Encouraging Word vs The Blessing Devotional
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Encouraging Word
This app provides daily encouragement and strength through God's promises from the Bible. It aims to lift your spirit and help you live by faith rather than by problems, offering joy and renewed strength.
- Daily Bible promises
- Spiritual encouragement
- Strength through faith
- Joyful living
- Biblical devotions
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We all need encouragement and strength to not be overcome by the pressures and stresses of life. Fortunately, God has given us promises from His word to live by. We can either live by our problems or we can live the promises of God. As a pastor, Mark Stewart would send out by email one promise from the Bible each week for his congregation to live by. This went world-wide and is now an app for others to enjoy. The Encouraging Word is based on Numbers 11:23. It is easy to be discouraged and doubt that God’s promises are true but we have what God said to Moses when he doubted: The Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not.” Within a few days of spending time in this devotions, you should see your spirit lifted and experience new joy, encouragement, and strength to enjoy the life God has given to you!
The Blessing Devotional
Access daily Bible encouragements and prayers to strengthen your faith and build an intimate relationship with God. Search for specific topics, set personal notifications, and customize your reading experience with adjustable text size and dark mode.
- Daily encouragements and prayers
- Search by keywords
- Personalized notifications
- Adjustable text size
- Dark mode
- Home screen widget
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“The Blessing Devotional” is the key to a victorious life of faith. Through the daily encouragements and prayers you discover the treasures and riches from God’s Word. It opens the door to a wonderful life with Him, hidden in God. Get strengthened in your faith every day by the daily encouragements of David Maasbach. Pray along the prayers and develop an intimate relationship with the living God. Search on keywords for specific topics. Do not miss any encouragement and set a personal notification. Change the text size as desired. Also enjoy reading in the evening with the automatic dark mode. Add a beautiful widget to your home screen and be encouraged daily. “The Blessing Devotional” is based on the daily devotionals “A prayer for every day” and “Every day with God” by David Maasbach. David Maasbach is president of the Johan Maasbach World Mission Foundation, senior pastor of The Blessing Churches and author of many books, among which the bestseller “Every day with God”. Through his powerful ministry in sermons, broadcasts and books, many people have been encouraged and changed. He is the first Dutch pastor that obtained weekly airtime on one of the Netherlands’ best known nationwide commercial television channels. Today he reaches countless people with his broadcasts and in all kinds of other modern ways.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Encouraging Word at 3.2K against The Blessing Devotional's 73. Encouraging Word also leads on iOS requirement (9.1 vs 13.0). The Blessing Devotional's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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 — 4.9 for Encouraging Word against 4.9 for The Blessing Devotional. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Encouraging Word has 3.2K ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Encouraging Word's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Blessing Devotional's.
Encouraging Word ships an update every 6 months, The Blessing Devotional every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Encouraging Word | The Blessing Devotional |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (3.2K ratings) — better | 4.9 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Stewart | Johan Maasbach World Mission |
Customer experience
Encouraging Word
The Blessing Devotional
Bugs and requests
Encouraging Word
Reported bugs
2 issues- App freezing/crashing
- Date display not matching actual date
Requested features
3 requests- Add prayer feature
- Ability to mark/track read devotionals
- Rotate app with device orientation
The Blessing Devotional
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Encouraging Word
No in-app purchases
The Blessing Devotional
No in-app purchases
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