The Church App vs Thistlebend Discipleship
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Church App
Stay connected with your church community. Access sermons, resources, and updates directly on your mobile device. Engage with content, manage events, and support ministry.
- Offline sermon downloads
- Cross-device note-taking
- Bible reading plans
- Event registration
- Secure in-app giving
- Shareable content
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Connect to your church and get the latest sermons, resources, updates, and more delivered right to your mobile device. With The Church App, you can easily watch and listen to sermons on-the-go, download media for offline listening, find and register for events, read blog articles, read the Bible, donate to your ministry, take notes in church, and much more. Additionally, you can browse thousands of leading ministries within the app for quick access to gospel-centered content. The Church App® Features: • Download your favorite sermons for offline listening • Take notes and access them across all your devices • Look up Bible passages and follow along with Bible reading plans • Sign up for events • Be the first to receive updates from your church • Easily share content with your friends and family • Fuel the mission of ministries around the globe with quick, secure giving Mobile app version: 6.23.7
Thistlebend Discipleship
Access media and written resources designed to call, equip, and encourage women in their faith journey. This app provides biblical study materials and training for personal growth and ministry leadership.
- Media and written resources
- Faith calling and equipping
- Encouragement for women
- Biblical study and shepherding
- S.A.L.T. accountability model
- Resources for individuals and groups
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Welcome to the official Thistlebend App, featuring media and written resources for calling, equipping, and encouraging women to know Jesus and follow Him in love and obedience. Thistlebend Ministries provides resources, training, and support for women—those who want to know how to live what they believe. We offer local, satellite, and online resources for churches, ministry leaders, small groups, and individuals. Our resources are grounded in the Word of God and focused on intensive, intentional, biblical study and shepherding and use our S.A.L.T. accountability model. This model is built upon four pillars: Submission, Accountability, Laboring, and Transparency. The model is designed to promote genuine life change through confession, repentance, and radical obedience to God and His Word. The Thistlebend Discipleship app was developed with the Subsplash App Platform. Mobile app version: 6.22.0
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Thistlebend Discipleship at 5.0 against The Church App's 4.1. Thistlebend Discipleship also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%). The Church App's advantage is ratings volume (95 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thistlebend Discipleship holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Church App has 95 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of The Church App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Thistlebend Discipleship's.
The Church App ships an update every 2 months, Thistlebend Discipleship every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and July 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Church App | Thistlebend Discipleship |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (95 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Subsplash Inc | Thistlebend Ministries Inc. |
Customer experience
The Church App
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In-app purchases
The Church App
No in-app purchases
Thistlebend Discipleship
No in-app purchases
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