Forward Day by Day vs The Mockingapp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forward Day by Day
This app provides daily spiritual practices for busy individuals, including meditations, prayers, and scripture readings. It offers integrated podcasts for listening and customizable display preferences for a personalized experience.
- Daily meditation
- Daily prayers
- Daily scripture readings
- Integrated podcasts
- Customizable display preferences
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
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Forward Day by Day offers prayer on the go—daily spiritual practices for busy people. In English and Spanish. The app includes the daily meditation from Forward Day by Day, as well as all daily prayers from The Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church, and the daily scripture readings from the lectionary. Integrated podcasts allow users to listen within the app as they read. Display preferences provide various fonts and text sizing options. Forward Day by Day is an offering of Forward Movement, a ministry of the Episcopal Church.
The Mockingapp
Access daily devotionals, a categorized blog, and multiple podcasts from a ministry focused on connecting faith with everyday life. Enjoy fresh content on diverse topics and shareable devotional entries with customizable reminders.
- Categorized mobile blog
- Daily devotional content
- Multiple podcast episodes
- Shareable devotional entries
- Customizable reminders
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The Mockingapp is the official app of Mockingbird Ministries, an organization that seeks to connect the grace of God with the realities of everyday life. The app brings together several strands of Mockingbird's work and puts them at your fingertips. Features include: - The Mockingbird Blog, fully optimized for mobile reading - Fresh content every weekday on topics ranging from relationships and movies to social science and theology (and everywhere in between) - Volumes 1 & 2 of the 365-day Mockingbird Devotional - Every episode of Mockingbird's various podcasts (The Mockingcast, Same Old Song, The Storymakers Podcast, and more), available to stream For more about Mockingbird, head to www.mbird.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Mockingapp at 4.9 against Forward Day by Day's 4.3. The Mockingapp also leads on review sentiment (61% vs 46%). Forward Day by Day's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
The Mockingapp holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 88 and 44 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Forward Day by Day's written reviews are positive against 61% of The Mockingapp's.
Forward Day by Day ships an update every 2 weeks, The Mockingapp every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forward Day by Day | The Mockingapp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (88 ratings) | 4.9 (44 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.3% of reviews | 60.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | 44 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Forward Movement | Mockingbird Ministries, Inc |
Customer experience
Forward Day by Day
The Mockingapp
Bugs and requests
Forward Day by Day
Reported bugs
44 issues- Blank screen when opening app
- App not opening
- Stopped working on iPhone XR
- Not connected to Internet or won’t open
- Revolving circle and not opening
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- Message: Not connected to the internet
- No internet connection error
- Cannot Launch App
- App quit working
- App is Broken
- Crashville
- App Falls Short
- Very buggy
- Not working!
- Where's the text?
- Technical issues
- App not working
- Spacing errors
- Text does not have proper spacing between words
- Lord's Prayer reads "sinsas" instead of "sins as"
- The Saint isn't always the saint according to the calendar
- Daily Saint does not show up at all
- Meditations missing?
- Daily meditation does not fit the iPhone screen
- Text won't shift to landscape mode
- App not working on iPad
- Content doesn't fit the screen
- Daily prayer now sticks on the time of day
- Link to Daily prayers anytime is broken
- Won't swivel as iPad is turned
- Typo fixes needed
- Lord's Prayer spacing is off
- Meditation "bleeds" off the viewing area
- Cannot swipe back to today's meditation
- Slow to load
- Daily Meditation page is blank
- Bug: it will only load the current day once I change the settings from Rite I to Rite II and vice versa
- Meditation bleeds off the screen
- Problem with the devotionals section bleeding off the screen
- The fonts are really small with no way to enlarge them
- Cannot pinch to enlarge
- No landscape mode for larger font
- Daily meditation does not fit the iPhone screen
- Text won't shift to landscape
Requested features
16 requests- Ability to swipe from left edge to go back
- 3-reading setting for Daily Office
- Information about saints linked to Daily Office
- Ability to stretch text on iPod
- Option to enlarge font size
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- Reminders at certain times of the day
- Update the app
- Cache a few days or a month of data for offline use
- Include author biographies
- Add a search function
- Consider making this a universal app for iPad functionality
- More interactive features
- Make it accessible to people not familiar with the Episcopal Church
- Customize the office more (e.g., General Thanksgiving at Morning Prayer)
- More of the daily offices included
- Option to customize the office more
The Mockingapp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Forward Day by Day
No in-app purchases
The Mockingapp
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Forward Day by Day free?
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