My Verse vs Colophon
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.
Colophon
Explore the original Greek and Hebrew words behind English text in this offline study Bible. Tap any word to see its definition, transliteration, and usage frequency. Your notes and highlights are private and saved locally.
- Reverse-interlinear word lookup
- Offline access to translations
- Private notes and highlights
- Search and cross-references
- Distraction-free reading
- Optional Pro features
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Colophon is an offline study Bible built on one idea: there are older words under your English, and now you can touch them. Reverse-interlinear style — tap any English word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it: the original word, its transliteration, its sense, and how often it appears across Scripture. No account. No feed. No ads. Nothing you read or write ever leaves your device. Just the text and its languages. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Tap any word in the KJV for its Strong's Greek or Hebrew entry — right inside your reading, without losing your place • Read public-domain translations (KJV, WEB, BSB) fully offline • Keep notes and highlights that survive every update — your study is never lost • Search the text, follow cross-references, and read in a calm, distraction-free page • Free at the core — every translation, Strong's, search, notes, and export NO ONE'S INTERPRETATION Colophon carries the text and its original languages, not a doctrinal slant. Public-domain sources, transparently attributed. Your notes and highlights stay on your device — Colophon has no servers and collects nothing about your study. COLOPHON PRO (optional, one-time) A single unlock — never a subscription, never a nag — adds the study desk (two translations abreast, verse by verse), notebooks that gather scattered notes into a study, print-ready study sheets, note import, the reading backgrounds beyond the plain page, your own text size, and Backup & Restore: your whole study in one file you keep, on any device, with no account. The study itself is always free. The words under the words.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colophon at 67% against My Verse's 0%. Colophon also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 18 months). My Verse's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Colophon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. My Verse asks for nothing beyond the download.
Colophon holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of My Verse's written reviews are positive against 67% of Colophon's.
My Verse ships an update every 18 months, Colophon monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Verse | Colophon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 168 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Zellmer | Mustafa Salim Erek |
Customer experience
My Verse
Colophon
In-app purchases
My Verse
No in-app purchases
Colophon
- Tip: Ink$1.99
- Tip: Quill$4.99
- Colophon Pro$9.99
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- Tip: Patron$9.99





