Epistle vs Forgor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Forgor
Never miss an important date again. This app helps you track bills, renewals, birthdays, and appointments with timely nudges. It automatically imports dates from your calendars, photos, texts, and emails, and allows household sharing.
- Automated date tracking
- Customizable early nudges
- Import from calendars, photos, texts, emails
- Household sharing for joint reminders
- Categorization of important dates
- No overdue items, automatic rollovers
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Bills, renewals, birthdays, passports, registrations, trials, appointments: the dates that cost you something when they slip. Forgor keeps them all on one list and nudges you early, with nothing to check off and nothing ever overdue. You forgor. We didn't. WHAT'S DUE THIS MONTH Coming up shows the next 30 days, with a countdown on every date and a plain total for anything that costs money. Months shows the rest of the year. Search finds anything, however far out. A NUDGE, NOT A NAG One notification per date, early enough to do something about it. Two weeks by default; two months for a passport, three days for a prescription, or whatever you set. You pick the hour. Add an on-the-day nudge if you like, or snooze one. No badges, no daily digest. NOTHING IS EVER OVERDUE Birthdays, anniversaries and yearly renewals roll forward on their own. Weekly and monthly bills repeat until the end date you set. No checkboxes, no red, no guilt. EVERY KIND OF DATE, ONE PLACE Anniversaries, Home, Car, Documents, Health and Money are ready to go. Add Pets, Subscriptions, Kids, School, Travel, Rentals & leases, Garden, Work and more in one tap, or make your own. Car registration and inspection, oil changes, insurance renewals, driver's license and passport renewals, air filters, pest control, HOA and property tax, credit card due dates, gym and streaming subscriptions, trial end dates, vet shots, warranties, birthdays, anniversaries and remembrance days. BRING DATES IN WITHOUT TYPING - Your calendars: Forgor reads the calendars on your iPhone (iCloud, Google, Outlook), picks out the dates worth a nudge and leaves the meetings alone. It won't double up what you already have, and if an event moves, you'll know. - A photo: point the camera at a bill, a card or a flyer. The date, time, price and address come off it, read on your phone. - A text: share an appointment or an invite from Messages straight to Forgor. - An email: forward a renewal or a booking to your household's own Forgor address and it shows up ready to keep. - Contacts: bring in birthdays and anniversaries. - Holidays: US holidays, plus a nudge a week before Mother's Day, Father's Day and Valentine's Day. ONE HOUSEHOLD, ONE LIST Invite your partner, your parents or your roommates. Each date says who it's for, so the right person gets the nudge. Keep a date private when it's only yours. THE DETAILS Put an amount, a time and an address on any date; tap the address for directions. Subscriptions get a shortcut to manage them in the App Store. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No bank logins, ever. Calendar access is read-only, and calendars, photos and contacts are only read once you turn them on. Nothing you keep is used to train a model. Delete your account and everything in it from Settings. Save it once. Forget it on purpose.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forgor at none against Epistle's 5. Epistle's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Epistle sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Forgor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Forgor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Epistle has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epistle | Forgor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Epistle LLC | Shaileen Shah |
Customer experience
Epistle
Forgor
In-app purchases
Epistle
- 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
Forgor
No in-app purchases









