Gather Magazine vs Everything AA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gather Magazine
This app delivers engaging articles and award-winning Bible studies focused on faith in daily life. Explore topics like prayer, family, and creation care to find encouragement and inspiration. Connect with a community of faith-filled individuals and be empowered for action.
- Faith in daily life articles
- Prayer and family life columns
- Care of creation topics
- Monthly Bible study
- Community connection
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Each issue of Gather brings you engaging articles and award-winning Bible studies. Our faith in daily life stories and columns on prayer, family life, care of creation—and more—will encourage, comfort, challenge and inspire. Grow in faith, connect with others, be empowered for bold action. Join our community of faith-filled thinkers and doers today. You must subscribe to the print version of Gather (www.gathermagazine.org) for full access. This app features: --Articles about faith in daily life --Columns on prayer, family life, care of creation, and more --Monthly Bible study Gather is the official magazine of Women of the ELCA, the women’s ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In thousands of congregations across the U.S., women gather in community to grow in faith and live their faith through ministry and action. Our mission is mobilizing women to act boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ. All women are welcome to subscribe.
Everything AA
This app offers a comprehensive collection of resources for individuals engaged in a 12-step program. It provides access to meeting finders, literature, audiobooks, daily reflections, and inventory tools, all within a single, ad-free platform.
- Worldwide Online Meeting Finder
- Big Book (Text & Audiobook)
- 12 Steps and 12 Traditions (Text & Audio)
- Daily Reflection
- Sobriety Counter
- Shareable Daily Inventory & Gratitude List
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Searching for the best AA app to complement your 12 step program? Look no further! Everything AA has every resource you could need in one place, and is still growing. It provides this completely free of cost and with no ads! It includes: -A worldwide Online Meeting Finder -Text and Audiobook versions of the Big Book -Text and Audio versions of the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions (12 & 12) -The Daily Reflection -Text and Audio versions of Living Sober - The Joe and Charlie Audio Tapes -Literature and pamphlets from Alcoholics Anonymous such as How it Works, The 12 Steps, The 12 Traditions, the Preamble, AA meeting cards, the Sponsorship Pamphlet, the AA prayers and many more! -A shareable daily inventory and gratitude list! The app also includes a sobriety counter so that you can keep track of your exact day count! We hope it helps you on your Alcoholics Anonymous Journey! Version 2.0 has an integrated online meeting guide that helps you find meetings any time of day, and open them automatically in your video conferencing apps. Be sure to check it out for Alcoholics Anonymous meetings around the world! The app uses the Standard Apple Terms of Use(EULA) which is available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gather Magazine at none against Everything AA's 2. Gather Magazine also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). Everything AA's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (75K vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Everything AA sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Gather Magazine asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gather Magazine against 4.9 for Everything AA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Everything AA has 75K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Gather Magazine's written reviews are positive against 95% of Everything AA's.
Gather Magazine ships an update every 5 months, Everything AA every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gather Magazine | Everything AA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (75K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 94.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 75K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. |
Customer experience
Gather Magazine
Everything AA
Bugs and requests
Gather Magazine
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Everything AA
Reported bugs
2 issues- Audio playback issues
- Occasional crashes or freezes
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to highlight/bookmark text
- Add more AA literature and resources
In-app purchases
Gather Magazine
No in-app purchases
Everything AA
- Supporter$1.991 Month
- Supporter$19.991 Year
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