InnerMonk vs TAN Direction
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InnerMonk
This app helps you establish a daily prayer routine with morning and evening prayers composed by monks. It tracks your progress, offers text-to-speech for prayers, and provides access to monastery news, podcasts, and live streams.
- Morning and evening prayers
- Prayer progress tracking
- Text-to-speech prayer reader
- Access to monastery news and events
- Live Mass and Vespers streams
- Prayer request submission
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Get into the habit of praying a short prayer each morning and each evening with the free Honor Your Inner Monk app. This app features short morning and evening prayers composed by the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, a Benedictine monastery in southern Indiana. This app records your progress by counting your daily prayers during the month and includes a text-to-speech function that will read the prayers to you. It also keeps you connected to Saint Meinrad by giving you quick access to our websites, news and events, the "Echoes from the Bell Tower" podcast and blog, and Mass and Vespers streamed live from the Archabbey Church. You can also submit a prayer request to the monks of Saint Meinrad!
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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: InnerMonk at none against TAN Direction's 52. InnerMonk also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). TAN Direction's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4). 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 14 one-off in-app purchases. InnerMonk asks for nothing beyond the download.
TAN Direction holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of InnerMonk'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.
InnerMonk ships an update every 2 months, TAN Direction every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | InnerMonk | TAN Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (13 ratings) | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — 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, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Saint Meinrad Archabbey | SAINT BENDICT PRESS LLC |
Customer experience
InnerMonk
TAN Direction
In-app purchases
InnerMonk
No in-app purchases
TAN Direction
- Tan Books$9.00
- The Sacraments$10.00
- Doors of Mercy$10.00
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- Kingdom of happiness$10.00
- Tan Books$13.00
- Tan Books2 variants$14.00
- Tan Books4 variants$20.00
- Tan Books6 variants$24.00
- Tan Books30 variants$39.00
- The Ancient World$39.00
- The Medieval World$39.00
- The Making of the Modern World$39.00
- History of the United States$39.00
- Tan Books$149.00
Questions
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