First 5 vs Serve Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Serve Day
Discover and join local service opportunities. Share your vision, communicate with others, and lead or participate in projects. Connect with your community through acts of kindness and make a difference.
- Find local serve opportunities
- Join existing projects
- Lead new projects
- Share vision and communicate
- Engage with participants
- Browse project directory
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Serve is an app to help connect people to local serve opportunities by making it easy to find, join, or lead projects around them. Know of a practical way to serve those around you? You can share vision, communicate, and engage with others to prepare for your serve inside the app. Looking to join an existing serve project? Here’s how: -Open the app and select your church. -Use your location to easily find projects near you. -Or browse the project directory to find a good fit for you. -After reviewing the project details, simply add yourself to the project. -Communicate with your leader and fellow participants internally. The opportunities to share the love of God through practical acts of kindness are endless. Our hope is that simple acts of love can open hearts to Jesus all around the world. Together we can make a difference.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Serve Day at none against First 5's shown. Serve Day also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). First 5's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 58%) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, in-app purchases and device support 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for First 5 against 4.6 for Serve Day. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: First 5 has 879 ratings behind it against 114, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of First 5's written reviews are positive against 58% of Serve Day's.
First 5 ships an update every 3 months, Serve Day every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First 5 | Serve Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (879 ratings) | 4.6 (114 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 58.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 879 — better | 114 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Proverbs 31 Ministry, Inc. | Church of the Highlands |
Customer experience
First 5
Serve Day
Bugs and 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
Serve Day
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
First 5
No in-app purchases
Serve Day
No in-app purchases
