Seraph vs Dwell
An audio Bible built for listening — many voices, many translations, a 7-day trial of full access — and a quieter flame that never asks for an account. This page is written by the maker of Seraph — read it knowing that — and it will be generous to Dwell, because Dwell has earned it.
Our bias, declared: we make Seraph. The linked Dwell sources support the specific download price, In-App Purchases list, website plan prices, trial wording, store listings, and privacy wording identified below; this is not an independent review of either app. Our product details describe Seraph’s current published offering. If we've got something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.
The main difference
Consider Dwell if you want Scripture read to you: 20+ voice recordings and 14 translations, Read Along, listening plans, offline downloads, sleep mode, devotionals, prayers, audiobooks, and kids audio. The US listing (id1343917374) lockup on this check is “Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS,” seller Dwell App, LLC, category Reference, subtitle “Scripture & Daily Devotional.” JSON-LD Offer on that page is price 0, currency USD — the download, not the listening library. Listing copy prints Try free for 7 days for full access, then Solo Annual $59.99/yr · Solo Monthly $9.99/mo, Duo Annual $89.99/yr · Duo Monthly $14.99/mo, Family Annual $109.99/yr · Family Monthly $17.99/mo. Their Google Play listing (com.dwellapp.dwell) reprints that same price ladder. We do not have Android, and we are not an audio-first Bible.
Choose Seraph if you want something quieter: one flame kept daily, the whole King James Bible readable free, guided prayer paced by breath — and a hard privacy line: no account to create, no ads, and a public vow of no prayer analytics. Your prayer life stays on your device. Seraph+ is $6.99/mo or $59.99/yr on our US App Store listing and on our pricing page. The daily office is free. Sacred Seasons, including Advent, are not. There is no Seraph+ trial. Dwell’s Solo Annual is also $59.99/yr on the pages cited here. That is a match, not a discount. We do not invent that one year is cheaper.
Side by side
| Feature | Seraph | Dwell |
|---|---|---|
| Annual price | $59.99/yr | The US listing prints Solo Annual $59.99/yr, Duo Annual $89.99/yr, Family Annual $109.99/yr. JSON-LD Offer on that page is price 0 / USD for the download. The IAP list we transcribed on September 10, 2026 shows several Dwell Yearly entries at $59.99, one Dwell Yearly at $69.99, and Dwell Family Plan $17.99; Apple does not label which SKU is current. Their personal pricing page prints $119.88 struck through, then $59.99/yr, “After your free trial, the yearly subscription is $59.99 USD and renews each year. Cancel anytime.” Their Duo page prints $89.99/yr. Their Family page prints $109.99/yr. Check checkout, not only this table. |
| Monthly price | $6.99/mo | The US listing prints Solo Monthly $9.99/mo, Duo Monthly $14.99/mo, Family Monthly $17.99/mo. The IAP list we transcribed repeats Dwell Monthly $9.99 several times, plus Dwell Family Plan $17.99. Their personal pricing page prints $9.99/mo, “$9.99 USD billed monthly. Cancel anytime.” Duo $14.99/mo. Family $17.99/mo. The Play listing reprints the same Solo / Duo / Family monthly pair. We do not invent a cheaper monthly SKU. |
| Family plan | — | Yes. Listing copy: Family Annual $109.99/yr · Family Monthly $17.99/mo. Their Family page: “Get up to 6 Dwell accounts with one subscription,” $109.99/yr or $17.99/mo, “The yearly subscription is $109.99 USD and renews each year. Cancel anytime.” Duo is a separate two-person plan at $89.99/yr or $14.99/mo. The IAP list names Dwell Family Plan $17.99. We print those pages. We do not invent another family SKU. |
| Free trial | None — the free tier is the trial | Try free for 7 days on the US listing and the Play listing: “Get full access to everything Dwell has to offer — Audio Bible, Devotionals, Prayers, Audiobooks, Kids content, and more.” Their personal pricing page prints “7-Day Free Trial,” “Get the full Dwell experience,” “No commitment. Cancel anytime.” The yearly line there is explicit: after the trial, $59.99 USD renews each year. That is a trial of the paid library. |
| Free, forever | Daily verse · 2 guided sessions · the whole KJV Bible (1,189 chapters) · every reading plan · streak flame · reminders | The download they price at 0. The US listing lockup is “Free · In-App Purchases.” JSON-LD Offer is price 0 / USD. The Play listing JSON-LD Offer is also price 0 / USD. Full access is what the 7-day trial and the subscriptions open. This check did not load a first-party help article that lists a standing free listening library, so we do not invent a free-tier voice count, a sample-plan list, or in-house ads. We print the download Offer and the trial copy. We found no Contains ads chip on that Play page. |
| Subscription opens | Full guided-prayer library (12 sessions) · Sacred Seasons (Advent & Lent) | What the listings call full access. The US listing: Audio Bible, Devotionals, Prayers, Audiobooks, Kids content, 20+ voice recordings, 14 translations, Read Along, 75+ listening plans, download for offline listening, sleep mode, Repeat & Reflect, 300+ curated Passages, 100+ themed Playlists. The same copy is on Play. Their Lifetime page is a separate one-time $399.99 “Dwell for Life” purchase. That $399.99 is not in the App Store IAP list we transcribed. We do not treat Lifetime as an IAP SKU. |
| Account required | No — no sign-up exists | Their privacy policy: “You do not have to become a Service member to use our website.” Membership is different: “To become a member, you are required to create an account and provide certain information such as your name and email address, which will be associated with your member account.” A Sign In link sits in the site header. We do not invent an iPhone-app login requirement from that website sentence. We also do not claim Dwell has no account. |
| Spoken Scripture | None as a spoken Bible product. Breath-paced guided prayer. Full KJV readable, not narrated as a catalogue of voices. | The product. The US listing: “Dwell is the audio Bible app for your whole life with Scripture”; 20+ voice recordings, 14 translations (ESV, NIV, NLT, KJV, CSB, NKJV, NASB, The Message, and more); Read Along; 75+ listening plans; download for offline listening; sleep mode; Repeat & Reflect. We do not restate celebrity lines from that description as product fact. |
| Prayer analytics | None — a public vow. Prayer data never leaves your device | Apple’s App Privacy label on the US listing (self-reported, not verified by Apple): Data Used to Track You — Identifiers. Data Linked to You — Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info. Data Not Linked to You — Diagnostics. Their Google Play Data safety section: “No data shared with third parties”; “This app may collect these data types Personal info, Financial info and 3 others”; “Data isn’t encrypted”; “You can request that data be deleted.” Their privacy policy (last modified January 14, 2025) names Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Facebook Pixel, and Intercom API. We print those pages. We do not restate rating or ranking marketing from those listings. |
| Scripture | Full KJV bundled; offline on iPhone | Many translations, as audio with Read Along. The US listing names ESV, NIV, NLT, KJV, CSB, NKJV, NASB, The Message, and more, and “Download for offline listening anytime, anywhere.” Their terms license the ESV text from Crossway and say the audio recordings of that text are not covered by the print-quote permission. |
| Platforms | iPhone and web | The US listing Information section names iPhone (iOS 17.0 or later), iPad, Mac (macOS 14.0 or later, Apple M1 or later), and Apple Vision. The same listing’s lockup prints “Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.” JSON-LD availableOnDevice on that page is “iPhone, iPad.” We print both. The Google Play listing is Android, package com.dwellapp.dwell, developer Dwell App, LLC. dwellapp.io is the website. Listing copy on Play still prints “Manage anytime in your Apple ID settings.” |
| Tradition | Broadly Christian, KJV | Audio Bible and daily devotional, broadly Christian. The US listing seller and copyright are Dwell App, LLC, © 2018-2026. Category Reference. We do not restate chart position or review marketing from that page. |
| If you cannot pay | No scholarship or sponsorship path published. Advent and most guided sessions require Seraph+. | The 7-day trial of full access, then the paid plans above. Their Lifetime page is $399.99 one-time. Their terms (last modified June 20, 2018) say fees “are non-refundable,” subscriptions auto-continue unless you cancel, and you may cancel via the account page on dwellapp.io or help@dwellapp.io. We found no scholarship sentence on the pages cited here. |
Dwell’s US listing Solo Annual is $59.99/yr. Seraph+ annual is $59.99/yr. Those two numbers match. Dwell Solo Monthly is $9.99/mo; Seraph+ monthly is $6.99/mo. Duo and Family are higher still. No worldwide cheapest-price claim is made here. The IAP list also shows a $69.99 Yearly next to $59.99 Yearly. Check Dwell’s checkout and Apple’s SKU list before you subscribe. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, per the listing; manage in Apple ID settings on iOS.
What Dwell does better
Listening, and a trial of the paid product. If “hear the Bible in the translation I already use, on Android or iPhone, with a family plan” is the requirement, they meet it. Their listing names fourteen translations and 20+ voices. We offer one King James you can read. They ship Android. They publish a 7-day trial of full access. We do not: you never try a Seraph+ session before buying it. The daily office is the trial of Seraph, not of the paid library. They have Duo and Family. We do not. If you want Scripture as audio, Dwell is the honest recommendation, and we are not in that contest.
They also print cancel copy in public: “No commitment. Cancel anytime” on pricing, and auto-renew unless cancelled 24 hours before the period ends on the store listings. That is clearer than silence. We still will not dress a trial as a loophole. Their trial is a trial. Ours is not a hidden trial of Seraph+.
What Seraph does differently
Restraint as a feature, and a Bible you can finish with your eyes. No account between you and prayer — Dwell’s privacy policy requires name and email for membership. Prayer data never leaves the device; their US listing reports Identifiers used to track you, and Linked Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Sensitive Info. Two prices, written in plain numbers: $59.99 a year or $6.99 a month, auto-renew, cancel anytime. The entire KJV free — readable, not a 7-day listen of the paid catalogue — bundled offline on iPhone, every chapter. A public web office you can open without installing an app. A streak that forgives a missed day instead of shaming it. No ads on free or paid. Guided prayer paced by breath. Compare the plan and features that fit your use, rather than assuming one worldwide price difference. Solo Annual is the same $59.99 on both sides of this page.
Three disclosures that belong here. The web subscription and the iPhone subscription are separate purchases and do not unlock each other. The complete offline Bible is the iPhone app; on the web, chapters you have already opened stay readable. And restoring a web subscription in a new browser emails a magic link, so we will not claim “no email ever.” There is no Seraph+ trial: you never try a paid session before buying it.
When each app wins
Dwell — if you want an audio Bible, a 7-day trial of full access, Android, or a family plan
Start from the US listing, the Play listing, or dwellapp.io/pricing. Take the seven days if you want to hear the library. Pick Solo, Duo, or Family from the published ladder. Use Android if that is your phone. Do not come here first for a silent one-flame office with no account and a public vow that prayer never leaves the device. They are Dwell App, LLC’s audio Bible, and the listings say so.
Seraph — if you want a quiet office with no account, a full readable KJV, and a price you can read before you install
Ours, last on purpose. A flame, the KJV, two free guided sessions, reading plans, no sign-up. Paid for the remaining sessions and Sacred Seasons, free for the office. Small, new, iPhone-and-web only. If none of those sentences is what you came for, Dwell is the better fit, and we would rather you found it here than felt sold to.
Sources and scope
Checked against the following official Dwell pages on . These references do not establish an independent review or endorsement of Seraph. Subjective product fit remains our assessment. Dwell’s help centre at help.dwellapp.io returned a JavaScript shell without article bodies on this check, so we do not quote help articles we could not read.
- US App Store listing (id1343917374)
Supports “Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS,” JSON-LD Offer price 0 / USD, seller Dwell App, LLC, copyright © 2018-2026 Dwell App, LLC, category Reference, subtitle “Scripture & Daily Devotional,” Try free for 7 days and the Solo / Duo / Family price ladder quoted above, auto-renew unless cancelled 24 hours before the period ends, the IAP list we transcribed (Dwell Yearly $59.99, Dwell Monthly $9.99, Dwell Family Plan $17.99, Dwell Yearly $69.99), the 20+ voices / 14 translations / Read Along / 75+ plans / offline / sleep mode / Repeat & Reflect copy, Information devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac with Apple M1 or later, Apple Vision), JSON-LD availableOnDevice “iPhone, iPad,” App Privacy as parsed from the live HTML (Track — Identifiers; Linked — Purchases, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info; Not Linked — Diagnostics), and the App Store–linked privacy URL below. We do not restate their rating, review count, chart rank, or celebrity lines.
- Dwell on Google Play
Supports an Android listing, package com.dwellapp.dwell, developer Dwell App, LLC, JSON-LD Offer price 0 / USD, the same Try free for 7 days price ladder, Data safety “No data shared with third parties” / “This app may collect these data types Personal info, Financial info and 3 others” / “Data isn’t encrypted” / “You can request that data be deleted,” no Contains ads chip on this check, and the Apple ID cancel sentence still in that description. We do not restate review counts or install totals from that page. The datasafety deep link returned HTTP 403 on this check, so we do not name the three “others.”
- Dwell — Pricing
Supports “7-Day Free Trial,” “Get the full Dwell experience,” “No commitment. Cancel anytime,” yearly $59.99/yr after the trial with auto-renew, monthly $9.99, and links to lifetime, plans for two, family plans, and church pricing. We do not quote a church dollar amount from that page.
- Dwell — Duo Plan
Supports title “Audio Bible for Two at a Discount,” $89.99/yr or $14.99/mo, yearly auto-renew, cancel anytime.
- Dwell — Family Plan
Supports “Get up to 6 Dwell accounts with one subscription,” $109.99/yr or $17.99/mo, yearly auto-renew, cancel anytime.
- Dwell — Lifetime Plan
Supports “Lifetime access with a one-time payment,” Dwell for Life $399.99. That amount is not in the App Store IAP list we transcribed.
- Dwell — Privacy Policy
Supports last modified January 14, 2025, website use without membership, membership requiring name and email, and the named analytics / ads tools (Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Facebook Pixel, Intercom API). The US listing’s App Privacy label is cited separately above.
- Dwell — Terms of Service
Supports last modified June 20, 2018, auto-renew unless cancelled, fees non-refundable, cancel via the dwellapp.io account page or help@dwellapp.io, and the Crossway ESV license limits quoted above.
Daily office free, with no account · Seraph+ $6.99/mo or $59.99/yr · auto-renews · cancel anytime
Web and iPhone subscriptions are separate purchases and do not unlock each other