Comparison

FamilySearch Memories vs ScripturePlus

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

Head to head
About

FamilySearch Memories

Easily capture, preserve, and share cherished family moments. Upload photos, documents, recordings, and stories, and link them directly to your family tree. Identify relatives in your media, and store your precious memories securely for free.

Highlights
  • Collect photos, documents, recordings, and stories
  • Add media to family tree
  • Record family member interviews
  • Identify relatives in media
  • Free forever storage
  • Share family memories
Features
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FamilySearch Memories makes collecting, preserving, and sharing your favorite family memories easy and convenient wherever you are. Snap photos of any family moment, such as recitals, dates, graduations, reunions, and memorials, and add them to your family tree. Add Photos, documents, Recording, and Stories. Interview family members and record the details of their lives and favorite memories. Identify relatives in photos, stories, and recordings. Those memories are automatically attach to the Family Tree. Store family memories free forever, within the FamilySearch vaults.

About

ScripturePlus

Enhance your scripture study with a comprehensive collection of commentaries, videos, historical context, and interactive reading plans. This app provides a rich digital environment to deepen your understanding and faith in religious texts.

Highlights
  • Standard Works scripture reading
  • Integrated commentaries and videos
  • Historical settings and 360 tours
  • Come Follow Me reading plans
  • KnoWhy articles
  • Quotations from religious leaders and scholars
Features
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Scripture Plus is a Come Follow Me study app designed to help Latter-day Saints and others get more out of their scripture study. Users can read all the scriptures in the Standard Works, with commentaries, videos, historical settings, and more, linked directly into the text. Users can also study the Church's Come, Follow Me curriculum using convenient and simple Reading Plans to complete your Doctrine and Covenants goals. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has licensed Book of Mormon Central to use the 2013 edition of the Latter-day Saint scriptures in this mobile app. The ScripturePlus study panel includes commentaries, bios of main characters, 360 tours of Church History locations, videos, images, charts, KnoWhy articles, quotations from General Authorities and reliable scholars, multiple editions of the scriptures, and more. Many more technical features and content types are contemplated in future releases. We hope you find this app rewarding and spiritually invigorating. It facilitates pondering God’s word in a rich digital environment that builds enduring faith in Jesus Christ by making Latter-day Saint scriptures, particularly the Book of Mormon, accessible, comprehensible, and defensible to the entire world. The scriptures are peerless and eternal. The enrichment material is curated to help you seek learning out of the best books by study and by faith.

Screenshots

FamilySearch Memories4 screens
ScripturePlus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ScripturePlus at every 4 weeks against FamilySearch Memories's every 3 months. ScripturePlus also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for FamilySearch Memories against 4.9 for ScripturePlus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19K and 10K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of FamilySearch Memories's written reviews are positive against 92% of ScripturePlus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FamilySearch Memories ships an update every 3 months, ScripturePlus every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FamilySearch Memories versus ScripturePlus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFamilySearch MemoriesScripturePlus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (19K ratings)4.9 (10K ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews92.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19K — better10K
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFamilySearch InternationalScripture Central

Customer experience

FamilySearch Memories

All ratings19,142 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews178 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.7%

ScripturePlus

All ratings9,978 ratings
Positive98.3%
Neutral0.8%
Negative0.9%
Written reviews191 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative5.8%

User reviews

FamilySearch Memories

From 19K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💾 Memories preservation
  • 📚 Family history and genealogy
  • 🎨 Easy to add photos and documents
  • 🎙️ Audio recording for memories
  • 🔗 Integration with FamilySearch

Room to improve

  • 🤔 Difficulty with tagging and organizing memories
  • 🔍 Limited search and filtering options
  • 💤 Occasional freezing or performance issues
  • 🔒 Concerns about privacy and access control

ScripturePlus

From 10K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Helpful study aid
  • 👍 Organized daily study plan
  • 🔍 Insightful commentary and resources
  • 📚 Enhances understanding of scriptures
  • 💡 Variety of learning materials (videos, images, etc.)

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
  • 🔍 Navigation and UI could be improved
  • 🔊 Lack of audio/audio options
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding specific content

Bugs and requests

FamilySearch Memories

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Losing composed content when switching apps
  • Inconsistent behavior when uploading photos
  • Inability to see keyboard when adding text to memories

Requested features

5 requests
  • Video upload and integration
  • Improved search and filtering capabilities
  • Better organization and chronological display of memories
  • Ability to delete or remove unwanted memories
  • Offline access and recording capabilities

ScripturePlus

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Scriptures not loading properly
  • Freezing/crashing on certain devices
  • Navigation issues when scrolling

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to highlight and take notes
  • Improved integration with Gospel Library app
  • Closed captioning/subtitles for videos
  • Print/export functionality

In-app purchases

None

FamilySearch Memories

No in-app purchases

None

ScripturePlus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FamilySearch Memories free?
FamilySearch Memories is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScripturePlus free?
ScripturePlus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FamilySearch Memories or ScripturePlus?
ScripturePlus is rated higher. FamilySearch Memories averages 4.8 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while ScripturePlus averages 4.9 from 10K ratings.
Do FamilySearch Memories or ScripturePlus have ads?
Neither FamilySearch Memories nor ScripturePlus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FamilySearch Memories or ScripturePlus?
FamilySearch Memories ships an update every 3 months, and ScripturePlus every 4 weeks. Most recently, FamilySearch Memories was updated on November 12, 2026 and ScripturePlus on November 12, 2026.

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