Eight vs Facing death
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eight
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Prepare for eternity with the classic spiritual exercises of Saint Alphonsus Liguori. The Eight-Day Retreat App brings you a complete, focused spiritual retreat based on the timeless meditations from Preparation for Death. In the original book, the considerations and points are scattered across more than thirty chapters and require constant flipping back and forth, making a proper retreat extremely difficult. This app solves that problem by organizing everything into a clear eight-day sequence. The Retreat menu guides you day by day and highlights your progress until the retreat is completed. Designed for quiet reflection and serious prayer, the app keeps technology out of the way so you can stay fixed on the eternal truths that matter most. Fully offline — no internet required once installed. The Eight-Day Retreat App brings you a complete, focused spiritual retreat based on the timeless meditations from Preparation for Death. Designed for quiet reflection and serious prayer, the app keeps technology out of the way so you can stay fixed on the eternal truths that matter most. What you’ll find inside: Fully offline — no internet required once installed. • Full Eight-Day Retreat Suggested schedule with Introduction, daily meditations, and supporting prayers. A simple Gold Square™ tracker helps you follow your progress from Day 1 through Day 8. • Consideration Points Powerful meditations drawn directly from Saint Alphonsus that confront the reality of death, judgment, and the business of eternal salvation — so that our final moment may be one of joy rather than terror. • Daily Devotions – Rule of Life – Maxims and Prayers (by day of the week) – Daily Meditations – Daily Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary – Benediction (English & Latin) – Holy Rosary Prayers (English & Latin) • Practical Tools – Customizable reminders (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or once) – Clear index of all consideration topics – Foreword by Fr. Carl Hoegerl, C.SS.R. explaining the origin and purpose of the work Every view uses clean, predictable iOS controls and beautiful contemplative graphics so nothing distracts from prayer. Completely free of ads, subscriptions, and interruptions. We dedicate this work to the Holy Souls in Purgatory and to the memory of family and friends who have gone before us. Begin your retreat today and place the business of eternal salvation first. Saint Alphonsus Liguori, pray for us.
Facing death
This app helps users explore and prepare for the end of life, making it a more meaningful experience. It offers tools for creating farewell cards, notes, and action plans, alongside a photo album for life memories. It also integrates with health apps to track fitness goals.
- Farewell card creation
- Note and epitaph writing
- Action plan development
- Life memory photo album
- HealthKit integration for step tracking
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Death is always with us, part of our being. We should talk about it, prepare for it, and use it to guide our lives Make the end of life less painful and more meaningful. We have time to understand how our life will end. And the most important thing is how to spend the last time. Use this app to know about information and preparation about death. Then you can make your farewell card, notes, epitaph, action plan, use checklist to have a quick check. Use photo album to save your meaningful time, memory and life record We integrate with the health app (HealthKit) to read and track your steps data and help you track your daily steps and monitor your progress towards your fitness goals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Facing death at Free against Eight's $2.99. Facing death also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 11 months). Eight's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Facing death is free to download; Eight costs $2.99 up front. Facing death sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Eight asks for nothing beyond the download.
Eight ships an update every 11 months, Facing death every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eight | Facing death |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 229 MB | 171 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bil Kimes | Man Hung Sun |
In-app purchases
Eight
No in-app purchases
Facing death
- upgrade$0.99









