Comparison

LordsBook vs Called

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

Head to head
About

LordsBook

Connect with friends, family, and acquaintances through a social networking platform. Share updates and engage with your personal network.

Highlights
  • Connect with friends
  • Share updates
  • Connect with family
  • Connect with acquaintances
  • Personal network engagement
Features
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Log into lordsbook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know.

About

Called

This app helps build Christian communities and groups, fostering meaningful connections away from social media noise. It's designed for church-goers, ministry leaders, and faith-based organizations to organize events, manage groups, and engage in focused conversations.

Highlights
  • Discover Christian groups
  • Engage in meaningful conversations
  • Manage small groups
  • Organize church and ministry groups
  • Event creation and RSVP management
  • Customizable notifications
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Build an authentic Christian community where every person feels needed and known. Have you ever stood at the door after a great ministry event, celebrating what God just did, only to watch someone leave alone who no one really knows? Many leaders can feel overwhelmed with too many platforms, group texts, and several disconnected systems. Ministry has become scattered across emails, social media, spreadsheets, and apps, making it difficult to truly know your people and keep them connected throughout the week. Called gives you one simple place to reach your people, build real community, and guide them in their discipleship journey. From outreach to small groups to Sunday reminders, it all finally lives in one app built specifically for churches, ministries, campus ministries, and Christian communities. Every person deserves to feel needed and known. This is the heart of Called—and every feature exists to help leaders make that happen. Grow your ministry in 30 days. Guaranteed. Launch 3–5 active groups in your first month, or you don’t pay. Get your first 50 members onboarded automatically. With Called, Christian leaders will: • Know who’s engaged, new, or may need care • Help people find belonging through small groups • Stay connected beyond Sunday with prayer, chat, and discipleship • Turn communication into real engagement • Lead in a safe, trusted environment built for ministry • Spend less time managing tools and more time shepherding people Replace GroupMe, Facebook Groups, Remind, Flocknote, Eventbrite, and endless text threads. Called puts it all in one place. Whether you’re a pastor, ministry leader, small group leader, campus minister, or part of a Christian organization, Called helps build communities where people don’t just attend; they belong. “Finally, I found my people.” Your calling is to build disciples. Our calling is to make it simple. Join thousands of ministry leaders building stronger, more connected communities with Called. Download Called today. Connect with us: Support: https://support.called.app/knowledge Email: info@called.app

Screenshots

LordsBook4 screens
Called4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Called at 75% against LordsBook's 0%. Called also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (370 vs 2). LordsBook's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Called holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Called has 370 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of LordsBook's written reviews are positive against 75% of Called's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LordsBook ships an update every 10 days, Called every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
LordsBook versus Called: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLordsBookCalled
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings)4.8 (370 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2370 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAllenraj ArulnayagamCalled LLC

Customer experience

LordsBook

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Called

All ratings370 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

LordsBook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Called

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Cannot upgrade members to leader status
  • Cannot add members to existing group chats
  • App opens slow
  • Notifications don’t show correctly and clear
  • Text does not adjust with phone text adjustments
Show 4 more
  • Harder to navigate after update
  • Does not go to dark mode
  • Constantly shows notifications that are not there
  • Have to manually scroll emojis instead of searching

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to reply to individual messages in a thread
  • Search bar for emojis

In-app purchases

None

LordsBook

No in-app purchases

None

Called

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LordsBook free?
LordsBook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Called free?
Called is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LordsBook or Called?
Called is rated higher. LordsBook averages 1.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Called averages 4.8 from 370 ratings.
Do LordsBook or Called have ads?
Neither LordsBook nor Called shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LordsBook or Called?
LordsBook ships an update every 10 days, and Called every 4 days. Most recently, LordsBook was updated on October 24, 2026 and Called on October 24, 2026.

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