Reform Study vs Moses’ Torah
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reform Study
This app provides a comprehensive Bible study experience, bridging academic depth with daily devotion. It offers multiple translations, verse marking, note-taking, cross-reference mapping, and a searchable library of commentaries and creeds. Features include study trails, offline search, and collaborative study options.
- Multiple Bible translations
- Verse marking and note-taking
- Cross-reference mapping
- Commentary and creed library
- Study trails for tracking research
- Offline search functionality
- Collaborative study features
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Reform sits in the gap between the academic library and the verse-of-the-day app: a study desk for anyone who reads the Bible seriously without being a scholar. The first thing you see is the text. Signed out, that is the BSB and the WEB, two public domain translations; signed in, the CSB, ESV, NASB, NIV and NLT as well. Scroll through the Bible continuously or chapter by chapter. The reference pill at the bottom changes the layout, jumps to another reference, pins the one you are on, or reads the chapter aloud, in your own translation with the device voice or in the BSB with a recorded one. Tapping a verse opens a sheet to mark it, copy it, hear it, or see its cross references drawn as a map. Below that are your notes on the text, the translation notes, the cross references, the original language word by word, the other translations, and a shelf of commentators, creeds, confessions and church fathers tucked away at the bottom. Reform keeps track of where you have been with Trails, so when you go down a rabbit hole studying a verse or an idea or a historical narrative, everything you walked through to get there is kept for later. Search works best online but works offline too. A topic, a question or a word comes back as direct matches in the text, verses that match by meaning, your own writing, and the rest of the shelf. When the shelves come back thin, the one thing the model does is name places to read, each checked against the shelf before you see it. It writes nothing, so your reading stays your own. Beyond the reader is where Reform holds up over the long term. The home page carries a catechism question, a verse to start from and a biblical prayer, new each day. Start a study on a single passage or a whole book, take loose notes, and if you are on a team, read your team's sermons and discussions. A study keeps your thoughts, references and searches in one place, centered on a passage or a book and a notes file. Share one with others to write in together, or publish it for wider reading. What you gather on a book is kept with the book, and comes back wherever you open it. Everything you do on the phone is on the desk on your computer and the web too. Teachers on a team can read a sermon and write in its notes, review a colleague's, and take part in the discussions around them. Leaders see each week's resource sheet with the answers filled in, and members can send questions about it for their leaders and teachers to take up. Reform Study on iOS is the whole desk's companion, so you can be in the Word wherever you are.
Moses’ Torah
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Step back into the First Temple period and read the Torah in the script of ancient Israel. Moses’ Torah is an interactive reader and study tool for the Torah in Paleo-Hebrew (Ktav Ivri, the Old Hebrew script). Built for students of Biblical Hebrew, epigraphers, Karaite and Torah-centered readers, and ancient history enthusiasts, it pairs the consonantal text of the five books of Moses with a word-by-word lexicon. ANCIENT SCRIPT, MODERN STUDY TOOLS Paleo-Hebrew was the script of ancient Israel and Judah before the Babylonian exile. Read the whole Pentateuch in it: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. KEY FEATURES • PALEO-HEBREW TEXT The consonantal Westminster Leningrad Codex, drawn in a lapidary Paleo-Hebrew typeface modeled on ancient inscriptions, right to left. • TAP ANY WORD - Morphology: prefixes, base and suffixes shown separately - Lemma, root and Strong's number with definition - Vocalized Square Hebrew and academic transliteration - Written and read forms where they differ (ketiv and qere) • PARALLEL AND INTERLINEAR MODES - Pure Paleo: the consonantal script alone - Parallel: Paleo-Hebrew beside Square Hebrew or the 1917 JPS English translation - Interlinear: Square Hebrew, transliteration and gloss under every Paleo word • CONCORDANCE AND ROOT SEARCH Search by exact form or by root (for example א-מ-ר) to find every occurrence in the Torah. Type with the built-in Paleo keyboard, a Hebrew keyboard, an English word or a Strong's number. • YOUR TEXT, YOUR WAY - Spaces, inscriptional word dividers (·), or continuous script - Text size, line spacing, Parchment and Night themes - Verse numbers in Paleo letters or digits • LEARN THE ALPHABET All 22 letters with names, sounds and letter-name meanings, plus flashcards for the letters and the 100 most frequent words. • WORKS OFFLINE The full text, lexicon and translation live on your device. Download Moses’ Torah and read the Torah in the letters of ancient Israel. Privacy Policy: https://etfr11122.github.io/mosestorah/support.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reform Study at none against Moses’ Torah's 1. Reform Study also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Moses’ Torah sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Reform Study asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Reform Study | Moses’ Torah |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rewrite Software LLC | Sahlu Demelash |
In-app purchases
Reform Study
No in-app purchases
Moses’ Torah
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