Comparison

Prayminder vs Harbored

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

Harbored

Features
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Your network is growing. Don't lose touch. Staying genuinely in touch is hard. You can't always see what's happening in someone's world, so you go quiet — or you reach out and it sounds generic. Harbored fixes the part that actually breaks: knowing when there's a real reason to reconnect, and what to say. How it works Tell Harbored the themes you share with each person — the team you both follow, the city they moved to, the company they work at, the market they're in. Every morning Harbored reads the news on those themes and judges what it finds. Most of it is routine, and you never hear about it. When something genuinely matters to that person, it becomes a reason: the headline, the person, and a message already drafted for you to review and send. What you get • Today — one reason at a time, like a front page about your people. • A draft for every reason — written for that person and that news, opened in your own Messages or Mail. You review every one; nothing sends itself. • A push only when it counts — Harbored stays quiet unless something is worth a message. • Check-ins when it's been a while — a nudge and a short draft for people going quiet. • Birthdays — a reminder on the day, with a note ready. • Worth passing along — articles a friend would want to read, with a note to send them. • Just talk — describe someone in your own words and Harbored turns it into themes. • A home-screen widget — today's best reason, at a glance. Import in seconds Bring your people in straight from your iPhone contacts — pick who you want, and only the details Harbored needs come across. No spreadsheets, no retyping. Private by design Harbored never sells your data and never uses your contacts for advertising. You choose who to import, and you can delete your account and everything in it at any time. Messages are sent by you, from your own apps; Harbored keeps the text of what you sent in your history so it knows when you last talked. Read the full policy at harbored-three.vercel.app/privacy. Your network is your most valuable asset. Harbored makes sure you never let it drift.

Screenshots

Prayminder4 screens
Harbored4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Harbored at 15.0 against Prayminder's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Prayminder versus Harbored: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrayminderHarbored
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (4.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.9K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrayminder ABLIAM PATRICK CARNEY

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

Harbored

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Prayminder

No in-app purchases

None

Harbored

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prayminder free?
Prayminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Harbored free?
Harbored is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Prayminder or Harbored have ads?
Neither Prayminder nor Harbored shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prayminder or Harbored?
Prayminder ships an update every 3 weeks, and Harbored every 3 weeks. Most recently, Prayminder was updated on November 2, 2026 and Harbored on October 29, 2026.

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