautiful dark mode - The whole Bible bundled with the app, works fully offline - Interface available in English, Danish, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your reading data never leaves your device — except through your own private iCloud, if you use it.

About

John 1

Explore biblical connections with this app that links every verse to others it quotes, echoes, or fulfills. Study scripture offline with highlighted passages and daily readings. Access nine translations in six languages.

Highlights
  • Verse cross-referencing
  • Offline functionality
  • Daily verse readings
  • Searchable scripture
  • Multiple translations
  • Highlighted shared wording
Features
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John 1:1 is a Bible that shows you how every verse connects to the rest of Scripture. Read a verse; swipe sideways into the verses it quotes, echoes or fulfils. For daily reading and study — free, and fully offline. Now includes the Chinese Union Version (CUV) in Traditional Chinese, with ten translations across seven languages. THE WORD SHOULD BE FREE We think the Word should be free, so it is. We are not selling anything to you, or anything about you to anyone. There are no ads, no account, and nothing to buy. Your reading, saved verses and searches stay on your phone. HOW IT READS • Swipe up for the next verse — the book in its own order. • Swipe sideways for a connected verse — the book as a web. From Genesis 1:2, "the earth was formless and void", one swipe lands on Jeremiah 4:23: "I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void." Two verses, 19,049 apart, that say the same rare thing. • Compare the two passages with their shared wording highlighted, see the basis of each connection, and read either one in context. • Keep going, and your walk becomes a path you can return to and share. 292,374 connections — quotations, shared phrases, the same person or place, prophecies and their fulfilment — recorded by readers over centuries and ranked so the ones you can see the reason for come first. A NEW WORD EACH DAY Every morning, a verse chosen for the season and rich with connections — never one you have already seen. FIND ANYTHING Search a word like "love" and it does not stop at ten results: it finds all 661 verses and lets you read straight through them. TEN TRANSLATIONS, SEVEN LANGUAGES Berean Standard, King James, American Standard and World English; Luther 1912, Segond 1910, Reina-Valera 1909, Riveduta 1927, the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial and the Chinese Union Version (CUV, Traditional Chinese). Use it as a traditional Bible in any of them, with cross-references one swipe away. QUIET BY DESIGN Fully offline — the whole Bible and every connection live on your device, so it works with no signal at all. We keep only anonymous counts of how the app is used, never tied to you. Read the Word, and follow where it leads.

Screenshots

Bible Bit By Bit4 screens
John 14 screens

Verdict

The call

Bible Bit By Bit and John 1 are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bible Bit By Bit ships an update every 4 days, John 1 every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bible Bit By Bit versus John 1: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBible Bit By BitJohn 1
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB168 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristoffer Jonatan Elkjær HansenREPERTORIUM LLC

In-app purchases

None

Bible Bit By Bit

No in-app purchases

None

John 1

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bible Bit By Bit free?
Bible Bit By Bit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is John 1 free?
John 1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bible Bit By Bit or John 1 have ads?
Neither Bible Bit By Bit nor John 1 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bible Bit By Bit or John 1?
Bible Bit By Bit ships an update every 4 days, and John 1 every 3 days. Most recently, Bible Bit By Bit was updated on October 25, 2026 and John 1 on October 24, 2026.

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