Comparison

Saugus Catholics vs Pew Pal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Saugus Catholics

Stay connected with the Saugus Catholics community. Access event schedules, mass times, volunteer forms, and community bulletins. Customize your layout for easy access to the features you use most.

Highlights
  • Upcoming event schedules
  • Mass times and schedules
  • Volunteer forms and documents
  • Community member directory
  • Bulletins and updates
  • Customizable portal layout
Features
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This mobile app is the best way to get everything related to Saugus Catholics: two parishes in Saugus, Massachusetts. This beautiful, customizable design features a clear layout of everything for members of the Saugus Catholics community. You can use this app to... • See what upcoming events are happening • Check mass times & schedules • Find volunteer forms and other documents • Contact Saugus Catholics members • Check the bulletins • Learn more about Saugus Catholics • Get notified about the latest events and updates • And much more! Your Saugus Catholics app is fully customizable by you: Rearrange your portals to easily access whichever features you use most. If you want to check events frequently, you can put that portal front and center. If you never check the directory, you can turn that portal off. This app is built with cutting-edge technology and a modern, user-friendly design that's optimized based on millions of usage data points. As the technology continues to improve, you'll notice your app getting better and better over time. If you have ideas, suggestions, questions, or feedback about anything in the app, you can easily submit them through your app's suggestion box (in the "Profile" screen). This feedback will always be taken into account to continue improving the Saugus Catholics app experience for everyone.

About

Pew Pal

This app serves as a Catholic missal and prayer companion, offering access to daily Mass readings, the Rosary, and the Liturgy of the Hours. It supports English and Latin, with a bilingual side-by-side display, and features customizable appearance settings for a focused prayer experience.

Highlights
  • Daily Mass readings (Novus Ordo & Traditional Latin)
  • Full Holy Rosary with all mysteries
  • Liturgy of the Hours (Breviary)
  • Marian devotions and prayers
  • Bilingual English/Latin display
  • Offline functionality
  • Customizable appearance
Features
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Pew Pal is your pocket missal and prayer companion for the Catholic faith. Follow along with every Mass, pray the Rosary, chant the Liturgy of the Hours, and keep the great Marian devotions close — in English, Latin, or beautifully displayed side by side. FREE FOREVER • The Marian tab — the seasonal antiphons, the Litany of Loreto, the six Fatima prayers, the de Montfort Consecrations and the complete Holy Rosary — is free, with no subscription and no account • Settings too: language, text size and appearance THE HOLY MASS • Full Novus Ordo (Ordinary Form) Mass with all responses • Choose from 10 Eucharistic Prayers: Roman Canon, EP II, III, IV, Reconciliation I & II, and Various Needs I–IV • Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal) with posture indicators (Stand, Sit, Kneel, Genuflect) • Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament — prayers and hymns THE HOLY ROSARY • All four sets of mysteries — Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous • Five meditations for each mystery • Today's mysteries highlighted automatically by day of the week • Opening prayers, the Fatima decade prayer, and closing prayers included LITURGY OF THE HOURS (BREVIARY) • Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary — all eight canonical hours, every day of the year, read aloud • 1962 Roman Breviary's Sunday Lauds, Sunday Vespers, and Compline in their full traditional form • Current canonical hour highlighted by clock time MARIAN DEVOTIONS • Seasonal Marian antiphons that change automatically with the liturgical year • Litany of Loreto (Litaniae Lauretanae) in full Latin and English • Six Fatima prayers (Pardon, Angel, Eucharistic, Decade, Sacrifice, Reparation) • St. Louis de Montfort's Act of Consecration to Jesus through Mary (long and short forms) BILINGUAL SIDE BY SIDE • Read English and Latin together in a beautiful parallel layout • Switch instantly between English only, Latin only, or Side by Side • Your scroll position is preserved when you switch languages BEAUTIFUL & CUSTOMIZABLE • Light, Dark, or match-your-system appearance • Four font sizes with full Dynamic Type accessibility support • Clean, distraction-free design for prayerful focus DESIGNED FOR THE PEW • Works completely offline — no ads, no tracking, no data collection • Launches fast and stays out of your way • Full VoiceOver accessibility • Every prayer traced to its public-domain source in Settings SUBSCRIPTION • Pew Pal Yearly — 1 year (2-week free trial for new subscribers) • Pew Pal Monthly — 1 month (2-week free trial for new subscribers) • The exact price is shown on the App Store for your country • Unlocks the Holy Mass, the Traditional Latin Mass and the Devotions hub — the Marian prayers and the Rosary stay free • No other purchases in the app Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage and cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://branicio.github.io/pewpal-support/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://branicio.github.io/pewpal-support/terms.html Whether you're at Sunday Mass, a Traditional Latin Mass, Benediction, the daily Rosary, or the canonical hours, Pew Pal puts every response, prayer, and hymn at your fingertips. Download it and leave the missal in the pew.

Screenshots

Saugus Catholics4 screens
Pew Pal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Saugus Catholics at none against Pew Pal's 2. Saugus Catholics also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). Pew Pal's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pew Pal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Saugus Catholics asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Saugus Catholics against 5.0 for Pew Pal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Saugus Catholics ships an update every 7 months, Pew Pal every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Saugus Catholics versus Pew Pal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaugus CatholicsPew Pal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Number of ratings36 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB149 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeabird AppsPaulo Branicio

Customer experience

Saugus Catholics

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pew Pal

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Saugus Catholics

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pew Pal

Subscriptions2
  • Pew Pal Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pew Pal Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Saugus Catholics free?
Saugus Catholics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pew Pal free?
Pew Pal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Saugus Catholics or Pew Pal?
Saugus Catholics and Pew Pal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Saugus Catholics or Pew Pal have ads?
Neither Saugus Catholics nor Pew Pal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Saugus Catholics or Pew Pal?
Saugus Catholics ships an update every 7 months, and Pew Pal every 6 days. Most recently, Saugus Catholics was updated on November 3, 2026 and Pew Pal on October 31, 2026.

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