Honor Your Inner Monk vs TAN Direction
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Honor Your Inner Monk
This app provides a daily rhythm for developing a personal relationship with God, featuring morning and evening prayers, scripture readings, and guided prayer practices. It offers live streams from a monastic community and gentle habit-building tools.
- Morning and Evening Prayer
- Daily Rule of St. Benedict reading
- Guided Lectio Divina
- Live streams from Archabbey Church
- Prayer history and favorites
- Optional reminders and milestones
Read full descriptionHide full description
At Saint Meinrad Archabbey, we believe all Christians have an "inner monk": the part of each of us that wants to develop a deep, intense, and personal relationship with God. Honor Your Inner Monk offers a simple rhythm for that life, created by the Benedictine monks of Saint Meinrad in southern Indiana. MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER A new prayer for every morning and every evening of the year, written by the monks of Saint Meinrad. The app knows the time of day and opens to the prayer you need. THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT A short daily reading from the Rule, following the traditional Benedictine practice of reading the whole Rule three times each year. GUIDED LECTIO DIVINA Pray with Scripture step by step through the ancient practice of lectio divina: reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. LIVE FROM THE ARCHABBEY CHURCH Join the monastic community in prayer through live streams from the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln. A GENTLE HABIT Create a free account to keep a history of your prayers, save favorites, and set optional morning and evening reminders on your phone. Quiet milestones mark your faithfulness along the way. They never count missed days against you, and you can turn them off entirely. NEWS FROM SAINT MEINRAD Stay connected with news, events, the podcast, and the blog from Saint Meinrad Archabbey. Honor Your Inner Monk is free and contains no ads.
TAN Direction
Explore spiritual wisdom from saints and Catholic authors to deepen your faith. This app offers resources for those seeking Christian perfection and a transformed spiritual journey.
- Spiritual wisdom of saints
- Resources from Catholic authors
- Deepen faith
- Transform spiritual journey
- Pursue Christian perfection
Read full descriptionHide full description
Discover the spiritual wisdom of the saints and faithful Catholic authors with the TAN Direction app. Designed for Catholics striving to reach the heights of Christian perfection and sanctity, this app provides resources to deepen your faith and transform your spiritual journey.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Honor Your Inner Monk at none against TAN Direction's 10. Honor Your Inner Monk also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 50%) and device support (3 vs 1). TAN Direction's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, 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. TAN Direction sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Honor Your Inner Monk asks for nothing beyond the download.
TAN Direction holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Honor Your Inner Monk's written reviews are positive against 50% of TAN Direction's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Honor Your Inner Monk ships an update every 2 months, TAN Direction every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Honor Your Inner Monk | TAN Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (15 ratings) | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Abbey Press Publications | SAINT BENDICT PRESS LLC |
Customer experience
Honor Your Inner Monk
TAN Direction
In-app purchases
Honor Your Inner Monk
No in-app purchases
TAN Direction
- Tan Books$13.00
- Tan Books4 variants$20.00
- Tan Books5 variants$24.00
Questions
Is Honor Your Inner Monk free?
Is TAN Direction free?
Which has better reviews, Honor Your Inner Monk or TAN Direction?
Do Honor Your Inner Monk or TAN Direction have ads?
Which is updated more often, Honor Your Inner Monk or TAN Direction?
Other comparisons
