Comparison

Bahá'í Readings vs Bahá’í Prayers

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

Head to head
About

Bahá'í Readings

Access the central writings of the Bahá'í Faith with a book-like reader. Features include offline access, customizable themes, search functionality, note-taking, and an optional guided starter path for new users. Listen to passages read aloud.

Highlights
  • Offline access to 600+ Bahá'í writings
  • Customizable reading themes and sizes
  • Full-text search with snippets
  • Save favorites, notes, and highlights
  • Listen mode for audio playback
  • Guided starter path for new users
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Baha'i Readings is a quiet, personal companion for the central writings of the Baha'i Faith. Browse 600+ works - from Gleanings and The Hidden Words to The Kitab-i-Aqdas, Some Answered Questions, and more - in a reader designed to feel like a book, not a web page. Read at your own pace. Switch between light, sepia, and dark themes, pick serif or sans, and choose from five reading sizes. The reader remembers where you left off in every writing, so returning is one tap. Search across everything at once. Type a phrase and the app scans every writing and shows matches grouped by book, with a snippet for each hit. Searches are diacritic- and case-insensitive, so Baha finds Baha'u'llah. Keep your place, your highlights, and your notes. Save a favorite, jot a note, tie a passage to a thought. Everything lives on your device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Listen mode reads any writing aloud. Choose a speed and let the words come to you while you walk, cook, or commute. A gentle starter path. New to the Writings? Answer one question about what you are looking for - solace, growth, or curiosity - and the app suggests five short passages to begin with. Private by default. No account, no sign-in, no ads. The app works entirely offline. A small anonymous counter (e.g. "a writing was opened") tells us the app is alive; no text, no identifiers, and no IP address is collected or stored. A small, careful app. Open it, find a passage, close it, and get on with your day.

About

Bahá’í Prayers

Access a comprehensive collection of prayers from the Bahá’í Faith, including those from its central figures. This app offers prayers in numerous languages and provides features like search, bookmarking, and customizable reading themes for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Extensive prayer collection
  • Multi-language support
  • Search functionality
  • Bookmark and recent prayers
  • Customizable reading themes
  • Prayer reminders
  • Share prayers
Features
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Bahá’í Prayers is your portable Bahá’í prayer book. It contains a large selection of prayers from the Bahá’í Faith. Prayers from Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá are offered in English, Español, Português, 简体中文, Français, Deutsch, Nederlands, Română, Italiano, Svenska, Polski, Русский, беларуская, Marshallese, Gourmanché, 日本語, Magyar, Kiribati, Esperanto, and فارسی و عربي. Please note, by changing the prayer book language within the app, you will not be changing the language of the app - just the language of the currently opened prayer book. Features: - Search - Bookmark / recent prayers - Light and Dark reading themes - Easily find specific prayers in other languages - Select prayer font size and style - Prayer reminder notifications - Share prayers - Keep screen awake while reading prayer

Screenshots

Bahá'í Readings4 screens
Bahá’í Prayers4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Bahá’í Prayers at 100 against Bahá'í Readings's 10. Bahá’í Prayers also leads on device support and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

Bahá’í Prayers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bahá’í Prayers has 100 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bahá'í Readings versus Bahá’í Prayers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBahá'í ReadingsBahá’í Prayers
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (10 ratings)5.0 (100 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10100 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 months
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size682 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames TanJustin Tabrizi

Customer experience

Bahá'í Readings

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bahá’í Prayers

All ratings90 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bahá'í Readings

No in-app purchases

None

Bahá’í Prayers

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bahá'í Readings free?
Bahá'í Readings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bahá’í Prayers free?
Bahá’í Prayers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bahá'í Readings or Bahá’í Prayers?
Bahá’í Prayers is rated higher. Bahá'í Readings averages 4.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Bahá’í Prayers averages 5.0 from 100 ratings.

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