Stand to Reason vs Renewing Your Mind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stand to Reason
This app provides Christians with resources to deepen their understanding of faith and articulate a reasoned defense of classical Christianity. Access podcasts, blogs, articles, and letters to build confidence in your beliefs.
- Weekly radio and video podcasts
- Daily blog
- Featured articles
- Solid Ground and mentoring letters
- Key articles on defending Christianity
- Social media sharing
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Get equipped anywhere, anytime with Stand to Reason’s free app. Stand to Reason trains Christians to think more clearly about their faith and to make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity and classical Christian values. Get Greg Koukl’s weekly radio and video podcasts, STR’s daily blog, the weekly featured article, a selection of Solid Ground and mentoring letters, and a some of the essential articles on topics key to defending Christianity and building your own faith and confidence. Connect with STR on Facebook and Twitter, and share the podcasts with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. For more training tools, visit www.str.org The Stand to Reason App was created with The Church App by Subsplash. Mobile app version: 6.21.3
Renewing Your Mind
This daily devotional guide offers a verse or short passage for memorization, meditation, and understanding. It aims to facilitate spiritual transformation through daily scripture engagement, guided by the Holy Spirit.
- Daily scripture verse or passage
- Memorization prompts
- Meditation guidance
- Scripture meaning exploration
- Spiritual transformation focus
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The purpose of this daily devotional guide is simply to facilitate this process by providing a verse or short passage to memorize, meditate upon, learn the meaning of, and delight upon each day. If you will read, think, and meditate upon these Scriptures, you will find that the Holy Spirit will make transformation take place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Stand to Reason at 59 against Renewing Your Mind's 1. Stand to Reason also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 8 months). Renewing Your Mind's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Renewing Your Mind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stand to Reason has 59 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Stand to Reason ships an update every 4 months, Renewing Your Mind every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stand to Reason | Renewing Your Mind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (59 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stand to Reason | Materna Communications Sp. z o.o. |
Customer experience
Stand to Reason
Renewing Your Mind
Bugs and requests
Stand to Reason
Reported bugs
7 issues- Garbled audio playback
- Errors on all devices when watching videos
- Cannot play audio
- Broken links in resources section
- Blog section yields error message
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- Audio playback issues after update
- Podcast restarts from the beginning after a phone call
Requested features
11 requests- Search bar for easy navigation
- Offline access to written content
- Ability to search for material like on the website
- Include a search box for easy navigation
- Add J. Warner Wallace's podcast to the lineup
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- Dark mode option
- Offline availability of information with refresh
- Include a search box for easy navigation of material
- Zoom or font size increase
- Fix audio playback issues
- Fix podcast restarting problem
Renewing Your Mind
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stand to Reason
No in-app purchases
Renewing Your Mind
No in-app purchases
Questions
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