Comparison

Prayminder vs Prayer Cycles

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

Head to head
About

Prayminder

This app helps users integrate prayer into their daily lives with gentle reminders and a personal prayer list. It fosters a consistent connection with God throughout the day, allowing users to track answered prayers and maintain a record of gratitude.

Highlights
  • Personal prayer list
  • Daily randomized prayer reminders
  • Scheduled reminders
  • Add notes to prayers
  • Mark prayers as answered
  • Track prayer frequency
Features
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Prayminder is a calm, beautifully crafted prayer app that makes it simple to pray through the day and turn prayer into a habit. More than 30 million prayer reminders have gone out to people around the world. Add prayers, Scripture, or any words you want to return to, and Prayminder brings them back to you with gentle reminders across your day. It is free, private by design, and works without an account. HOW IT WORKS Write down your prayer topics. Choose how often you want to be reminded. When a reminder arrives, take a moment to pray, then carry on with your day. Over time, those small moments become a rhythm, and you get to make prayer a habit in the middle of a busy everyday life. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Keep your prayers in one place and organize them into groups, such as family, church, or work - Set your own reminder schedule, from a few times a day to whatever suits your life - Read the Bible in the app, with translations provided through YouVersion - Attach Bible verses to your prayers - See a simple record of how your prayer rhythm is growing - Receive reminders reliably, even when your phone has been asleep for hours PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your prayers are personal. They are stored on your phone and never leave your device. You can use the whole app without the need to create an account. The app is free, shows no ads, and your data is yours only. MADE AS A MINISTRY Prayminder is made by Panos and Emma, a husband and wife who have been building it as a ministry since 2017, so that anyone can keep turning back to God in the middle of ordinary days. It is free for everyone and open to Christians of every tradition.

About

Prayer Cycles

Features
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Most of us mean to pray for people. We just forget who, and when. Prayer Cycles keeps the people and things you care about in rotation, so nobody quietly falls off the end of the list. HOW IT WORKS Make a prayer list for any circle of life: immediate family, friends, coworkers, your church, your town. Give each list a rhythm, from every day to once a year, and set the interval yourself: every day, every three weeks, every six months. Each day, the app surfaces one prayer from every active list and gathers them under Today's Prayers. It always chooses whoever you have prayed for least, so the list moves through everyone instead of circling the same few names. You never have to decide where you left off. THE TIMEBOX When you want to sit down and pray, open the Time Box. Set how long to spend on each prayer and it works out the total, or set the total and let it divide the time for you. It moves through the list on its own, with a gentle sound between each one, so you can close your eyes and stay with it rather than watching a clock. WHAT IT DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO There are no streaks, no counters, no charts, and no record of how long you prayed or when. Nothing is scored. This is meant to be a quiet place rather than a wall of achievements, and it will never make you feel behind. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. There are no accounts to make, no servers to trust, no analytics, and no tracking. The app makes no network requests at all and works completely offline. Your lists and prayers are encrypted on your device. Export a backup whenever you like and send it wherever you want through the normal iOS share sheet, or import one to move to a new phone. ALSO INSIDE - Tags, for grouping prayers and lists across circles - Notes on any prayer, for the details you want to remember - Search across everything you have written - Five themes - English, German, Swiss German, Japanese and Mongolian - Deleted lists are recoverable for 50 days Free. No subscription, no adverts, no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Prayminder4 screens
Prayer Cycles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Prayminder at every 3 weeks against Prayer Cycles's every 6 weeks. Prayer Cycles's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prayminder ships an update every 3 weeks, Prayer Cycles every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Prayminder versus Prayer Cycles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrayminderPrayer Cycles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (4.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrayminder ABJoshua Schwarting

Bugs and requests

Prayminder

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Keyboard blocks editing prayers
  • Notifications not always working

Requested features

6 requests
  • Categorize prayers (people, topics, etc.)
  • Customize notification frequency per prayer
  • Track answered prayers separately
  • Search/sort prayers
  • Share prayers with others
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  • Bible verse integration

Prayer Cycles

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Prayminder

No in-app purchases

None

Prayer Cycles

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prayminder free?
Prayminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Prayer Cycles free?
Prayer Cycles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Prayminder or Prayer Cycles have ads?
Neither Prayminder nor Prayer Cycles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prayminder or Prayer Cycles?
Prayminder ships an update every 3 weeks, and Prayer Cycles every 6 weeks. Most recently, Prayminder was updated on October 22, 2026 and Prayer Cycles on October 9, 2026.

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