First 5 vs Share Bible Study
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.
Share Bible Study
This app helps users reference core teachings and track relationships for sharing faith. It prioritizes privacy by not loading any data into cloud servers. An expanded lesson version is available to broaden its application to more relationships.
- Core Bible teachings reference
- Relationship tracking for faith sharing
- Private cloud-free data usage
- 6-lesson version for wider application
- Easy to get started
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The Share app will help you quickly reference the core teachings of the Share Bible Study and help you keep up with the people you are sharing Jesus with regularly. No data from the app is loaded into cloud servers so that you can use it in a completely private way. It also has features that expand to a wider range of your relationships by switching on the 6 lesson version. Download it and get started sharing more of Jesus today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Share Bible Study at none against First 5's shown. Share Bible Study also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). First 5's advantage is ratings volume (879 vs 3). On price, 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.
Share Bible Study holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: First 5 has 879 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
First 5 ships an update every 3 months, Share Bible Study monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First 5 | Share Bible Study |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (879 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 879 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Proverbs 31 Ministry, Inc. | Josiah Venture, NFP |
Customer experience
First 5
Share Bible Study
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
Share Bible Study
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
First 5
No in-app purchases
Share Bible Study
No in-app purchases
Questions
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