Delve vs Asma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Delve
Engage with bite-sized, interactive lessons on diverse topics, from world mechanics to life improvement. Each lesson uses AI to summarize Wikipedia articles, prompting you to guess before revealing the answer. Explore curated book ideas and daily logic puzzles.
- Interactive daily lessons
- AI-generated content from Wikipedia
- Daily logic puzzles
- Book summaries with narrated lessons
- Personalized learning feed
- AI-powered review chat
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Delve is short, interactive lessons about interesting things: how the world works, how to live better, stories that change how you see something, and ideas that are hard to get your head around. Each takes a few minutes, asks you to guess before it tells you, and is written with AI from the Wikipedia articles it links to. HOME A feed of lessons, ranked by what you told Delve you are curious about. Swipe away anything you do not want to see again. A LESSON WRITTEN FOR YOU, EVERY DAY With Delve Plus, a new lesson is written for you overnight from your interests and anything you ask for. Search for something Delve does not teach yet, ask for it, and it shapes your next lessons. A new one is written after you open the last one, so they never pile up. It needs AI turned on. BOOKS Ideas from 25 well-known books, and what the evidence says now. Each book has three narrated lessons in our own words, not the book itself: each teaches one idea the author argues, then says what research has found since, criticism included. Listen along or read at your own pace. PUZZLES Seven puzzle games, new every day at 10 a.m.: Seeds, Cuts, Bridges, Totals, Snips, Alibis and Fours. Each logic puzzle has one answer you can reach without guessing, and its hints tell you the next step and why it works. Free readers get about half of each day's puzzles; Delve Plus opens all of them and every past day. YOUR LIBRARY Everything you have played, saved and finished, the books you have started, and Review, an AI chat that asks you to explain what you learned. NOTHING TO KEEP UP WITH No courses to fall behind on. A reminder at the time you pick, if you want one, and a streak that counts the days you finished a lesson or a puzzle. HALF OF OUR PROFITS GO TO WIKIPEDIA Our lessons are written from Wikipedia, so half of our profits go to the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs it. FREE AND DELVE PLUS Free: two lessons or book parts a day, and about half of each day's puzzles. Delve Plus: a new lesson written for you every day, every lesson and book with no daily limit, and every puzzle, past days included. Delve Plus is $14.99 a month or $119.99 a year in the U.S. (prices vary by country). Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. Terms of Use: https://delvelearning.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://delvelearning.app/privacy/
Asma
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There are ninety-nine Names. Most of us know three. Asma gives you one each morning: the Name itself, the root it grows from, where it appears in the Quran, how the Prophet peace be upon him lived it, and one plain thing to do with it today. Every hadith is checked. Every verse is cited. Each card lists its sources and says whether the Prophet peace be upon him uses the Name himself, so you can go and read them rather than taking anyone's word for it. Nothing else in this category does that, and it is the reason to trust what you are reading. THE DIAL Ninety-nine dots on a ring, one for each Name. Today's is lit. Turn it slowly and the Names pass under your thumb. WHERE THE WORD COMES FROM Ar-Rahman and the word for womb share a root. Al-Wadud means both to love and to wish for. The meaning of a Name lives in its letters, and every card starts there. NAMES FOR HOW YOU FEEL Answer one question about how you have been lately, and keep a small circle of Names that meet it. Anxious, grieving, stuck, alone. They sit in the dial with a gold ring and you can open them any time. PRAYER TIMES AND THE QIBLA The five times for wherever you are, worked out on your phone from the sun, not fetched from a server. Twelve calculation methods, both Asr schools, and a rule for high latitudes where the sun never sets far enough. A qibla compass sits in the corner while you read, with the Kaaba on the dial where it actually is. Reminders at each prayer, and on the white days, the 13th to 15th of each lunar month. Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets in two styles, for the next prayer and the whole day. Missed one? Tap it, and it waits under To make up until you have. ROOM TO WRITE A page a day, by hand with Apple Pencil or typed. Your journal never leaves your phone, and nor does anything else you write or choose. No accounts and no advertising. The only thing Asma ever sends is an anonymous daily count of which parts of the app were opened, and you can turn that off in Settings. LEARN THEM BY HEART Spaced repetition that brings each Name back just before you would forget it. A few minutes a day and you know them all. ALSO The Islamic date on the home screen. Arabic in Naskh or IndoPak script. A counter for dhikr that keeps its place. A quiet reminder each morning if you want one. Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. GIVE IT TO SOMEONE Give Asma Pro for a month, a year, or for good. You get a link to send, and it opens in Asma on their iPhone or iPad. FREE AND PRO Prayer times and the qibla are free, and always will be. Today's Name is always free too, with its full card, every source and its du'a. The dial and the list of all ninety-nine are free to browse, the dhikr counter is free, and so is today's journal page. Asma Pro opens any of the other ninety-eight Names whenever you want them, plus your Circle, memorizing, your journal's history and the widgets. Seven days free, then a small monthly cost, or buy it once and keep it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Delve and Asma 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
Both are free to download. Delve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Asma sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Delve | Asma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nolan Connolly | IBRAHEEM MUHAMMAD AZHAR |
In-app purchases
Delve
- Delve Plus Monthly$14.991 Month
- Delve Plus Yearly$119.991 Year
Asma
- Asma Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Asma Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Gift: A month of Asma Pro$1.99
- Gift: A year of Asma Pro$14.99
- Gift: Asma Pro for good$22.99
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- Asma Pro Forever$22.99









