Daily Devotional and Quiet Time Apps
The hard part of a quiet time isn't the content. It's the first ninety seconds, before you pick up the phone that eats the next twenty minutes.
So the app that works is usually the one that makes starting frictionless: audio you can press play on, a plan already queued for today, a reading short enough that a bad morning still counts. Here you'll find long-running daily devotionals, audio Bible guides, liturgy and catechism, and reading plans for one person or a whole household. Each one is reviewed against the selection criteria.
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becoming
A formation companion for iPhone and iPad that carries what Jesus stirred in your morning time through the rest of your day, into your calendar and the people you are walking with. Built by Becoming Labs LLC; free with no ads or subscriptions, and it uses AI to generate a daily formation card and weekly and monthly reflections from your own notes.
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Glorify: Devotional & Prayer
Glorify is a free Christian iOS and Android app from Tupoe LTD that guides a short daily quiet time — quote, Scripture, devotional, and meditation — then adds worship music, courses, prayer, journaling, and community, with a Glorify Plus subscription for fuller access. The company has merged with Confidein; its Glorify Ring, with personalized Scripture, vibration-guided prayer routines, and voice prayer journaling, opened for reservations in July 2026, with shipments beginning early 2027.
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Focus on the Family App
Free Christian family resource app from Focus on the Family featuring the daily broadcast with Jim Daly, articles, devotions, assessments, group messaging, and community tools for every season of life — marriage, parenting, and beyond. Founded by Dr. James Dobson in 1977, now serving families in 98 countries, with the animated Adventures in Odyssey feature film *Journey into the Impossible* arriving in theaters in 2027. Jim Daly, president since 2005, announced in July 2026 that Focus is searching for its next president.
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Reflect
Reflect is an AI-personalized daily Christian reflection app pairing a Scripture passage with a short reflection, a prayer, and one question, tuned to your tradition and season of life.
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Jesus Spoke
A daily Gospel-word guide from Emilio Meza that walks you through read, reflect, and respond — delivered by morning SMS and available in English and Spanish.
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Bible Loop
A free teen Bible app from YouVersion with daily video devotionals, a feelings-based Scripture check-in, Learning Loops, a verse memory game with a community leaderboard, and a full Bible you can read or hear offline on iPhone and Android, now in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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Psalmlog
Psalmlog is a voice and text journaling app that puts what you write next to Scripture and returns a six-part reflection with one next step to walk out, across web, iOS, and Android. It adds deep YouVersion integration, Scripture Connections that link related passages, and Muse, the Gloo x YouVersion prize-winning companion that connects your music to Scripture.
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Anchor Christian: Daily Mood
Anchor Christian: Daily Mood is an iPhone daily check-in from Rooftop Labs that offers Scripture, biblical wisdom, and action steps from what you share, then tracks prayers and struggles. A subscription is required to use it.
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Exegesis
A Bible study app that puts two thousand years of church commentary, 27 commentators, 21 confessions, creeds, and catechisms, 218 hymns, and 6,211 letters, one tap from any verse, with Greek, Hebrew, and Latin word study across 18 texts, weighted cross-reference analysis, a sermon-transcribing journal, a daily devotional, and a confessions-grounded AI study assistant. Free on the App Store and Google Play, with optional subscriptions and in-app purchases for premium study tools and metered AI credits; also available in a web browser. Built by Roberto Chavez Jr.
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Prayer Library
A free Christian prayer app that helps you find written prayers and Bible verses based on how you're feeling. Browse by emotion, build custom prayer lists, track your emotional history, and set daily check-in reminders — with 200+ prayers, a YouVersion integration for changing Scripture version and language, and no ads.
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Pray As You Go
Pray As You Go is a free daily audio prayer from the Jesuits in Britain: 10 to 13 minutes of music, Scripture, and Ignatian reflection, plus examens, retreats, signed prayer, and the new Pray As You Grow collection for children. It marked 20 years in 2026, with no subscription.
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Revive Our Hearts podcast
A free Revive Our Hearts app and podcast family from Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth's women's ministry, with daily Bible teaching and companion programs. The ministry marked twenty-five years in 2026, and its Wonder of the Word journey teaches through the whole Bible over two years starting in January 2027.
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helloHOPE
A free iOS and Android app from Marietta nonprofit helloHOPE, Inc., offering daily Scripture, categorized prayer prompts, Stanton Lanier music, and family stories for parents walking through a childhood diagnosis. Founded by Mary Beth and Andrew Thomas; the organization also runs Stories of Hope, Meals of Hope, and Free Parking Day.
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iBreviary
iBreviary is Paolo Padrini's free Catholic breviary for iOS, Android, and the web, with the Liturgy of the Hours, Missal, and Lectionary in ten languages plus Holy Land texts through the Custody of the Holy Land.
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First 5
A free daily Bible study app from Proverbs 31 Ministries that meets women with a short, book-by-book Scripture teaching before the day's noise. Follow the current study or pick a past plan from an archive covering every book of the Bible, with weekday teachings and a Saturday audio teaching.
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still: Christian focus, prayer
A prayer-focused iPhone app named after Psalm 46:10 that helps Christians give each day a prayerful focus from the fruit of the Spirit, track prayer requests and journal answers, pray with a small group, and reflect on their walk with God over time.
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Bible365
A free community Bible reading program that guides believers through the entire Bible in one year, with daily readings from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs, pastoral teaching from Calvary Chapel, and audio, app, text, website, and podcast options. Readers can join any time, take a two-year pace, and roll missed readings into the next cycle.
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Dwell
Dwell is an audio-first Bible app from twin brothers Jonathan and Joshua Bailey, with more than 20 voice recordings across 14 translations, Read Along, listening plans, devotionals, kids content, and sleep listening so Scripture can fill ordinary parts of the day.
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Ascension App
The Ascension App is a Catholic Bible and Catechism companion from Ascension Press, with the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, daily Mass readings, Rosary, study plans, and the In a Year podcasts. It is free to download, with a premium subscription for the fuller library.
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Bible Portal
A free Bible study platform from The Christian Post offering 50+ classic commentaries, reading plans, Bible studies, daily devotionals, a sermon library, and 10,000+ shareable verse images — available on web, iOS, and Android. Website and daily-verse newsletter are actively maintained; mobile apps have not been updated since December 2021.
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Aura Bible
Aura is an AI-powered Bible study and prayer app from Aura Ventures, with verse-level context from The Apologist Project's curated source library, daily devotionals, guided prayer, Scripture memory, and small-group fellowship across seven major translations. Its published Reformed statement of faith treats the AI as a study aid, not a stand-in for the Holy Spirit or a local church.
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Join the Journey
A free daily Bible reading and discipleship plan from Watermark Community Church, studying Acts in 2026 with guided spiritual practices, a weekly video podcast, a kids edition, and a community reading together under the theme Abiding in Jesus Together.
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Polaris Bible
Conservative AI Bible companion on iOS, iPadOS, Mac, and web — Scripture-grounded chat, OIA devotion generation, Deep Study with commentary and original-language tools, offline Bible reading across five translations, 80+ reading plans, and theological guardrails anchored in historic orthodoxy.
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Pray Shield
A Catholic-first prayer app for iPhone and iPad that pauses your chosen distracting apps at four short prayer hours a day until you pray. Built by Damian Witkowski; the core rhythm, the offline Bible, and the Rosary are free, with an optional Plus subscription and no generative AI.
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Dear God - Prayer Diary
A prayer journal where each letter to God becomes a flower in a personal garden, with Scripture-based daily prompts and optional anonymous community letters. It is free, with an optional Fellow membership that unlocks daily devotionals and additional flowers.
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d365
A free daily devotional app with a five-step format (Pause, Listen, Think, Pray, Go) rooted in the Revised Common Lectionary, produced by Passport, Inc. and read by over 7,500 people daily across 180+ countries since 2001. Sponsored ecumenically by four denominations: CBF, PCUSA, the Episcopal Church, and the ELCA (which officially joined as a partner in March 2026).
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Spoken Gospel
A 100% free nonprofit Bible study app that completed its seven-year mission to cover every book of the Bible. Offers 800+ short films, chapter-by-chapter devotionals, and a popular podcast — all showing how Scripture points to Jesus. 150M+ views worldwide. Now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), and French.
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Amen - Catholic Bible & Prayers
Amen is a completely free Catholic prayer and meditation app by the Augustine Institute, offering daily Mass readings, guided Lectio Divina, the Rosary, Scripture reflections from Dr. Tim Gray, sacred music, sleep stories, a Bible in a Year audio companion, and a prayer journal — all without paywalls or in-app purchases.
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ReadScripture
A free year-long Bible reading plan paired with hand-illustrated BibleProject videos that explain every book's structure and themes, with ESV text, progress tracking, and cross-device account sync, from a small volunteer team in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Churchome
Free church app from Judah and Chelsea Smith's Churchome offering daily guided prayers, Bible teaching, weekly services for all ages, and ChurchKids Stories (ages 1–11). Rebranded on iOS as The Story of God with version 4.0.0 in October 2026; Pastor Chat closed on April 3, 2026, with questions and prayer requests now handled through Churchome's Instagram.
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Inner Room
Inner Room is a free 24-7 Prayer app that gathers prayer cards and Prayer Pots into a quiet, no-account space, with daily and Scripture-rooted guided prayers you can share with others. Personal prayers work offline; the rebuilt app is currently English-only, on iPhone and Android.
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The Quiet Collection
A spiritual formation app by NYT bestselling author and spiritual director Emily P. Freeman, offering seasonal audio collections of reflections, ancient prayers, and original piano music - designed to create space for the soul to breathe. Free to download with Borrowed Prayers and The Psalms included; the Psalms library currently holds 11 recordings and will grow over time, and additional collections (Lent, Advent, Birthday, Blessings) are available as in-app purchases. Available on iOS and Android.
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My BibleVerse: Daily Faith
A personal prayer and Scripture app that pairs how you're feeling with a Bible passage and writes a unique prayer for that moment. Formerly Verselah, it's available on iOS with a free trial followed by a subscription.
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She Reads Truth
A worldwide community of women reading Scripture together each day through curated plans, devotionals, a weekly podcast, and printed guides. Founded in 2012 by Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams; now an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group.
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Families Arising App
A free Christian Mom 360 app from Families Arising with a five-part growth curriculum, devotionals, coaching, and family resources for moms, dads, kids, and teens, plus a hosted Mom 360 Café community and a Family Ambassador Mentoring Experience.
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The Chip Ingram App
The official Living on the Edge app from pastor Chip Ingram, offering free daily Bible teaching, radio programs, message notes, devotionals, and group tools so Christians can grow as disciples wherever they listen.
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Our Daily Bread
The beloved daily devotional trusted by millions since 1956, now an app with a fresh reading and audio devotional each morning, the Evening Meditations podcast with a text Reading Companion, an in-app Bible with multiple translations, a Bible-in-a-Year plan, reading streaks, and content in 20+ languages. Built by Our Daily Bread Ministries, a donor-supported nonprofit serving 150 countries; free, with no ads or in-app purchases.
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FaithFi - Faith & Finance
FaithFi is a Christian budgeting app from the Faith & Finance ministry, pairing money tools with daily, weekly, and monthly Rhythms, devotionals, and a community around stewarding God's resources. A free tier sits beside subscription-based FaithFi Pro, the weekday radio program, studies, Faithful Steward magazine, and a Certified Kingdom Advisor directory.
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Jesus Calling App
The mobile version of Sarah Young's bestselling 365-day devotional (50M+ copies sold across 35+ languages), featuring daily Scripture-based reflections written as if Jesus is speaking directly to the reader, audio narration, journaling tools, and premium access to her full devotional library — now including eight Spanish-language titles and dedicated Moms content with audio.
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Restore + Revive Journal
Restore + Revive Journal is a topical Bible journaling app, paired with paper card decks, that walks you through Scripture on fear, doubt, worry, and dozens of other life topics with daily prompts, voice or SMS replies, and weekly review. Founded by Telisha Ortiz, it is free to start with optional Premium and group sessions on iOS and Android.
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Voice of the Martyrs App
Free app from The Voice of the Martyrs for daily prayer for persecuted Christians, with e-books, audiobooks, films (including the free Sabina: Tortured for Christ movie), VOM Radio, group studies, kids resources, and offline downloads — all at no cost. In 2025, VOM helped 100K+ persecuted Christians and logged 1.2M+ prayers through the app.
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Holy Reads
The first app built exclusively for Christian book summaries — offering 1,000+ bestselling titles in written, audio, and animated video formats, with a Bible donation mission delivering Bibles to remote villages in India.
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Redeeming Time
A free Bible reading app from Discipleship Tech that turns spare minutes into Scripture: tell it how much time you have and it suggests books you can finish, now with a rebuilt reading experience, light mode, reminder alarms, prayer prompts, and reading plans for longer books.
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UCB Spark
Free daily video devotional app for kids aged 10-12 by United Christian Broadcasters (UCB), a UK Christian media charity. Bible-based videos with interactive activities, games, and prayers — ad-free, no sign-in required, no data collected. Actively maintained on iOS and Android.
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ESV Bible App
The official Crossway app for reading and hearing the English Standard Version, with synced notes, reading plans, thematic playlists, and the ESV Global Study Bible. A subscription unlocks additional study Bibles, commentaries, and premium audio.
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WordGo
Free Bible study app from Bible Study Fellowship with 50+ guided courses across the Old and New Testament. Daily readings, audio teaching, and group tools for personal or church small-group study on iOS and Android.
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Ascend
Ascend is a gamified Bible study app where short lessons, quizzes, and a growing phoenix companion help you learn Scripture with friends, share reflections, and pray for each other. It is free to play with a daily energy system, with optional Premium and Steward gifting for families, small groups, and churches.
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Daily Bible Devotion & Prayer
A free morning-and-evening Bible devotion app from Salem Web Network with a verse, short reflection, and life application in NLT, KJV, or NIV, plus trivia and humor. The free app has ads, with in-app purchases to remove ads; Salem is now privately held by WaterStone and still runs the app.
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Agentic Jesus
Free AI faith companion using Claude by Anthropic with theological guardrails, personalized Journey devotionals, guided prayer, Bible Chat with Matthew Henry Commentary, a 4,500+ church directory, and unlimited memory — available on iOS and Android.
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Prayse
Prayse is a free prayer journal app by Sahag Arzoumanian that helps you organize requests into folders, set reminders, journal, read a daily verse, and pray with others through groups, shared prayer lists, and biblical questions, on iOS and Android.
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CBN Bible
Free Bible app from CBN with multiple translations (NLT, KJV, ESV, NASB), audio Bibles, 365 daily devotions, reading plans, notes, highlights, and a new moderated community Prayer Wall. Now also available as a web app at cbnbible.us. Completely free with no in-app purchases.
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Biblegram
Biblegram is a daily cryptogram puzzle game that reveals Bible verses as you decode them, pairing gentle brain training with optional devotionals and journaling prompts, built by the Vocabulous US team behind Word of the Day (7M+ downloads). iOS only.
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The Study Bible
A free Bible study app from Grace to You, fully redesigned and rebranded as The MacArthur Study Bible in August 2026, with NASB, LSB, ESV, and KJV texts alongside John MacArthur's nearly 25,000 study notes, now free with a Grace to You account, plus sermons, devotionals, and an audio Bible.
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Passion Equip
Passion Equip is the free digital discipleship platform from the Passion Movement (led by Louie Giglio), featuring Classroom — a structured theology curriculum taught by seminary-trained teachers, including a Biblical Finances course — alongside rotating online Bible studies, daily devotionals, worship content, talks, and a podcast network of eight shows, all designed to help believers grow daily.
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MessengerX
Free discipleship app from Messenger International with courses, ebooks, audiobooks, and daily teachings in 140+ languages. Donation-funded library from John and Lisa Bevere for Scripture-centered growth on iOS, Android, and the web.
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LifeBible
A content-rich Bible study app with 40+ translations you can search at once, 100+ Study Bibles and commentaries, AI-powered verse search (now with fair-use daily quotas), and a built-in dictionary — plus Explain (instant verse insights) and TouchPoints (500+ life-topic Scripture answers). Built by Tecarta in Palo Alto, loved by over 2 million users across iOS, Android, and web. August 2026 Bible Changelog updates brought the NKJV Study Bible to its 2018 edition and the King James Study Bible to its 2017 edition.
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Through the Word
Through the Word is a free nonprofit Bible app that pairs every chapter of Scripture with a short audio guide and organizes the whole Bible into 19 Journeys. Founded by pastor Kris Langham, it is available on iOS, Android, YouVersion, and podcast feeds, with no ads and no paywalls.
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Every Moment Holy Liturgy
A liturgical prayer app from Douglas McKelvey's Every Moment Holy series, gathering liturgies from all four volumes plus app-only prayers, with audio, saved favorites, and shareable links. Free liturgies are available for sharing; a subscription opens the full library.
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Overflow Quiet Time Companion
A free iOS quiet time companion that guides prayer, worship, reflection, and SOAP/SWORD Bible study, built to sit beside the Christian apps you already use rather than replace them.
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Ambo
A Catholic prayer app for iPhone and iPad that puts the day's Mass readings, audio homilies, the Rosary, a Bible reader, the saints of the day, and confession preparation in one calm place. Free with a generous core; an optional Premium subscription adds reading plans, prayer routines, and app blocking that silences distracting apps while you pray.
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Cardinal Bible
A distraction-free iOS Bible app that removes feeds, streaks, and social features in favor of focused Scripture reading in thirteen free translations, a guided daily Quiet Time, verse memorization, 3D-satellite biblical Journeys, Threads through the lives of biblical figures, and a verse-grounded AI assistant ('Ask'). Built solo by product designer Jed Bridges.
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Wild at Heart
A free app from John and Stasi Eldredge's Wild at Heart ministry with daily readings, guided prayers, blogs, and two weekly podcasts, plus group events in the app and Fires gatherings and retreats for men and women.
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Gospel Partner | Day & Night
Gospel Partner | Day & Night is Joseph Prince Ministries' iOS and Android app for morning and evening devotionals, free Bible reading and notes, and a subscriber Joseph Prince Study Bible plus sermon library.
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Daily Bible Reading Tracker
A free, distraction-free iOS app that helps you build a daily Bible reading habit through gentle reminders, a weekly progress view, and integrated devotional resources — including BibleGateway — no pressure, no clutter.
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Devotional for Women | Refuge
An AI-powered daily devotional app for women that generates personalized devotionals based on selected topics and life circumstances, with built-in KJV/ASV Bible reading, offline support, and multilingual availability in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Built by indie Christian developer James Wade.
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Within: Memorize the Bible
An iOS Scripture-memory app from the team behind the 140,000+ subscriber Malachi Daily newsletter, pairing interactive memorization games and a Flash Cards game with daily devotionals, Daily Tasks, and themed challenges, plus verse sharing from the Memory Bank. Subscription-based with a free trial; iPhone only and still actively updated.
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Following Jesus
A free discipleship app by pastor Samuel Deuth, built around seven essentials for new and growing believers. It includes a free seven-session video course, a guided 365-day Bible reading plan also on YouVersion, built-in reading plans, and tools to walk a friend through the faith, and churches can hand it to someone the day they decide to follow Jesus.
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Common Prayer Canada
Free Prayer Book Society of Canada app that builds the 1962 Canadian BCP daily offices in English, Inuktitut, and French, with Cree now offered on the web edition, and KJV, ESV, and NRSV readings, on the web, iPhone, iPad, and Android.
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Love God Greatly
A global women's Bible study ministry offering free studies in 40+ languages using the SOAP method — with an app featuring daily reading plans, guided journaling, memory verses, and a worldwide community of women studying Scripture together. Next study: The Promised Messiah, a four-week Advent study.
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RockReader
RockReader is a free, ad-free daily devotional and Bible study app with built-in cross-references, classic commentaries, original-language word study, SOAP-method journaling, and a private prayer list. Your reflections stay private and encrypted by default, shared only with the friends, small group, or church circle you choose. Available on iPhone, Android, and in any web browser.
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Flash Bible
Audio Bible stories for kids, told with narration, music, and sound design, with devotional playlists, a read-along mode, and per-child profiles with Bible Points rewards. Founded by Mateo Boyd and now run by City on a Hill, the team behind QAVA. Subscription with a free trial; a rebuilt version is coming soon.
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Latria
A Catholic Bible, Church Fathers, and traditional prayer app for Catholics and other historic-tradition Christians — fully offline, no data collected, no AI features. iOS-only, solo-developed by Arif Hassan, actively maintained, and now warmly reviewed by independent Catholic review site Learn of Christ.
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Pause: Prayer & Meditation
A free guided pause app from John Eldredge and Wild at Heart that helps you reconnect with God in one to ten minutes through short guided sessions, a soul check-in, reminders, and multi-day programs drawn from his books, including 30 Days to Resilient and Experience Jesus. Really.
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ActsSocial
ActsSocial is a free, ad-free social platform from Trinity Proximity that favors gratitude over outrage, with phone-verified real-name accounts, a prayer wall, human-moderated groups, minister-written devotionals, a multilingual Bible reader, Quiet News, ActsTV live Christian channels, events, and free pages for churches and local organizations.
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The Path
A free, curated Christian devotional app built on the UK-based Journeys discipleship platform, offering Scripture-based series like the Holy Week 'Grief to Glory' meditations. Built by scout+redeem (Coventry), whose platform site shows apps for The Word One to One and Christianity Explored. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Android; still building its user base with no public reviews yet.
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The Firm Foundation
A daily discipline app for Christian men that tracks body, spirit, and mind through morning check-ins, Scripture engagement, AI-generated prayer prompts, and a 90-day goal engine — all designed to stop spiritual drift and build consistency.
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Reformed Hours of Prayer
A free church-community app for fixed-hour prayer, built by Christ Church Bellingham with Jon Boldt and Seth Copeland: morning and evening liturgies, Bible-reading progress, and a live view of who is praying, plus a liturgy.io browser companion.
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Every Day with Jesus
A free daily Bible devotional from Waverley Abbey Trust, continuing Selwyn Hughes's Every Day with Jesus notes with classic and contemporary tracks, audio, and sharing.
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Theo
Theo is an audio prayer and meditation app for Christian families: Bible stories, guided prayers, and devotionals for a bedtime routine, with content matched to the tradition your family chooses at the start.
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Grow: Christian Social App
A free Christian social app that pairs an Instagram-style feed with hundreds of multimedia devotionals, seven Bible translations, and a community built around worship, prayer, and encouragement, aimed especially at Gen Z and younger millennials. Jamie Matthews and Grow Faith Co. run it through City Life Community Projects with no ads.
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The Bible with Nicky and Pippa
A free daily Bible reading plan from Alpha that walks through Scripture in 365 days with Nicky and Pippa Gumbel's commentary, audio, and shorter Express and Youth editions — plus a 30 Days overview and the same plan on YouVersion.
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audibible
An English and French audio Bible app with synchronized word highlighting, narrator and translation options, ambient soundscapes, narrated stories, daily podcasts, reading plans, and offline listening. Published by Le Studio 316 (App Store seller Stephane Montlouis-Calixte), with a free tier and subscription-based plans.
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WindowSeat
Christian audio app for kids ages 3 to 14 and their families, with 2,500+ hours of screen-free audio dramas, audiobooks, worship music, bedtime stories, and a daily devotional, all curated to Philippians 4:8 standards.
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Lectio for Families
A free daily family devotional from 24-7 Prayer that uses the P.R.A.Y. pattern — Pause, Rejoice, Ask, Yes — for 5–10 minutes of Scripture, conversation, and prayer. Aimed at ages 7–11, it is written and read by adults and children in the movement and lives on the web in text and audio.
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DaBarBible
DaBarBible is an AI-powered spiritual reflection tool that responds to real-life questions — grief, doubt, anxiety, purpose — with structured four-part answers grounded in Scripture (KJV by default, five other translations available). Created by indie developer Michael Clarke, it now offers a web app, a free iOS app, a daily devotional, KJV reading plans, and a private journal, with clear AI disclosure (Claude/Anthropic) and a 'not pastoral counsel' posture.
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Bible Verse Bot for Discord
A free Discord bot from the nonprofit Bible SMS ministry that delivers beautifully designed KJV Bible verse images on demand and auto-posts daily devotionals to your server via announcement channels.
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Lectio 365
Lectio 365 is a free daily prayer app from 24-7 Prayer that guides morning, midday, and night devotionals through Lectio Divina’s P.R.A.Y. rhythm, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Examen.
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Kingdom Cents
Kingdom Cents is a Christian budgeting app that calculates your tithe first when income arrives, then budgets what remains, with prayer circles, devotionals, and giving reflections alongside.
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Eirene - Christian Mental Wellbeing AI
Eirene is a scripture-guided iOS reflection app from Eirene Wellness Innovations LLC that helps Christians replace mindless scrolling with prayer, Daily Flow devotionals, voice reflection, breath prayer, a Journey calendar, and ambient soundscapes. It uses AI for conversation and scripture recommendations and is not a substitute for therapy, pastoral care, or crisis support.
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Bible Study Tools
Bible Study Tools is Salem Web Network’s free online study library: more than 30 translations, classic commentaries, concordances, lexicons, and reading plans on the web, with a companion iOS app. A PLUS subscription is available for extra study Bibles and an ad-free experience.
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Grace to You
The official streaming app from Grace to You, offering 55+ years of John MacArthur's verse-by-verse Bible teaching — sermons, devotionals, broadcasts, Grace Stream 24/7, and a twelve-language translation initiative — all free. Now led by Matt MacArthur as President, preserving an archive of nearly 4,000 sermons with an explicit pledge against AI-generated content.
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JO App (JesusOnline)
A free, comprehensive discipleship app from JesusOnline Ministries with the NET Bible, daily devotions, interactive studies, apologetics resources, downloadable books, and a global prayer community — built to guide seekers and believers alike deeper into their faith journey.
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He Reads Truth
The men's companion to She Reads Truth — a worldwide community reading God's Word together through curated Bible reading plans, devotionals, and a full-text multi-translation Bible. Co-founded by Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams; now an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group.
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365 Christian Men
A daily podcast sharing short, powerful stories of real Christian men — from the first century to today — inspiring faith, courage, and purposeful living. Founded in 2018 by Blake Mattocks, now expanded to 365 Christian Stories with both men's and women's editions, reaching millions across 100+ countries in multiple languages.
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STRIVE
A men's discipleship app by Iron Hill Press offering daily devotions, articles on faith and family, and sermon archives — founded by Andy Blanks (former Marine, YM360 co-founder). Content remains theologically sound, but the iOS app has now gone over 4 years without an update (still v1.0.25, May 2022), Android is removed, and the official site still links a dead Play Store page. Iron Hill Press thrives as a publisher (new 5-week curricula, Man Church events booked through 2027) while the app sits as a deprioritized legacy product still selling subscriptions. Third consecutive cycle flagged for review — delist decision pending.
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HisWord
A web-based, AI-powered Bible study platform by Soundview Anchor Labs LLC (founder Kelley Farris, Fayetteville AR) — daily AI devotionals, full Bible reader with neural TTS audio, Scripture Q&A, prayer journaling, and study groups, originally built to help a mother with macular degeneration stay in God's Word. Still web-only; an Organization tier for churches is coming soon.
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devo
A free post-first devotional app for iPhone and Android: write your reflection on today's verse first, then your chosen friends' reflections unlock. No public feed, no followers, no algorithm, no ads. Built by solo developer Kyuchan Han of Austin, Texas.
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Hallow
Hallow is a Catholic-rooted Christian prayer and meditation app with more than 10,000 audio-guided sessions, from Lectio Divina and the Rosary to sleep Bible stories and Byzantine prayers. Hallow AI can help users find prayers and explore Church teaching; it is labeled as AI and is not a substitute for a priest or discernment.
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Malachi Daily
A free weekly Scripture memorization newsletter using a brain-science-backed fill-in-the-blank method, reaching 130,000+ Jesus followers in the ESV, with deep teaching in the original languages, a companion podcast, an interactive web app, and a pay-what-you-want course. The team also built Within, a companion iPhone app for interactive verse memorization with games and audio devotionals. Now led full-time by co-founder Kieran Lenahan with a growing team.
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Build Your Faith App
A web companion of Scripture, healing prayers, and gratitude practices for people facing serious illness, with church fundraiser and ambassador programs.
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Abide: Bible Meditation Prayer
Abide is a Guideposts Christian meditation app with Scripture-guided daily meditations and devotionals, biblical sleep stories, structured prayer plans, and a full NIV audio Bible. Founded in 2014 as Carpenter's Code and acquired by Guideposts in 2021, it is free to download on iPhone and Android, with a subscription for the full library.
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Ligonier Ministries
Free Reformed teaching app, now called Grow, that puts thousands of Ligonier Ministries resources on iOS and Android: podcasts, video series, articles, devotionals, conference messages, and in-app Bible reading from R.C. Sproul and the Ligonier teaching fellows. All of Sproul's 170+ teaching series stream free, and Ministry Partners also unlock the Ask Ligonier intelligent assistant, Reformation Study Bible notes, and the full teaching series library.
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Tabella.app
Free Catholic app uniting parishes, dioceses, and ministry groups with instant communications, automated weekly emails, Mass and event scheduling, donation integrations, a Catholic news feed from sources you follow, a rich library of prayers and Catholic podcasts, and a parish-supporting debit card — all without paywalls.
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First15
First15 is a free daily devotional from Denison Ministries that guides you through 15 minutes of Scripture, reflection, guided prayer, worship, and a call to action so you can start the day with God. Founded by Craig Denison in 2014, it also offers a searchable Guided Prayers tab, original worship, and a Spanish-language companion, Primeros15.
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Spark Bible
SparkBible is a free, ad-free Bible study app that places curated video teaching from pastors and seminaries beside every chapter of Scripture, with optional Plus tools for AI answers and study insights, original-language word study, and video courses.
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Exodus 90 - Live Different
A Catholic men's formation app built around a ninety-day exercise of prayer, asceticism, and fraternity, with year-round liturgical challenges and ExodusU courses. Free to download on iOS and Android, with subscription-based access and an Apostolate Promise for men who cannot afford it.
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YouVersion Bible App
The world's most-installed Bible app — 1 billion+ installs, 3,500+ versions in 2,400+ languages, with reading plans, audio Bibles, guided prayers, verse sharing with friends, and the free YouVersion Platform for ministries and developers. Its 2026 World Cup Mid-Year Bible Challenge drew nations into a global Scripture-engagement contest. Built by Life.Church; 100% free, no ads, ever.
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Daily Devotionals: Frequently Asked Questions
What's the best daily devotional app?
Depends how you want to receive it, and these are free. Our Daily Bread has been the default since 1956, and the app adds audio readings and the Evening Meditations podcast. Through the Word is a nonprofit with an 8–10 minute audio guide for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters. Lectio 365 gives you morning, midday, and night devotionals from the 24-7 Prayer movement. YouVersion carries thousands of reading plans from partners, so the variety is the point. Pick by whether you'd rather read or listen.
How long should a quiet time be?
Long enough that you did it. Ten minutes you keep beats forty you abandon in week three, and most of these apps are built around that fact: Through the Word runs 8–10 minutes a chapter, Pray As You Go runs 10–13 minutes of Scripture, music, and reflection. The number that matters is how many mornings in a row, not how many minutes.
Is there a good devotional app with no subscription?
Yes. Through the Word is a free nonprofit, fifteen years running as of 2026. Pray As You Go is free from the Jesuits in Britain, now past twenty years of daily audio prayer. Scribe Scripture is free and open source, giving you one chapter of Proverbs a day and cycling all 31 monthly. YouVersion carries thousands of reading plans at no cost.
What works for a whole family, not just one person?
Lectio for Families is the 24-7 Prayer daily rhythm rewritten for parents and kids to pray together, now a mobile web experience rather than a standalone app. New City Catechism is free, covers 52 questions over a year, and has a children's mode with simplified answers and songs, so adults and kids learn the same thing at once. For a shared reading rhythm, She Reads Truth and He Reads Truth run the same 12 curated plans a year, so a household lands in the same passage on the same day.