Give Us This Day vs Ignatius Press
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Simplified morning and evening prayer
- Scripture reflections
- Complete Mass texts
- Daily inspiration from saints
- Feature essays
- Guide to Lectio Divina
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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.
Ignatius Press
Access a vast library of Catholic eBooks, audiobooks, and films. Enjoy free weekly podcasts and monthly content offers. Purchase digital titles from the website to read, listen, or watch within the app.
- Vast eBook library
- Over 100 audiobooks
- Catholic films and documentaries
- Weekly podcasts
- Monthly free content offers
- Shop on Ignatius.com
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Now you can easily read or listen to wonderful books and stream faithful Catholic films, all in the same place! Add titles to your library by shopping on Ignatius.com and then dive into them on the app. KEY FEATURES – Free Content: Enjoy our weekly podcasts and monthly offers of free access to some of our audiobooks, eBooks, and video content. – Over 1,000 eBooks: Experience our vast library of fiction books, as well as books on ethics, theology, social issues, history, inspirational topics, prayers, saints and sainthood, apologetics, and much more. – Over 100 Audiobooks from our best-selling authors: Get lost in novels from Michael O’Brien and Fiorella DeMaria, as well as a vast array of titles from Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Kreeft, Jesuit Fr.. Robert Spitzer, Abigail Favale, George Weigel, Fr. Michael Schmitz, Cardinal Robert Sarah, G.K. Chesterton, and many more. – Catholic movies and documentaries: Enjoy streaming rentals and streaming purchases from the extensive Ignatius library of high-quality films. Download the Ignatius Press app today and create a free account. No subscription. No credit card. No catch. Enjoy the free content or purchase digital content on Ignatius.com to read, listen, or watch on the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ignatius Press at 4.1 against Give Us This Day's 3.5. Ignatius Press also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Give Us This Day's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and chart position (#153 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Give Us This Day sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Ignatius Press asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ignatius Press holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Give Us This Day has 86 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Give Us This Day's written reviews are positive against 40% of Ignatius Press's.
Give Us This Day ships an update every 3 weeks, Ignatius Press every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Give Us This Day | Ignatius Press |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (86 ratings) | 4.1 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.6% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 86 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #153 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Liturgical Press | Ignatius + Lighthouse Partnership |
Customer experience
Give Us This Day
Ignatius Press
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)
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- Redesign for better intuitiveness
- Make app compatible with older iOS versions
- Allow access to paid content after subscription ends
Ignatius Press
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Give Us This Day
- 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
Ignatius Press
No in-app purchases
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