Comparison

Uplift Prayer vs PrayForYou

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

Head to head
About

Uplift Prayer

Connect with a prayer community through interactive prayer requests and encouragement. Build a spiritual network by praying for and supporting others. Easily create groups, use keywords to find prayers, and strengthen your prayer habits with reminders and alerts.

Highlights
  • Interactive prayer requests
  • Prayer groups
  • Keyword search for prayers
  • Reminders and notifications
  • Online chat for urgent requests
  • Ministry group participation
Features
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Uplift Prayer is a free Christian prayer app that helps people pray together. Share prayer requests, pray for others, join personal and open prayer groups, and stay connected as prayer requests are updated and answered. Whether you're praying for yourself, your family, your church, or someone you've never met, Uplift Prayer makes it easy to support one another through prayer. With Uplift Prayer you can: • Share prayer requests with people who will pray for you • Let others know you've prayed with a simple tap • Encourage others through comments, prayer updates, and answered prayers • Create personal prayer groups for family and friends • Join open prayer communities hosted by churches and ministries • Follow people, prayer requests, topics, and groups that matter to you • Build a consistent prayer habit with reminders and notifications • Use live chat during prayer events or when urgent prayer needs arise Built for individuals, small groups, churches, and ministries, Uplift Prayer provides a simple way to keep people connected in prayer throughout the week, not just during church services or group meetings. Create open prayer communities for your congregation or personal prayer groups for ministry teams, Bible studies, families, and friends. Churches and ministries can use Uplift Prayer to strengthen their prayer ministry by giving every member of the congregation a meaningful role in the ministry of prayer. Prayer requests can be shared, updated, and prayed for over time, helping people stay connected and informed as needs change and prayers are answered. Our web-based Prayer Wall can also be integrated into your church website, making it easy for visitors and members to share requests and pray from anywhere. Prayer has always been about drawing closer to God and caring for one another. Uplift Prayer provides a place where people can do that every day. Download Uplift Prayer today and discover what happens when people pray together.

About

PrayForYou

This social media app fosters connection within the Christian community by facilitating the sharing of prayer requests. Users must share their own request every 24 hours to view others' and remain connected.

Highlights
  • Share prayer requests
  • Daily prayer request reminders
  • Update requests every 24 hours
  • Add friends for prayer
  • Notifications for friend requests
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PrayForYou is a social media app aiming to bring the Christian community closer together through sharing prayer requests. In a world where every social media platform encourages us to post our pictures, videos, and opinions daily, why not also encourage our community to pray for each other? In order to view your friends’ prayer requests, you need to share yours first! Every 24 hours your prayer request will “expire” and you will need to share a new one in order to continue seeing your friends’ requests. PrayForYou is a simple app meant to be used within your church communities, campus ministries, or simply between your friends and family! KEY FEATURES: - Get daily reminders to share your prayer request! Adjust this time to match your routine. - Post whatever is on your heart! Remember to update your prayer request every 24 hours so others can pray for you AND you can pray for others! - Add your friends! Whether that’s people at home, church, school, or work, let’s pray for everyone around us. - Get notified when friends share their request! Stay up to date when the people in your circle update their prayers. We hope PrayForYou can be a powerful tool to both pray for others and experience the prayers of your community. Join us today and let others know how we can PrayForYou!

Screenshots

Uplift Prayer4 screens
PrayForYou4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PrayForYou at none against Uplift Prayer's shown. PrayForYou also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Uplift Prayer's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (75% vs 50%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

PrayForYou holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Uplift Prayer's written reviews are positive against 50% of PrayForYou's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Uplift Prayer ships an update monthly, PrayForYou every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Uplift Prayer versus PrayForYou: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUplift PrayerPrayForYou
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (15 ratings)4.8 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better8
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 8 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB24 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSIVOH, INC.Brandon Pacol

Customer experience

Uplift Prayer

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

PrayForYou

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Uplift Prayer

No in-app purchases

None

PrayForYou

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Uplift Prayer free?
Uplift Prayer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrayForYou free?
PrayForYou is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Uplift Prayer or PrayForYou?
PrayForYou is rated higher. Uplift Prayer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while PrayForYou averages 4.8 from 8 ratings.
Do Uplift Prayer or PrayForYou have ads?
Uplift Prayer shows ads; PrayForYou does not.
Which is updated more often, Uplift Prayer or PrayForYou?
Uplift Prayer ships an update monthly, and PrayForYou every 8 months. Most recently, Uplift Prayer was updated on September 18, 2026 and PrayForYou on September 11, 2026.

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