# Discerning Hearts — user reviews > 130 indexed App Store user reviews of Discerning Hearts by Discerning Hearts, rated 4.90/5 from 964 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/discerning-hearts/id523582765/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/discerning-hearts/id523582765.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 933 · 4★ 22 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Discerning Hearts? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🙏 Spiritual nourishment - 🕰️ Variety of content - 📚 Solid Catholic teaching - 🌟 Inspiring speakers - 🕊️ Deepens faith and prayer life - 🎁 Free and accessible - 🤝 Connects users to God **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes - 🔍 Difficulty navigating content - 💾 Lack of download/offline functionality **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on launch - Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions **Most requested features** - Bookmark/favorites feature - Text search functionality - Improved user interface ## Newest reviews (14 of 130) ### 5/5 — Good app for daily use *2024-07-20, version 6.0.25* Missing Lectio Divina audio. Yesterday’s episode is read only, today’s episode, so far, is missing all together. ### 5/5 — Merci *2024-06-22, version 6.0.19* Thank you to those generous people who were inspired to offer this App to everyone. A friend recommended it and I am now recommending it to friends and family. I am listening to Timothy Gallagher's discernment of spirits - 14 Rules. Already it has changed my life. I really needed some guidance and this has provided me exactly what I needed. I can't recommend it highly enough. And I'm deeply grateful to those who put their life's work into helping others find their spiritual path. ### 5/5 — Father Gallagher’s podcasts: jewels *2024-05-24, version 6.0.19* Thank you Discerning Hearts for making available Father Gallagher’s holy example and perspective on the teachings of our Lord! ### 5/5 — Discerning Hearts App is an INVALUABLE RESOURCE *2024-05-09, version 6.0.19* for all Catholics but also others of the Christian community. It asks all the questions you’ve wondered about and a few you’ll be surprised by the width and depth handling of St. Ignatius’ masterful Summa Theologica the rich narratives of the lives of the Saints, Church Fathers, the Holy Trinity, The Rosery, Catholic Church history, Holy Communion (transsubstantiation), Holy Mass, Mary’s Devinity and perfection, devotionals, prayers and more! ### 5/5 — A must to grow in the spiritual life. *2024-04-27, version 6.0.19* The most complete app with a focus on spirituality and mysticism from the rich treasury of the Church. A must for that next step. ### 5/5 — Every single faithful Catholic should have this app *2024-04-08, version 6.0.19* Best app among all for Catholic faith. And I still don’t believe it is totally free. It is a blessing for all faithful Catholics. It undoubted changed my life and helped me fought numerous spritual combats and continuously accompany me in my daily spiritual journey. I especially love the Spiritual Formation Session. Thank you Discerning Heart. May God bless your ministry now and forever! ### 5/5 — Loving This! *2023-10-19, version 6.0.18* Just got this app. I am very excited to see what the Lord will do through it. He is guiding me each step of the way. Fr Gallagher is an amazing gift from God. Thank you Lord! ### 5/5 — A true gift from Heaven *2023-10-15, version 6.0.18* When I discovered this App I really felt that the Lord is sending us a wonderful gift. Prayers and deep content podcast in our beautiful faith always with me on my smart devices any where any time. Thanks to the creators of this beautiful gift. ### 5/5 — Accessible Holy Wisdom *2023-08-18, version 6.0.18* Such a beautiful concept, profound are its teaching, gracious is it’s delivery. Discerning hearts is succour for the soul, thank you dear souls. Praise be to our Lord, l-alam, al-mene, amen 🙏 ### 5/5 — Fantastic Spiritual Resource *2023-05-18, version 6.0.18* This is the most important and helpful spiritual app on my phone and I have dozens. The depth and inspired words enrich my relationship with God. I heartily recommend this app to all! ### 5/5 — Fantastic, highly recommended inspirational & authentic teaching for Catholic Christians *2023-05-01, version 6.0.18* Discerning Hearts offers practical, profound teaching that ordinary, hardworking Catholics crave - if your parish priest’s 10 minute weekly sermon just scratches the surface for you, try the podcasts/videos on Discerning Hearts. Every speaker is knowledgeable, grounded & engaging. This kind of input is usually only available if you sign up for an expensive week-long retreat or conference or DVD set! My highlights (so far!) have been Deacon Keeting’s podcast series & various talks by Fr Timothy Gallagher on understanding Ignatian discernment. I have no theological or philosophical training but I can understand what these speakers are saying. This is a much-welcomed shot of knowledge & enthusiasm for practising my Catholic faith! ### 5/5 — Connect your heart *2023-03-02, version 6.0.17* The content this app provides definitely connects your heart to WHO you keep looking and your heart is restless for. ### 5/5 — Learning more about the Catholic faith *2023-02-24, version 6.0.17* This app is full of information about the Catholic faith. It’s an app that keeps changing and developing. There’s always something new that I never knew on this platform. ### 5/5 — Rich and deep meditation and prayer app *2023-02-17, version 6.0.17* This app very quickly became my favorite app for prayer that I use on a daily basis! I love the rich and deep and contents, and I am impressed by how knowledgeable the speakers are. Thank you very much for your amazing work! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-06-14, version 6.0.28* Unfortunately the app crashes every time I try to open it on my iPhone. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2024-10-29, version 6.0.25* Unfortunately app crashes every time I try to open it. ### 2/5 — Jan 2015 update crash issues *2015-04-06, version 5.37.1* This version crashes when trying to open on iOS 6.1 ### 3/5 — Not working on iPadOS 17 *2023-09-19, version 6.0.18* Otherwise good. ### 4/5 — Beautiful app *2023-09-22, version 6.0.18* This app is so beautiful so well done very organized and full of celestial pictures that inspire me. It’s free!!! ### 4/5 — No downloads *2023-07-28* I love this app. I use it everyday for prayer and to learn more about my faith and Church history. However, many of the prayers and podcasts state that they can be downloaded, but they can’t be. This was an issue when I went on a recent retreat at a retreat house which did not have wifi and at which cell coverage was spotty. I had hoped to download prior to the retreat the prayers and podcasts I use and listen to the most often, but I wasn’t able to, so I could not use the app on retreat. Please fix the app so that prayers and podcasts can be downloaded, or else do not mark them as downloadable. Thank you. ### 4/5 — My downloads *2023-05-23, version 6.0.18* I love the content so much, but I wish there was a way to easily see what I have downloaded. As the app works now, you have to remember which categories and which episodes you downloaded. Would be great if there were a “my stuff” category. ### 4/5 — New version of the Rosary *2019-03-22, version 5.60.11* The new version of the Rosary is great, no annoying loud music to distract. Equally for women in changing the app picture back would get 5 stars. ### 4/5 — Great app...a treasury of Catholic teaching *2017-10-31* I stumbled upon this website and app in my search for more information about St. Teresa of Avila. I found a wonderful resource with audio files, novenas, and mini retreats. All available to me when I need additional direction and guidance from a knowledgeable resource. They have a variety of Saints, writers, and topics they look at and sometimes dialogue between the author and the moderator for a conversational learning style. I have enjoyed all of the various files I have listened to. May God continue to bless you work! ### 4/5 — Great content, serviceable app *2016-12-28, version 5.54.6* As a resource this app is out of this world, but as an app it is fairly basic and straightforward content delivery ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — An app to connect with God *2026-01-03, version 6.0.29* Thank you. Great and free content to connect with God. I particularly love the daily lectio and the Spritual exercises. ### 5/5 — With gratitude *2025-12-17, version 6.0.29* Thank you for your service of love ### 5/5 — A Blessing *2025-12-15, version 6.0.29* This has been such a blessing…the content is so good! I came on here to leave a review simply based on this years (2025) Advent Journey of the Discerning Heart- what a gift! It literally has been exactly what my heart needed and I know God led me to these beautiful, soul searching reflections. I have the Discernment of Spirits book by Fr. Gallagher and it was such a grace. Then I found their app, and I love it! Thank you for such a wonderful app! ### 5/5 — His love endures for ever *2025-10-11, version 6.0.29* I am so happy to have found this app. I thank God our creator for filling my search with such beautiful work. I pray for you to pray for God for there is nothing sweeter. ### 5/5 — So Helpful (by Not A Catholic) *2025-09-03, version 6.0.28* I found the Discernment of Spirits podcast so very helpful. Practical for every day living. Thank you, Father Tim and Kris for your fine work. Your Not-A-Catholic Brother in The Lord. JH ### 5/5 — A treasure trove! *2025-08-10, version 6.0.28* What an incredible resource! The Discerning Hearts app is loaded with hours and hours of rich spiritual content. Faithful. Practical. Inspirational. ### 5/5 — Spiritual Lifesaver *2025-07-14, version 6.0.28* I am so very thankful for this Absolutely wonderful app! A spiritual and everyday lifesaver. ### 5/5 — Solid formation and devotion material *2025-07-06, version 6.0.28* I have used this app mainly for the Fr Timothy Gallagher OMV podcasts, but the other podcasts look excellent. The Scriptural Rosary is great for beginners too and not too fast. Well done! ### 5/5 — Next best thing to a good retreat *2025-05-27* I discovered this app by accident, diving into a rabbit hole of Ignatian Discernment after a library app suggested I try Fr. Gallagher’s book (I did). I absolutely love it, it allows me to have spiritual nourishment as a busy mom of three young kids in an isolated rural town with a tiny catholic community and the closest retreat house being a state away. I thank God for the creators of these materials. One thing that would make it even better would be a text search and option to bookmark certain audios. ### 5/5 — Start here *2025-02-05, version 6.0.26* Discerning Spirits podcast is a wonderful tool for anyone who wants to deepen their relationship with God! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-06.*