First 5 vs Selara
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.
Selara
This app helps you organize and track your prayer requests, allowing you to journal your thoughts and reflect on answered prayers. It fosters community by enabling prayer sharing with others and prioritizes user privacy with on-device encryption.
- Organize prayer requests by category
- Journal prayers via voice or text
- Mark and track answered prayers
- Create and join Prayer Circles
- On-device encryption for privacy
- Customizable color themes
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Selara is a prayer journal designed for one thing: helping you remember what God has done. Bring every request to God—by category, by name, by burden. Log it, pray over it, and when the answer comes, mark it. Then look back and see the faithfulness you'd have forgotten. PRAY WITH INTENTION Organize prayer requests by category—health, family, guidance, gratitude, and more. Add notes, Scripture, and the names of people you're praying for. JOURNAL FROM YOUR HEART Speak your prayers out loud and let Selara's AI shape them into a journal entry—your words, your heart, no typing required. Or write it out the old-fashioned way. REMEMBER WHAT HE'S DONE Mark prayers as answered and build a living record of God's faithfulness. Faith grows when you remember. PRAY TOGETHER Create a Prayer Circle and invite your small group, family, or friends. Share requests, carry each other's burdens, and see how God moves in community. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Your personal prayers are encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. Not even we can read them. Your prayer life is yours. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from six color themes to make Selara feel like home. — Selah: pause, reflect, praise. Elorah: God is my light. Selara is both.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Selara at none against First 5's shown. Selara also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). First 5's advantage is ratings volume (879 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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.
Selara 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.
First 5 ships an update every 3 months, Selara every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First 5 | Selara |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (879 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 879 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Proverbs 31 Ministry, Inc. | Allyson Hittinger |
Customer experience
First 5
Selara
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
Selara
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
First 5
No in-app purchases
Selara
No in-app purchases
