Comparison

Original Text Bible vs Scriptly

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

Head to head
About

Original Text Bible

Explore the Bible with a translation faithful to the original Hebrew and Greek. Features inline original-language meanings, side-by-side language study, and an AI Word Guide for deeper understanding. Includes daily devotionals and offline reading capabilities.

Highlights
  • Inline original-language meaning
  • Side-by-side language study
  • AI Word Guide
  • Verse cards for sharing
  • Daily devotional
  • Offline reading
Features
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Read the whole Bible in a translation faithful to the Hebrew and Greek originals. • Original-language meaning, inline — see the Hebrew/Greek sense right where you read. • Two languages, side by side — study Scripture in the language you're learning. • AI Word Guide — ask about any hard word or verse and keep the conversation going. • Verse cards — share a beautiful card in one or two languages. • Today's Devotional — a daily verse, a short reflection, and a prayer. • Prayer Practice — write in your language; get a natural prayer in another. • Reads offline — works with no internet. A focused, distraction-free Bible for readers who want to meet the text closer to its source. Note: The app launches in English first — more language interfaces and translations are on the way.

About

Scriptly

Features
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Scriptly is a Bible for reading, hearing, and thinking in. Read it in your own language, hear it read aloud, and keep what you think beside the verse that prompted it. READ • Several translations, in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish. • Text that flows to your screen, at whatever size reads easily. • Or a real page — ruled, squared, dotted or blank — with a margin wide enough to think in. LISTEN • Any chapter read aloud, in any of the four languages. • Choose who reads it: most languages have several recordings, plain or dramatized. • It keeps playing while you read on, or with the screen locked. GO DEEPER • Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it, with its lexicon entry. • See everywhere else that word appears, and open any of those verses in place. • Study notes on the history, the customs, the turn of phrase the first readers would have caught. A DEVOTION EVERY MORNING • My Utmost for His Highest and Daily Light on the Daily Path, in your own language. • And a page to answer them on, if you want one. KEEP WHAT YOU THINK • Highlight a verse, or type a note against it. • Or write in the margin by hand — pen, highlighter and eraser, in your own colours. • Scribble out to erase: draw back and forth over a stroke, and only what you cross goes. YOURS, AND PRIVATE • No account, no sign-in, no ads. • Your notes live on your device, and we have no server that could hold them. • Anonymous counts of chapters opened — never the text, never your handwriting, never who you are — feed the “Around the world” screen, and can be turned off in Settings. Everything you mark, type or write follows you between your devices through your own private iCloud, automatically, in a container we can neither see nor reach. On iPhone and iPad. An Apple Pencil is a pleasure, not a requirement.

Screenshots

Original Text Bible4 screens
Scriptly4 screens

Verdict

The call

Original Text Bible and Scriptly 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

Original Text Bible ships an update weekly, Scriptly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Original Text Bible versus Scriptly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOriginal Text BibleScriptly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTHREE SEVEN TWELVE INC.k5Software

In-app purchases

None

Original Text Bible

No in-app purchases

None

Scriptly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Original Text Bible free?
Original Text Bible is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scriptly free?
Scriptly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Original Text Bible or Scriptly have ads?
Neither Original Text Bible nor Scriptly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Original Text Bible or Scriptly?
Original Text Bible ships an update weekly, and Scriptly every 5 days. Most recently, Original Text Bible was updated on October 12, 2026 and Scriptly on October 8, 2026.

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