MyCompassion vs Pastor Fish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyCompassion
Easily manage your child sponsorship journey. Send letters, view photos and updates, receive prayer requests, and learn about their world. Stay connected with real-time alerts.
- Send letters to sponsored child
- View photos and updates
- Receive prayer requests
- Set prayer reminders
- Discover stories and facts
- Real-time alerts and updates
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You’ve already started something amazing by becoming a sponsor. Now, make your sponsorship journey easier with the MyCompassion app — designed just for you. See the impact of your support with just a tap! With the app, you can: • Quickly send letters to your sponsored child. It’s easy! • See their latest photos and updates. You’ll love watching them grow. • Get prayer requests and even set reminders to pray. • Discover stories and facts about their world — it’s like traveling without leaving home. • Stay in the loop with real-time alerts and updates! Ready to explore? Download the MyCompassion app now to start enjoying these new features!
Pastor Fish
This app offers a playful introduction to Bible stories and songs with interactive games and activities. It aims to foster biblical literacy and positive life messages through engaging content and multilingual support.
- Bible songs and stories
- Memory and math games
- Music creation
- Multilingual support
- Interactive characters
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Pastor Fish is a fun and whimsical presentation of Bible songs and stories. Loads of surprises bring hours of productive fun, as users internalize positive messages for biblical (and life) literacy. Laugh along as the radio announcer brings you silly sports and weather. Play memory and math games, make music with friendly sea turtles, sing along with the other minnows, even expand your understanding of another language. It includes English, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian, with more languages planned! You’ll love your new friends, Pastor Fish, Barni Barnacle, Wigbert the Whale and the minnows of the Pastor Fish Radio Hour. Brought to you by your friends at NHM Ministrants, www.ministrants.com, a division of Elfenworks Productions, LLC. We’re thinking generationally, “to help you share God’s love and care℠.”
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pastor Fish at 4.0 against MyCompassion's 3.5. Pastor Fish also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). MyCompassion's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (49 vs 12). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Pastor Fish holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of MyCompassion's written reviews are positive against 50% of Pastor Fish's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MyCompassion ships an update every 2 months, Pastor Fish every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyCompassion | Pastor Fish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (49 ratings) | 4.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 49 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 253 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compassion International, Inc. | Elfenworks Productions LLC |
Customer experience
MyCompassion
Pastor Fish
Bugs and requests
MyCompassion
Reported bugs
18 issues- Login process takes excessive time to load
- Letter drafts fail to save or save incompletely
- App crashes when uploading photos
- Letter button requires multiple clicks to function
- App force closes during prayer selection
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- Text disappears from letter body during composition
- App crashes when attaching images
- Notification badges persist even after reading
- Child information not syncing across devices
- Letters show incorrect or duplicate dates
- App crashes on iOS 8.2 when clicking bio headings
- Login credentials not persisting between sessions
- Gift sending interface freezes without options
- Template selection error message despite selection
- App becomes unresponsive during letter writing
- Photo upload reverts to main screen
- Account creation kicks user out of app
- Technical difficulties message on app open
Requested features
14 requests- Restore previous app version with better navigation
- Improve login speed and eliminate re-login requirement
- Add Apple Pencil support for handwritten letters on iPad
- Implement push notifications for received letters
- Make child photos larger and easier to access
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- Show all letter history instead of limiting to last 5
- Add suggested topics for letter writing
- Reduce marketing content on home page
- Full-screen map view option
- Ability to make app payments and donations
- Better notification system for unread letters
- Automatic tracking of last letter sent date
- Dark mode option
- Improved draft auto-save functionality
Pastor Fish
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MyCompassion
No in-app purchases
Pastor Fish
No in-app purchases
Questions
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