Comparison

The Simple Things Magazine vs BiblePath

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

Head to head
About

The Simple Things Magazine

This magazine app offers inspiration for a well-lived life, focusing on mindful living, home, nature, and simple pleasures. Each issue provides seasonal content, recipes, projects, and creative ideas.

Highlights
  • Mindfulness and microadventures
  • Home life and slow moments
  • Seasonal content
  • Recipes and weekend projects
  • Poems, stories, and playlists
  • Digital issue purchases
  • Subscription options
Features
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The Simple Things is a beautiful, useful, quirky and fun magazine about taking time to live well. We cover eating and growing, mindfulness and microadventures, forgotten wisdom, home life and slow moments. It's for people who love their lives but want to take the pressure off and remember what’s really important. We like tea & cake, learning stuff, being outside and the satisfaction of a job well done. Do you? Every month we publish 132 pages of seasonal loveliness, ideas and inspiration to dip into. Includes a poem, a story and a playlist, plus our ‘could-do’ list, recipes and weekend projects. ---------------------------------------------- This is a free app download. Within the app users can purchase the current issue and back issues. Subscriptions are also available within the application. A subscription will start from the latest regular issue at the time of purchase. -The subscription will renew automatically unless cancelled more than 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription rate for the product. -You may turn off the auto-renewal of subscriptions through your Account Settings, however you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. -Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased. -If a subscription offers a free trial, at the end of the trial period, you will be charged the full price of the subscription. You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription settings on your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Users can register for/ login to a pocketmags account in-app. This will protect their issues in the case of a lost device and allow browsing of purchases on multiple platforms. Existing pocketmags users can retrieve their purchases by logging into their account. We recommend loading the app for the first time in a wi-fi area so that all issue data is retrieved. If your app will not load past the splash page after a first install or an update, please delete and reinstall the app from the App Store Help and frequently asked questions can be accessed in-app and on pocketmags. If you have any problems at all please do not hesitate to contact us: help@pocketmags.com -------------------- You can find our privacy policy here: http://www.pocketmags.com/privacy.aspx You can find our terms and conditions here: http://www.pocketmags.com/terms.aspx

About

BiblePath

Features
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BiblePath helps you read the whole Bible and see your progress, one chapter at a time. Nine Bibles in English, Spanish and Portuguese are built in and work offline. There is no account, no ads and no tracking. READ THE BIBLE, BUILT IN • Nine Bibles in three languages, all inside the app and ready offline • In English, the King James Version, the Berean Standard Bible and the World English Bible • In Spanish, the Reina-Valera 1909, the Reina-Valera 1865 and the Biblia Libre para el Mundo • In Portuguese, the Bíblia Livre, the Nova Versão de Acesso Livre and the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial • Adjust the text size, spacing, alignment and typeface (six fonts, serif or modern) • Chapters are marked read when you reach the end, or with one tap • Search any word or phrase in the Bible you are reading HIGHLIGHT, SAVE AND STUDY • Tap a verse to highlight it in one of eight colors, chosen to stay easy to read on every theme • Save verses and passages, and write a personal note on any of them • Compare a verse in every Bible in the app • Open the cross references of a verse • Find your highlights again by color, in Bible order or by date • Turn a verse into an image to share HIDE GOD'S WORD IN YOUR HEART • Scripture memory with short daily reviews that bring each verse back at growing intervals • Add any verse or passage from the reader, or start with suggested verses • Rate each review Again, Hard, Good or Easy, and watch your verses move forward LEARN THE FAITH • Keach's Baptist Catechism (1695) and Spurgeon's Puritan Catechism, with their Scripture proofs • Practice the questions and answers, and see a question of the week on your Today screen • A clear presentation of the gospel • A 15-lesson discipleship course with short quizzes, written for new believers FOLLOW A PLAN • Eight reading plans, including Bible in One Year, New Testament in 90 Days, Psalms in 30 Days and Proverbs in 31 Days • Each day is balanced by length and shows about how many minutes it takes • Or build your own. Choose the books, the length, your reading days and the order • BiblePath shows what to read today and opens it in the reader TRACK EVERY CHAPTER • See your progress by book, by testament and by section • Read the Bible again and again. Each read-through starts a fresh chapter grid, and every reading still counts • Streaks with an optional grace day, milestones, a reading heatmap, your pace and a projected finish date • Protestant canon (66 books, 1,189 chapters) or Catholic canon (73 books, 1,334 chapters, with the deuterocanonical books in the World English Bible, the Biblia Libre para el Mundo and the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial) • Switch canon or Bible at any time without losing anything you have recorded KEEP A JOURNAL • Write about what you read, add a photo or record a voice note • Quote the verses you selected straight into a new entry • React with hearts and emotions, and add dated reflections over time STAY ON TRACK • A smart daily reminder names today's reading and about how long it takes, and stays quiet once you have done that reading • An optional evening nudge, only on days you have not read yet • Add accountability partners and send them your progress by email from your own mail app, daily, weekly or monthly IN YOUR LANGUAGE • The whole app in English, Spanish and Portuguese, including the catechisms, the gospel and the discipleship course • Change the language in Settings at any time MAKE IT YOURS • Five color themes, each in light and dark. Heritage, Stained Glass, Sunrise, Olive & Fig and Rainbow PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no tracking • Back up your data to a file and restore it at any time • BiblePath is free, with no in-app purchases

Screenshots

The Simple Things Magazine4 screens
BiblePath4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BiblePath at none against The Simple Things Magazine's 10. BiblePath also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 16 months). The Simple Things Magazine's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Simple Things Magazine sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per 3 months. BiblePath asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Simple Things Magazine ships an update every 16 months, BiblePath weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
The Simple Things Magazine versus BiblePath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Simple Things MagazineBiblePath
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIceberg Press LimitedNELSON DAVID MONCAYO ROSAS

In-app purchases

10 purchases

The Simple Things Magazine

Subscriptions2
  • The Simple Things$14.993 Months
  • The Simple Things$55.991 Year
One-time8
  • January 2017 (pp:756662)$6.99
  • December 2016 (pp:756663)$6.99
  • November 2016 (pp:756664)$6.99
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  • September 2016 (pp:756666)$6.99
  • April 2016 (pp:756671)$6.99
  • March 2016 (pp:756672)$6.99
  • February 2016 (pp:756673)$6.99
  • May 2017 (pp:756658)$6.99
None

BiblePath

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Simple Things Magazine free?
The Simple Things Magazine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BiblePath free?
BiblePath is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Simple Things Magazine or BiblePath have ads?
Neither The Simple Things Magazine nor BiblePath shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Simple Things Magazine or BiblePath?
The Simple Things Magazine ships an update every 16 months, and BiblePath weekly. Most recently, The Simple Things Magazine was updated on November 6, 2026 and BiblePath on October 31, 2026.

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