Gloria Books vs The Blessing Devotional
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gloria Books
Access a digital library of literature and daily devotionals with audiobooks. This app helps you grow spiritually and equip you to help others grow, all conveniently stored on your device.
- Digital literature collection
- Daily devotionals with audiobooks
- Spiritual growth resources
- Convenient on-device storage
- Modern quiet time practice
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Gloria Books adalah aplikasi newsstand digital dari Yayasan Pelayanan Gloria yang berisi kumpulan buku-buku literatur, Renungan Harian® beserta audio book. Anda akan ditolong dan diperlengkapi sebelum nantinya memiliki kapasitas dalam menolong pertumbuhan rohani orang lain melalui buku-buku literatur yang kami terbitkan. Anda bisa mendapatkannya dengan cara yang praktis, tidak perlu menyimpan terlalu banyak buku yang sudah terbaca, karena semua bisa disimpan dengan ringkas di iPad dan iPhone, dan bisa dibaca kapan pun dan di mana pun. Juga bahan-bahan Renungan Harian® beserta audio book dapat dipakai mengembangkan kebiasaan berwaktu teduh dengan cara lebih modern. Disiplin rohani ini menolong kita untuk merayakan kehadiran dan kedekatan-Nya. Selamat membaca. Selamat bertumbuh bagi kemuliaan-Nya!
The Blessing Devotional
Access daily Bible encouragements and prayers to strengthen your faith and build an intimate relationship with God. Search for specific topics, set personal notifications, and customize your reading experience with adjustable text size and dark mode.
- Daily encouragements and prayers
- Search by keywords
- Personalized notifications
- Adjustable text size
- Dark mode
- Home screen widget
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“The Blessing Devotional” is the key to a victorious life of faith. Through the daily encouragements and prayers you discover the treasures and riches from God’s Word. It opens the door to a wonderful life with Him, hidden in God. Get strengthened in your faith every day by the daily encouragements of David Maasbach. Pray along the prayers and develop an intimate relationship with the living God. Search on keywords for specific topics. Do not miss any encouragement and set a personal notification. Change the text size as desired. Also enjoy reading in the evening with the automatic dark mode. Add a beautiful widget to your home screen and be encouraged daily. “The Blessing Devotional” is based on the daily devotionals “A prayer for every day” and “Every day with God” by David Maasbach. David Maasbach is president of the Johan Maasbach World Mission Foundation, senior pastor of The Blessing Churches and author of many books, among which the bestseller “Every day with God”. Through his powerful ministry in sermons, broadcasts and books, many people have been encouraged and changed. He is the first Dutch pastor that obtained weekly airtime on one of the Netherlands’ best known nationwide commercial television channels. Today he reaches countless people with his broadcasts and in all kinds of other modern ways.
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Verdict
Gloria Books and The Blessing Devotional both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of The Blessing Devotional's written reviews are positive against 17% of Gloria Books's. The Blessing Devotional also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ratings volume (73 vs 1). Gloria Books's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Gloria Books sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. The Blessing Devotional asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gloria Books against 4.9 for The Blessing Devotional. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Blessing Devotional has 73 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 17% of Gloria Books's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Blessing Devotional's.
Gloria Books ships an update every 5 months, The Blessing Devotional every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gloria Books | The Blessing Devotional |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 73 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MAHONI GLOBAL, PT | Johan Maasbach World Mission |
Customer experience
Gloria Books
The Blessing Devotional
In-app purchases
Gloria Books
- Bundle MAR-APR 2013$0.99
- Bundle MEI-JUN 2013$0.99
- Bundle JUL-AUG 2013$0.99
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- Bundle SEP-OCT 2013$0.99
- Bundle NOV-DES 2015$0.99
- Bundle JAN-FEB 2016$0.99
- Bundle MAR-APR 2016$0.99
- Bundle SEP-OKT 2016$0.99
- Bundle NOV-DES 2016$0.99
- Bundle JAN-FEB 2017$0.99
- Bundle NOV-DES 2023$0.99
The Blessing Devotional
No in-app purchases
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