Forward Day by Day vs CityGuards
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.
CityGuards
This app connects you with your local public safety agency, allowing you to report crime tips, receive real-time alerts, and access vital services. It prioritizes user privacy by not requiring registration and ensuring no personal information is collected or shared.
- Report anonymous crime tips
- Receive real-time alerts
- Access vital public services
- Get updates from public safety officials
- Find local community events
- Interact with local police
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Welcome to CityGuards, the official app used by your public-safety agency to better serve and protect you. CityGuards empowers you to become involved with your community safety efforts and interact with the LOCAL POLICE department. Receive essential information and provide feedback, report an anonymous crime tip, hear the latest from your public-safety officials, get quick access to vital services, volunteer, never miss an event, and get alerts in real-time! It’s the easiest way to contact your local Police. YOUR PRIVACY FIRST. CityGuards doesn't require user registration as terms of use. No personal information is given by you and no service directly related to the mobile-app ties back to you or your personal information. The public-safety agency and the developer DO NOT collect, share or use personal information. CityGuards is NOT a social media channel. It’s time to get involved the right way! CityGuards is always free for the public and local community which it serves and it's available for anyone to use for better safety and quality of life. Disclaimer: CityGuards mobile-app serves subscribed local governments for their communities. Like CityGuards and can't find your local Police? Maybe they are not subscribed yet. Reach out to them or let us know (ask@itsimple.io) and we'll be happy to make contact and demonstrate how CityGuards can help their daily operations with better serving your community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CityGuards at 80% against Forward Day by Day's 46%. Forward Day by Day's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and rating (4.3 vs 4.1). 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.
Forward Day by Day holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Forward Day by Day has 88 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Forward Day by Day's written reviews are positive against 80% of CityGuards's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Forward Day by Day ships an update every 2 weeks, CityGuards every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forward Day by Day | CityGuards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (88 ratings) — better | 4.1 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.3% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forward Movement | ITsimple LC |
Customer experience
Forward Day by Day
CityGuards
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
CityGuards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Forward Day by Day
No in-app purchases
CityGuards
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Forward Day by Day free?
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