Cross vs apologetics.pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cross
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Cross-Examine is the all-in-one home for serious Bible study, apologetics, sermon preparation, and church life. Whether you're a preacher building this week's message, a student wrestling with hard questions, or a leader shepherding a congregation, Cross-Examine gives you grounded tools that respect the Word and sharpen your thinking. STUDY THE WORD • Read and search Scripture in a clean, distraction-free space • Free Strong's lexicon word studies — see the original Hebrew and Greek • AI-assisted study that stays grounded in the text and cites its sources • Save studies, notes, and journals to your personal library TEST EVERY CLAIM • Examine doctrines and objections with a rigorous, source-grounded process • Build a savable Claim Library and Objection Library • Get balanced, cited answers — not hand-waving PREPARE TO PREACH — HONESTLY • A full sermon workspace: prayer, study, outline, manuscript, and a Pulpit Mode teleprompter • Cross-Examine helps you do the work — it never writes your sermon for you • Turn a sermon into shareable clips and congregation handouts GROW & TEACH • Real, completable courses and lessons • Interactive, guided tutorials • A curated library of trustworthy sources LEAD YOUR CHURCH • Member directory, families, attendance, and giving records • A public church page and simple congregant intake • Live-stream to your congregation and out to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch MEET LENSE Your conversational study companion — ask a question out loud and Lense studies right alongside you. COMMUNITY Connect with other believers, share what you're learning, and message friends — with privacy and moderation built in. Start free. Upgrade anytime for more AI, more saves, and full church tools. Study the Word. Test every claim. Prepare to preach. LEGAL Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.cross-examine.app/privacy
apologetics.pro
This app provides a comprehensive, offline library of evidence supporting the Christian faith. It offers detailed arguments for Christianity and examinations of other belief systems, with cited sources and responses to common objections. Users can search, save, and share content, and suggest corrections.
- 15 organized cases on faith and beliefs
- Offline search of claims and evidence
- Save and share content
- Suggest corrections within the app
- Support for large text and screen readers
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apologetics.pro is a free, searchable library of the evidence for the Christian faith: the historical case for Jesus and the resurrection, the reliability of the Bible, the classic arguments of philosophy and science, and honest examinations of atheism, relativism, Islam, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology, Buddhism and Hinduism. It is the companion app to apologetics.pro and carries the site's complete evidence repository. HOW IT IS ORGANIZED The evidence is arranged in 15 cases. An apologetic case argues for Christianity. A polemic case examines another belief system, and opens with "What it is": a fair description of that system, in terms its own adherents would recognise, before any critique. Every case makes a set of claims. Every claim is backed by numbered exhibits: ancient historians, manuscripts, archaeology, philosophy, science and Scripture, each with the citations and links to check the source yourself. Under each exhibit, the most common objections are stated fairly and answered directly, conceding what should be conceded. WORKS OFFLINE The whole repository downloads to your phone the first time you open the app and refreshes quietly whenever you have a connection. Read it on a plane, in a study group, or anywhere the signal is poor. Search works offline too, and tolerates typos. FEATURES - 15 cases: Historical Jesus, Resurrection of Christ, Reliability of Scripture, The Trinity, Relativism, Problem of Evil, Philosophy, Science, Atheism, Islam, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology, Buddhism, Hinduism - Search cases, claims, evidence and objections instantly, with no connection - Shuffle to a random claim - Save any exhibit to come back to later - Share a claim, an exhibit or an objection as a link to its full write-up on the website, or copy it as text with its sources - Suggest an addition or a correction from inside the app, no account needed - Large text and screen readers supported WHO IT IS FOR Christians who want to know why they believe, skeptics who want the strongest version of the case rather than a caricature, students, pastors, teachers, and anyone in a conversation about faith who wants the sources at hand. No account. No ads. No tracking. Free. Found a mistake? Every claim, exhibit, source and objection has a link to suggest a correction. A reviewer reads every suggestion and emails you what happened to it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Cross at 3 against apologetics.pro's 1. On price, ads, 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.
| Parameter | Cross | apologetics.pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | FREDRICK LEONARD FAIRLEY | Cory Cline |
In-app purchases
Cross
No in-app purchases
apologetics.pro
No in-app purchases









