Poets Corner vs 49 Hours
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poets Corner
Organize your favorite poems, lyrics, and quotations. Easily search and index content by title, author, or the first few words of a quote. Access your personal anthology of literary works.
- Personal poetry anthology
- Index poems by title and author
- Index quotes by first words and author
- Full-text search functionality
- Organize lyrics and quotations
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Poets Corner is your personal anthology of favorite poems, lyrics and quotations. Poems and lyrics are indexed by title and author; quotations are indexed by the first few words of the quotation and the author. But you can find items using a full-text search.
49 Hours
This app provides a modern way to practice fixed-hour prayer throughout the day. It offers short or full prayer offices with psalms and reflections, designed for integration into daily life. Features include customizable notifications and a weekly prayer tracker.
- Fixed-hour prayer practice
- Short and full prayer offices
- Daily psalms and reflections
- Customizable notifications
- Weekly prayer tracker
- Light/dark/automatic appearance
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49 Hours brings The Neighborhood Book of Common Prayer to iOS, making the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer accessible in the middle of an ordinary day. Seven times a day, for a few minutes or thirty, you pause. You read a psalm, a prayer, a brief reflection. You return to what you were doing with a little more of yourself gathered. THE SEVEN HOURS • The Midnight Hour (Vigils) — quiet attentiveness in the dark, for night owls and early risers • The First Hour (Lauds) — morning praise as the day begins • The Third Hour (Terce) — a brief pause mid-morning • The Sixth Hour (Sext) — noon, a breath at the peak of the day • The Ninth Hour (None) — afternoon perseverance • The Evening Hour (Vespers) — thanksgiving at day's end • The Bedtime Hour (Compline) — confession and trust before sleep TWO WAYS TO PRAY • Short Office (~5 minutes) — essential prayers and a single psalm • Full Office (~30 minutes) — the complete order, all assigned psalms Or read the day's psalms on their own. DESIGNED FOR A REAL LIFE • Your place is preserved across backgrounding; pick up exactly where you left off • A weekly tracker shows which offices you've prayed • Customizable notification times for each hour • Light, dark, and automatic appearance • Typography drawn from the Garamond family, sized for comfortable reading ROOTED IN TRADITION The Neighborhood Book of Common Prayer revives a practice that is thousands of years old, grounded in the Jewish Psalter ("Seven times a day do I praise you," Psalm 119:164) and sustained through centuries of Christian monastic life. 49 Hours offers that inheritance in a form you can carry in your pocket. No ads. No accounts. No tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 49 Hours at 5.0 against Poets Corner's 4.6. 49 Hours also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Poets Corner's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
49 Hours holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poets Corner has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Poets Corner's written reviews are positive against 100% of 49 Hours's.
Poets Corner ships an update every 4 months, 49 Hours every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poets Corner | 49 Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rick Aurbach | Joseph Paravisini |
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Poets Corner
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In-app purchases
Poets Corner
No in-app purchases
49 Hours
No in-app purchases
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