Glose vs Holy Instant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glose
This reading app enhances the experience with social features, allowing users to connect with others, share notes, and join online book clubs. Explore a vast ebookstore, read excerpts for free, and import your own EPUBs for offline access.
- Social reading and annotation sharing
- Access to 1 million ebooks
- Read up to 10% of any book for free
- Import your own EPUBs
- Offline reading capabilities
- Create and join online book clubs
- Generate and share quote cards
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The next-generation READING APP that makes reading AWESOME with features to keep you engaged and motivated. Pick a book in our choice of 1 million, start reading any book for free, connect with other readers and share notes, highlights, and conversation - and become a better reader. Build your bookshelf in seconds : Create a free reader profile, organize your books, create lists. Browse our ebookstore : 1 million ebooks in all categories. Best sellers, fiction, non fiction, young adult, business, education etc... with great discounts and free classics. Start any book for free! One touch and you’re into any book for free. Read up to 10% of the content before deciding to pursue and purchase the book. Also, upload an import your own epubs from Dropbox, your desktop of anywhere else! Read anywhere, anytime, online and offline. Glose stores your current reads so you can read them offline, in the bus, subway, in the depths of a mysterious forest or a far away galaxy. Join the Community : see what other people are reading, recommending, highlighting, and annotating. Read with your friends! Create reading groups to read with your friends and share highlights and annotations. Shared annotations in the margins of the text make reading more engaging and exciting. Post a note and see what other readers think. Start an online book club! Create a group, pick a name and image, invite people and choose books : you’ve got your online book club read to go - around the world! Make reading beautiful : create beautiful quote cards from the books you read. Choose a sentence that inspires you, choose a background photo, and share the quote card on social media. More about Glose : Reading for better learning : our unique features makes your reading more conducive to text analysis, memorization, and study. Glose is used in leading schools and universities to power distribution of reading material and discussion around text. Our bookstore features the works of Malcolm Gladwell, Walter Isaacson, Stephen King, John Green, Paulo Coelho, James Patterson, E.L. James, Suzanne Collins, Danielle Steel, David Baldacci, Janet Evanovich, Nora Roberts, Dan Brown, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, George R.R Martin, and many more ! • Read popular FREE ebooks by classic authors : Moby Dick, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Tales from Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Pride & Prejudice and more. On Glose, reading becomes social. You can highlight your favorite quotes with one touch, archive them, share them on social networks, and annotate them. So join our community of readers who read, share, and discuss the books they love! Glose provides the most powerful reading experience online. • Customise your reading settings to personalise your experience : fonts, spacing, page structure, background color (might mode and more). • Always pick up your reading at the right page thanks to automatic synchronisation of your Reading activity on all devices. • Make new friends through books So what are you waiting for ? Don’t miss the inspiring conversations happening every day in Glose, and Download our app ! Connect with us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/GloseApp) Follow Glose on Twitter (https://twitter.com/Glose)
Holy Instant
This app offers a peaceful space to engage with A Course in Miracles, featuring the complete Text, Workbook, and Manual. It provides daily lessons and moments of stillness, with private storage for your reflections.
- Complete Text, Workbook, and Manual
- Daily lessons
- Moments of stillness
- Private iCloud reflections
- No trackers or sign-in required
- Offline access
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Holy Instant is a quiet place to be with A Course in Miracles: the complete 1975 First Edition Text, Workbook, and Manual, set like a fine book and made to be returned to a page at a time. read the Course, follow today's lesson, search every occurrence of a word or phrase, highlight a line, or sit for one held minute of stillness. there are no streaks to keep and nothing to finish. only the invitation to begin again. the reader keeps your place. open Read and you land on the paragraph you left, and Previous and Next sit at the foot of every section so you can keep going without walking back through the contents. the journal is where the practice becomes yours. write from a lesson, a passage, a reply from Grace, a person you are trying to forgive, or a blank page. search everything you have written, keep rich text, dictate instead of typing, and export the whole journal as clean markdown. your entries and highlights stay on your device and in your own private iCloud database, where the developer cannot read them. Grace is a companion grounded in the Course. she reflects what you bring, points you back to the words in your hands, and is designed to become less necessary rather than more. her optional memory stays on device, shows you every sentence it keeps, and can be erased completely in one tap. when you write to Grace, your message and the Course passages selected on your device travel through Holy Instant's own AWS service to Anthropic to be answered. Anthropic says API inputs and outputs are deleted within 30 days unless an exception applies. when you dictate, your voice goes to Amazon only to become text, and that text follows the same path. there is no account, no advertising, no tracking, no analytics, and no developer-readable history. every one of these paths is named in plain words inside the app. today's idea can rest silently on your iPhone home or lock screen, your Apple Watch, and your watch face. one optional daily invitation is available and off until you turn it on. nothing pings hourly, counts a day, closes a ring, or tells you that you failed. Holy Instant supports Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, and measured WCAG AA contrast in light and dark. privacy and accessibility are stated plainly inside the app under “Our Two Promises.” free, with no account, no ads, and no subscription. made as an act of service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Holy Instant at 5.0 against Glose's 4.5. Holy Instant also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Glose's advantage is ratings volume (8.1K vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Holy Instant holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glose has 8.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Glose ships an update every 3 weeks, Holy Instant every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glose | Holy Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Readwise, Inc | Matthew Gennings |
Customer experience
Glose
Holy Instant
Bugs and requests
Glose
Reported bugs
4 issues- Pages skipping or jumping unexpectedly
- Highlighting and note-taking features not working as expected
- Audiobook playback issues like skipping and glitching
- Login and account management problems
Requested features
4 requests- Bookmark and annotation management
- Customizable reading settings
- Seamless sync across devices
- Improved search and organization of library
Holy Instant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Glose
No in-app purchases
Holy Instant
No in-app purchases









