First 5 vs 1X
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.
1X
This app provides daily devotionals based on weekly sermons, encouraging users to apply teachings to their relationships. It includes weekly challenges to foster faith and allows users to share their experiences of living "one at a time."
- Weekly sermon-based devotionals
- Daily relationship-focused content
- Weekly faith-building challenges
- Share personal impact stories
- Live out teachings one relationship at a time
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The One at a Time app helps bring the weekly sermon to life in daily devotionals, each designed to help you live out the teaching one relationship at a time. Accept the weekly challenges to help bring faith to life and share stories of how 1X living is impacting your life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: First 5 at 73% against 1X's 40%. First 5 also leads on ratings volume (888 vs 32) and rating (4.5 vs 4.3). 1X's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
First 5 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: First 5 has 888 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of First 5's written reviews are positive against 40% of 1X's.
First 5 ships an update every 3 months, 1X every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First 5 | 1X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (888 ratings) — better | 4.3 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 888 — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Proverbs 31 Ministry, Inc. | Southeast Christian Church |
Customer experience
First 5
1X
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
1X
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
First 5
No in-app purchases
1X
No in-app purchases
