Comparison

Church Center vs PrayIt

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

Head to head
About

Church Center

Connect with your church community throughout the week. Access events, sermons, giving options, and manage family check-ins. Explore groups and register for activities, all powered by your church's Planning Center subscription.

Highlights
  • Event calendar
  • Sermon access
  • Online giving
  • Family pre-check
  • Church directory
  • Group participation
  • Event registration
Features
Currently charting
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Church Center by Planning Center is where you can explore, engage, and get involved with your church throughout the week. See a calendar of events, access sermons, give, pre-check your family, browse the directory, join groups, and register for events on iOS. Each feature is powered by one of our products, based on what your church has subscribed to. Privacy Policy: https://www.planningcenter.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.planningcenter.com/terms

About

PrayIt

This app offers a personal and organized way to manage your prayer list. You can add people and events, categorize them, and set specific requests with customizable rhythms. It helps you stay on track with your prayers and record answered requests and updates.

Highlights
  • Add and categorize people/events
  • Set specific prayer requests
  • Customize request rhythms (daily, weekly)
  • Track answered prayers and updates
  • Daily devotional options
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Offline data backup and restore
Features
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PrayIt is a quiet, personal way to pray for the people and things that matter to you — and to actually keep it up. Add the people and events you want to pray for, sort them into categories like Family, Church, and Friends, and give each one a list of specific requests. Then open the Pray tab each day and PrayIt walks you through them, one category at a time. HOW IT WORKS • Add people and events, and group them into categories you set • Write as many prayer requests as you like under each one • Give a request a rhythm — daily, weekly, every few days — or leave it unscheduled • Open the Pray tab and move through your list, marking each request as you pray STAY ON TOP OF A LONG LIST • Unscheduled requests rotate a handful at a time, so you cover everyone over days and weeks instead of facing a wall of text every morning • Scheduled requests are spread evenly across the calendar automatically, so no single day is overloaded • Pick up exactly where you left off — today, tomorrow, or next week RECORD WHAT HAPPENS • Mark a request answered with a note, and it moves to your Answered list • Add dated updates to anything ongoing, without closing it out • Review everything in one place — Active, Answered, or All — and share or export a plain-text prayer list A DAILY DEVOTIONAL, IF YOU WANT ONE • Start each session with a verse and a prayer • Write your own to cycle through, or use a bundled public-domain classic: Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, or Streams in the Desert • Import your own devotionals in bulk from a spreadsheet YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS • Syncs across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account • No account to create, no ads, no subscriptions, no tracking • Nothing is ever sent to us — we have no servers and no way to see your list • Back up and restore your whole list as a file whenever you like Requires iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

Church Center4 screens
PrayIt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PrayIt at 100% against Church Center's 41%. PrayIt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Church Center's advantage is ratings volume (2.7K vs 1) and chart position (#21 vs unranked). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PrayIt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Church Center has 2.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Church Center's written reviews are positive against 100% of PrayIt's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Church Center ships an update weekly, PrayIt every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Church Center versus PrayIt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChurch CenterPrayIt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (2.7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.7K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#21 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMinistry Centered TechnologiesBruce Barclay

Customer experience

Church Center

All ratings2,203 ratings
Positive74.6%
Neutral9.0%
Negative16.4%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive40.7%
Neutral22.1%
Negative37.2%

PrayIt

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Church Center

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Links from notifications don't always work
  • Insists on no internet connection when there is one
  • Can't log in, just spins
  • Clicking through from notifications makes you log in and select church each time
  • Can't play previous week's lesson
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  • Can't get in again, keeps spinning
  • Can't log in, just says unlock with null or login again
  • Retry message, app crashing
  • Can't see giving history after update
  • Can't delete account
  • App won't open
  • Undefined error after phone change
  • URL links don't link properly after update
  • Can't donate, just loads forever

Requested features

19 requests
  • Verse of the day
  • Calendar integration
  • Ability to add graphics/emojis to events
  • Ability to pin event locations
  • Option to not receive reminders for events you declined
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  • Ability to delete old prayer requests
  • Ability to choose to receive notifications for initial posts without all replies
  • Multiple payment options in one giving transaction
  • Ability to add notes to directory contacts
  • Groups accessibility from the app
  • Ability to post sermon recordings in the app
  • Ability to take sermon notes in the app
  • Ways to contact the leadership
  • Place to upload featured resources
  • Support for multiple campuses under one account
  • Groups integration
  • Check-in integration
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

PrayIt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Church Center

No in-app purchases

None

PrayIt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Church Center free?
Church Center is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrayIt free?
PrayIt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Church Center or PrayIt?
PrayIt is rated higher. Church Center averages 4.2 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while PrayIt averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Church Center or PrayIt have ads?
Neither Church Center nor PrayIt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Church Center or PrayIt?
Church Center ships an update weekly, and PrayIt every 10 days. Most recently, Church Center was updated on November 8, 2026 and PrayIt on November 6, 2026.

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