Today's Hope vs RapidStep10
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Today's Hope
This app offers daily readings focused on Al-Anon principles and recovery. It includes daily reflections, quotes, prayers, slogans, and links to further resources. It's designed to support a daily reading routine for those in recovery.
- Daily readings from The Forum magazine
- Recovery Reflections
- Daily quotes or sayings
- Recovery Prayers
- Al-Anon Slogans and Acronyms
- Links to Al-Anon and AA speakers
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Today's Hope is a daily reading app with an Al-Anon focus. Each day you will receive a reading from Al-Anon's magazine The Forum, a Recovery Reflection with a Recovery focus and a Quote or Saying. .These readings are perfect to add to your daily reading routine and they provide a portable way to stay connected to the Al-Anon principles, the 12 steps and Recovery. Also included are Recovery Prayers, Al-Anon Slogans and Acronyms, Revovery Speakers both Al-Anon and AA, and more. There is a Todays Reading, a Yesterdays Reading and a Recovery links area where you can find more information on Al-Anon, the 12 Steps, Speakers and more.
RapidStep10
This app offers a private, guided method for conducting daily personal inventories. It helps users process their feelings by identifying who they are upset with, what it affects, and their character defects, then suggests positive replacements. Users can save, share, or copy their completed inventories.
- Guided daily personal inventory
- Character defect identification
- Asset replacement suggestions
- Customizable 7th-Step prayer
- Offline functionality
- Save, copy, and share inventories
- Multilingual support
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RapidStep10 is a fast, private way to take your daily Step 10 personal inventory. When something is bothering you, walk through it in a minute: • Who are you upset at, and what happened? • What does it affect — your pride, security, relationships, ambitions? • What are your defects of character in it — and the assets to replace them? • Pray the 7th-Step prayer, personalized to how you address your Higher Power. • Do you owe an amends? Who can you help next? Then copy or share the finished inventory, or save it to your private history to look back on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything you enter stays on your device. No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and nothing is ever sent to a server. The app works completely offline. BUILT FOR DAILY USE • A quick, guided form modeled on the Step 10 spot-check inventory • 80+ character defects paired with their opposite assets • The 7th-Step prayer, with the wording you choose for your Higher Power • Save, revisit, copy, and share past inventories • Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, and Hebrew (right-to-left supported) RapidStep10 is an independent personal tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RapidStep10 at 5.0 against Today's Hope's 4.3. RapidStep10 also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 16 months). Today's Hope's advantage is ratings volume (108 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RapidStep10 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Today's Hope has 108 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Today's Hope ships an update every 16 months, RapidStep10 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Today's Hope | RapidStep10 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (108 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | todd bidwell | Dovid Cohen |
Customer experience
Today's Hope
RapidStep10
Bugs and requests
Today's Hope
Reported bugs
14 issues- Freezes on serenity prayers section
- Cannot exit prayers screen
- App not working for days
- Stuck on stones screen
- Blank landing page with no menu
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- Stopped allowing selection of Today's readings
- Daily readings won't open since last iOS update
- App not loading, spinning circle
- App doesn't work on iPhone 5 and 6
- App no longer loads
- App has disappeared, 'no longer exists-error'
- Received message that app doesn't exist upon opening
- Keeps saying already purchased app but doesn't download
- When playing speakers, stops when phone screen goes to sleep
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to copy inspirational quotes
- Bookmark favorite days/sayings
- Easier navigation
- Option to favorite meaningful days
- Improve app formatting for iPhone
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- Make 'Find a meeting' available
RapidStep10
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Today's Hope
No in-app purchases
RapidStep10
No in-app purchases
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