Whetstone Bible App vs gramma Bible
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Whetstone Bible App
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Whetstone is a free Bible app with no ads: a full study Bible, an audio Bible, reading plans, a daily devotional, Scripture memory training, and a home for your church. READ Fifteen translations: BSB, KJV, NKJV, NIV, ESV, NLT, World English Bible, Majority Standard Bible, Berean Literal Bible, Bible in Basic English, American Standard Version, Young's Literal, Darby, Webster and the Geneva Bible of 1599. The eleven public-domain translations download for reading without a signal, and you can search them word by word. Highlight, bookmark and take notes, and share any verse as a picture. STUDY Eleven commentaries beside the text, from the Tyndale study notes to Matthew Henry, Calvin, Spurgeon and Wesley. Tap a verse number for cross-references and a Greek or Hebrew word study with definitions and every other verse that uses the word. Each book has an introduction, and nearly every chapter lists its people, places and events, with a map, family trees and character profiles. Look up any name or subject in a Bible dictionary drawing on nine works. LISTEN An audio Bible in five translations, with eleven readers to choose from. The BSB has four narrators, the World English Bible is read by David Williams, the ESV is Crossway's recording read by David Cochran Heath, and the KJV and the Bible in Basic English have computer voices, with four accents for Basic English. Pick your translation and reader when you set up, or change them any time on the Audio tab. Play in order, loop a chapter or a book, set a sleep timer, line up chapters in a listening queue, and download chapters or whole books for offline listening (the ESV streams only). For the NIV, NKJV, KJV and Geneva Bible, each chapter also links to free recordings on Bible Gateway's website. DAILY DEVOTIONAL Start the day with Spurgeon's Morning and Evening or Daily Light on the Daily Path. Morning and Evening can also be heard each day, read by Frazer Blaxland from Crossway's podcast, and added to your listening queue to play with your chapters. MEMORIZE Training Cycles run 42 days. Pick your verses (five is the target, and a cycle can hold up to ten), and each day's session takes about ten minutes: read, listen, recall, and say the verse out loud while the app checks it word by word. Missing a day doesn't reset anything. Verses you learn come back for review on a spaced schedule so they stay with you. Six practice drills give extra reps when you want them. READING PLANS More than 70 plans in three groups. - Bible: the whole Bible in a year, in 180 days or in 90 days, M'Cheyne's calendar, the Bible in chronological order, the New Testament on weekdays, single books, and more. - Topics: 45 one-week plans on subjects like grace, anxiety, forgiveness, marriage and prayer. Each day is one whole chapter, opening at the verses on the topic, which are underlined as you read. - Fits a cycle: plans that last exactly 42 days, including seven six-topic series. Run more than one plan at a time, invite a friend to read along, and listen to the day's chapters instead of reading them. PRAYER Keep a prayer list. A few requests come up in each day's session, and answered prayers move to their own list. YOUR CHURCH Create a group for your church, family, class or friends, or join one with an invite code. Share announcements, a prayer wall, a calendar with event sign-ups and reminders, the sermon library with notes and slides, and your church's podcast. A church can also publish a public page with service times, location and sermons, and people can find listed churches by name, city or ZIP. MADE TO BE EASY A home-screen verse widget, text size and light or dark themes, reminders you set yourself, guided tours on every tab, and a step-by-step guide. Free, with no ads and no purchases. Your reading and notes stay yours, and an account is only needed for reminders, groups and syncing between devices.
gramma Bible
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gramma sets Scripture the way fine books are set. Its typesetting engine builds on the line-breaking tradition of TeX: justified, hyphenated paragraphs at the text size and line length you choose โ one column on the phone, more on tablet and desktop. READING โข Endless scrolling through whole books, in columns on larger screens โข Side-by-side views that follow each other: text beside text, commentary, or footnotes โข Desks โ saved workspace layouts for study, comparison, devotion โข Careful typography: Gentium and Literata faces; text size, line length, column gap, spacing, and weight are yours to set STUDY โข Imports standard SWORD modules (e.g. from CrossWire) and OSIS files: Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, devotionals, and books โ and reads PDF, EPUB, and ODT documents into the same library โข Strong's numbers: tap a word for its lexicon entry, follow a number into a concordance built from tagged texts โข Fast search with language-aware matching โข Reading plans imported from simple JSON files YOUR NOTES, YOURS โข Word-precise marks and notes, anchored to verses, with eight pens you define โ hue, strength, wash or underline โ or a note shown by a small icon alone โข A notes overview across everything you have marked โข Sync between your own devices as end-to-end-encrypted files in a folder you choose (your iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or any synced folder) โ no gramma server, no account FREE AND OPEN โข Completely free, no purchases, no ads, no analytics โข Open source (MIT): github.com/sse1234/gramma โข The app ships without Bible texts; you import the modules you have the right to use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: gramma Bible at 4 against Whetstone Bible App's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Whetstone Bible App | gramma Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Southern Housing | Stephan Schmid-Eilber |
In-app purchases
Whetstone Bible App
No in-app purchases
gramma Bible
No in-app purchases






