MyCompassion vs Selara
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!
Selara
This app helps you organize and track your prayer requests, allowing you to journal your thoughts and reflect on answered prayers. It fosters community through shared prayer circles and prioritizes user privacy with on-device encryption.
- Organize prayer requests by category
- Journal prayers via voice or text
- Track answered prayers
- Create shared Prayer Circles
- On-device encryption for privacy
- Customizable color themes
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Selara is a prayer journal designed for one thing: helping you remember what God has done. Bring every request to God—by category, by name, by burden. Log it, pray over it, and when the answer comes, mark it. Then look back and see the faithfulness you'd have forgotten. PRAY WITH INTENTION Organize prayer requests by category—health, family, guidance, gratitude, and more. Add notes, Scripture, and the names of people you're praying for. JOURNAL FROM YOUR HEART Speak your prayers out loud and let Selara's AI shape them into a journal entry—your words, your heart, no typing required. Or write it out the old-fashioned way. REMEMBER WHAT HE'S DONE Mark prayers as answered and build a living record of God's faithfulness. Faith grows when you remember. PRAY TOGETHER Create a Prayer Circle and invite your small group, family, or friends. Share requests, carry each other's burdens, and see how God moves in community. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Your personal prayers are encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. Not even we can read them. Your prayer life is yours. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from six color themes to make Selara feel like home. — Selah: pause, reflect, praise. Elorah: God is my light. Selara is both.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Selara at 100% against MyCompassion's 51%. Selara also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). MyCompassion's advantage is ratings volume (48 vs 5). 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.
Selara holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyCompassion has 48 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of MyCompassion's written reviews are positive against 100% of Selara's.
MyCompassion ships an update every 2 months, Selara weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyCompassion | Selara |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compassion International, Inc. | Allyson Hittinger |
Customer experience
MyCompassion
Selara
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
Selara
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MyCompassion
No in-app purchases
Selara
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is MyCompassion free?
Is Selara free?
Which has better reviews, MyCompassion or Selara?
Do MyCompassion or Selara have ads?
Which is updated more often, MyCompassion or Selara?
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