Comparison

Revised Common Lectionary vs Anglican Bible

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

Head to head
About

Revised Common Lectionary

Access daily and weekly scripture readings from the church year, complete with multiple translations and customizable reading options. Enjoy offline access, multilingual support, and beautiful liturgical art. Designed for accessibility, it offers a seamless reading experience for all users.

Highlights
  • Daily/weekly scripture readings
  • Multiple Bible translations
  • Customizable text display
  • Read-aloud functionality
  • Offline access
  • Multilingual support
  • Liturgical calendar view
Features
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Open the app and today's readings are simply there: the psalm, the Old Testament and epistle readings, and the gospel, ready to read in full. No account, no ads, no cost. READ YOUR WAY • More than thirty translations, including the NRSV, ESV, NIV, NLT, CSB, CEB, NET, The Message, and classics like the RSV and KJV • Read verse by verse or in flowing paragraphs, in serif, sans-serif, or dyslexia-friendly type at five sizes, with line-spacing and bold-text options • Listen as well as read — the app can read any passage aloud with your device's voice, at the speed you choose • Two modes: Weekly or Daily • Tap any verse to compare it across translations side by side • Section headings, psalm titles, and tappable footnotes where the translation provides them • Show the verses around a passage, or the verses the lectionary skips — context is one tap away IN YOUR LANGUAGE • The whole app speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese — every screen and setting, the church calendar with its seasons and feasts, and Bible references • It follows your device language automatically, and carries a Bible translation in each of these languages too THE CHURCH YEAR, VISIBLE • Each week opens with a work of sacred art from the Vanderbilt Divinity Library's Art in the Christian Tradition collection — tap it for a full-screen, zoomable view • A calendar view painted in the liturgical colors — Advent violet, Christmas gold, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time at a glance • The app's accent color quietly follows the season you're reading (or pin your favorite) • Light and dark themes built around a midnight indigo, with a true-black option that's easy on OLED screens ALWAYS READY • Readings are cached after the first fetch, so recent passages work offline • Your settings follow you across your Apple devices through iCloud • Open any passage in Bible Gateway, YouVersion, Logos, Bible Hub, STEP Bible, Blue Letter Bible, or the NET Bible with translator's notes ACCESSIBILITY Made to be read by everyone — with full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, read-aloud, dyslexia-friendly type, and carefully checked color contrast throughout. ---- Made with love for the Gators small group at Ecclesia Clear Lake, and for everyone who prays with the church through the lectionary year.

About

Anglican Bible

Features
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Anglican Bible puts together Morning and Evening Prayer from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer for any date, in the book's own order, to say alone or to lead with others. It has five sections, each one tap away in the bar at the bottom: Today, Office, Psalter, Bible and Library. Today • A week of dates, and the day's name in the Prayer Book's year: its Sunday, its holy day, or the name the calendar gives it • A card for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer, each listing its psalms, lessons and canticles, with a button to begin • The Collect of the day in full, and the offices said this week Office • The whole office on one page, from the opening sentence to the Grace: the confession and absolution, the Lord's Prayer and versicles, the Venite, the psalms appointed for the day of the month, the first and second lessons from the Prayer Book's calendar, the canticles, the Creed, the Collect of the day with the Collects that always follow it, and the closing prayers • Leader and People: set the leader's lines apart from the people's responses, or show the people's part • The Prayer Book's alternatives, such as the Benedicite for the Te Deum or the Jubilate for the Benedictus. Where a rubric rules one out for the day, the office says why • A rail of the office's sections on iPad and a scrubber on iPhone to jump to any part, five text sizes, and Mark as said Psalter • The whole Psalter once a month, morning and evening, as the Prayer Book divides it, and the proper psalms for the six days that have them Bible • The King James Version with the Apocrypha, with search, bookmarks, highlights and notes, and the day's lessons a tap away Library • The Thirty-nine Articles, the Catechism, the Litany, Of Ceremonies, Morning and Evening Prayer as printed, and four of the Homilies • 29 hymns, 45 prayers and five reading plans, among them the Sunday Epistles and Gospels of the Prayer Book year • Settings for the canticles, the office's text and the appearance The psalms and lessons are read from the King James Version. Your offices and notes stay on your device. There are no ads, no account and no tracking, and no connection is needed. An independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by any church or denomination.

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Verdict

The call

Revised Common Lectionary and Anglican Bible are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Revised Common Lectionary versus Anglican Bible: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRevised Common LectionaryAnglican Bible
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size216 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoseph BibbyMAX FREEDOMMOUSSA POLLARD

In-app purchases

None

Revised Common Lectionary

No in-app purchases

None

Anglican Bible

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Revised Common Lectionary free?
Revised Common Lectionary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anglican Bible free?
Anglican Bible is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Revised Common Lectionary or Anglican Bible have ads?
Neither Revised Common Lectionary nor Anglican Bible shows ads.

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