Comparison

The Hidden Word vs Scripture Memory

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

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About

The Hidden Word

Features
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Hidden Word is your church’s Bible companion—built to help you read Scripture, memorize verses, and stay connected to your church’s lessons wherever you are. Choose your church, browse as a guest, or sign in on your church’s website to unlock practice, Small Group, and study tools that sync with your Hidden Word Bible Lessons site. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Verse of the Day — open today’s verse, read an explanation, share it, or add it to Memorize • Bible reader — jump to any book and chapter, tap a verse to explain, listen, share, or memorize • Memorize — build a personal deck, practice with multiple modes, track streaks and badges, and get optional daily reminders • Lessons — follow your church’s Bible lesson curriculum, including content saved for offline reading • Study Finder — search Scripture by topic and add passages to your practice list • Ask — get pastoral, AI-assisted answers to Bible questions (when enabled by your church) • Small Group — join the weekly challenge, see your place on the streak leaderboard, and stay encouraged together BUILT FOR CHURCHES Hidden Word connects to your church’s WordPress site through the Hidden Word Bible Lessons plugin. Your progress, practice queue, and Small Group activity stay with your church account—not a separate social network. Sign in once on the website; the app receives a secure Application Password so your normal website password never lives in the app. WHO IT’S FOR • Church members who want a simple daily habit of Scripture memory • Small groups practicing the same weekly challenge • Anyone exploring a church’s lessons and Bible tools before signing in PRIVACY & SUPPORT We take your trust seriously. Account connection uses WordPress Application Passwords, and you can delete your account access from Preferences in the app. Privacy: https://thehiddenword.org/privacy-policy Support: https://thehiddenword.org/support Open Hidden Word, choose your church, and start hiding God’s Word in your heart—one verse at a time.

About

Scripture Memory

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Every memory app carries its own Bible. This one carries none. That sounds like less, and it is the whole point. If the translation you memorize in is missing from an app, or locked behind a subscription, that app is closed to you no matter how good the drill is. Here you paste the passage in yourself, from your own translation, and the drill works on exactly those words. Paste any passage. Copy a verse, a paragraph, or a whole chapter out of whatever Bible you use — printed, or the app already on your phone — and paste it in. Pick the book, chapter and verses from a table of all 66 books, so a reference that does not exist cannot be entered. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is looked up. The words you miss. Every drill records each word separately: how many times you were asked for it, and how many times it broke. The hidden words are chosen from that record, hardest first, with ties going to the earlier word so the screen does not shuffle on you. Most apps hide words at random or in order; the difference shows up around the fourth or fifth pass, when you keep landing on the same five words. Five stages, and a clean run moves you on. Each stage hides one fifth more of the passage. Finish a stage without a single miss and you move up and the passage comes back later: 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, then 30 days. Miss one and the interval goes back to the start — not as a punishment, just as an honest reading of where you are. Any length. A chapter is split into segments of about sixty words, so a long passage works the same way a single verse does. Nothing here is built for one verse at a time. Where it breaks, in a list. The words that keep failing are listed with the count beside them: five of seven tries, four of seven. That list is what you take back into the drill. No account. No sign-in. No server. Everything is on this phone, including the text you pasted. It is never uploaded, and it is never put into the card you share — that card carries the reference and the numbers, nothing else. Languages: English, 한국어, 日本語, 繁體中文, Deutsch, Français, Español

Screenshots

The Hidden Word4 screens
Scripture Memory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: The Hidden Word at none against Scripture Memory's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
The Hidden Word versus Scripture Memory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Hidden WordScripture Memory
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBreland Computer Services / Land Tech Web Designs, CorpJinwan Kim

In-app purchases

None

The Hidden Word

No in-app purchases

None

Scripture Memory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Hidden Word free?
The Hidden Word is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scripture Memory free?
Scripture Memory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Hidden Word or Scripture Memory have ads?
Scripture Memory shows ads; The Hidden Word does not.

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