Touchstones vs The Pinecaster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Touchstones
This app offers daily meditations and insights specifically for men, focusing on masculinity, recovery, and personal growth. It provides tools for navigating life's challenges, supporting self-help programs, and fostering balanced living.
- Daily readings for recovery and personal growth
- Meditations exploring masculinity
- Includes Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
- Bookmark favorite meditations
- Search all daily readings
- Daily notification reminders
- Light/dark mode and font size settings
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Designed specifically for men, Touchstones explores masculinity through informative, inspirational meditations and offers profound advice for life’s many changes. While the daily readings help with recovery, they also help men create a better, more balanced life. Continued awareness and involvement with the ideas in this app provide ongoing personal growth. Although this growth is entirely our own, its benefits are shared and spread to every relationship--friends and family alike. Here, every struggle meets an insight. And in this app, the cycle of addiction can meet its end. In addition to a meditation for each day of the year, Touchstones includes lists of the Twelve Steps and the Twelve Traditions. Whether you participate in Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or another self-help program, Touchstones can serve as a reliable companion on any recovering man’s journey. Features: PRESS the “Today” button to access today’s reading. SWIPE forward or back to easily access more daily readings. SHARE the daily reading with friends by e-mail or text. BOOKMARK your favorite meditations (press the star in the upper right-hand corner) and easily return to them (press the star in the bottom toolbar). SEARCH all 366 daily readings. RECEIVE a notification every day to remind you to read the daily meditation. JUMP to a specific reading using the calendar button. SET your font size using your device settings. CHOOSE between light or dark mode.
The Pinecaster
Experience legendary guitarists playing vintage instruments through exclusive audio-visual content. Discover unique performances and historical instruments.
- Interactive audio-visual experience
- Exclusive videos of guitarists
- Showcases historical instruments
- Features legendary guitarists
- Vintage instrument performances
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A unique interactive audio-visual experience with exclusive videos showing legendary guitarists playing these historical instruments! Watch Redd Volkaert, Julian Lage, Javi Peña, Duke Levine, Deke Dickerson… take these vintage gems through their paces!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Touchstones at 98% against The Pinecaster's 0%. Touchstones also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 2). The Pinecaster's advantage is price (Free vs $7.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 11 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
The Pinecaster is free to download; Touchstones costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Touchstones holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Touchstones has 1.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Touchstones's written reviews are positive against 0% of The Pinecaster's.
Touchstones ships an update every 11 months, The Pinecaster every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Touchstones | The Pinecaster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.6K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #29 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BookMobile | EPIGRAM DEVELOPMENT SOCIEDAD LIMITADA |
Customer experience
Touchstones
The Pinecaster
Bugs and requests
Touchstones
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashing or not opening on iOS 8.3
- Text size issues after iOS 10 upgrade
Requested features
3 requests- Audio narration of daily readings
- Ability to create custom folders/bookmarks
- Notification reminders to read daily
The Pinecaster
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Touchstones
No in-app purchases
The Pinecaster
No in-app purchases
