Bible Definition vs The Social Scripture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bible Definition
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Bible Definition is a calm, beautiful Bible app for reading, studying, and actually understanding Scripture — completely free, with no ads and no account. READ IN 1,000+ TRANSLATIONS The World English Bible and King James Version are built in and work fully offline. Beyond those, choose from over 1,000 translations across 1,200+ languages, fetched on demand and cached on your device for next time. SEE THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES Read the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek behind every verse. Tap any word for its transliteration, pronunciation, parsing, Strong's number, and lexicon meaning — then find every other place it appears with a single tap. The names and titles of God are highlighted with what they mean. STUDY NOTES THAT MAKE SENSE Every chapter opens with a clear, plain-language summary: the key ideas, the verses they come from, and a question to sit with. Matthew Henry's classic commentary is one tap away when you want to go deeper, along with cross-references for any verse. LOOK ANYTHING UP A built-in dictionary (Easton's and Smith's) and Nave's Topical Bible help you explore the people, places, and themes of Scripture. WATCH AND UNDERSTAND Overview and themed videos from BibleProject are embedded right where they're relevant. ASK REAL QUESTIONS Ask about a passage, a theme, or how to apply it, and get clear, pastoral answers grounded in trusted reference sources — with citations, so you can check the text yourself. MAKE IT YOURS Highlight verses, write notes, save favorites, and bookmark your place. Follow reading plans, keep a reading diary, and set gentle daily reminders. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes, highlights, and plans stay on your device. Back them up to a file, or use the optional end-to-end encrypted cloud backup, secured by a private code only you hold — no account, ever. Free. No ads. No tracking. Just Scripture, made clear.
The Social Scripture
This app allows for in-depth Bible study with original language tools and collaborative features. Users can take notes, share them, and engage in structured debates on public notes and topics. It also facilitates group study and direct messaging.
- Original language Bible versions
- Word parsing and dictionary lookup
- Private and public note-taking
- Group study and messaging
- Structured written, video, and verbal debates
- Community voting on debates
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Social Scripture is a Bible app for people who read closely, write down what they find, and are willing to defend it. READ IN THE ORIGINAL The King James Version alongside the American Standard, World English, and 1599 Geneva Bibles. Read the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew and the New Testament in the Greek of Westcott and Hort. Hold any word to see its parsing — stem, tense, person, gender, number — and its dictionary entry, drawn from 8,674 Hebrew and 5,523 Greek lexicon entries. Morphology covers the Old Testament in Hebrew and 7,938 of the 7,940 verses of the Greek New Testament. BEYOND THE SIXTY-SIX The Apocrypha. Twenty-five works of the early church fathers, dated and in order. The complete Mishnah, arranged by its six orders. All searchable, all quotable, all in the same reader. NOTES THAT GO SOMEWHERE Highlight a verse or a single word. Write notes and keep them private, share them with friends, post them to a study group, or publish them to the Public Bible where anyone can read and comment. Tag any verse from anywhere in the app and tap the tag to jump straight to it. Build topics that gather passages across books. STUDY WITH OTHERS Follow people whose reading you trust. Start a group for your church or your class, with roles, moderation, and a shared wall. Message directly. See who is online. THEN DEBATE IT This is what makes Social Scripture different. Challenge a public note or topic and the author is shown exactly what you disagree with and why — you cannot issue a challenge without writing your objection first. Debates run in three formats. Written debates follow a formal structure, with constructives, rebuttals, and closing arguments on timed deadlines. Video debates run on your own stream. Verbal debates happen in an in-app audio room: debaters and a moderator speak, everyone else listens, and the moderator can mute a mic. Both debaters must agree on the time, and on a moderator if they want one — the challenge card passes back and forth until you settle it. When the debate closes, the room locks and voting opens for seven days. The community decides. Voting is locked until the debate is over, you cannot vote for yourself, and a result only stands once enough people have voted. RECORDED, WITH CONSENT Verbal debates are recorded only after every debater and moderator agrees on a consent screen. Listeners are never recorded, and a notice appears in the room whenever recording is active. Recordings are stored privately and deleted automatically when voting closes. YOUR ACCOUNT, YOUR TERMS Export your notes. Delete your account and its data from inside the app. Report or block anyone. Group leaders and moderators can remove content from their own spaces.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bible Definition at none against The Social Scripture's shown. The Social Scripture's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Bible Definition ships an update every 5 days, The Social Scripture every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bible Definition | The Social Scripture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Andrew Lindemulder | Ryan Hamilton |
In-app purchases
Bible Definition
No in-app purchases
The Social Scripture
No in-app purchases
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