Comparison

Memorize It vs Pure Bible Focus

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

Head to head
About

Memorize It

Features
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Every line of your passage becomes a picture. Look at the picture, say the line โ€” and you are off the page far sooner than re-reading gets you there. Memorize It works on anything you want to be able to say without looking at it: scripture, poetry, speeches, lines for a play, wedding vows. There are three ways to practise, and you can move between them freely. FILL IN THE BLANKS Start with the whole passage in front of you. Each round blanks out a few more words, so you are always working just past what you already know. Nothing is hidden from you until you have had a chance to learn it. Tap any blank once for its first letter, again for the whole word. SAY IT ALOUD The app reads the passage back to you and leaves the blanks silent, so your own voice fills the gaps. Audio is produced by your device, which means it works with no signal and costs nothing to use. PICTURE PROMPTS Every line gets its own illustration. Looking at a picture and recalling the line it stands for is a different kind of remembering than reading the words again โ€” it gets you off the page sooner. READY-MADE COLLECTIONS Sets that arrive already illustrated, with nothing to generate and nothing to wait for. Four psalms to begin with, free. And the ninety-six passages studied in seminary doctrinal mastery, grouped by book โ€” Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants โ€” each book one purchase, bought once and kept. ALSO IN THE APP โ€ข Your library colours itself by how well you know each passage, so one glance shows what still needs work โ€ข Split a long passage into parts, so each picture illustrates a single line rather than a whole paragraph โ€ข Share a passage as a link that anyone can open, whether or not they have the app installed โ€ข Your library syncs across your devices โ€ข Delete your account and everything in it from inside the app FREE AND PRO Writing, practising and audio are free and unlimited. Generating pictures is free up to an allowance; a Pro subscription raises that allowance each month. Collections are bought once and kept. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Memorize It Pro is $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. ABOUT YOUR TEXT Writing, practising and listening happen without any third party seeing your passages. The one exception is picture generation, which sends that passage's text to Google so a model can illustrate it. The app tells you this before you use it, and if a passage is private you can simply not generate pictures for it. There is no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking across other apps or websites. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://memorizeit.dk-data-sci.com/privacy

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Pure Bible Focus

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Pure Bible Focus is for learning a passage by heart. It shows you the King James text with some of it taken away, and gives it back the moment you ask. BUILD THE VERSE FROM ITS OWN WORDS Tap the quiz button and some of the verse's words go missing, set out beneath it as shuffled chips. Put them back in the order the verse says them. You begin with five words missing and move Easier or Harder โ€” three, five, eight, thirteen and on, each level about as much again as the last two โ€” and each verse remembers its own level. Every press brings different words and a fresh shuffle, so a verse is learned by heart rather than by where the chips sat. Repeated words share one chip, the blank to fill next is lit, and the words of Christ stay in red. PROGRESS A calendar of the days you practiced, and the verses you have not come back to. No percentages and no streak to break. THE SPEED READER One word at a time โ€” or two, or three โ€” comes to the middle of the screen and gives way to the next, so your eyes never move. Set the pace and the size, read a verse, a range or the whole chapter, and let it come round again until you stop it. ONE VERSE AT A TIME Put a single verse alone on the page, sized to fit, and swipe up for the next. HIDE THE WORDS YOU KNOW Choose the words to take out of the page โ€” any word the King James uses, or a wildcard like lamb* that covers lamb, lambs and every other form at once. What is hidden leaves a blank where it stood, so the shape of the verse is still there to think against. One switch on the bar puts every word back, and another puts them away again, without losing the list you built. TAKE A WORD DOWN TO A CLUE Three ways, and you choose which the switch applies: โ€ข Ends โ€” In t-e b-------g G-d โ€ข Consonants โ€” -n th- b-g-nn-ng G-d โ€ข Vowels โ€” I- --e -e-i--i-- -o- Every dash stands for exactly one letter, so the line keeps its length and a word you half-remember is still the right shape on the page. READ IT BACKWARDS Reverse the words of every verse and the sentence you have been reciting from memory stops carrying you along. The punctuation stays where the text put it; only the words move. PRESS A VERSE TO SEE IT WHOLE Hold any verse and it comes back in full โ€” nothing hidden, nothing masked, in its own order. Hold it again and it goes back under the lens. Several verses can stand open at once, and turning the page forgets them, because it is a glance rather than a setting. GIVE A WORD WEIGHT Mark the words a passage turns on and they stand out in size and colour wherever they appear. Nothing is reordered and nothing is added โ€” emphasis changes how a word looks and never what the verse says. THE WHOLE KING JAMES, IN YOUR HAND The 1769 King James is inside the app: 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,102 verses. Swipe left and right to turn the page and the text follows your finger, from Genesis straight through to Revelation. Tap any word for its Strong's number, with the Hebrew or Greek word behind it, its transliteration, pronunciation and definition; for Noah Webster's 1828 โ€” the edition that defines the English the King James is written in; and for where that word falls in the verse, the chapter, the book and the whole Bible, with its letters, vowels and consonants counted. KEEP THE VERSES YOU ARE WORKING ON Bookmark a verse from the word sheet or by holding it, file it in folders of your own, and come back to it by name. NOTHING ELSE No account. No network. No advertising, no analytics, nothing collected. The whole Bible is inside the app, so it works with the phone in airplane mode, and it is free. CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE Pure Bible Focus is built on the data model of King James Pure Bible Search written by Donna Whisnant at purebiblesearch.com, and follows it deliberately, down to the text and the way it is printed. The Strong's numbers over the King James are from The Bible Foundation for the Old Testament and the KJV2003 Project at CrossWire for the New.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pure Bible Focus at none against Memorize It's 6. Pure Bible Focus also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Memorize It sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pure Bible Focus asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memorize It ships an update every 6 weeks, Pure Bible Focus every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Memorize It versus Pure Bible Focus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemorize ItPure Bible Focus
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS16.415.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size53 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDK Data ScienceEdmund Trujillo

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Memorize It

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$39.991 Year
One-time4
  • Collection: Old Testament$4.99
  • Collection: New Testament Passages$4.99
  • Collection: Doctrine and Covenants$4.99
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  • Collection: Book of Mormon Passages$4.99
None

Pure Bible Focus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Memorize It free?
Memorize It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pure Bible Focus free?
Pure Bible Focus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Memorize It or Pure Bible Focus have ads?
Neither Memorize It nor Pure Bible Focus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memorize It or Pure Bible Focus?
Memorize It ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pure Bible Focus every 9 days. Most recently, Memorize It was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pure Bible Focus on October 31, 2026.

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