Rosary Offline vs Catholic prayer book
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rosary Offline
Learn the scriptural rosary with this offline text-based guide. It helps you meditate on key events in salvation history, with options to track your progress on virtual beads and access bonus prayers.
- Offline scriptural rosary guide
- Meditate on 20 mysteries
- Virtual rosary beads
- Bonus prayers included
- Text-to-speech function
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The text version of the rosary available for you to learn it. Learn to pray the scriptural rosary anywhere, because it works even offline. Choose the mystery for the correct week day and tap the plus button as if you were pulling the real rosary beads. If you accidentally tapped twice, tap on the back button to move back. The purpose of the Scriptural Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events in the history of our salvation. There are twenty mysteries reflected upon in the Rosary, and these are divided into the five Joyful Mysteries (said on Monday and Saturday), the five Luminous Mysteries (said on Thursday), the five Sorrowful Mysteries (said on Tuesday and Friday), and the five Glorious Mysteries (said on Wednesday and Sunday). As an exception, the Joyful Mysteries are said on Sundays during Christmas, while the Sorrowful Mysteries are said on the Sundays of Lent. Make the Sign of the Cross and say the “Apostles’ Creed” Say the “Our Father” Say three “Hail Marys” for Faith, Hope, and Charity Say the “Glory Be” Announce the First Mystery and then say the “Our Father” Say ten “Hail Marys” while meditating on the Mystery Say the “Glory Be” (Optional: Say the “O My Jesus” prayer requested by Mary at Fatima) Announce the Second Mystery; then say the “Our Father” and repeat these steps as you continue through the remaining Mysteries. Say the “Hail Holy Queen” and verse Say the “Final Prayer” Make the “Sign of the Cross” Bonus prayers added: Deliverance prayer against Evil, Saints John Vianney, Seraphim of Sarov, Charbel Makhlouf, How to receive the Holy Spirit, Stations of the Cross, St. Bridget prayers, basic prayers like The Apostle's and Nicene Creed, Hail Holy Queen, Ten Commandments, St. Michael the Archangel and many more. Version 1.15: Text to speech function added. Open prayer and tap on play button in the top right corner.
Catholic prayer book
This app provides essential Catholic prayers and guides users through praying the rosary with meditations. It also helps discover litanies and allows users to store and pray with personal texts and Bible passages.
- Essential Catholic prayers
- Rosary prayer guide
- Rosary meditations
- Litanies recitation discovery
- Store Bible passages
- Store personal prayers
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The prayer book includes the essential catholic prayers. It explains how to pray on rosary, giving you the examples of rosary meditations. It helps you to discover the beauty of litanies recitations. Store and return to the pieces of Bible. Store and pray on your own texts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Catholic prayer book at none against Rosary Offline's shown. Catholic prayer book also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 50%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Rosary Offline's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 25 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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
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 Rosary Offline against 5.0 for Catholic prayer book. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Rosary Offline's written reviews are positive against 67% of Catholic prayer book's.
Rosary Offline ships an update every 9 days, Catholic prayer book every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on July 16, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rosary Offline | Catholic prayer book |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Andrej Hriciga | Jacek Reddig |
Customer experience
Rosary Offline
Catholic prayer book
In-app purchases
Rosary Offline
No in-app purchases
Catholic prayer book
No in-app purchases
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