Pearls Plus vs A Course in Miracles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pearls Plus
Access a collection of spiritual teachings and wisdom. Browse and search through a library of insightful content. This reference app provides a curated selection of profound messages.
- Browse Pearls of Wisdom
- Searchable content library
- Spiritual teachings
- Insightful messages
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An app for finding and browsing Pearls of Wisdom, published by The Summit Lighthouse.
A Course in Miracles
Explore the spiritual teachings of A Course in Miracles with a complete and annotated edition. This app offers restored text, extensive footnotes, and cameo essays to deepen your understanding. Features include customizable practice reminders, guided meditations, advanced search, and audiobook integration.
- Complete and Annotated Edition
- Customizable practice reminders
- Guided audio meditations
- Advanced search functionality
- Audiobook integration
- Personalized highlighting
- Cross-device sync
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Immerse yourself in the spiritual teachings of A Course in Miracles with our Complete and Annotated Edition reader app. Access the transformative wisdom of this modern-day spiritual classic at your fingertips, featuring over 45,000 words of meticulously restored text, original wording, extensive footnotes, and 33 enlightening cameo essays. Key Features: Comprehensive Content: Gain deeper insights into A Course in Miracles with the Complete and Annotated Edition, designed to help you on your spiritual journey. Workbook Practice Reminders: Stay on track with your workbook practice using customizable reminders. Receive morning and evening prompts to begin and conclude your day with your lesson, on-the-hour alerts to refocus your mind, and guidance to help you follow the workbook's instructions with consistency and ease. Listen to guided audio meditations. Advanced Search: Quickly find specific passages, themes, or keywords using the app's powerful search functionality, making it easy to locate the guidance you need. Audiobook Integration: Enjoy all three volumes of A Course in Miracles in audio format, perfect for those who prefer listening to the material or for studying on the go. Personalized Highlighting: Save and cherish your favorite passages with customizable highlighters, ensuring you can easily reference the most meaningful lines at any time. Cross-Device Sync: Keep all your data, including highlights and bookmarks, seamlessly synced across all your devices so you can continue your spiritual journey from where you left off. Experience the profound wisdom of A Course in Miracles with our reader app, and let it guide you on your path to inner peace, love, and forgiveness. Download now and embark on your transformative journey today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Pearls Plus at free against A Course in Miracles's paid. Pearls Plus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). A Course in Miracles's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Pearls Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 81 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pearls Plus's written reviews are positive against 84% of A Course in Miracles's.
Pearls Plus ships an update every 9 months, A Course in Miracles monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pearls Plus | A Course in Miracles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (45 ratings) — better | 4.8 (81 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 45 | 81 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | THE SUMMIT LIGHTHOUSE, INC. | Circle of Atonement Teaching & Healing Center Inc |
Customer experience
Pearls Plus
A Course in Miracles
Bugs and requests
Pearls Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
A Course in Miracles
Reported bugs
9 issues- Easier to accidentally click buttons
- Requires more clicks to resume where left off
- App won't let click daily lesson every few days
- New highlights not working
- Old highlights only accessible through three dots
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- App doesn't match book
- Headings and chapters are not the same
- Will not work on iPhone 12 Pro (resolved)
- Unusable on iPhone 12 Pro (resolved)
Requested features
11 requests- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- More intuitive navigation after redesign
- Fix issue with clicking daily lesson
- Allow adding new highlights
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- Make old highlights more accessible
- Ensure app matches book content
- Synchronize headings and chapters with the book
- Option to disable commentary/annotations
- Allow users to choose between annotated and unannotated versions
- Provide more context for annotations
In-app purchases
Pearls Plus
No in-app purchases
A Course in Miracles
No in-app purchases
