Join The Journey vs Desiring God ft. Solid Joys
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Join The Journey
Follow a realistic Bible reading plan to grow as a disciple and deepen your faith. Engage with daily readings, spiritual practices, a weekly podcast, and Sunday teachings. Invite friends and family to join this spiritual journey.
- Daily Bible reading
- Guided spiritual practices
- Weekly podcast
- Sunday teaching
- Invite friends and family
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Join The Journey right from your iPhone or iPad. Join The Journey is a realistic reading plan by Watermark Community Church in Dallas, TX that helps you grow as a disciple and deepen your love for God. Together, we will enjoy abiding in Jesus through daily Bible reading, guided spiritual practices, a weekly podcast, and Sunday teaching. You can jump in with us at any time, and we’d love for you to invite your friends, family, and kids to Join The Journey too.
Desiring God ft. Solid Joys
Access a full year of daily devotionals offline, narrated by John Piper. Start reading or listening immediately without an account or ads, and easily navigate to any day's content.
- Offline reading and listening
- Audio narration by John Piper
- No account required
- Ad-free experience
- Navigate to any day
- Background playback
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Solid Joys puts a full year of daily devotionals in your pocket, with no account and no ads. Every reading is built right into the app, so you can open it and read or listen anywhere, even with no signal. On a plane, on a commute, in the mountains, or first thing in the morning before the day rushes in — your devotional is already there. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Read offline — all 365 daily devotionals are built in and ready with no connection needed. • Listen anywhere — every devotional is narrated by John Piper, with background playback and lock-screen controls, so you can listen with your screen off. • Start in seconds — no sign-up, no login, no account. Just open it and read. • Read any day, in any order — today's devotional, last week's, or one from months ago. • Open links instantly — tap a Solid Joys link from a friend or from Desiring God, and it opens right here in the app. • No ads, no in-app purchases. WHAT IS SOLID JOYS? Solid Joys is a daily devotional written and read by John Piper. These short, substantive readings are drawn from decades of his preaching and writing, and each one takes only a few minutes. That is all it takes to reset your whole day around the greatness of God. Every devotional points you to a passage of Scripture and helps you see and savor what God is really like. The aim isn't merely information, but joy: to feed your joy in Jesus every day of the year. WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone longing for a simple, faithful daily rhythm in God's Word. • Longtime readers of Desiring God and John Piper as well as anyone meeting him for the first time. • Readers who want their devotional to travel with them, online or off. ABOUT DESIRING GOD Desiring God exists to help people everywhere embrace a passion for the glory of God and the good of all peoples through Jesus Christ. For more than three decades, John Piper's Solid Joys has helped readers start the day grounded, focused, and glad in God. This is just the beginning — more is being built into the app. For now, we'd love for Solid Joys to become part of your every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Join The Journey at none against Desiring God ft. Solid Joys's shown. Join The Journey also leads on ratings volume (123 vs 20). Desiring God ft. Solid Joys's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and chart position (#202 vs unranked). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Join The Journey against 5.0 for Desiring God ft. Solid Joys. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Join The Journey has 123 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Join The Journey's written reviews are positive against 100% of Desiring God ft. Solid Joys's.
Join The Journey ships an update monthly, Desiring God ft. Solid Joys every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Join The Journey | Desiring God ft. Solid Joys |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (123 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #202 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 178 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Watermark Community Church | Desiring God |
Customer experience
Join The Journey
Desiring God ft. Solid Joys
Bugs and requests
Join The Journey
Reported bugs
7 issues- Main screen doesn't load
- Progress doesn't load
- Bible audio playback issues
- Devotional entries stop loading
- Comments button error
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- Chapters loading every other day
- App crashes after opening
Requested features
5 requests- Night mode display option
- Offline mode
- Add "share" button for social media
- Read it to you feature
- Night mode display option
Desiring God ft. Solid Joys
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Join The Journey
No in-app purchases
Desiring God ft. Solid Joys
No in-app purchases
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