Comparison

Templar Formation vs Catholic Warrior

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

Head to head
About

Templar Formation

This app offers a daily discipline program to train your soul, mind, and body. It focuses on confronting vices through warrior-saint prayer, study, and calisthenics, with a structured progression and rank system.

Highlights
  • Daily discipline orders
  • Conquer 7 deadly vices
  • Warrior-saint prayer
  • Vice study and quizzes
  • Calisthenics workouts
  • Rank progression system
  • Water and sleep tracking
Features
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Templar Formation is a daily discipline program that trains your soul, mind, and body through warrior-saint prayer, vice study, military calisthenics, and brotherhood accountability. Each cycle you confront one of the 7 deadly vices with its patron warrior saint. Complete your daily formation orders. Study the vice. Train your body. Join a squad. Launch fire-team missions with your brothers. Rise through the ranks. HOW IT WORKS DAILY ORDERS Eight orders across three pillars — Spiritual, Mental, and Physical. Morning prayer with your warrior saint. Daily discipline. Evening examen. Vice study and quiz. A full calisthenics workout. Water and sleep tracking. Earn XP for every order completed. CONQUER THE 7 VICES A focused progression through the 7 deadly vices — Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Anger, and Sloth. One vice at a time until you conquer it. Each vice has three tiers of study — Basic, Advanced, and Master. Learn the roots of the vice, pass the quiz, and defeat it with your patron saint at your side. Basic teaches you the vice. Advanced sharpens your understanding. Master forges conviction. BROTHERHOOD Join the Order. Compete on five leaderboards. Post prayer petitions on the prayerboard. Share why you fight. Form squads and invite brothers by text with a direct App Store link. Hold each other accountable. FIRE-TEAM MISSIONS Challenge your squad to Cold Showers, Daily Fast, 50 Push-ups, Holy Rosary, Scripture Reading, Wake Before Dawn, and No Social Media. Pick a duration — 1, 3, 5, or 7 days. Every brother earns or fails on his own. One slip is yours, not the team's. DEVOTIONS Pray the Rosary together as a squad. Track your devotional life alongside your formation. Spiritual discipline is not optional — it is the foundation. WARRIOR TRAINING A structured calisthenics program scaled to your fitness level. Progressive overload built in — the work increases as you grow stronger. No gym required. RISE IN RANK Start as a Pilgrim. Earn XP through daily formation. Get promoted through ten ranks — from Initiate to Grand Master. Each promotion comes with a ceremony and prayer. BUILD YOUR TEMPLE Unlock warrior saints and historical Templars as you hit streaks and milestones. Your Temple is your proof of consistency. TEMPLAR PRO Templar Pro is an auto-renewing subscription that unlocks all features in the Templar Formation app, including: Focused vice formation with three tiers of study per vice — Basic, Advanced, and Master Full calisthenics training program scaled to your fitness level Daily warrior-saint prayers, evening examen, and Rosary devotion Brotherhood — squads, fire-team missions, prayerboard, and leaderboards Rank progression from Pilgrim to Grand Master Unlockable saints and Templars earned through streaks and milestones Access to new modules and content released while subscribed Monthly: $9.99/month after a 7-day free trial. Annual: $89.99/year after a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions on your device. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://templarformation.com/privacy

About

Catholic Warrior

This app provides a daily system for Catholic men to integrate their faith and fitness. It offers spiritual checklists, an interactive Rosary guide, a confession tracker, and a comprehensive on-demand workout library with nutrition guidance.

Highlights
  • Daily spiritual checklist
  • Interactive Rosary guide
  • Confession tracker
  • On-demand workout library
  • Workout logging and progress tracking
  • Nutrition guide
  • Body weight tracking
Features
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Catholic Warrior is the daily discipline app built for Catholic men who are serious about their faith, their body, and their mission. Most Catholic men want to pray every day, train consistently, and eat well — but without a system, good intentions fade by Tuesday. Catholic Warrior gives you that system. It brings your daily spiritual duties, your workout programming, your nutrition plan, and a full on-demand training library into one place so you can stop managing three apps and start executing. DAILY DISCIPLINES Every morning, Catholic Warrior shows you your spiritual checklist for the day: the Daily Rosary, the Daily Mass Readings, and the Guardian Angel Prayer. On Fridays, the Shoulder Wound of Jesus Christ prayer is added. The app tracks your streak so you can see your consistency build over time. Miss a day and the streak resets — no exceptions, no excuses. That accountability is the point. INTERACTIVE ROSARY The Rosary is not a box to check. Catholic Warrior includes a fully interactive Rosary guide that walks you through each mystery, each decade, and each prayer — so you can pray with intention, not just speed. Whether you are new to the Rosary or have prayed it for years, this guide keeps you present. CONFESSION TRACKER A Catholic Warrior goes to Confession. The app includes a Confession tracker so you always know when you last went and can hold yourself to the standard of regular Confession. No more losing track. No more letting months slip by. ON-DEMAND TRAINING Access a full library of on-demand workouts covering every training style — strength, conditioning, mobility, and more. When you don't have a plan, you have no excuse. Pick a workout, get to work. On-demand training programs are also available so you can follow a structured path from week one to the finish line. Everything in the training library is unlocked with a single subscription. WORKOUT TRACKER Log your training with a workout tracker built for men who lift with intention. Create custom workouts, log sets and reps, and track your progress over time. Your workout streak is displayed front and center on your home screen — a daily reminder that the body is a temple and you are responsible for it. Share your completed workouts as a card directly to your camera roll or to social media to hold yourself publicly accountable. THE CATHOLIC WARRIOR DIET Nutrition is not complicated — but most men make it that way. The Catholic Warrior Diet is a built-in, interactive nutrition guide designed specifically for Catholic men who train. It gives you a clear, actionable framework for eating to perform, recover, and maintain the body God gave you. No fads, no gimmicks — just the standard. BODY WEIGHT TRACKING Log your body weight daily and watch your trend line over time. The home screen displays your current weight and your best streak so you always know where you stand. BROTHERHOOD Catholic Warrior is not a solo mission. The Brotherhood connects you with other men in the app — men who are showing up, doing the work, and holding the standard. You are not meant to do this alone. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Catholic Warrior offers two auto-renewing subscription options: - Monthly: $14.99 per month - Annual: $99.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://catholicwarrior.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ THE STANDARD

Screenshots

Templar Formation4 screens
Catholic Warrior4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Catholic Warrior at freemium against Templar Formation's subscription. Catholic Warrior also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Templar Formation's advantage is ratings volume (152 vs 15). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Templar Formation sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Catholic Warrior sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Catholic Warrior holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Templar Formation has 152 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Templar Formation's written reviews are positive against 100% of Catholic Warrior's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Templar Formation ships an update weekly, Catholic Warrior every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Templar Formation versus Catholic Warrior: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTemplar FormationCatholic Warrior
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (152 ratings)5.0 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings152 — better15
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size255 MB62 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTemplar Formation LLCISAAC JAVIER PADILLA

Customer experience

Templar Formation

All ratings53 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.6%

Catholic Warrior

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Templar Formation

Subscriptions2
  • Templar Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Templar Pro Annual7 Days trial$89.991 Year
2 purchases

Catholic Warrior

Subscriptions2
  • Catholic Warrior Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Catholic Warrior Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Templar Formation free?
Templar Formation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Catholic Warrior free?
Catholic Warrior is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Templar Formation or Catholic Warrior?
Catholic Warrior is rated higher. Templar Formation averages 4.8 out of 5 from 152 ratings, while Catholic Warrior averages 5.0 from 15 ratings.
Do Templar Formation or Catholic Warrior have ads?
Templar Formation shows ads; Catholic Warrior does not.
Which is updated more often, Templar Formation or Catholic Warrior?
Templar Formation ships an update weekly, and Catholic Warrior every 4 days. Most recently, Templar Formation was updated on October 17, 2026 and Catholic Warrior on October 10, 2026.

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