Discipulus vs Sword Drill

WHAT IS DISCIPULUS Discipulus is a Catholic discipleship app that helps you experience the joy of God by equipping you to live the spiritual disciplines of prayer, study, mission, virtue, and community, following after some of the greatest people in history. DISCIPULUS WAS MADE FOR YOU Which one best describes you? - The "newbie" -> Gain access to the Church’s spiritual treasures in an easy to access and simplified roadmap - The "busy and trying" -> Get more consistent in your spiritual disciplines - The "veteran in the faith" -> Evangelize and disciple your sphere of influence THE PLAN Living the Christian life can be hard, but it shouldn’t be complicated. No matter if you are a rookie or veteran in the faith, we provide you a roadmap to deepen your union with God following the example of the Saints. On your spiritual journey with Discipulus, you will work on progressing through multiple Degrees with each Degree building upon the previous. TOOLS We equip you with the tools you need to form life-changing habits. Reminders help you to remember to practice your spiritual goals. A Progress tab helps you to evaluate how well you are doing in your spiritual habits. Community helps to keep you accountable to your spiritual disciplines. PRAYER Prayer strengthens our relationship with God. Discipulus offers both audio guided prayer and self-guided prayer. Self-guided prayer is useful if you enjoy using a physical prayer book or another prayer app as it allows you to still complete and track your prayer within Discipulus. Other features included are background music, male and female voices, length of prayer time, and kind of prayer. You can choose between three prayer categories: meditative, devotional, and litanies. MORE THAN PRAYER Prayer is essential in our relationship with God, but it is not the only facet. Discipulus also includes new ways to engage in study, mission, virtue, and community. INCLUDED FEATURES - Goals: Daily, weekly and anytime goals providing you the roadmap for your spiritual journey - Daily prayers: Audio prayers with text along with optional background music - Study: Embedded videos, audio, and other curated content broken out into lessons and exercises to learn more about God and grow to love Him - Mission: Be challenged to change the world for the better by putting your faith into action to serve God by helping out a neighbor, volunteer work, etc. - Virtue: The ability to choose a virtue you would like to develop or improve on. You'll practice it daily with a daily examination. Growing in virtue frees us to overcome sin and love others well. - Community: Create or join a community with your friends to encourage one another and see each other’s progress through your spiritual journey - Messaging: Stay connected and build relationships with your community - Progress: Track your daily progress in real-time as you move through each Degree - Reminders: Set your own daily reminders to complete your goals. We’ll also send you reminders in order to get you back on track. SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS When you download and create an account in Discipulus, you will receive a 21 day trial giving you full access to the app. After the 21 days are over, you will need to subscribe in order to continue using Discipulus. A paid subscription will give you full access to Discipulus. Discipulus offers two auto-renewing subscription options, a monthly or yearly subscription. For customers in the United States, the prices are as follows: - $6.99 per month - $49.99 per year Your Discipulus subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current subscription period. You can go to your Apple account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Terms of Service: https://discipulus.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://discipulus.app/privacy

Remember "Sword Drills" in Sunday School? The teacher whould announce a verse and see who could find it and read it to the class first. This app was built from that concept. It provides an expedited view of bible chapters/verses from BibleGateway.com. It add quick buttons to select the last several verses/passages most recently retrieved which enhances Bible study cross referencing. This was my first app first published when the App Store was barely a month old back in 2008. It was pulled from the store when the original 32 bit apps were disallowed because at the time I didn't have the time to update it. With the advent of AI, I was able to feed my old project and have AI turn it into a modern SwiftUI version in just a few minutes. There are other Bible Reading apps out there but this one is lightweight and agile in ways that are helpful. Sword Drill is a focused, native front-end for Bible Gateway. Pick a book, enter a chapter or verse, choose a translation, and read — without ads, banners, or site navigation getting in the way. FEATURES • Distraction-free reading — Ads, banners, and page chrome are automatically filtered out so you see only the passage text. Ad network requests are blocked to save bandwidth. • Three translation buttons — Tap KJV, NKJV, NASB, or customize the buttons in Settings with any version Bible Gateway supports. • Recent passages — Your five most recent lookups appear as quick-access buttons for fast reference. • Keep screen awake — Toggle the screen lock so your device stays on while you read or study. • Designed for accssibility. Every control has been enabled for voice over and color scheme updated for those with color discrimination issues. Sword Drill is not affiliated with Bible Gateway.