Comparison

Grapevine Library vs Beginners Sponsorship Guide

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

Head to head
About

Grapevine Library

Access your local library's catalog from your mobile device. Search for books, movies, and games, place holds, and manage your account by checking due dates and renewing items.

Highlights
  • Search entire catalog
  • Find books, movies, games
  • Place holds
  • Check due dates
  • Renew items
  • Access eContent
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The Grapevine Public Library app allows you to explore your library on the go to find new books, movies, games, or your old favorites! Quickly search the entire catalog, including eContent, and place holds, check due dates, and renew eligible titles.

About

Beginners Sponsorship Guide

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A free digital companion to the paper Beginners Sponsorship Guide by Bobby. Built for the AA community — for people who have completed the 12 steps and are now ready to sponsor others. THE GUIDE The full 60-page guide, digitized. Big Book passages for each step with tap-to-read excerpts. The Problem and Solution diagrams, Step One through Step Twelve illustrations, the Spiritual Arch, and the "Our Way of Life" diagram — all redrawn as crisp vector graphics. WRITABLE INVENTORIES The Resentment Inventory, Fear Inventory, and Sex Conduct Inventory are fully writable, laid out the way Bobby designed them: • Resentment Inventory — four columns, seven areas of self, three belief/fear pairs per area, and the full column four (Realization, Self-Seeking, Selfish, Dishonest, Afraid, Harm). • Fear Inventory — chain the fears underneath your fears until you reach the root. • Sex Conduct Inventory — relationship history plus the nine questions from the Big Book, page 69. • Future Sex Ideal — build your "God, in the future I would like to be…" list. SPONSOR + SPONSEE Link with your sponsor (or sponsee) using a simple 6-character code — no email, no passwords. When the sponsee is ready, they tap "Share" and the sponsor can read the inventory from their own phone. Mark resentments and relationships as "Reviewed together" so you always know where you left off between sessions. PRIVACY Your inventory content is private by default. It only becomes visible to a sponsor after you tap Share. No ads. No analytics. No email or phone number required. You can delete your account and all data from Settings at any time. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This app is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. The 12 Steps and the Big Book are the property of A.A.W.S. The Beginners Sponsorship Guide was written by Bobby as a service to the fellowship. This app is a community effort to make it more accessible. See ya in the trenches.

Screenshots

Grapevine Library4 screens
Beginners Sponsorship Guide3 screens

Verdict

The call

Grapevine Library and Beginners Sponsorship Guide are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Grapevine Library versus Beginners Sponsorship Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrapevine LibraryBeginners Sponsorship Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB27 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCity of GrapevineGilbert Dozier

In-app purchases

None

Grapevine Library

No in-app purchases

None

Beginners Sponsorship Guide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grapevine Library free?
Grapevine Library is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beginners Sponsorship Guide free?
Beginners Sponsorship Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grapevine Library or Beginners Sponsorship Guide have ads?
Neither Grapevine Library nor Beginners Sponsorship Guide shows ads.

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