Saint Joseph vs iSalmos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Saint Joseph
This app provides a guided experience for praying the Novena to Saint Joseph, allowing users to track their progress and save personal prayers with photos. It features automated audio playback, text highlighting, and customizable reminders to foster a daily prayer habit.
- Daily Novena prayer tracking
- Save personal prayers with photos
- Automated audio and text playback
- Progress counter for habit building
- Customizable prayer reminders
- Audio player with voice options
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NOVENA TO SAINT JOSEPH: Practical Novena to Saint Joseph. This app allows you to pray the Novena daily and record your progress to help you easily continue the next day. Save your own prayers by adding a photo to make it easier for you to make your requests every day. Functions: - Simple interface - The App saves your progress. - Automatically plays the Novena, Highlighting the Text that the Audio is reading. - AutoPlay: With the touch of the Play Button, the Audio and the Text of the Prayers are Automatically Played. - Counter of Novenas that help to create the Habit of Daily Prayer. - Alerts indicating the completion of a Novena. - Programmable reminders to encourage the habit of praying daily. - List of your Requests. - Audio Player. - Indications in Settings Tab to change the Narrator's Voice. - Change Language or Settings.
iSalmos
Access and explore all 150 Psalms from the Holy Bible. Organize and view them by author, literary genre, or as favorites. Easily revisit your most recently viewed Psalm.
- List of all 150 Psalms
- Psalms by author
- Psalms by literary genre
- Favorite Psalms list
- View last seen Psalm
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Esta App te ofrece una consulta de los 150 Salmos de la Sagrada Biblia con varias opciones de organización y presentación. Usted encontrará las siguientes funcionalidades: Listado de Todos los 150 Salmos, con un título de descripción del Salmo. Visualización del Salmo (Versículos) e información adicional. Listado de los Salmos por Autor (Salmistas) Listado de los Salmos por Género Literario (Himnos, Súplicas, Acción de Gracias y Didácticos). Mantener una Lista de sus Salmos Favoritos. Ver Último Salmo visto (más reciente).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iSalmos at none against Saint Joseph's 1. iSalmos also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Saint Joseph's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (346 vs 5). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Saint Joseph sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iSalmos asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Saint Joseph against 5.0 for iSalmos. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Saint Joseph has 346 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Saint Joseph's written reviews are positive against 100% of iSalmos's.
Saint Joseph ships an update every 2 months, iSalmos every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Saint Joseph | iSalmos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (346 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 346 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 263 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Rivera | Agustin Contreras Hernandez |
Customer experience
Saint Joseph
iSalmos
Bugs and requests
Saint Joseph
Reported bugs
2 issues- Premium version doesn't grant access to chaplet
- App does not show up in settings
Requested features
5 requests- Add prayer to Sainte Rita
- Include Sacro Manto prayer
- Add initial/final prayer 'A te o beato Giuseppe'
- Vivify colors for better readability
- Add rosary corresponding to San Jose
iSalmos
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Saint Joseph
- Premium Version - Lifetime Access$3.99
iSalmos
No in-app purchases
Questions
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