Comparison

LS Churches vs Kubo Journal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LS Churches

Connect with a faith community, access gospel-centered sermons, and engage with spiritual content. This app facilitates connection and supports the mission of Jesus.

Highlights
  • Connect with Living Stones Churches
  • Share gospel-centered sermons
  • Support the mission of Jesus
  • Engage with God
  • Access spiritual content
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Helping everyone find everything in Jesus. Stay connected with Living Stones Churches, share your favorite gospel-centered sermons, fuel the mission of Jesus, & help others engage with God. Mobile app version: 6.18.1

About

Kubo Journal

This app offers a unique journaling experience focused on gratitude, reflection, and releasing worries. It helps users change their lives by directing attention, letting go of what they can't control, and rehearsing the person they are becoming. Features include guided reflections and a 'release box' for sealed notes.

Highlights
  • Gratitude entries
  • Guided reflection tools
  • Sealed release box for worries
  • Future self writing
  • Scene revision
  • PDF export of journal
Features
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Most journals ask you to record your life. Kubo helps you rewrite it. Kubo is a new kind of journaling practice built on an old understanding — one carried by the great teachers of imagination and manifestation, twelve-step rooms, and now echoed by the science of neuroplasticity: you don't change your life by thinking harder about what's wrong. You change it by choosing where your attention lives, releasing what you can't control, and rehearsing the person you're becoming. What you repeat, you rewire. Kubo gives that repetition a home. THE RITUAL Write what's weighing on you. Seal it into your box. Let it go. Sealed notes can't be reread or edited — that's the point. Recovery rooms have passed this practice down for generations: put it in the box, turn it over, stop carrying what was never yours to carry. A month later, Kubo quietly asks how heavy it feels now — without opening a word. Most things get lighter. Not magic; just what happens when a mind finally stops rehearsing a worry. A COMPLETE DAILY PRACTICE • GRATITUDE — appreciation is the fastest way to change the way you feel, and the way you feel shapes what you notice, choose, and attract into your days. Quick entries for what's good now and what you're looking forward to. • REFLECT — free writing plus guided tools like Reframe, built on a simple truth: your thoughts are not facts. Catch the story you're telling yourself and trade it for a truer, kinder one. • RELEASE — the box. Seal a worry away and choose when it opens: thirty days, a year, or a date that matters to you. Kubo holds it, unreadable, until then — and when the seal breaks, see with your own eyes how far you've come. TOOLS FOR BECOMING (Premium) • FUTURE SELF — write from the life you're creating, as the person already living it. • REVISION — revisit a scene and rewrite it the way it should have gone. Imagination teachers have sworn by this practice for a century; your brain rehearses what you vividly imagine. • ENVISION — dwell in the end result until it feels like home. • Plus expanded prompt packs, up to 10 photos per entry, Insights — including proof of how much lighter your released worries actually got — and a beautiful PDF book of your year. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and sealed notes are encrypted so no one — including us — can read them. Optional Face ID lock. FREE FOREVER Unlimited gratitude, reflections, sealing and release with timed opens, streaks, and a photo per entry. Some people call theirs a worry box. Some call it a God box, a serenity box, a manifestation practice, or simply letting go. Whatever you call it, this much is true: the life you want starts with what you put down — and what you pick up instead. Kubo is a journaling tool, not medical or mental-health care. Privacy Policy: https://deanhuff.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LS Churches3 screens
Kubo Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LS Churches at none against Kubo Journal's 3. LS Churches also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kubo Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LS Churches asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LS Churches against 5.0 for Kubo Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LS Churches has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
LS Churches versus Kubo Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLS ChurchesKubo Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiving Stones Church NevadaDean Huff

Customer experience

LS Churches

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Kubo Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LS Churches

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Kubo Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Kubo Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Kubo Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kubo Premium Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is LS Churches free?
LS Churches is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kubo Journal free?
Kubo Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LS Churches or Kubo Journal?
LS Churches and Kubo Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do LS Churches or Kubo Journal have ads?
Neither LS Churches nor Kubo Journal shows ads.

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