Cast vs Holy Instant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Interactive I Ching edition
- Ask life's important questions
- Focus universal energies
- Discover your fortune
- Carefully designed interface
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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.
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.
- Complete Text, Workbook, and Manual
- Daily lessons
- Moments of stillness
- Private iCloud reflections
- No trackers or sign-in required
- Offline access
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Cast | Holy Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AFSHIN DARIAN | Matthew Gennings |
Customer experience
Cast
Holy Instant
In-app purchases
Cast
No in-app purchases
Holy Instant
No in-app purchases









