Getijdengebed vs The Blessing Devotional
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Getijdengebed
This app provides the official Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours in Dutch, tailored for the Netherlands and Flanders. It offers offline access to prayers and includes features like automatic prayer selection based on GPS location and a screen that stays on during prayer.
- Official Dutch Liturgy of the Hours
- Offline prayer access
- GPS-based prayer selection
- Customizable prayer options
- Screen stays on during prayer
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Het Getijdengebed is het gebed van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk dat op verschillende momenten van de dag wordt gebeden door geestelijken, religieuzen en vele gelovigen. De Getijdengebed app bevat het officiële Getijdengebed in het Nederlands inclusief de eigen teksten voor Nederland en Vlaanderen. Terwijl u bidt worden de gebeden voor de komende tijd alvast ingeladen, zodat u ook kunt bidden als u even geen verbinding heeft. Deze app heeft vele extra's die het bidden aangenamer maken: - Geen geblader meer in het Getijdenboek tijdens het gebed. - Automatische keuze van de gebeden gebaseerd op uw GPS locatie. - Opgave van de voorkeur voor het bidden van vrije gedachtenissen. - Het scherm schakelt niet automatisch uit tijdens het bidden. - De keuze om extra gebeden in te laden op basis van de verbinding: WiFi of mobiel.
The Blessing Devotional
Access daily Bible encouragements and prayers to strengthen your faith and build an intimate relationship with God. Search for specific topics, set personal notifications, and customize your reading experience with adjustable text size and dark mode.
- Daily encouragements and prayers
- Search by keywords
- Personalized notifications
- Adjustable text size
- Dark mode
- Home screen widget
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“The Blessing Devotional” is the key to a victorious life of faith. Through the daily encouragements and prayers you discover the treasures and riches from God’s Word. It opens the door to a wonderful life with Him, hidden in God. Get strengthened in your faith every day by the daily encouragements of David Maasbach. Pray along the prayers and develop an intimate relationship with the living God. Search on keywords for specific topics. Do not miss any encouragement and set a personal notification. Change the text size as desired. Also enjoy reading in the evening with the automatic dark mode. Add a beautiful widget to your home screen and be encouraged daily. “The Blessing Devotional” is based on the daily devotionals “A prayer for every day” and “Every day with God” by David Maasbach. David Maasbach is president of the Johan Maasbach World Mission Foundation, senior pastor of The Blessing Churches and author of many books, among which the bestseller “Every day with God”. Through his powerful ministry in sermons, broadcasts and books, many people have been encouraged and changed. He is the first Dutch pastor that obtained weekly airtime on one of the Netherlands’ best known nationwide commercial television channels. Today he reaches countless people with his broadcasts and in all kinds of other modern ways.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: The Blessing Devotional at 61 against Getijdengebed's 2. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 — 5.0 for Getijdengebed against 4.9 for The Blessing Devotional. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Blessing Devotional has 61 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Getijdengebed ships an update every 4 months, The Blessing Devotional every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Getijdengebed | The Blessing Devotional |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (61 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 61 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.7 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gerardus Bruggink | Johan Maasbach World Mission |
Customer experience
Getijdengebed
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In-app purchases
Getijdengebed
No in-app purchases
The Blessing Devotional
No in-app purchases
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