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Abide
#1 Pause 
Jackie H.
Jackie H.“Pause beat it on value. Both have top design scores and both are apps I'd keep using, but everything in Pause is free, while nothing in Abide is.”
Meet the testers
Each used Abide side by side with other apps “It's a paid app, so anyone who doesn't want to pay for a Bible app should skip it.”
“Abide is the one I'd actually recommend. Best design by far and it's worth paying for at 39.99 a year.”
What they’d use instead
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Abide’s pricing
Freemium
Where it ranks
About the app
Summary · not an editor reviewAbide is a Christian meditation app built around Scripture-based audio content. It offers over 2,000 guided meditations tied to Bible verses, 365+ biblical sleep stories, a full NIV audio Bible, daily devotionals, and music tracks. Meditations are available in 2, 5, 10, and 15-minute lengths to fit different schedules.
The app is designed for Christians seeking to reduce stress, improve sleep, and deepen their prayer life through biblical meditation. It covers topics including anxiety, depression, sleep difficulty, and spiritual growth. Now part of the Guideposts family, it carries a 4.9-star rating on the Apple App Store with over 120,000 ratings.
Common questions
Yes, but only partly. You can download it and access a limited daily meditation and a few sleep stories for free. The full library, most sleep stories, and the audio Bible require an Abide Premium subscription.
Premium is $9.99 per month or $39.99 per year, typically after a 7-day free trial. The annual plan is often promoted at a discount from a higher list price. There is no lifetime purchase.
Abide is explicitly Christ-centered. Its meditations, sleep stories, and daily content are built around Scripture and prayer rather than general mindfulness, so the calm it offers is rooted in faith.
Sleep is arguably its strongest suit. The biblical sleep stories are numerous and well-produced, and many users say the app helps them fall asleep faster and worry less at bedtime.
Abide provides hardship scholarships offering a year of free premium access, along with discounts, to people who request them through customer support.
More meditation apps
“It's a paid app, so anyone who doesn't want to pay for a Bible app should skip it. Some more conservative Christians may also be uncomfortable with it, since meditation might carry New Age connotations.”
Abide's design is one of the strongest of the group. Its calming palette and low-stimulation screens feel much more peaceful than Amen, which was more stimulating, and more polished than Reflect. It's also one of only two apps I'd keep using, along with Pause. For people willing to pay, the $39.99 annual plan costs a lot less than Hallow's $69.99 a year.
Pause beat it on value. Both have top design scores and both are apps I'd keep using, but everything in Pause is free, while nothing in Abide is. Reflect and Amen are also completely free, and Soultime and Hallow both offer free content, which makes Abide the only app with no way to try anything without paying. Its $9.99 monthly price is also higher than Soultime's $5.99 for full access.
Abide has a calming, low-stimulation design and is the best of the paid apps, but nothing in it is free, so you're paying $39.99 a year before you can try anything. Reflect is free and non-denominational, with sessions up to 15 minutes and a progress tracker, but its design and audio aren't as polished, and its focus on streaks won't suit everyone.
“It's a paid app, so anyone who doesn't want to pay for a Bible app should skip it. Some more conservative Christians may also be uncomfortable with it, since meditation might carry New Age connotations.”
Compared to Hallow: Abide is better designed (I gave it 10/10 against Hallow's 9/10) and it's a lot cheaper too, 39.99 a year versus Hallow's 69.99 a year. Hallow also locks every sleep story behind a paywall, so there's no way to sample anything, while Abide at least handed me one free story to try. Compared to Bedtime Bible: Christian Sleep, it's not close. That app was basically unusable, 1/10 on design and I couldn't even tell what it cost or whether anything was free, since it only works on iPhones. Abide at least functions and I could evaluate it properly.
Both Hallow and Bedtime Bible beat Abide on App Store rating, Hallow at 4.5 and Bedtime Bible at 4.8 against Abide's 4.1. And like Hallow, nothing in Abide is truly free, you have to pay to get real use out of it. Abide also carries a content concern neither of the others raised for me: the meditation angle might read as New Age to more conservative Christians, which could be a dealbreaker for some users even though the app itself is well built.
Abide is the one I'd actually recommend. Best design by far and it's worth paying for at 39.99 a year. It's also the one I'd hand someone brand new to Christian sleep apps.
