Comparison

Message Catalogue vs Phos Devotionals

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Message Catalogue

Organize and search your message content in one place. Group messages by series, search by keyword or scripture reference, and attach supporting files like photos, audio, and documents. Personalize your catalogue with graphics and outlines for a fast, intuitive experience.

Highlights
  • Group messages by series
  • Search by keyword or scripture reference
  • Attach photos, audio, video, and documents
  • Mark messages as favorite or work-in-progress
  • Sort messages by date
  • Handoff functionality between devices
  • Split screen support on iPad
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** Requires a Message Catalogue account. ### WHAT IS MESSAGE CATALOGUE? Finally, one place to keep everything about your messages. With this powerful new digital catalogue, you can group your messages by series and search by keyword or Scripture reference, all while personalizing your catalogue to fit your needs with graphics, outlines, supporting message illustrations and more. Trying to remember or find a previous talk? You can fully search titles, keywords, notes, and many other attributes to help you find your content. With each entry, you can load your photos, audio, video, documents and any other supporting items. Anything that has text, like a transcript or outline, will become searchable as well! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ### ABOUT THE iOS APP: The Message Catalogue iOS app is the best way to view and search for your message content. Being built fully natively for iPhone and iPad technologies, you will discover a fast and intuitive experience. General Features: • See all of your messages grouped by series. • Message entries are marked if they are a favorite, work in-progress, or not in a default location to help you easily identify them. • Switch to the search / list view to browse individually. • Sort your browsing by the message date, to help you find your oldest messages. • **See your history or recently viewed messages. • Filter by default locations or work in-progress. • To do an exact search simply add a quote at the beginning or end, or anywhere in your search phrase. • When searching, see a preview text preview if the phrase was found in a document. • Search results will show a preview or tags if the phrase is found in the message data. • On the iPad, support for split screen and other layouts. • If your device is signed in with iCloud, you can “handoff” from one device to another. For instance, if you are looking at a message on a different device, the handoff icon will show on your mac’s dock. When clicking it, Message Catalogue will then open with that message entry in the viewer. Message / Entry View Features: • Use the “heart” image to mark a favorite message which will sync with your account on other devices. • If your message has a link to a related plan with Planning Center Services, you can click the Planing Center icon to quickly take you there. • View the entry photos from the filmstrip and click on one to show it in a separate window. • Important assets are “starred” at the top of your file list so you can quickly get to then. • Web link assets will play in a video player window if able, or go straight to the web site. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For more information about Message Catalogue, how it works, or go in depth more about the features, feel free to send us a note at support@messagecatalogue.com Enjoy! - Message Catalogue Team @WorfklowNetwork

About

Phos Devotionals

Features
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Phos is an app for listening to your daily Christian devotionals. We have partnered with faithful publishers to bring time-tested and classic short and substantive daily readings to help you in your walk of faith with Jesus. * Choose your devotional and come back with a gentle nudge each day to read, meditate on the Word of God, and pray. * Our app is available at no cost in dozens of languages. Help spread faithful teaching to men and women around the world. ABOUT DESIRING GOD Desiring God’s mission is to help people everywhere understand and embrace the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. Visit http://www.desiringGod.org for thousands of free resources (including sermons, articles, and full-length books).

Screenshots

Message Catalogue4 screens
Phos Devotionals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Message Catalogue at monthly against Phos Devotionals's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Message Catalogue ships an update monthly, Phos Devotionals every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Message Catalogue versus Phos Devotionals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMessage CataloguePhos Devotionals
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWorkflow NetworkShepherdstack LLC

In-app purchases

None

Message Catalogue

No in-app purchases

None

Phos Devotionals

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Message Catalogue free?
Message Catalogue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phos Devotionals free?
Phos Devotionals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Message Catalogue or Phos Devotionals have ads?
Neither Message Catalogue nor Phos Devotionals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Message Catalogue or Phos Devotionals?
Message Catalogue ships an update monthly, and Phos Devotionals every 6 months. Most recently, Message Catalogue was updated on November 2, 2026 and Phos Devotionals on November 4, 2026.

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