Bible Chat — Bible verses on your lock screen, daily plans, audio Bible, and…
Book Vitals Inc.From our automated analysis, 18 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 5.0.19 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.0.22, updated 2026-10-17.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 5.0.19, not the version now listed on the store.
The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Bible Chat — Bible verses on your lock screen, daily plans, audio Bible, and a Christian calendar, all in one app 📖
Join millions of Christians using the world's #1 faith app. Made for your busy life — at home, at work, on the go.
📖 Most-loved features
• Lock Screen Widget — A new Bible verse on your lock screen, every time you check your phone. No need to open anything.
• Daily Plan — A simple spiritual rhythm for your day: a verse, a reflection and a prayer, delivered one step at a time.
• Christian Calendar — Holy days, saints' days and liturgical events, month by month, right on your phone.
• Multiple Bible Translations — NIV, NKJV, NASB, ESV, KJV, NLT, NRSV, RSVCE, Amplified, WEB, CSB and more — pick the one you read at home or at church.
• Audio Bible — Listen to the Bible while you commute, fold laundry, or walk the dog.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Paywall is server-configured and A/B tested via Adapty — the offer shown can differ per user
The app ships a remote paywall-experimentation SDK, so the offer shown is configured server-side and may differ per user — including from anything we or a reviewer saw.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:18ff0451d463bc3f71f5f35996a9397855fa28834c39b2c495b6db061cec5639Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
No advertising or mediation SDK among the 6 SDKs detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
sha256:18ff0451d463bc3f71f5f35996a9397855fa28834c39b2c495b6db061cec5639The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.6% of 1018 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Trial converts to a charge: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.6% of 1018 reviews scanned)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
Purchase screen steers the choice: "BEST DEAL"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:18ff0451d463bc3f71f5f35996a9397855fa28834c39b2c495b6db061cec5639Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Offer ends in"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:18ff0451d463bc3f71f5f35996a9397855fa28834c39b2c495b6db061cec56391,018 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Seems like it could have potential. Unfortunately I am unable to join any groups. I'm not sure if that is locked behind the paywall or if it's a glitch. Premium is too spendy for what they offer, even if the groups were working for me…
im sure the app is great but you cant do anything without paying something..... lame.
I was led to believe it was free to study then they slap a charge on it I'll find a different app.
Everyone beware these scam artists. supposed to get a 7 day free trial and then they charge you 29 dollars 10 minutes after signing up. then when I canceled and deleted the app after 10 minutes they refuse to refund you saying the charges…
I don't appreciate the fact that I feel very deceived!!! This app SAYS it offers a 7 day free trial, but it charged me right away and I canceled it on the 5th day and it says it's canceled and it will end on October 7, 2027, so apparently…
I created an account and was supposed to have a 7 day free trial with a 2 day reminder before being bill. I was immediately billed for a year after I agreed. This just made a peaceful app stressful, and creates mistrust. I want a refund.
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
Android package 5.0.19, scanned 18 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 5.0.19 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.0.22, updated 2026-10-17.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 5.0.19, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
No release notes were provided for this version.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
No release notes were provided for this version.
bible-chat-google-com-basmo-biblechatAssessed 2026-10-18 from 1,018 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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