Sharing God's Love vs First 5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sharing God's Love
Begin your day with a daily one-minute devotional designed to deepen your connection with Jesus. Each message offers encouragement, comfort, and teachings on God's love, grace, and mercy, complete with scripture. Listen to audio versions or share inspiring messages with friends and family.
- Daily one-minute devotions
- Scripture included
- Audio playback
- Share devotions
- Inspiring messages
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Start your day with an inspiring one-minute devotion that will draw you closer to Jesus and have you praising Him all day long! You’ll receive a new thought-provoking devotion each day that will encourage, comfort, and teach you about God’s amazing love, grace, and mercy. There is scripture for each devotion written out to make it easy for your to read God’s Word. An audio version is available where you can listen to Brenda read her devotions. You can also share the devotions with others via Facebook, text message, or email.
First 5
This app provides daily biblical teachings to help users establish a consistent spiritual practice. It offers tools for highlighting, saving, and sharing scripture, along with a built-in Bible and community features.
- Daily biblical teachings
- Highlight, save, and share scripture
- Integrated Bible reader
- Customizable reminders
- Community groups
- Exportable notes
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Transform your time with God using the First 5 app, developed by Proverbs 31 Ministries. First 5 is specifically designed to greet you with a short teaching in God’s Word daily before you get distracted by social media and everything else competing for your attention. It’s our hope you create a daily habit of reading God’s Word through your time spent in the First 5 app. Features • New Teaching Every Day: We unpack books of the Bible, focusing on passages of Scripture each day and seeing how they apply to our lives. • Highlight, Save and Share: You can highlight any portion of our daily teachings to bookmark, share or add a personal note. Review your notes and activity through your profile and use the export feature to save them to your device. • Reminder Functionality: Set up a reminder in the app to go off at any time you choose. This way, you can read each teaching at a time that works best in your schedule. • Bible: Don't have your Bible handy? Use this feature for your daily Bible reading. You can search any passage of Scripture and even bookmark, highlight and create a graphic to share with a friend. * Community: Find community among our First 5 friends in private and public groups.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Sharing God's Love at none against First 5's shown. Sharing God's Love also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). First 5's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (879 vs 65). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
First 5 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: First 5 has 879 ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Sharing God's Love's written reviews are positive against 73% of First 5's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 27, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sharing God's Love | First 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (65 ratings) | 4.5 (879 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 | 879 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brenda Walsh Ministries | Proverbs 31 Ministry, Inc. |
Customer experience
Sharing God's Love
First 5
Bugs and requests
Sharing God's Love
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
First 5
Reported bugs
4 issues- App not loading or showing blank screen
- Inability to access past or current studies
- Login/sign-in issues and account problems
- Repeated log-outs and sign-in requirements
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode or night theme
- Improve font size and zoom options
- Allow offline access to past studies
- Implement text-to-speech feature
- Provide more customization options
In-app purchases
Sharing God's Love
No in-app purchases
First 5
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Sharing God's Love free?
Is First 5 free?
Which has better reviews, Sharing God's Love or First 5?
Do Sharing God's Love or First 5 have ads?
Which is updated more often, Sharing God's Love or First 5?
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