Heartlight vs Sharing God's Love
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heartlight
Access daily Christian devotionals, including 'Today's Verse' and 'Morning and Evening'. Discover inspiring articles and artwork to foster your faith and walk with Christ.
- Daily devotionals
- Today's Verse by Phil Ware
- Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
- Inspiring articles
- Artwork for encouragement
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Welcome to the official Heartlight app. This app features free daily devotionals including 'Today's Verse' by Phil Ware, 'Morning and Evening' by Charles Spurgeon and many more. The app also includes inspiring articles and artwork to encourage you in your walk with Christ. For more information about Heartlight, please visit: http://www.heartlight.org The Heartlight, Inc. App was created with The Church App by Subsplash.
Sharing God's Love
Begin your day with a daily one-minute devotional designed to deepen your connection with Jesus. Each message offers encouragement, comfort, and teachings on God's love, grace, and mercy, complete with scripture. Listen to audio versions or share inspiring messages with friends and family.
- Daily one-minute devotions
- Scripture included
- Audio playback
- Share devotions
- Inspiring messages
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Start your day with an inspiring one-minute devotion that will draw you closer to Jesus and have you praising Him all day long! You’ll receive a new thought-provoking devotion each day that will encourage, comfort, and teach you about God’s amazing love, grace, and mercy. There is scripture for each devotion written out to make it easy for your to read God’s Word. An audio version is available where you can listen to Brenda read her devotions. You can also share the devotions with others via Facebook, text message, or email.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Heartlight at 4.6 against Sharing God's Love's 4.3. Heartlight also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). Sharing God's Love's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 10). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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.
Heartlight holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sharing God's Love has 66 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Heartlight's written reviews are positive against 67% of Sharing God's Love's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Heartlight | Sharing God's Love |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better | 4.3 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Heartlight, Inc. | Brenda Walsh Ministries |
Customer experience
Heartlight
Sharing God's Love
Bugs and requests
Heartlight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sharing God's Love
Reported bugs
8 issues- App crashes on opening
- App closes immediately after opening
- Devotional not reloading daily, requires reinstall
- Devotional not updating
- Contact developer page shows error
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- Audio version not working
- App crashes when sharing on iPad
- Notifications not received on iOS
Requested features
9 requests- Save for later/bookmarking
- Archive of past devotionals
- Search functionality
- Notifications/reminders
- Ability to scroll to previous days
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- Automatic daily text option
- Update for newer iPhone models
- Fix sharing on iPad
- Fix audio version
In-app purchases
Heartlight
No in-app purchases
Sharing God's Love
No in-app purchases
Questions
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