Catholic Confession vs Going to Confession
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Catholic Confession
This app aids in spiritual reflection and confession preparation. It includes a daily reflection feature to track sins and an examination of conscience. All your data is secured with password and PIN protection.
- Daily reflection feature
- Sin tracking
- Days since last confession counter
- Examination of conscience
- Password and PIN protection
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Use our daily reflection feature to keep track of your sins. Tracks how many days since your last confession. Examination of conscious included in the app. Information is password and PIN protected.
Going to Confession
This app guides users through the examination of conscience and the steps of confession. It offers customizable examination options based on age and sin categories, and provides real-time assistance during confession, including tracking sins and confession history.
- Examination of conscience by commandments or categories
- Customizable examination based on age
- Real-time confession assistance
- Automatic tracking of confession history
- Custom sin creation
- Face ID protection for sensitive information
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Going to confession! This app is the perfect tool to assist you with your examination of conscience, and help you through the steps of going to confession. Experience peace of mind during your next Reconciliation, whether it's been years since your last confession or you're a frequent visitor to the sacrament. Designed for the whole family with helpful examinations for all ages. Prepare with Confidence: * Choose from specific examinations for Child's First Confession, Child, Teen, or Adult. * Group your examination by The Ten Commandments or by God, Others, and Self. * Simply by combining Commandments 6 & 9 and 7 & 10. * Track sins with counts, per day, per week, or per month. * Add additional sins for your examinations. Step-by-Step Guide: * Use the Confession Tab in the confessional for a guided walkthrough of every prayer and step. * The app automatically displays your sins and their counts. * Automated history tracking. Privacy & Control: * Keep your examination completely private with Face ID. * Quickly reset clear your examination data back to defaults.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Going to Confession at 4.9 against Catholic Confession's 4.0. Going to Confession also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Catholic Confession's advantage is ratings volume (114 vs 28) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Going to Confession holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 114 and 28 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Catholic Confession's written reviews are positive against 100% of Going to Confession's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on July 29, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catholic Confession | Going to Confession |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (114 ratings) | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hold Me Inc. | Anthony Splaver |
Customer experience
Catholic Confession
Going to Confession
In-app purchases
Catholic Confession
No in-app purchases
Going to Confession
No in-app purchases
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