CCV Mobile App vs Hero Parents
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CCV Mobile App
This app helps you stay connected to your church community by providing tools for taking message notes, checking in, and discovering upcoming events. It also offers resources for spiritual growth, parenting support, and ways to invite friends and family.
- Take and save message notes
- Check-in to services
- Discover upcoming events and classes
- Access parenting resources
- Explore a media library
- Follow Bible reading plans
- Invite friends and family
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Take CCV with you wherever you go! Whether you’re at home, the gym, or sitting in service, we’ve placed the tools for staying connected right in the palm of your hand. Take message notes and save them for later, check-in and let us know you’ve joined us, and find upcoming events and classes that are picked just for you. The addition of the My Family section will keep you up-to-date on what your kids are learning in service each week. You will also find discussion topics for use at home, and resources to help navigate the different stages of parenting. We’ve also included quick access to resources that will help you continue to grow in your faith. Life Training resources can help you through some of life’s most difficult seasons, a media library with thousands of videos for personal growth and entertainment, and Bible reading plans provide daily encouragement. The app isn’t only a resource for you. It’s a tool to introduce your friends and family to your church by inviting them to join you for a service or share a favorite message with them. We hope this app will help you stay connected to your church and community no matter where you are.
Hero Parents
This app provides parents with curated content to support their child's spiritual development. It includes conversation starters, memory verse videos, Bible stories, and parenting blogs.
- Conversation cards
- Memory verse videos
- Bible stories
- Parenting blogs
- Spiritual journey enhancement
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Introducing the Hero Parents app! Syncing seamlessly with your child's weekly kids' ministry, this innovative app offers fresh, curated content to enhance your child's spiritual journey. Dive into conversation cards, engaging memory verse videos, and captivating Bible stories. Plus, explore insightful blogs designed to empower you as a parent in nurturing your child's faith. With Hero Parents, you can actively participate in your child's spiritual formation, making faith a family adventure. Download now and transform your parenting experience!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CCV Mobile App at none against Hero Parents's shown. CCV Mobile App also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (153 vs 5). Hero Parents's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Hero Parents holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CCV Mobile App has 153 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of CCV Mobile App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hero Parents's.
CCV Mobile App ships an update fortnightly, Hero Parents every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CCV Mobile App | Hero Parents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (153 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Christ's Church of the Valley, Inc. | Amazing Kids |
Customer experience
CCV Mobile App
Hero Parents
Bugs and requests
CCV Mobile App
Reported bugs
15 issues- No longer saves notes
- Keeps logging out
- Changes daughter's address and brother-in-law's email
- Cannot pull up Bible verse from notes
- Lost credentials after update
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- Disabled copy and paste functionality
- Major latency on the log in screen
- Refused new credentials after password reset
- App does not allow users to turn off access to camera
- Incompatible with my IPAD
- App won't open without crashing on my iPad
- App support link is 404
- App will not open on iPad
- Keeps saying it cannot connect to the internet on iPad
- Snake game is laggy
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to Zoom and rotate home group questions
- Add ability to 'favorite' specific sermons
- Update to include new East Valley campus
- Split view enabled for iPad users
Hero Parents
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CCV Mobile App
No in-app purchases
Hero Parents
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CCV Mobile App free?
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