LA Database vs Pray with St John Chrysostom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LA Database
This official app connects members of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. It allows congregants to manage family information, receive important announcements, and facilitates communication for church groups and ministries.
- Manage family information
- Receive diocese and church announcements
- Group communication for classes
- Attendance tracking
- Customizable ministry targeting
- Instant notifications
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The Official Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Hawaii Membership App - The Coptic Diocese of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Hawaii launched its owned membership app in-order to serve our congregation better. - Each church within the diocese has access to its own members. - Each congregant will be able to add/edit/manage his family information. - Members will receive diocese and church announcements/alert through app notification, text messages and emails instantly. - Sunday School & Youth Servants will have the ability to create groups for their classes to communicate and take attendance. - The church can customize unlimited ministries targeted to specific groups such as Deacons, Bible Study groups, Youth groups, etc.
Pray with St John Chrysostom
Access 24 prayers attributed to St. John Chrysostom, one for each hour of the day and night. Receive hourly notifications or use a widget to easily view the current prayer.
- 24 hourly prayers
- Current hour prayer display
- Hourly silent notifications
- Home screen widget
- Today View widget
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"Pray with..." has 24 prayers, one for each hour the day and night, which are attributed to St. John Chrysostom. There are three ways to access these prayers: * Open the app to see the prayer for the current hour * Enable Notifications to receive a silent notification containing the current prayer, every hour * Add a widget, which always displays the current prayer, to your Home Screen or Today View St. John Chrysostom, intercede for us!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pray with St John Chrysostom at 5.0 against LA Database's 4.5. Pray with St John Chrysostom also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (32 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Pray with St John Chrysostom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pray with St John Chrysostom has 32 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LA Database ships an update every 17 months, Pray with St John Chrysostom every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LA Database | Pray with St John Chrysostom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Coptic Orthodox Church - Diocese of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii | VDUB Software, LLC |
Customer experience
LA Database
Pray with St John Chrysostom
In-app purchases
LA Database
No in-app purchases
Pray with St John Chrysostom
No in-app purchases
Questions
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