Comparison

Truthly vs Middle Earth Explorer

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

Head to head
About

Truthly

This app provides instant clarity on faith, life, and current events through a Catholic lens. It offers source-backed answers, daily formation, scripture insights, and tools to find nearby religious services.

Highlights
  • Catholic AI Q&A
  • Source-backed answers
  • Daily formation (text & audio)
  • Bible insights
  • Daily readings
  • Mass, Adoration, Confession finder
  • Audio courses
Features
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The most downloaded Catholic AI app in the world - Truthly helps you search, learn, and navigate life through a Catholic lens. TRUTHLY: BUILT FOR CATHOLICS AND SEEKERS WHO WANT INSTANT CLARITY Have a question about faith, life, culture, or today’s news? Ask Truthly. The internet and social media gives you endless information and opinions, but not always answers you can trust. Truthly makes searching online safe, easy, and shareable for Catholics. Ask Catholic questions and see the sources behind every answer. Or ask about anything happening in your life or the world and explore it through the wisdom of the Catholic faith. Whether you are a lifelong Catholic, returning to the Church, or simply interested in the Catholic worldview, Truthly helps you know, live, and share the truth every day. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH TRUTHLY: Ask Catholic Questions: Ask anything about Catholicism and receive clear, thoughtful answers grounded in Scripture, the Catechism, Church teaching, and trusted Catholic sources. See and explore the sources behind every answer. Ask Any Question Through a Catholic Lens: Bring Truthly your questions about relationships, work, culture, morality, history, current events, and everyday decisions. Get helpful context and guidance shaped by the Catholic worldview. Build Your Daily Catholic Rhythm: Use quick prompts for the saint of the day, today’s news, and more. Create your own quick prompts so the questions and practices you use most are always one tap away. Follow the Daily Readings: Read the daily Mass readings and explore the full liturgical calendar. Go to the readings for any day and receive instant insights, including summaries, connections across Scripture, historical context, and practical takeaways. Read the Full Bible With Instant Insights: Explore the full Bible and get clear insights on a chapter, a single verse, or any combination of verses. Understand the context, meaning, themes, and connections more deeply. Get Formed With Daily Truth: Receive one bite-sized Catholic truth every day in text and audio. Learn what it means, why it matters, how to live it, and how to share it with others. Listen to Audio Courses: Learn on the go through engaging audio courses, conversations, and testimonies from trusted Catholic voices, including Matt Fradd and Emily Wilson. Audio Courses are currently in beta. Find Mass, Adoration, and Confession: Use the Mass Finder, powered by MassTimes.org, to find nearby Masses, Adoration, and confession times. Visit parish websites and get directions in just a few taps. Share Answers With One Tap: Start meaningful conversations by instantly sharing clear, source-backed answers with friends, family, students, or anyone searching for truth. WHY USERS LOVE USE TRUTHLY: • Clear answers without endless searching • Sources you can see and explore • A Catholic perspective on faith and everyday life • Daily formation that fits into a busy schedule • Tools for Scripture, learning, and diving deeper into the faith • Answers that are easy to share with family and friends Truthly is built to help you spend less time searching and more time living. Know the truth. Live the truth. Share the truth. ADDITIONAL INFO: For Clergy & Religious Life: Please email support@truthly.ai for free, unlimited access. For Missionaries: Email support@truthly.ai to learn how we can donate subscriptions to you and your mission teams. Can’t afford Truthly: Email us—we’ll gift you a subscription. Everyone deserves access to truth. Privacy Policy: https://truthly.ai/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://truthly.ai/terms-of-service Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Middle Earth Explorer

An interactive map and guide to the lands of Middle Earth, featuring over 50 locations, 90 events, and 10 quest timelines. Explore detailed lore, character journeys, and movie/book information. Works offline and supports accessibility features.

Highlights
  • Interactive Middle Earth map
  • 50+ detailed locations
  • 10 epic quest timelines
  • 26 major character profiles
  • Library of movies, books, and TV adaptations
  • Full-text search and bookmarking
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Your companion to Middle-earth, ready for Season 3. Explore an interactive map, follow every quest, catch up in the right order without spoilers, and find live concerts and screenings near you. NEW IN 3.0 - Journey Order: the films, the series and Tolkien's books in release order or in-world order, with runtimes and page counts - Spoiler Shield: tell the app how far you've read or watched, and the map, timeline and search hide what comes later - Live events: Middle-earth concerts, film screenings and fan gatherings near you, plus upcoming film releases - Daily Riddle: a new Middle-earth puzzle every day, with streaks and a spoiler-free result to share - Find your fellow traveller: a 10-question personality quiz with a result card to share - Optional reminders for the daily riddle and Season 3, only after you turn them on, scheduled on your device EXPLORE THE MAP - Browse Middle-earth on a detailed hand-drawn style map with 50+ locations - Tap any place for its lore: the Shire, Rivendell, Mordor, Minas Tirith and more - Filter by people: Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Men and the creatures of shadow FOLLOW THE QUESTS - 10 quest timelines and 90+ events, from The Hobbit to the end of the War of the Ring - Step through battles, departures, encounters and milestones in story order - See where each event happened on the map with a single tap MEET THE CHARACTERS - Profiles for 26 major characters, with their journeys traced across the map - Discover how characters and events connect LIBRARY - Films and series with cast, crew and ratings - Tolkien's books with cover art - Video clips in YouTube's official player - News: Middle-earth news from trusted sources, with optional alerts on the topics you choose TOOLS - Search across locations, events and journeys - Save places, events and clips FELLOWSHIP+ (OPTIONAL) The map, timeline, lore, character profiles, the release, chronological and reading orders, film tracking, the daily riddle, the quiz and the basic Spoiler Shield are free. Fellowship+ is an optional subscription that adds: - Live events in any city, with the full list near you - Progress tracking for every episode and book part, so you always know what's next - Curated watch orders: First-timer and Lore deep dive - Spoiler Shield precision down to the exact book you're on - Alternate app icons: 12 icons, with 3 collector's editions, Elven and 8 lands of Middle-earth - The Riddle Archive: every past daily riddle, and unlimited clues - On this day reminders for every Middle-earth anniversary - The New Zealand trip planner: the live New Zealand map, a trip planner and unlimited check-ins Fellowship+ is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Eligible new subscribers get a free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://alpozcan.github.io/middleearth-site/privacy BUILT FOR EVERYONE - On iPhone and iPad, with layouts that adapt to larger screens - Available in more than 40 languages - VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support - The map and lore work offline; news, events, videos and film details need a connection Unofficial fan app, not affiliated with the Tolkien Estate, Middle-earth Enterprises, Amazon or Warner Bros. Ticket links open third-party sellers, and we may earn a commission on tickets bought through them.

Screenshots

Truthly4 screens
Middle Earth Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Truthly at none against Middle Earth Explorer's shown. Truthly also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (6.9K vs 18). Middle Earth Explorer's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Truthly sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Middle Earth Explorer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Truthly holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Truthly has 6.9K ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Truthly's written reviews are positive against 67% of Middle Earth Explorer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Truthly ships an update weekly, Middle Earth Explorer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Truthly versus Middle Earth Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTruthlyMiddle Earth Explorer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (6.9K ratings) — better4.5 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews82.1% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings6.9K — better18
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#27 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB108 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperTruthly, Inc.Alp Ozcan

Customer experience

Truthly

All ratings6,813 ratings
Positive98.0%
Neutral0.7%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews504 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral4.2%
Negative13.7%

Middle Earth Explorer

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral5.6%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Truthly

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Subscription issues with free trial
  • Slow response loading

Requested features

6 requests
  • Free version or trial option
  • More content on other theological schools of thought
  • Integration with personal context and user profile
  • Voice input and audio output
  • Dark mode
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  • Access to full Church documents

Middle Earth Explorer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Truthly

Subscriptions10
  • Truthly Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Truthly Pro Monthly V27 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Truthly Pro Monthly V37 Days trial$7.991 Month
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  • Truthly Pro+ Monthly7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Truthly Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Truthly Pro Yearly - 1 Month Free1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • Truthly Pro Yearly V27 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Truthly Pro Yearly V37 Days trial$47.991 Year
  • Truthly Pro+ Yearly - 1 Month Free1 Month trial$149.991 Year
  • Truthly Pro+ Yearly7 Days trial$149.991 Year
2 purchases

Middle Earth Explorer

Subscriptions2
  • Fellowship+ Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Fellowship+ Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Truthly free?
Truthly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Middle Earth Explorer free?
Middle Earth Explorer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Truthly or Middle Earth Explorer?
Truthly is rated higher. Truthly averages 4.9 out of 5 from 6.9K ratings, while Middle Earth Explorer averages 4.5 from 18 ratings.
Do Truthly or Middle Earth Explorer have ads?
Middle Earth Explorer shows ads; Truthly does not.
Which is updated more often, Truthly or Middle Earth Explorer?
Truthly ships an update weekly, and Middle Earth Explorer every 2 weeks. Most recently, Truthly was updated on November 9, 2026 and Middle Earth Explorer on November 5, 2026.

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