A Simple Pause vs Prayer Liturgy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A Simple Pause
Engage in short, guided spiritual practices for about five minutes to connect with God. Explore scripture, imagery, and silence to deepen your faith and relationship with the divine.
- Six guided spiritual practices
- Lectio Divina scripture study
- Imaginative prayer
- Visio Divina image reflection
- Audio Divina with sacred listening
- Simple silence meditation
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Enjoy one of 6 different practices as you pause to spend around 5 minutes with God in the midst of your day. Lectio Divina - Listen for God’s message as you hear a small portion of scripture with room to ponder. Imagine - Enter prayerfully into a scene from the scriptures to broaden your experience and relationship with God. Visio Divina - Enjoy your gift of sight as you invite God to speak to your heart as you gaze at an image. Simply Scripture - Restfully listen to the gentle reading of selections of scripture. Audio Divina - Sacred listening with God using your gift of hearing. Music and other beautiful sounds. Simple Silence - Ahhh…Close your eyes and rest in silence with God for 5 minutes and we’ll keep track of the time.
Prayer Liturgy
This app serves as a personal prayer journal and an interactive guide for morning and evening prayer liturgies. It allows users to record, manage, and track personal prayers, and provides a structured format for reciting prayers and scripture during liturgical services. Personal prayers can be synchronized across devices.
- Personal prayer keeper
- Create and manage personal prayers
- Mark prayers as answered/unanswered
- Synchronize prayers across devices
- Interactive Morning/Evening Prayer Liturgies
- Consolidated view of prayers and scripture
- Selectable bible translation
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This application is a personal prayer keeper and interactive Prayer Liturgy guide. As a personal prayer keeper, the app enables users to * enter personal prayers for self, family members and others * create and delete personal prayers * mark prayers as "Answered", which will move them to another section of the view * return prayers to "Unanswered" * hide or display Answered prayers * automatically synchronize personal prayers across devices via iCloud The Morning Prayer Liturgy and Evening Prayer Liturgy are resources of the Prayer School offered by Pastor Brian Zahnd of the Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, MO. This application can be used as an interactive guide for these liturgies. When used in the liturgical mode, the app * presents a choice of Morning or Evening Prayer Liturgies * consolidates the various prayers, bible verses, and online resources into one view * scrolls through the subjects of the liturgies so the prayers can be recited from memory * allows each prayer to be fully expanded by tapping on the heading * displays Family and Intercessory prayers during the appropriate sections of the liturgies * enables personal prayers to entered, and managed within the liturgies * allows users to set a preferred bible translation, and displays all verses using the selected translation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: A Simple Pause at monthly against Prayer Liturgy's every 17 months. A Simple Pause also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for A Simple Pause against 5.0 for Prayer Liturgy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 12 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
A Simple Pause ships an update monthly, Prayer Liturgy every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A Simple Pause | Prayer Liturgy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spiritual Formation Society of Arizona | Chris Henderson |
Customer experience
A Simple Pause
Prayer Liturgy
In-app purchases
A Simple Pause
No in-app purchases
Prayer Liturgy
No in-app purchases
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