# Catholify

> Putting the Universal Church in your pocket

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.igdit.catholify](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.igdit.catholify)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.igdit.catholify`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ignition Digital
- **Category:** LIFESTYLE
- **Downloads:** 19,913
- **Rating:** 4.43 / 5 (260 ratings)
- **Version:** 25.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-07
- **First published:** 2015-08-21
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 33 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.igdit.catholify)
- **Website:** [https://catholify.com](https://catholify.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://app.termly.io/document/privacy-policy/0ce5ed7c-80f2-4c63-afc2-e51ec73652f5](https://app.termly.io/document/privacy-policy/0ce5ed7c-80f2-4c63-afc2-e51ec73652f5)

## Description

Catholify is a comprehensive social prayer network designed to unite Catholics worldwide. This Chrome extension offers daily curated Catholic content on its homepage, fostering spiritual growth and community engagement. Users can initiate small group conversations and prayer intentions, participate in collective prayers such as novenas and consecrations, and schedule faith-based goals like praying the rosary or fasting.

Beyond spiritual tools, Catholify helps users find nearby Mass and Confession times, provides powerful keyword search across the Bible and Catechism with cross-references for apologetics support, and offers interactive features like a tactile rosary and companion guides for the Stations of the Cross and Confession. With endless Catholic resources including Mass readings, prayers, and saints, users can bookmark favorites and sync data seamlessly across devices. Catholify truly puts the Universal Church right in your pocket.

## Rankings

- #433,422 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`

## Review summary

Catholify is appreciated for its comprehensive Catholic prayer resources and supportive community, aiding daily prayer especially during challenging times. However, multiple users report critical issues: the app frequently crashes after updates, the mandatory parish location picker often fails blocking access, and several features including chat and search are dysfunctional. Samsung users experience notable instability. Although the free app offers valuable spiritual tools, these technical problems significantly impact usability and frustrate loyal users.

### Pros

- Provides a strong Catholic prayer community, especially useful during the pandemic
- Offers a variety of Catholic resources including prayers, Rosary, Bible links, and Gospel readings
- Supports users in enriching and maintaining their prayer life, helpful for beginners and those growing spiritually
- Free to use with meaningful content and features like online adoration and community prayer intentions
- User-friendly simple layout (though some mention recent changes negatively)

### Cons

- The app frequently crashes or closes unexpectedly, particularly after recent updates
- Many users face a blocking issue with the parish/location selector which prevents setup and use of the app
- Some important features such as chat, events, profile updates, and search are buggy or fail to function properly
- Issues with app compatibility or stability on Samsung devices highlighted multiple times
- Recent update introduced a cluttered layout and removed some previous functionalities (like offline search) which users disliked

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.igdit.catholify)