Original Text Bible vs Scriptly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Inline original-language meaning
- Side-by-side language study
- AI Word Guide
- Verse cards for sharing
- Daily devotional
- Offline reading
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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.
Scriptly
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Scriptly is a Bible you can write in. Read it in your own language, hear it read aloud, and keep what you think beside the verse that prompted it — written by hand with Apple Pencil, or typed. No account, no ads, nothing to buy. READ • 22 languages, most with several translations: English, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. • Flowing text at whatever size reads easily, or a real page — ruled, squared, dotted or blank — with a margin wide enough to think in. • Ask in your own words: “where does Jesus talk about worry” finds the passage. LISTEN • Chapters read aloud in English and Chinese, and the Thai New Testament, with a choice of readers. • On recordings with verse timings, the page follows the voice. • It keeps playing while you read on, or with the screen locked. STUDY • Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it, its dictionary entry, and its grammar in plain words. • Find every other place that word appears — or only that exact form. • Cross-references on every verse, and study notes on the history and customs the first readers knew. • Gather verses, notes and word studies into a study, then print it as a PDF or export it to Word. EVERY MORNING • My Utmost for His Highest and Daily Light on the Daily Path, with a page to answer them on. • Short reading plans you can actually finish. None of them start in Genesis. KEEP WHAT YOU THINK • Pen, highlighter and eraser in your own colours. Circle a stroke and scribble over it to erase. • Highlight a verse or type a note, tag it, and find it again in a notes list arranged by book. YOURS, AND PRIVATE • No account needed, and no ads. • Everything you mark, type or write follows you between your iPhone and iPad through your own private iCloud, in a container we can neither see nor reach. Sign in with Google too, and it is kept in your Google Drive as well. • 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. On iPhone and iPad. Apple Pencil is a pleasure, not a requirement.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Original Text Bible ships an update weekly, Scriptly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Original Text Bible | Scriptly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | THREE SEVEN TWELVE INC. | k5Software |
In-app purchases
Original Text Bible
No in-app purchases
Scriptly
No in-app purchases









