Comparison

Give Us This Day vs ECL

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

Head to head
About

Give Us This Day

This app offers daily prayer and scripture reflections to deepen your connection with God. It provides simplified morning and evening prayers, insightful scriptural insights, and complete Mass texts. Designed for intuitive use, it supports prayerful moments whether you have a few minutes or more.

Highlights
  • Simplified morning and evening prayer
  • Scripture reflections
  • Complete Mass texts
  • Daily inspiration from saints
  • Feature essays
  • Guide to Lectio Divina
Features
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Beautiful. Simple. Life-giving. Give Us This Day is a monthly invitation to daily moments of prayer intended to bring you closer to God. Centered on the Word and drawing inspiration from the wisdom and breadth of voices in the Church, Give Us This Day seeks to forge a deeper and more loving communion with God … a more relevant, more open and more resonant understanding of Scripture situated in the contemporary world. Whether you have just five minutes or a half hour, Give Us This Day supports your desire to pray. • Simplified prayer for morning and evening • Insightful, relevant reflections on the Scriptures for Mass • Complete Mass texts • Daily inspiration from the lives of saintly witnesses Intuitive navigation and thoughtful design compliment a prayerful experience. Daily content includes: • Morning and evening prayer • Blessed Among Us by Robert Ellsberg • Mass texts • Reflections on Scripture Monthly content includes: • Feature Essay … • Teach Us to Pray by James Martin, S.J. • Featured Prayer and reflection • Prayers and Blessings • Prayer at Night • Order of Mass • Liturgy of the Word (with Holy Communion) • Guide to Lectio Divina (listening to God’s word) • Hymns Subscription options: • Try it FREE for one month. • Monthly subscription, $2.99 • Yearly subscription, $24.99 • App access is FREE with a full price individual print subscription Your subscription will automatically renew for the current subscription price and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. However, you are not able to cancel a current subscription prior to its expiration date. Terms of use can be found at http://www.giveusthisday.org/privacy.htm Please contact us at litpressit@litpress.org with feedback or questions. We invite you to read, ponder, and pray with us This Day and always.

About

ECL

This app offers practical strategies and information for leaders of faith formation programs. It provides guidance on recruiting, training, and forming catechists, developing vision, and managing administrative tasks. Access essential wisdom and resources directly from a comprehensive series of books.

Highlights
  • Strategies for faith formation leaders
  • Recruiting and training catechists
  • Developing program vision
  • Administrative task management
  • Printable resources
  • Focus on pastoral issues
Features
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The Effective Catechetical Leader Series provides information, strategies, and approaches to ensure success for leaders of parish faith formation programs. These books include practical instruction and printable resources. They describe best practices for recruiting, training, and forming catechists; developing a vision for faith formation; forming an advisory board; planning and calendaring; networking with colleagues; selecting high-quality resources; handling administrative aspects of the ministry; and identifying the various groups you serve and how best to work with them. The ECL app puts wisdom and practical help at your fingertips. Drawn directly from the six books of the new Effective Catechetical Leader Series, ECL provides an opportunity for catechetical leaders to “check-in” and focus on specific pastoral issues and to identify go-to strategies for meeting the challenges of serving as an effective catechetical leader. For more resources, visit www.loyolapress.com/ECL.

Screenshots

Give Us This Day4 screens
ECL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ECL at 5.0 against Give Us This Day's 3.5. ECL also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Give Us This Day's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (86 vs 3). On price, ads 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. Give Us This Day sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ECL asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ECL holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Give Us This Day has 86 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Give Us This Day ships an update every 3 weeks, ECL every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Give Us This Day versus ECL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGive Us This DayECL
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (86 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews32.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings86 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
Best chart rank#197 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiturgical PressLoyola Press

Customer experience

Give Us This Day

All ratings85 ratings
Positive57.6%
Neutral9.4%
Negative32.9%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive32.6%
Neutral21.7%
Negative45.7%

ECL

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Give Us This Day

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App crashes on opening
  • App crashes on iPads
  • App requires frequent re-login
  • Subscription not recognized after purchase
  • App shows 'No days left in subscription' incorrectly
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  • Daily readings are blank or inaccessible
  • Daily calendar drop-down menu has issues
  • App quits for no reason
  • App does not work offline
  • Error handling is poor (blank screens)
  • App not updated for newer iPhone screens
  • App not compatible with iOS 10
  • App signs out randomly
  • App does not work for IOS 10
  • App shows 'free trial expired' after purchase

Requested features

8 requests
  • Allow scrolling page by page
  • Add a 'Today' button for quick access
  • More inclusion of diverse figures
  • Higher resolution images for larger screens
  • Offline functionality (like Magnificat)
Show 3 more
  • Redesign for better intuitiveness
  • Make app compatible with older iOS versions
  • Allow access to paid content after subscription ends

ECL

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Give Us This Day

Subscriptions3
  • Give Us This Day subscription$2.991 Month
  • Give Us This Day subscription1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Give Us This Day subscription1 Month trial$24.991 Year
None

ECL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Give Us This Day free?
Give Us This Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ECL free?
ECL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Give Us This Day or ECL?
ECL is rated higher. Give Us This Day averages 3.5 out of 5 from 86 ratings, while ECL averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Give Us This Day or ECL have ads?
Neither Give Us This Day nor ECL shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Give Us This Day or ECL?
Give Us This Day ships an update every 3 weeks, and ECL every 6 months. Most recently, Give Us This Day was updated on October 24, 2026 and ECL on October 17, 2026.

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