The Blessing Devotional vs Missaal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Missaal
This app displays readings and prayers for daily Eucharist celebrations, aiding in preparation for Holy Mass. It draws content from the Roman Missal and Lectionaries published by the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands.
- Daily Eucharist readings
- Prayers for Holy Mass
- Preparation for Mass
- Content from Roman Missal
- Content from Lectionaries
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Deze app geeft voor de dagelijkse Eucharistieviering alle lezingen en gebeden weer. De app kan gebruikt worden bij de voorbereiding op de Heilige Mis. De teksten zijn afkomstig uit het Romeins Missaal en Lectionaria, uitgegeven door de Rooms Katholieke Kerk in Nederland.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: The Blessing Devotional at 73 against Missaal's 2. The Blessing Devotional also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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 The Blessing Devotional against 5.0 for Missaal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Blessing Devotional has 73 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Blessing Devotional | Missaal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (73 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johan Maasbach World Mission | Gerardus Bruggink |
Customer experience
The Blessing Devotional
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In-app purchases
The Blessing Devotional
No in-app purchases
Missaal
No in-app purchases
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