My Verse vs Examine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Verse
Receive a daily Bible verse in your preferred language, including English, French, German, Spanish, or Mandarin. This app offers spiritual guidance and reflection through curated scripture.
- Daily Bible verse delivery
- Multiple language options
- English, French, German, Spanish, Mandarin support
- Spiritual reflection tool
- Curated scripture
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A Bible verse, delivered daily in English, French, German, Spanish or Mandarin.
Examine
A scripture-focused Bible reader designed for in-depth study and careful thought. It provides multiple translations, tools for analyzing text, and a Greek interlinear, all without AI paraphrasing or ads.
- Multiple Bible translations (NIV, NLT, Message, ESV)
- Contextual chapter view
- Verse highlighting in four colors
- AI-powered question answering with source passages
- Teaching analysis against scripture
- Phrase tracing across the entire Bible
- Greek New Testament interlinear
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Examine is a quiet, scripture-first Bible reader for people who want to read closely and think carefully. Named for the Bereans of Acts 17:11 who "examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so", Examine is built for that kind of reading, and it holds one firm line: the AI never writes or paraphrases Scripture. Every verse comes straight from a published translation, shown exactly as published. READ • NIV, NLT, The Message, and ESV • A calm, typographic reader that opens any verse in its full chapter, never stripped of context • Highlight verses in four colors; highlights follow the verse across translations • Everything saved on your device with no account required STUDY • Ask: pose a question and get a grounded answer that points to the passages it rests on • Weigh: test any teaching, lyric, sermon, or quote against Scripture; Examine surfaces the passages for and against, and lets you judge • Trace: follow a phrase across the whole canon, Genesis to Revelation, verified verse by verse • Greek interlinear: read the New Testament word by word, with lemmas, parsing, and every place a word appears PRINCIPLES • Scripture is never generated, paraphrased, or summarized by AI • No ads, no tracking, no account • The reading, and the conclusions, are yours Examine points you to the Word. The rest is between you and it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Examine at 100% against My Verse's 0%. Examine also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 18 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
Examine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of My Verse's written reviews are positive against 100% of Examine's.
My Verse ships an update every 18 months, Examine every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Verse | Examine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Zellmer | Will Nelson |
Customer experience
My Verse
Examine
In-app purchases
My Verse
No in-app purchases
Examine
No in-app purchases
