Faith Essentials vs MyDeen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Faith Essentials
This app offers profound learning experiences about Islam, aiming to deepen spiritual connection and understanding of the faith. It focuses on fostering a deeper, spiritual engagement with Islamic principles beyond mere rituals and rules. The goal is to help users behave as Muslims should, at a more profound level.
- Deepen religious understanding
- Foster spiritual connection
- Learn profound Islamic concepts
- Share knowledge with loved ones
- Engage with faith beyond rituals
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Think of the last time you sat through an Islamic class you loved, completed a book that opened up your mind, learned something profound about your religion. Remember that feeling. Better yet, that joy of passing it on to someone you love: your child, your mother, or a classroom of students The light turns on when a connection is made, and the bond grows with Allah and His beautiful religion. The result is behaving as a Muslim should - not as a set of rules and rituals - but at a deeper, spiritual level. Know Everything There is To Know About What A Muslim Needs to Know
MyDeen
This app helps Muslims deepen their understanding and connection to Islam through engaging, bite-sized lessons. It addresses modern issues, misconceptions, and provides guidance on Islamic rulings, inspired by the methodology of Imam al-Ghazali and educational principles from popular language apps.
- Understand modern Muslim issues
- Learn about misconceptions about Islam
- Summarized Quranic lessons
- Principles of Islamic rulings
- Tolerating differences in Islamic opinions
- Short teachings from Prophets and Sahaba
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With MyDeen, you’ll be able to understand and deeply connect with Islam like the Sahaba inshallah. It is the only app out there that answers the most relevant issues Muslims are facing today in a fast, engaging manner. What You’ll Get in MyDeen • Why Islam Is True - To increase faith and provide reassurance • Important teachings from the Prophets (peace be upon them), Sahaba and other great Muslims • Modern Muslim Issues – Clear guidance on today’s challenges • Misconceptions about Islam – Addressed with wisdom and clarity • Summarized Lessons from different parts of the Quran • Understanding Differences – Learn how the Sahaba tolerated small Islamic differences (Ijtihad) • Principles of Islamic Rulings – Course on the importance of scholars and how Islamic law works Many Muslims today feel disconnected from their deen — reciting Quran without understanding, being taught rituals like a passed-down culture, and being completely surrounded by temptations of the dunya. This has led to obsession with this temporary world and little focus on the life after death. MyDeen revives the love of Islamic learning by following the methodology of the legendary scholar Imam al-Ghazali, who wrote the most popular Islamic book of his time, Ihya Ulum al-Din. He wrote this book because he saw that Muslims were not connected to the religion like the Sahaba, and so he taught Islamic topics that Muslims needed to hear in a beautiful way. This allowed him to transform people’s hearts with God’s help. We are also applying proven ideas from popular education apps, like gamification, to keep learning engaging. Everything on MyDeen is designed so that Muslims can benefit greatly from it even if they spend only 5 minutes every 2 or 3 days learning from it. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Faith Essentials at none against MyDeen's 1. Faith Essentials also leads on ads (none vs shown). MyDeen's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and monetization model 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. MyDeen sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Faith Essentials asks for nothing beyond the download.
MyDeen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 117 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Faith Essentials's written reviews are positive against 100% of MyDeen's.
Faith Essentials ships an update every 6 weeks, MyDeen every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Faith Essentials | MyDeen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (117 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 117 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | AlMaghrib Institute | Mydeen, Inc. |
Customer experience
Faith Essentials
MyDeen
In-app purchases
Faith Essentials
No in-app purchases
MyDeen
- MyDeen Plus7 Days trial$6.991 Month









