Truthly: Catholic AI

I’ve had the app for a little bit… at first I was using it as “check” when having conversations with friends and family. Then one day, I was reading Acts and was like… “what’s that” … I looked up an explanation for that passage through Truthly, and that’s when this app came alive. I use it as a personalized bible study. It’s always out next to my physical bible. Read a passage, type in what I think was there and see the response. The scriptures came alive and started popping off the page. Then I started using it in the mornings to help reflect on the daily readings. I’ve started doing the courses. Once you see how to use it, you really start to see the power contained in it. The temptation of having constant access to anything is that risk of too much curiosity. Having everything available and spending so much time wasting away on things I didn’t know existed 10 minutes prior. Truthly did a fantastic job of taking that human craving and orienting it towards the holy. It replaces that embedded behavior, elevating it to cultivate a closer relationship with Our Lord.

I know that this is AI, but the creators have done something that has helped me feel more confident in my faith. I grew up Catholic, but that was it. That is all I knew. I never left, but I wasn’t practicing in my adult life until several months ago. Something came over my Husband and I to pursue our faith. I can only image it was the Holy Spirit. Today I asked for guidance on how to ask Mary for help, to be a good mother to my children. The answers that were given were so fulfilling. It gave me peace that I didn’t have to be perfect. I have never teared up reading an answer from an AI app before. I write this review to say that this is a wonderful tool to help you get answers to questions in a way you understand and in a way to help you begin your journey to diving deeper into the Catholic faith.

This app is the real deal. I have a lot of Non-Catholic friends who are always asking great questions about our faith, and when I don’t have a great answer, Truthly gets the job done. Every response is straight to the point, with plenty of Scriptural and Catechism-referencing support. You can ask it to give a brief or detailed answer, or even tell it to explain it in a friendly way to those who aren’t as open to the Catholic faith. I met these guys at the Charlotte Eucharistic congress and they are incredibly genuine. They are not in it for the money, they truly care about the way this app can build bridges between us Catholics and those outside the church, and how it can help us get a better understanding of our faith. I highly recommend this app for all Catholics and Non-Catholics who are interested in our beautiful faith!