Bible apps without ads, and how to tell before you download

How to check any Bible app in thirty seconds

Open the app's App Store page and scroll to App Privacy. "Data Not Collected" is the cleanest label. "Data Used to Track You" means advertising identifiers cross apps, which is what ad-supported apps need. Then look at the In-App Purchases list: an app with no purchases and no obvious ministry behind it has to pay its servers somehow, and that usually becomes ads or a sudden subscription. Finally read the last three reviews mentioning ads; they are more current than the description.

Which kinds of Bible apps stay ad-free

Apps run by a ministry or publisher with another income source, apps with a clear one-time purchase or subscription, and apps that never touch the network. The large free Bible apps backed by ministries have stayed ad-free for years; smaller free apps with no visible funding are the ones that change. When in doubt, prefer the app that tells you plainly how it pays for itself.

Why The Doorpost has nothing to show you

The Doorpost is a different kind of app. It does not display Scripture, so there is no screen to put an ad on. It keeps the apps you named closed each morning until you write out a verse from your own Bible; the Bible text it uses to check your words, the Berean Standard Bible and the King James Version, is bundled inside the app. It makes no network requests at all beyond the App Store, has no account and no analytics, and the App Store privacy label says the developer collects no data. Turn on Airplane Mode and it still works.

It pays for itself the plain way: free to download, with an optional full version at $2.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $19.99 once for unlimited apps, categories, websites and a custom reset time.

An ad-free morning, not just an ad-free app

The ads that cost most are not inside Bible apps; they are in the feed that opens before the Bible does. Pairing an ad-free Bible app with a gate on the feeds gives you a morning with no advertising in it at all: printed Bible first, verse written, then the day. That is the arrangement The Doorpost is built for.