Comparison

Cast vs Holy Instant

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

Head to head
About

Cast

This interactive edition of the ancient Chinese divination text helps you explore life's important questions. Focus universal energies to seek guidance and discover what fortune holds for you.

Highlights
  • Interactive I Ching edition
  • Ask life's important questions
  • Focus universal energies
  • Discover your fortune
  • Carefully designed interface
Features
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Cast: I Ching is a carefully designed interactive edition of the I Ching – the Book of Changes. Focus the energies of the universe on answering the important questions of your life. Ask the I Ching what fortune holds for you.

About

Holy Instant

This app offers a peaceful space to engage with A Course in Miracles, featuring the complete Text, Workbook, and Manual. It provides daily lessons and moments of stillness, with private storage for your reflections.

Highlights
  • Complete Text, Workbook, and Manual
  • Daily lessons
  • Moments of stillness
  • Private iCloud reflections
  • No trackers or sign-in required
  • Offline access
Features
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Holy Instant is a quiet place to be with A Course in Miracles: the complete 1975 First Edition Text, Workbook, and Manual, set like a fine book and made to be returned to a page at a time. read the Course, follow today's lesson, search every occurrence of a word or phrase, highlight a line, or sit for one held minute of stillness. there are no streaks to keep and nothing to finish. only the invitation to begin again. the reader keeps your place. open Read and you land on the paragraph you left, and Previous and Next sit at the foot of every section so you can keep going without walking back through the contents. the journal is where the practice becomes yours. write from a lesson, a passage, a reply from Grace, a person you are trying to forgive, or a blank page. search everything you have written, keep rich text, dictate instead of typing, and export the whole journal as clean markdown. your entries and highlights stay on your device and in your own private iCloud database, where the developer cannot read them. Grace is a companion grounded in the Course. she reflects what you bring, points you back to the words in your hands, and is designed to become less necessary rather than more. her optional memory stays on device, shows you every sentence it keeps, and can be erased completely in one tap. when you write to Grace, your message and the Course passages selected on your device travel through Holy Instant's own AWS service to Anthropic to be answered. Anthropic says API inputs and outputs are deleted within 30 days unless an exception applies. when you dictate, your voice goes to Amazon only to become text, and that text follows the same path. there is no account, no advertising, no tracking, no analytics, and no developer-readable history. every one of these paths is named in plain words inside the app. today's idea can rest silently on your iPhone home or lock screen, your Apple Watch, and your watch face. one optional daily invitation is available and off until you turn it on. nothing pings hourly, counts a day, closes a ring, or tells you that you failed. Holy Instant supports Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and measured WCAG AA contrast in light and dark. privacy and accessibility are stated plainly inside the app under “Our Two Promises.” free, with no account, no ads, and no subscription. made as an act of service.

Screenshots

Cast3 screens
Holy Instant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Holy Instant at every 2 days against Cast's every 10 days. Cast's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cast against 5.0 for Holy Instant. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cast has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cast ships an update every 10 days, Holy Instant every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cast versus Holy Instant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCastHoly Instant
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAFSHIN DARIANMatthew Gennings

Customer experience

Cast

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Holy Instant

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cast

No in-app purchases

None

Holy Instant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cast free?
Cast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Holy Instant free?
Holy Instant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cast or Holy Instant?
Cast and Holy Instant are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cast or Holy Instant have ads?
Neither Cast nor Holy Instant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cast or Holy Instant?
Cast ships an update every 10 days, and Holy Instant every 2 days. Most recently, Cast was updated on November 4, 2026 and Holy Instant on October 13, 2026.

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