FOCUS Equip vs Inner Monk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FOCUS Equip
Access free electronic Bible studies and resources for evangelization and discipleship. This app provides videos and audio talks from conferences to deepen your faith and leadership skills.
- Free electronic Bible studies
- Evangelization and discipleship guides
- Conference videos and audio talks
- Leadership training resources
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Welcome to the official FOCUS Equip mobile application! FOCUS Equip is the curriculum department of FOCUS (The Fellowship of Catholic University Students). The mobile application features: *Free electronic FOCUS Bible studies *How-to series on evangelization, disicpleship, and leading a Bible study *Videos and full-length audio talks from FOCUS conferences For more resources, check out www.focusequip.org. Follow FOCUS Equip on Twitter, or Like us on Facebook. For more about FOCUS, go to: www.focus.org. The FOCUS (The Fellowship of Catholic University Students) App was created with The Church App by Subsplash. Mobile app version: 6.21.1
Inner Monk
This app helps you establish a daily prayer routine with morning and evening prayers composed by monks. It tracks your progress, offers text-to-speech for prayers, and provides access to monastery news, podcasts, and live streams.
- Morning and evening prayers
- Prayer progress tracking
- Text-to-speech prayer reader
- Access to monastery news and events
- Live Mass and Vespers streams
- Prayer request submission
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At Saint Meinrad Archabbey, we believe all Christians have an "inner monk": the part of each of us that wants to develop a deep, intense and personal relationship with God. Inner Monk offers a simple rhythm for that life, created by the Benedictine monks of Saint Meinrad in southern Indiana. MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER A new prayer for every morning and every evening of the year, written by the monks of Saint Meinrad. The app knows the time of day and opens to the prayer you need. THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT A short daily reading from the Rule, following the traditional Benedictine practice of reading the whole Rule three times each year. GUIDED LECTIO DIVINA Pray with Scripture step by step through the ancient practice of lectio divina: reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation. LIVE FROM THE ARCHABBEY CHURCH Join the monastic community in prayer through live streams from the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln. A GENTLE HABIT Create a free account to keep a history of your prayers, save favorites, and set optional morning and evening reminders on your phone. Quiet milestones mark your faithfulness along the way. They never count missed days against you, and you can turn them off entirely. NEWS FROM SAINT MEINRAD Stay connected with news, events, the podcast and the blog from Saint Meinrad Archabbey. Inner Monk is free, with no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FOCUS Equip at every 3 months against Inner Monk's every 38 months. FOCUS Equip also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 75%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for FOCUS Equip against 4.5 for Inner Monk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of FOCUS Equip's written reviews are positive against 75% of Inner Monk's.
FOCUS Equip ships an update every 3 months, Inner Monk every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FOCUS Equip | Inner Monk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (22 ratings) — better | 4.5 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fellowship of Catholic University Students | Abbey Press Publications |
Customer experience
FOCUS Equip
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In-app purchases
FOCUS Equip
No in-app purchases
Inner Monk
No in-app purchases
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