Comparison

Refining Fire vs Prayer Help

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Refining Fire

This app delivers encouraging Bible verses to your device, with options to refresh for a new passage, save favorites, and set daily reminders. Explore the full chapter for deeper study on iPhone and enjoy on-the-go access with its Apple Watch companion.

Highlights
  • Encouraging Bible verses
  • Daily reminder notifications
  • Save favorite verses
  • Read full chapters (iPhone only)
  • Apple Watch app
  • Verse sharing
Features
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Refining Fire provides encouraging Bible verses when and where you need them. Hit "refresh" to display a new verse, add the current verse to your Favorites, or set up a daily reading reminder. Additionally, you may deepen your study by reading the full chapter for any scripture excerpt (iPhone only). Refining Fire for Apple Watch allows you to read, favorite, and refresh verses on the go without needing your phone. Features: - Apple Watch app - Daily reminder notifications - Favorites - Sharing - Hundreds of verses Refining Fire allows you to choose between the King James Version (KJV) and the English Standard Version (ESV).

About

Prayer Help

This app offers a guided daily prayer experience for families, featuring scripture, personal prayer lists, and classic prayers. It's designed for all ages with adjustable text and a simple interface, ensuring a private and ad-free spiritual practice.

Highlights
  • Guided Daily Prayer sessions
  • Personal prayer list
  • Scripture and verse of the day
  • Adjustable text size and contrast
  • Library of 66 prayers
  • Optional daily reminders
Features
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Prayer Help is a calm, black-and-white prayer app for the whole family. Open it, take a breath, and begin. One guided Daily Prayer walks you through a few quiet minutes, one step per screen: be still, an opening prayer, a passage of scripture, today's prayer, the people on your own prayer list, the Lord's Prayer, and a closing blessing. It ends on "Amen." BUILT FOR EVERYONE Choose who's praying on this phone — 10 & up or 10 & under — and the prayers fit the reader. Large type, high contrast, and big touch targets make it easy for kids and grandparents alike. WHAT'S INSIDE • A guided Daily Prayer session, fresh each day • A prayer of the day, with "Show another" if it doesn't fit • A verse of the day • A simple prayer list for the people you carry • An optional daily reminder at the time you choose • Optional reflections after you pray • A library of 66 prayers: beloved classics (the Lord's Prayer, the Serenity Prayer, the Prayer of St. Francis, selections from the Book of Common Prayer) alongside original modern prayers, with scripture from the Berean Standard Bible PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. Everything you write stays on your device and never leaves it. Free, for your whole family.

Screenshots

Refining Fire4 screens
Prayer Help4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Refining Fire at 26 against Prayer Help's 1. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Refining Fire against 5.0 for Prayer Help. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Refining Fire has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Refining Fire versus Prayer Help: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRefining FirePrayer Help
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (26 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 15 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRebecca HansmeyerSteven Yates

Customer experience

Refining Fire

All ratings26 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Prayer Help

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Refining Fire

No in-app purchases

None

Prayer Help

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Refining Fire free?
Refining Fire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prayer Help free?
Prayer Help is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Refining Fire or Prayer Help?
Refining Fire and Prayer Help are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 26 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Refining Fire or Prayer Help have ads?
Neither Refining Fire nor Prayer Help shows ads.

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