Comparison

Epistle vs ForecastYou

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

Head to head
About

Epistle

This app facilitates communication and financial support for missionaries. It allows for easy sharing of ministry updates with photos and videos, automatically sending them to ministry partners who can respond with engagement. It simplifies the process of connecting with supporters and managing ministry outreach.

Highlights
  • Share ministry updates with photos and video
  • Automatic update distribution to partners
  • Ministry partner engagement (likes, prayers, comments)
  • Manage ministry sites
  • Connect with ministry partners
  • Automated email platform
Features
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Epistle is used by thousands of missionaries to stay connected and funded. It has never been easier to share ministry updates with photos and video. No more hassle with email templates, scheduling, etc. Epistle sends your updates to ministry partners, automatically, using our world-class email platform and gives them the opportunity to respond with likes, prayers and comments. Both missionaries and ministry partners love Epistle: "The greatest thing I could do for my ministry partners." "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Do the two week trial." Supporter: "I feel confident I'm investing well." With paid Epistle subscription you can manage your Epistle site, send updates, and connect with ministry partners. Ministry partners can access Epistle sites to read and respond to your updates without payment. Terms of Use: https://www.epistle.org/terms-of-use/

About

ForecastYou

Log your moods and habits to gain insights into your future behavior. This app analyzes your entries to project patterns in your energy levels, mood shifts, and daily activities, helping you understand your personal trends.

Highlights
  • Log moods and habits
  • Write reflections
  • Manage time
  • View in-depth statistics
  • Project future patterns
  • Analyze daily behavior
Features
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Ever heard of an app that projects 55% chance of an energy drink on Tuesday? That your mood will dip midweek? That you'll spend 9.6 years on your phone over the next few decades? MEET FORECASTYOU: Create habits and activities: the good habits you're building, the bad ones you're breaking, the obligations you can't avoid, or the things you do for fun. Create moods to capture the most niche mental states. Then ForecastYou takes everything you've logged and turns it into something most apps never show you: the future. HOW DOES IT WORK? We're not a mood ring. ForecastYou gives you in-depth, detailed breakdowns of every forecast projection, so that even the wrong predictions still describe something about you. But we can only show you the trends. You decide what the weather will be. The real point of ForecastYou is to beat the forecast, to exceed expectations, not just meet them. Our forecasts want to be wrong, if it means our users are making the most of their days! NO MORE DAILY SCREEN TIME TRACKERS. TRY 9.6 YEARS OVER THE NEXT DECADE ForecastYou isn't just interested in predicting the day to day. Our users want a forecast that shows them where they're headed, decades down the road. Every month, ForecastYou tallies up the total time spent on every activity and habit and projects those trends onto the scale of decades. Take the good with the bad. 10.4 years of screen time is something fixable, not anything predestined. Let the Climate Report be your wake up call to taking back your years! COMING FROM ANOTHER JOURNALING APP? No problem. ForecastYou allows users to import pdfs, .docx, .txt, .md, or rtf files, and rapidly create entries using imported text and dates. Users can configure keywords to rapidly log habits or activities or moods that appear within dated entries. Set up the rules, and let ForecastYou generate a brief history of you. That way, you can pick up right where you left off. YOUR JOURNAL NEVER LEAVES YOUR DEVICE: Your journal is a file on your device. No sign-up, no login, all local data storage. Easily download or upload your journal to make the most of owning your data. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? Free users get one habit and one activity, plus unlimited entries, daily and weekly forecasts, photos, to do lists, and reflections. ForecastYou Pro costs $15.99 annually and $59.99 for the lifetime, where users gain full access to the Climate Report, app theming, and unlimited customization and creation of moods, habits, and activities. TWO APPS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE: ForecastYou isn't just a place to track anything and forecast everything. Practically everything found in a standard journal app can be found here. Want to add photos? A daily reflection? A to do list for the day? Widgets to see your forecasted mood at a glance? Notifications to keep you mindful and focused on the now? ForecastYou does all of that and more. But ForecastYou isn't interested in becoming a checklist. Every day, log your moods and habits by comparing them to your forecast, not just marking them off a list. So, the question really is, can you beat your forecast? https://www.forecastyou.com/privacy

Screenshots

Epistle4 screens
ForecastYou4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Epistle at every 3 weeks against ForecastYou's every 2 months. Epistle also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). 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. Epistle sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month and ForecastYou sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $15.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Epistle against 5.0 for ForecastYou. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Epistle ships an update every 3 weeks, ForecastYou every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Epistle versus ForecastYou: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEpistleForecastYou
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB117 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEpistle LLCJoseph Nelson

Customer experience

Epistle

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ForecastYou

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Epistle

Subscriptions5
  • One Epistle Site$17.991 Month
  • Two Epistle Sites$39.991 Month
  • Three Epistle Sites$59.991 Month
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  • Four Epistle Sites$79.991 Month
  • Five Epistle Sites$89.991 Month
2 purchases

ForecastYou

Subscriptions1
  • Annual$15.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Epistle free?
Epistle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ForecastYou free?
ForecastYou is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Epistle or ForecastYou?
Epistle and ForecastYou are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Epistle or ForecastYou have ads?
Neither Epistle nor ForecastYou shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Epistle or ForecastYou?
Epistle ships an update every 3 weeks, and ForecastYou every 2 months. Most recently, Epistle was updated on October 8, 2026 and ForecastYou on October 1, 2026.

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