ECL vs Scepter Publishers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ECL
This app offers practical strategies and information for leaders of faith formation programs. It provides guidance on recruiting, training, and forming catechists, developing vision, and managing administrative tasks. Access essential wisdom and resources directly from a comprehensive series of books.
- Strategies for faith formation leaders
- Recruiting and training catechists
- Developing program vision
- Administrative task management
- Printable resources
- Focus on pastoral issues
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The Effective Catechetical Leader Series provides information, strategies, and approaches to ensure success for leaders of parish faith formation programs. These books include practical instruction and printable resources. They describe best practices for recruiting, training, and forming catechists; developing a vision for faith formation; forming an advisory board; planning and calendaring; networking with colleagues; selecting high-quality resources; handling administrative aspects of the ministry; and identifying the various groups you serve and how best to work with them. The ECL app puts wisdom and practical help at your fingertips. Drawn directly from the six books of the new Effective Catechetical Leader Series, ECL provides an opportunity for catechetical leaders to “check-in” and focus on specific pastoral issues and to identify go-to strategies for meeting the challenges of serving as an effective catechetical leader. For more resources, visit www.loyolapress.com/ECL.
Scepter Publishers
Access a curated library of Catholic audiobooks and ebooks to deepen your faith. Nourish your spiritual life with classics and contemporary titles rooted in Catholic tradition, available wherever you go.
- Curated library of Catholic audiobooks and ebooks
- Spiritual classics and contemporary titles
- Content rooted in Catholic tradition
- Growing library updated regularly
- Accessible on iPhone and iPad
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Scepter: Catholic Books & Audio Deepen your faith, one page — or one listen — at a time. Scepter brings you a curated library of Catholic audiobooks, ebooks, and spiritual content to accompany you through your day. Whether you're commuting, working, or winding down, Scepter makes it easy to nourish your interior life wherever you are. What you'll find: • Audiobooks and ebooks from trusted Catholic authors • Spiritual classics and contemporary titles • Content rooted in the richness of Catholic tradition • A growing library updated regularly Scepter has been publishing books that form consciences and inspire souls for over 60 years. Now that mission comes to your phone. For anyone seeking to grow closer to God in the middle of ordinary life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scepter Publishers at every 3 weeks against ECL's every 6 months. Scepter Publishers also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 3). ECL's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ECL against 4.9 for Scepter Publishers. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scepter Publishers has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ECL ships an update every 6 months, Scepter Publishers every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ECL | Scepter Publishers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.9 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Loyola Press | Scepter Publishers Inc |
Customer experience
ECL
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In-app purchases
ECL
No in-app purchases
Scepter Publishers
No in-app purchases
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