Comparison

iFingerRosary vs Devotio

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

Head to head
About

iFingerRosary

This app offers a digital finger rosary experience, allowing users to pray without looking at the screen. It features unique art for each mystery of the Rosary and utilizes intuitive finger gestures for navigation. The app also includes a WatchOS version.

Highlights
  • Digital finger rosary functionality
  • Art for each Rosary mystery
  • Screen-free operation
  • Intuitive finger gestures
  • WatchOS app included
Features
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With just your thumb, without any need of looking at the screen, this app has the same function as a finger rosary. The user will find a nice collection of art pieces, one for each mystery of the Rosary. Thus, with these representations, the app indicates the mystery which is being prayed. 4 Finger gestures are recognized to easily use it. The original artworks can be found in the Shrine of Our Lady of Torreciudad, in Northern Spain (+info: torreciudad.org). Permission for using those images has been granted to this application -thanks! WatchOS App is included.

About

Devotio

This app offers a private and traditional Catholic prayer experience. Build custom prayer sessions, track intentions, and access various devotions like the Rosary and Stations of the Cross, all stored locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Customizable prayer sessions
  • Intentions tracker
  • The Rosary with all mysteries
  • Stations of the Cross
  • Surrender Novena
  • Daily Mass readings
  • Prayer journal
Features
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Devotio is a free Catholic prayer app built as an apostolate, not than a product. No accounts. No cloud sync. No tracking. Your prayers stay on your device - private, as they should be. WHAT DEVOTIO INCLUDES Personal Oratory Build a prayer session shaped to your own intentions. Choose the quick path - one page, under a minute - or the full four-step preparation: your petitions, a virtue or theme, saints for intercession, and prayers from the treasury of the Church. Intentions Diptych Keep the names and causes you pray for close to hand. Inspired by the ancient Church practice of the Diptych - wax tablets on which names were written for prayer during the Liturgy. The Rosary All twenty mysteries, bead by bead. Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious - with traditional day-by-day mapping. Quick Rosary for a single decade when time is short. Stations of the Cross All fourteen stations, with sacred art and your personal intentions carried through from the first. Surrender Novena Nine days of abandonment to Divine Providence attributed to Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo. Schedule daily prayers so each day's text arrives at the right time. Litanies and Chaplets The great litanies of the Church - including the Litany of Loreto and the Litany of the Saints - alongside traditional chaplets (coming in a later version). Daily Mass Readings Today's readings via Universalis, with regional liturgy recognition. Prayer Journal Every completed session logged automatically: the saints you prayed with, the mysteries, your intentions, date and time. Private. Never transmitted. Scheduler and Calendar Schedule any devotion. Set a time, receive a notification, deep-link directly into the prayer. Export to your phone's calendar. THE TRADITION 165 saints mapped to virtues, feast days, and themes. 1,140 Scripture passages across three translations. All major Catholic devotions - in three Catholic translations. Three translations throughout: modern English (Catholic Public Domain Version), traditional English (Douay-Rheims), and Latin (Clementine Vulgate). PRIVACY Devotio is architecturally incapable of seeing what you pray about. There are no user accounts, no servers to receive your data, and no tracking of any kind. Everything is stored locally on your device. You can export and delete your data at any time. FREE TO USE The app is free to use, and the heart of it - the prayers, the devotions, the Scripture, your intentions - will always remain so. Devotio is the vision of an independent Catholic who began with a simple desire for a faithful and private way to pray — and worked with an incredible Catholic software engineer (53bells), feature by feature, to bring that vision to life and share it with fellow believers.

Screenshots

iFingerRosary3 screens
Devotio4 screens

Verdict

The call

iFingerRosary and Devotio both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Devotio's written reviews are positive against 80% of iFingerRosary's. iFingerRosary's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for iFingerRosary against 5.0 for Devotio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of iFingerRosary's written reviews are positive against 100% of Devotio's.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
iFingerRosary versus Devotio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriFingerRosaryDevotio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLDTS Ltd. Liability CompanyDEVOTIO PRAYER LTD

Customer experience

iFingerRosary

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Devotio

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

iFingerRosary

No in-app purchases

None

Devotio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iFingerRosary free?
iFingerRosary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Devotio free?
Devotio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iFingerRosary or Devotio?
iFingerRosary and Devotio are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do iFingerRosary or Devotio have ads?
Neither iFingerRosary nor Devotio shows ads.

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