Path & Light vs Abide
Abide is a Christian meditation app: guided meditations on Scripture, sleep stories and prayer, with Bible chapters read aloud. Path & Light is a Bible app first: 15 translations to read for free, short written prayers, a private journal, and questions answered from Scripture, with study notes and the Hebrew and Greek on Plus. Choose Abide for guided meditation and sleep. Choose Path & Light to read and study the Bible and pray with it.
Choose Abide if
- Thousands of Bible-based guided meditations
- Sleep stories
- Free audio Bible chapters
- An Android app
Choose Path & Light if
- You want to read the Bible in the translation you prefer, offline
- You want to ask questions about a passage
- You want study notes and the Hebrew and Greek words (Plus)
- You want the app in Spanish, Portuguese, Filipino, Korean or Chinese
Side by side
| Path & Light | Abide | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Daily Bible reading, prayer, a private journal and your questions, in one app | Guided Christian meditation, sleep stories and prayer |
| Bibles | 15 Bibles in 7 languages, including the NIV, ESV, KJV, NKJV and NASB 2020, all free to read | The NIV for chapter readings; meditations mostly use the ESV |
| What’s free | Reading every Bible, search, highlights, related verses, the journal, widgets, some guided prayers and a few questions a day | A daily guided meditation and some sleep stories |
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad. Android is planned | iPhone and Android |
Questions
Does Path & Light have sleep content?
No. Path & Light has a bedtime prayer among its guided prayers, and you can listen to the Bible with Plus, but it has no sleep stories or meditation music.
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Free on iPhone and iPad. A verse, a prayer and a question, every day.
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