Comparison

Prompter vs CathoLock

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

Head to head
About

Prompter

This platform helps you build positive mental habits through daily written affirmations. It provides a unique set of affirmations every 21 days to guide you toward health, happiness, and success by restructuring your thoughts.

Highlights
  • Daily written affirmations
  • Unique affirmation sets every 21 days
  • Thought restructuring guidance
  • Path to health, happiness, and success
  • Building new mental habits
Features
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We often think that success creates a positive mindset, but that’s backwards: our thoughts dictate our actions. If you constantly think that, for example, you’re average, you are rehearsing a pattern of thought that will perpetuate in your behavior. We have the solution to this feedback loop: The Prompter affirmation platform. We supply the resources you need to restructure your thoughts and guide you on a path to health, happiness, and success. We provide you with a unique set of affirmations every 21-days that you are to write out by hand and submit daily through the app. When you affirm positive ideas in the present tense with deliberate intentions, you are building new mental habits.With enough rehearsal, these affirmations will become reflexes. Hereafter, you will have no doubt that you are organized because you’ll have rehearsed the idea that “I am very organized in everything I do.” That’s the power of affirmations.

About

CathoLock

This app helps you prioritize prayer by blocking distracting applications. Schedule prayer times, set intentions, and receive reminders to reconnect with your faith and guard your digital well-being.

Highlights
  • App blocking for focus
  • Prayer scheduling
  • Customizable intentions
  • Novena tracker
  • Digital Rosary
  • Traditional prayers
Features
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Defend your prayer life. CathoLock is a Catholic prayer rule for your phone. Schedule a prayer, lock the apps that pull you away, and unlock them when the prayer is done. How it works 1. Choose which apps to block. 2. Set a prayer and an intention. 3. Pray when CathoLock asks. 4. Unlock, and return to the phone on purpose. Home in version 2.0 Home follows the Church's day. Today's Ordo shows the feast, the season, and the color, on the Modern (US) calendar or the Traditional calendar. Under it, a stained-glass frame holds a confession reminder and the Daily Examen. Prayers you can begin free The Jesus Prayer, Morning Offering, and the other foundational prayers. A Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Lectio Divina on the daily Gospel. The Daily Examen. Personal Prayer, in your own words. Intellectual Formation, opening with St. Thomas Aquinas's Prayer before Studying. Conclave Conclave is the subscription that keeps a full rule. It adds a repeating schedule and more than one prayer. It adds the guided Rosary and guided chaplets, the Angelus (Regina Coeli in Easter), novenas, litanies, the Stations of the Cross, and a self-guided Liturgy of the Hours. There is even a latin language option! Silent Night holds the shields overnight until your first prayer the next day. Desert Mode activates them through the day, and an Amen opens the phone for fifteen minutes. Creating a Prayer Chain for your parish, family, or rosary circle is part of Conclave. Joining a chain, and praying an intention, stay free. Free and Conclave CathoLock is free to download. The free tier is one prayer for today, the journal, and joining a Prayer Chain. The free lock covers that prayer. It does not hold the phone all day. Conclave Monthly is $5.99. Conclave Yearly is $24.99. Family Monthly is $9.99. Family Yearly is $59.99 and can be shared with your Family Sharing group. Priests, deacons, religious, seminarians, and FOCUS missionaries may receive Conclave as a gift. Subscriptions You may purchase an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription, for yourself or for your Family Sharing group, through an In-App Purchase. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. • The subscription renews unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Canceling stops the next renewal. It does not end the period you already paid for. • If a free trial is offered, any unused part of that trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription, where applicable. Privacy policy: catholock.com/privacy Terms of Use: catholock.com/terms Verbum Verum is a small, independent developer. Subscribing keeps this ministry going.

Screenshots

Prompter4 screens
CathoLock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CathoLock at 100% against Prompter's 42%. CathoLock also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months). Prompter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. CathoLock sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Prompter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CathoLock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Prompter's written reviews are positive against 100% of CathoLock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prompter ships an update every 7 months, CathoLock weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Prompter versus CathoLock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrompterCathoLock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (19 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEXIT Realty Corp. InternationalRYAN ANTHONY HOLMES

Customer experience

Prompter

All ratings19 ratings
Positive73.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative21.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative50.0%

CathoLock

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Prompter

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

CathoLock

Subscriptions4
  • Conclave Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Family Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Conclave Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
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  • Family Plan1 Month trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Prompter free?
Prompter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CathoLock free?
CathoLock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Prompter or CathoLock?
CathoLock is rated higher. Prompter averages 4.1 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while CathoLock averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Prompter or CathoLock have ads?
Neither Prompter nor CathoLock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prompter or CathoLock?
Prompter ships an update every 7 months, and CathoLock weekly. Most recently, Prompter was updated on October 24, 2026 and CathoLock on October 25, 2026.

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