Lily vs Bible For Women: The Ad-Free Difference

Honest disclosure: this comparison is written by the small team behind Lily. We name what the other app does well, and every factual claim here is checkable on the public App Store. We would rather you pick the right app for you than pretend the others do not exist.

Bible For Women is one of the biggest women's Bible apps on the App Store, with a beautiful aesthetic and hundreds of thousands of ratings. Here is what it is, what it is not, and why Lily made different choices.

Side by side

What they do well

Scale and prettiness. The design is genuinely lovely, the morning-and-evening rhythm is right (we agree so much we built our own version), and a lot of women clearly enjoy it.

The two facts worth knowing before you choose

First, the free experience is ad-supported, and their own reviewers describe ads interrupting the path to scripture. Second, the app carries an 18+ age rating on the App Store, which usually follows the ad network, not the content. Lily is rated 4+ and shows no ads to anyone, ever, because we do not believe anything should stand between a woman and the Word, and never anything a family filter would block.

Pick in one sentence

If you mainly want a pretty Bible reader and do not mind ads, it is popular for a reason. If you want an ad-free daily devotional that knows whether you are anxious, grieving, or running on empty, that is Lily.