MyCompassion vs MyGabb
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!
MyGabb
This app provides parents with tools to monitor their children's location and manage their Gabb devices. It offers features like GPS tracking, customizable safe zones with alerts, and contact management to ensure child safety and growing independence.
- Location tracking and history
- Customizable Safe Zones with alerts
- Intuitive Parental Controls
- Easy device pairing
- Parent-approved contacts
- Designed for Gabb devices
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The MyGabb app is designed to help parents protect and stay connected with their kids as they explore the world with Gabb devices. With intuitive parental controls, GPS location and easy device management, MyGabb gives you the tools to support your child’s safety and growing independence. Quickly view your child’s location, set up customizable Safe Zones with alerts, and manage who they can contact—all from one simple app. Whether you’re managing one device or several, MyGabb makes it easy to stay informed and in control. Key Features: Location tracking and history Customizable Safe Zones with alerts Intuitive Parental Controls Easy device pairing and management Parent-approved contacts Designed exclusively for Gabb devices Learn more about Gabb: Gabb provides safe tech made specifically to protect kids, connect families, and empower parents. Gabb devices—Gabb Watch3 Gabb Phone 4 Pro, Gabb Phone 4, Gabb Phone 3 Pro—were all created with kids’ safety as the top priority and provide safe “tech in steps” options for kids 5-18. All Gabb devices come with unlimited talk and text with no access to social media, internet, or unsafe apps. Parents can stay safely connected with their kids through GPS tracking, safe messaging, geofenced safe zones with alerts when a child’s device enters or leaves specified locations, and more. Gabb’s growing list of safe apps, like Gabb Music and Gabb Messenger, give kids more ways to learn the benefits of technology without all the dangers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MyGabb at 4.5 against MyCompassion's 3.4. MyGabb also leads on ratings volume (8.2K vs 48) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). MyCompassion's advantage is review sentiment (51% vs 11%). 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.
MyGabb holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyGabb has 8.2K ratings behind it against 48, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of MyCompassion's written reviews are positive against 11% of MyGabb'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, MyGabb fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyCompassion | MyGabb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (48 ratings) | 4.5 (8.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.4% of reviews — better | 11.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 48 | 8.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compassion International, Inc. | Gabb Wireless, Inc. |
Customer experience
MyCompassion
MyGabb
User reviews
MyCompassion
From 48 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💌 Easy letter writing and composition
- 📸 Photo attachment capability
- 🗺️ Location and weather information about sponsored child
- 🙏 Prayer reminders and prompts
- 📖 Access to letter history and correspondence
Room to improve
- ⏱️ Extremely slow login process
- 💾 Letters not saving properly or disappearing
- 🔄 Frequent app crashes
- 🔐 Requires re-login on every app open
- 🖼️ Photo upload functionality broken
MyGabb
From 8.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and safe device for kids
- 📞 Allows calling and texting
- 🔒 No internet or social media access
- 🗺️ GPS tracking for parents
- 💻 Easy to use app
Room to improve
- 🐛 GPS functionality is unreliable and inaccurate
- 🔍 Location tracking is slow and inconsistent
- 🔋 Battery life issues
- 🤖 Buggy app with frequent crashes
- 🕰️ Poor customer service response times
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
MyGabb
Reported bugs
4 issues- Contacts and device pairing issues
- Unreliable GPS and location updates
- App crashes when trying to edit lock mode
- Inconsistent performance after software updates
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to view text message content
- More customization options for tasks and chores
- Improved GPS accuracy and live tracking
- Separate AM/PM chore settings
- Ability to see earned coins/rewards
In-app purchases
MyCompassion
No in-app purchases
MyGabb
No in-app purchases
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