Comparison

Scroll vs Catholic DeVice

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

Head to head
About

Scroll

Discover daily Bible verses and spiritual reflections categorized by themes. Save your favorite verses and nurture your spiritual journey with uplifting content.

Highlights
  • Daily Bible verses
  • Themed verse categories
  • Save favorite verses
  • Daily reflections
  • Spiritual journey nurturing
Features
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Discover Bible verses about the Fruits of the Spirit. Nine virtues, one home screen: Love · Joy · Peace · Patience · Kindness · Goodness · Faith · Gentleness · Self-Control For each virtue, browse a rotating list of scripture across NIV, KJV, ESV, NASB, and NLT. Save what moves you. Tap any verse to jump straight into the full chapter — then walk chapter by chapter with the new prev / next arrows. NEW IN 2.1 • Tap any verse to open the full chapter • Save whole chapters (not just verses) • Prev / next chapter navigation across the entire Bible • Refresh button replaces accidental pull-refresh • Fresh look with a new icon PRIVATE AND FREE • No account required • No tracking, no ads, no in-app purchases • Everything happens on your device

About

Catholic DeVice

This app transforms screen time temptations into prayerful moments. It enforces a full-screen prayer toll before allowing access to designated 'vice' apps, turning bad habits into opportunities for spiritual growth. Features include customizable prayer options, offline functionality, and a digital library of religious texts.

Highlights
  • OS-level prayer enforcement
  • Customizable prayer tolls
  • Offline functionality
  • Digital library of religious texts
  • Scheduled silence and vows
  • Adult content filtering
Features
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Catholic DeVice turns the moment of temptation into a moment of prayer. Mark your vice apps, the occasions of sin, the doomscrolling traps. From then on, opening one is met by the Praywall: a full-screen toll of real Catholic prayer, enforced at the OS level. Pray it and a quiet countdown must pass before Amen lights. Once complete, the app opens for a timed window. Then the wall returns. Where other app blockers only subtract by empty friction, this Catholic prayer app substitutes. Every intercepted scroll becomes a Hail Mary, a psalm, a page of Augustine. Your worst habit becomes an occasion to pray. THE PRAYWALL • OS-level interception that works offline, survives reboots, and self-heals — a persistent wall, not a dismissible nag. • The toll knows the Church's calendar: the quiet countdown lengthens on Fridays and through Lent, and Friday Penance ships as a scheduled lockout, free. • Per-app daily limits, a daily intention gate, and Time Reclaimed — honest screen time math, not vanity numbers. THE TREASURY - real prayer, by the Church's own calendar • The Daily Rosary, novenas of Divine Mercy and the Sacred Heart, the Psalms, the Desert Fathers, Padre Pio, St. Thérèse's Little Way. Choose your path and assign to morning, midday, and evening. • Never AI-generated prayers. Every text comes from Scripture, the official liturgy, the saints and Church Fathers, or traditional prayers with centuries of use. • The Hours ring the Angelus at 6, noon, and 6 — and it becomes the Regina Caeli in Eastertide, because the app knows the season. THE BOOKSHELF — a reading room in your pocket • The Holy Gospels and Psalms (Douay-Rheims), The Imitation of Christ, the Baltimore Catechisms, Butler's Lives of the Saints, Guéranger's Liturgical Year, the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with the Summa Theologica, the Daily Missal, and Augustine's City of God among the premium titles. • Faithfully typeset on parchment: illuminated drop caps, a page you actually turn, candlelight night reading. Fully offline once downloaded. THE LITURGICAL YEAR • A stained-glass calendar, and the Proper of the Day: every feast, saint, and season in sectioned write-ups drawn verbatim from the classics. • Includes the traditional 1962 calendar — Septuagesima, Passiontide, and all. THE CLOISTER — scheduled silence • A Retreat locks your vices at once, no toll, no escape. Stay in your cell. • Recurring schedules guard work mornings, family dinners, Sundays. • And the Vow: seal your disciplines under wax, and they may be deepened but never loosened until the Vow releases the way you chose — a waiting period, an entrusted PIN, the charger… or the one way no other blocker offers: prayer. CUSTODY OF THE EYES Opt-in adult-content filtering with no toll attached — free. Protection, not a paywall. NO STREAKS, ON PURPOSE Streaks punish; we removed them. Days of Fidelity only accumulates. A missed day never resets what grace has built. Medals rest in the Reliquary. Celebrations are quiet. HONEST PRIVACY Which apps you open is detected on your device and never sent to our servers. Your prayer progress syncs to your account only if you create one. Anonymous analytics, no ads, never sold. FREE FOREVER: two vice apps on the Praywall, the full toll loop offline, Retreats and Friday Penance, free devotional paths and books, the Liturgical Year and Proper of the Day, Custody of the Eyes. Premium adds unlimited vice apps, recurring Cloister schedules, the Vow, and the premium library. Catholic DeVice is discipline you choose for your own phone — not a parental-control tool. Enter the cathedral. Let the wall stand between you and the scroll. Terms of Use: https://catholicdevice.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://catholicdevice.com/privacy

Screenshots

Scroll3 screens
Catholic DeVice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scroll at none against Catholic DeVice's 3. Catholic DeVice's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Catholic DeVice sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Scroll 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 Scroll against 5.0 for Catholic DeVice. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scroll ships an update every 7 months, Catholic DeVice every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Scroll versus Catholic DeVice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScrollCatholic DeVice
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian OkekeKingfisher Technologies LLC

Customer experience

Scroll

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Catholic DeVice

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Scroll

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Catholic DeVice

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Premium Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$89.99

Questions

Is Scroll free?
Scroll is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Catholic DeVice free?
Catholic DeVice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scroll or Catholic DeVice?
Scroll and Catholic DeVice are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Scroll or Catholic DeVice have ads?
Neither Scroll nor Catholic DeVice shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scroll or Catholic DeVice?
Scroll ships an update every 7 months, and Catholic DeVice every 2 days. Most recently, Scroll was updated on October 30, 2026 and Catholic DeVice on October 31, 2026.

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