# Confess: Catholic Confession — Examination of Conscience > Catholic confession preparation and spiritual life companion with guided examinations and prayers. (iPhone/iPad app by Perry Hampton.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/confess-catholic-confession/id6761789381 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Perry Hampton](https://appshunter.io/developer/1826133992) - Category: Health & Fitness, Reference - Price: Free - Rating: 4.80/5 from 20 App Store ratings · 7 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 9+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 9 MB - Languages: American English, Latin American Spanish - Released: 2026-04-09 - Data updated: 2026-08-26 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/confess-catholic-confession/id6761789381/reviews.md ## What is Confess? Walk into the confessional with nothing left to remember. Confess guides you through a real examination of conscience, holds your list until you go, and shows you the words when you kneel down. Everything stays on your phone, encrypted, with no account and no server. PREPARE WELL Most Catholics want to go to confession more regularly. The barrier is rarely willingness — it's preparation. CONFESS removes that barrier with three examination modes designed around your actual life: Daily Check (2–4 min) builds a daily habit of conscience awareness. Quick, focused, and designed to be done between confessions so nothing accumulates unexamined. Full Examination (10–20 min) covers all ten commandments, the Precepts of the Church, Interior Disposition, and Sins of Omission — tailored to your state of life as a single adult, married person, parent, priest, or religious. Going Today is a complete guided walkthrough for when you're preparing to go to confession. It opens with a prayer to the Holy Spirit, walks through what makes a good confession, presents your full examination, guides you through the Act of Contrition, and ends with a private confession screen — a full black display showing only your sins, the opening script, and the closing words, so you can walk into the confessional with nothing left to remember. YOUR CONFESSION LIST Every examination you complete adds to a running Confession List that persists between sessions. When Going Today, the list is already waiting for you — everything you've examined since your last confession, in one place, ready to bring to the priest. EVENING EXAMEN A guided five-step Ignatian Examen for nightly reflection: Gratitude, Awareness, Review, Sorrow, and Hope. Each step includes a timer, a text editor, and optional voice recording. Completions save automatically to your spiritual journal. SPIRITUAL JOURNAL A private encrypted journal for resolutions, reflections, examen entries, and free notes. Full-text search. Filter by type. Set reminders on resolutions. CATHOLIC PRAYERS A complete Catholic prayer library including the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Act of Contrition, and over 30 additional prayers. Each prayer includes Read, Learn, and Line-by-Line modes for memorization. LITURGICAL CALENDAR The home screen reflects the liturgical season in real time — the correct season, week number, saint of the day, today's gospel reading linked to the USCCB, and a single accent color corresponding to the day's liturgical color. COMPLETELY PRIVATE Everything is stored on your device and nowhere else. All examination sessions, journal entries, and reflection notes are encrypted with AES-256-GCM. No iCloud sync. No server communication. No analytics on personal content. Face ID and Touch ID protect the app on launch. Confession summaries delete automatically after a configurable period. GROUNDED IN TRADITION Every examination question carries a Catechism of the Catholic Church reference. The app was built on 2,000 years of Catholic teaching. It is a door to the Sacrament, not a destination. CONFESS does not grant absolution. Only a priest can do that. This app exists to help you prepare well. ## Key features - Guided confession preparation - Daily examination of conscience - Private confession list - Evening Examen and prayer library - Encrypted spiritual journal - Liturgical calendar integration ## Recent user reviews (7 of 7) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/confess-catholic-confession/id6761789381/reviews.md ### 5/5 — Actually perfect *2026-08-14* All is great! I have edited to make my review have ZERO suggestions. It does track. You can set a reminder to prepare for confession. Examen questions are SUPER clear as opposed to other apps. Yes or no and unsure response is wonderful. Really really love this app. Good job! ### 5/5 — Great app! Especially for the scrupulous *2026-08-06* I really struggle with doing an exam regularly with out it being guided. Its hard to remember everything I need to say in the confessional. I get worried I'll forget something and then my scrupulosity gets the best of me. Most physical guides are comprehensive and are meant to be used right before confession. This means 15-30 mins each time. Hard to build a daily habit with that. CONFESS takes all the guesswork out of it by letting you save what you want to remember for confession throughout the week and keeping it all in one place. There are a few minor bugs with the notes feature. As well, its not compatible with Large Text users, but overall its great! Honestly, this is good enough to be a paid appz ### 5/5 — Best Catholic app to use and free?! *2026-07-09* Having the choice between a short version and a long version was interesting and different from other apps I've seen, where you just get a checklist and go through it. Being presented with each question one at a time allowed me to really think about what I was sorry for and learn from it. I realized I am far from perfect in areas where I thought I had already mastered some of the Ten Commandments. Thank God I still have time to work on myself. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-07-02* Felt like my confession was so much better after using this, also really like the prayers and other sections in the app. Exactly what i was looking for ### 4/5 — Almost Perfect *2026-06-21* I love this app, but you should have an option to count the mortal sins before moving on in the guided mode instead of having to go back. Thanks for making such an intuitive app! A dark mode would be good too but the lack of it doesn’t hinder the experience. **Developer response:** Hi Dylan - Thanks for the feedback. I added dark mode to version 1.9.4 as well as added an option to count the mortal sins. via the guided mode (hope that's what you meant. Thanks for the feedback. If you update to 1.9.4 you'll see the changes. ### 5/5 — A good way to really sit with God *2026-05-24* Having the choice between a short version and a long version was interesting and different from other apps I've seen, where you just get a checklist and go through it. Being presented with each question one at a time allowed me to really think about what I was sorry for and learn from it. I realized I am far from perfect in areas where I thought I had already mastered some of the Ten Commandments. ### 5/5 — WWJD *2026-05-02* He would be downloading this app! ## Frequently asked questions about Confess ### What is Confess? Confess is a Catholic confession preparation and spiritual life companion app. It provides guided examinations of conscience, a confession list, evening prayers, and a spiritual journal, all designed to help users receive the Sacrament of Penance well. ### How does Confess help with confession preparation? Confess offers three examination modes: Daily Check (2-4 min) for habit building, Full Examination (10-20 min) covering commandments and precepts, and Going Today for a complete guided walkthrough before confession. ### Is Confess private and secure? Yes, Confess is completely private. All data is stored on your device and encrypted with AES-256-GCM. There is no iCloud sync, server communication, or analytics on personal content. Face ID and Touch ID protect the app. ### What kind of prayers are included in Confess? Confess includes a complete Catholic prayer library with over 30 prayers, such as the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and Act of Contrition. Prayers can be read, learned, or memorized line-by-line. ### Can I track my spiritual progress with Confess? Yes, Confess features a private encrypted spiritual journal where you can save resolutions, reflections, and examen entries. It also allows for full-text search and setting reminders on resolutions. ### Does Confess have ads? No, Confess does not contain advertisements. It is a free application with no ads or in-app purchases. ### What devices is Confess available on? Confess is available on iPhone and iPad devices. ### How often is Confess updated? The latest version of Confess is 1.9.4, which was last updated on June 24, 2026. Updates typically occur to improve features and ensure reliability. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.9.7 — 2026-08-21 Confess now speaks Spanish. The full examination of conscience, the confession guide, the Act of Contrition, every litany and saint prayer — sourced from official Church texts, never machine translation — plus the entire interface, in Latin American Spanish. Set your iPhone to Spanish and everything follows. We also corrected two litany texts along the way: the Litany of Loreto was missing the invocation "Mother of mercy" (added by Pope Francis in 2020), and one Holy Name invocation was split in two. Confess is still free, still has no account, and still sends nothing off your phone. ### 1.9.6 — 2026-08-01 Various improvements. Confess is still free, still has no account, and still sends nothing off your phone. ### 1.9.5 — 2026-06-28 Various fixes and improvements. ### 1.9.4 — 2026-06-24 Added new features: Dark Mode — Light, Dark, or System, across the whole app. Count your mortal sins — Note about how many times before moving on. An honest estimate is enough. ### 1.9.3 — 2026-06-11 various bug fixes and improvements ## More apps by Perry Hampton - [KidCash: Allowance & Savings](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kidcash-allowance-and-savings/id6748541706) - [Lucid - Manual RAW Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lucid-manual-raw-camera/id6762028775) - [BiteDeck - Calorie Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bitedeck-calorie-tracker/id6767685124) - [NexCam Teleprompter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nexcam-teleprompter/id6773426377) - [CreateDeck](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/createdeck/id6774352676) All apps by Perry Hampton: https://appshunter.io/developer/1826133992 ## Related topics [app for catholic confession guidance](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/app-for-catholic-confession-guidance) · [confession](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/confession) · [catholic confession](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/catholic-confession) · [examination of conscience](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/examination-of-conscience) · [confession a roman catholic app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/confession-a-roman-catholic-app) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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