Comparison

First 5 vs Meet Adelaide

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily biblical teachings
  • Highlight, save, and share scripture
  • Integrated Bible reader
  • Customizable reminders
  • Community groups
  • Exportable notes
Features
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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.

About

Meet Adelaide

Engage in daily mindfulness practices, including guided breathing, unique daily mind games, and reflective journaling. Earn collectible art scenes by completing practices, offering a peaceful digital escape without performance pressure.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Daily unique mind games
  • Reflective journaling prompts
  • Collectible art scenes
  • No streaks or performance tracking
  • Offline use
Features
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Small moments, clearer days. $12.99 once. Not a subscription. Over 50 scenes to reveal and keep, and nothing that expires. Adelaide is a daily practice for people who already feel the pull of the screen and want something quieter in return. Not another system to perform inside. A place to arrive. Three small practices, a few minutes each. Presence. A few quiet minutes with your breath, paced on screen with a soft tap to follow. Calm to land, Focus to sharpen, Goodnight to release. Play. A short game for your mind. A different one each day, each resolving on its own terms. No scores, no timers, nothing to beat. Purpose. One honest question, changing daily. Keep your answers, or let them pass. Your written reflections stay on your device unless you choose to back them up. Something to show for it. Do the three and you earn a little Clarity. Over roughly ten days, Clarity slowly reveals a scene inspired by Japanese woodblock art. When it completes, it is yours, kept in a permanent Library. Over 50 scenes wait there, and no two share a palette. Ten days each. That is more than a year of practice, and every scene you finish stays. What Adelaide will not do. No streaks. No badges. No leaderboards. No ads. No tracking. Nothing to renew, and nothing to lose if you put it down for a month. Miss a day and nothing breaks. The scene waits. Adelaide does not punish absence or reward performance. It holds space for return, as many times as you need it. Adelaide was built by a commercial photographer in Charleston as a gift for his daughter, a place to land when the noise got loud. It turned out to be for many. Five days free. Then $12.99, once. Yours. Small moments, clearer days.

Screenshots

First 53 screens
Meet Adelaide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: First 5 at none against Meet Adelaide's 1. First 5 also leads on ratings volume (879 vs 1). Meet Adelaide's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meet Adelaide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. First 5 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meet Adelaide 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 1, 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 100% of Meet Adelaide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

First 5 ships an update every 3 months, Meet Adelaide every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
First 5 versus Meet Adelaide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirst 5Meet Adelaide
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (879 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings879 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB188 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProverbs 31 Ministry, Inc.andrew cebulka

Customer experience

First 5

All ratings873 ratings
Positive87.4%
Neutral5.0%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews140 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral12.9%
Negative14.3%

Meet Adelaide

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Meet Adelaide

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

First 5

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Meet Adelaide

One-time1
  • Meet Adelaide$12.99

Questions

Is First 5 free?
First 5 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Meet Adelaide free?
Meet Adelaide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, First 5 or Meet Adelaide?
Meet Adelaide is rated higher. First 5 averages 4.5 out of 5 from 879 ratings, while Meet Adelaide averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do First 5 or Meet Adelaide have ads?
First 5 shows ads; Meet Adelaide does not.
Which is updated more often, First 5 or Meet Adelaide?
First 5 ships an update every 3 months, and Meet Adelaide every 3 weeks. Most recently, First 5 was updated on October 15, 2026 and Meet Adelaide on October 8, 2026.

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