Comparison

iPieta vs My Rosary (Audio)

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

Head to head
About

iPieta

Access a comprehensive collection of Catholic resources, including Bibles, catechisms, prayers, and spiritual works. Explore liturgical calendars, papal documents, and writings from Church Fathers. Features include search, history, bookmarks, and downloadable audio for select content.

Highlights
  • Catholic Bibles (Douay-Rheims, Clementine Vulgate)
  • Multiple Catechisms (Baltimore, Roman, St. Thomas Aquinas)
  • Ordinary & Extraordinary Liturgical Calendars
  • Extensive Devotions and Prayers
  • Spiritual Works from Church Fathers
  • Papal Encyclicals and Conciliar Documents
  • Search, History, Bookmarks, Highlights
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iPieta contains Catholic documents, teachings, writings, prayers, and liturgical calendars, including: • Bibles: Douay-Rheims, Clementine Vulgate (Catholic and public domain; note that Psalms are COMPLETE but numbered as in the Vulgate). • Baltimore Catechisms #1-3 (original); the Cat. of Christian Doctrine, the Roman Catechism, and the Cat. of St. Thomas Aquinas. • Both the Ordinary (Novus Ordo) and Extraordinary (Tridentine) Calendars with access to the day's Gospel and Reading(s) from the Douay-Rheims & Vulgate. • Numerous devotions and prayers, including 33-Day Total Consecration Preparation, Novena to the Holy Spirit, St. Alphonsus Stations of the Cross, and the St. Bridget 1-Year and 12-Year Prayers. • Spiritual works from authors including St. Louis Marie de Montfort, St. Teresa of Jesus, St. John of the Cross, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa and Catena), St. Francis deSales, and St. Jean-Marie Vianney. • Papal Encyclicals and Conciliar Documents • Fathers of the Church (Erdman's collection) • Search, History, Bookmarks, Highlights. • Multi-version display of some data like versions of the Bible and prayers in different languages. • Free downloadable audio for many prayers, New Testament, and some works.

About

My Rosary (Audio)

This app guides users through various Catholic prayers, including the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy. It offers text and audio playback, automatic navigation, and progress tracking to help establish a daily prayer habit. Users can set reminders and track prayer streaks with goal-based rewards.

Highlights
  • Audio and text prayers
  • Automatic daily mystery detection
  • Prayer progress log
  • Autoplay audio with highlighted text
  • Prayer counter
  • Customizable request list
  • Prayer streak tracking with trophies
Features
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MY ROSARY: The Best App to create the Habit of Daily Prayer. Always carry your Prayers on your iPhone wherever you go. PRAYERS: - Rosary with Litany. - Rosary without Litany. - Chaplet of Divine Mercy. - Rosary of Tears. - Compendium of Prayers. FUNCTIONS: + DIGITAL FORMAT: Always carry your Prayers in your iPhone wherever you go. + AGENDA: Automatic detection of the day of the week. Indicates which Mysteries should be prayed that day. + FORMAT: Text and Audio available for each Prayer. + LOG: The app saves the progress of each Prayer. + AUTOPLAY: With the touch of the Play Button the Audio and Text of the Prayers are automatically reproduced. + AUDIO ROSARY: The Audio Rosary automatically plays the Mysteries that correspond to that Day. + AUTOMATIC REPRODUCTION: Automatically reproduces the Rosary, the Chaplet or the Rosary of Tears, highlighting in Red the Text that the Audio is reading. + COUNTER: Rosary, Chaplet and Rosary of Tears counter that helps to create the habit of Daily Prayer. + ALERTS: Alerts that indicate the completion of a Rosary, Chaplet or Rosary of Tears. + COMPENDIUM: Additional List of the Principal Catholic Prayers. + LIST OF REQUESTS: Configurable List of Requests or Intentions (Notas propias - Text and Photo). + PATH: This Section will help you create the habit of Daily Prayer through Prayer Streaks and established Goals that will award you trophies upon reaching them. + AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION: Plays automatically the Prayers that the Audio is reading. + HIGHLIGHTED TEXT: The App highlights in Red the Text that the Audio is reading. + AUDIO: Plays the Audio of the Prayers to use as a guide when praying. + AUDIO PLAYER: Plays the Audio of the Prayers continuously - Audio track. + REMINDERS: Program Reminders to Say your Prayers according to your needs. MODES: + NORMAL MODE. + INTERACTIVE MODE + AUDIO PLAYER MODE ROSARY: The Rosary is a traditional Catholic prayer that commemorates twenty mysteries (fifteen in the traditional form) of the life of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary. It is often referred to as the Holy Rosary by Catholics. “The Church has always recognized a particular efficacy to the Rosary, entrusting to it, through its communal recitation and constant practice, the most difficult causes”; St. John Paul II said, ”Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant graces, from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.” DIVINE MERCY: We learn to know the merciful love of God towards every man only thanks to Revelation. It is God Himself who tells us about His mercy from the first words of Holy Scripture. In our times, we are reminded of this truth through the Message transmitted by St. Faustina and the teaching of Pope John Paul II. The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, also called the Divine Mercy Chaplet, is a Christian devotion to the Divine Mercy, based on the Christological apparitions of Jesus reported by Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938).

Screenshots

iPieta4 screens
My Rosary (Audio)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: iPieta at 88% against My Rosary (Audio)'s 49%. iPieta also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). My Rosary (Audio)'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Rosary (Audio) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iPieta asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iPieta holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 516 and 187 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of iPieta's written reviews are positive against 49% of My Rosary (Audio)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPieta ships an update fortnightly, My Rosary (Audio) every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iPieta versus My Rosary (Audio): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPietaMy Rosary (Audio)
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (516 ratings) — better4.5 (187 ratings)
Positive reviews88.2% of reviews — better48.8% of reviews
Number of ratings516 — better187
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB29 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperiVerbumJose Ignacio Gonzalez Rivera

Customer experience

iPieta

All ratings510 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.2%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews390 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral4.9%
Negative6.9%

My Rosary (Audio)

All ratings186 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative11.3%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive48.8%
Neutral4.9%
Negative46.3%

User reviews

iPieta

From 516 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🙏 Best Catholic Prayer and Devotion App
  • 📚 Wonderful resource for prayers, readings, and spiritual content
  • 🕰️ Comprehensive coverage of traditional and modern Catholic practices
  • 🔍 Extensive library of prayers, Bible translations, and Church documents
  • 🌟 Invaluable tool for prayer life and spiritual growth

Room to improve

  • 🤔 Difficult to navigate and find desired content
  • 🆕 Recent updates have made the app less user-friendly
  • 🔇 Audio playback issues and missing features
  • 🔄 Inconsistent user experience across updates
  • 📱 Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

My Rosary (Audio)

From 187 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🙏 Encourages prayer habit
  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
  • 🚗 Great for praying on the go
  • 💡 Includes intention lists
  • ✨ Offers a compendium of prayers

Room to improve

  • 🤖 Horrible computer voice
  • 💸 Paid audio is disappointing
  • ⏸️ Audio frequently pauses
  • 🗣️ Voice is too fast
  • ❌ Audio doesn't work

Bugs and requests

iPieta

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Blank screen issues after recent updates
  • Disappearing bookmarks and notes
  • Stability problems and frequent crashes
  • Incorrect calendar and liturgical information

Requested features

5 requests
  • More Bible translations and liturgical versions
  • Improved search and browsing functionality
  • Better organization and categorization of content
  • Customizable audio playback controls
  • Offline access and download options

My Rosary (Audio)

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • Audio starts and stops
  • Streaks reset randomly
  • Audio has weird pauses and accelerations
  • Audio keeps pausing and needs repeating
  • Cannot finish audio completely
Show 18 more
  • Audio is terrible
  • Voice is horrible
  • Audio doesn't work
  • Computer voice is horrible
  • Audio quality is awful
  • Audio is digital and impersonal
  • Audio is a computer voice
  • Audio is disappointing
  • Audio has no meditation or mystery indication
  • Audio cannot be paused
  • Voice is synthetic and unbearable
  • Voice reads accents incorrectly
  • Bugs like a scratched record
  • Computer voice is terrible
  • Voice is boring and cannot be changed
  • Rosary doesn't start with Sign of the Cross/Apostles Creed
  • Audio sounds like a grocery store register
  • Audio is a computer voice, not human

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add human voice recordings for audio
  • Include meditations per mystery
  • Allow users to change language
  • Add music in the background for audio

In-app purchases

None

iPieta

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

My Rosary (Audio)

One-time1
  • Get Audio (Premium)$2.99

Questions

Is iPieta free?
iPieta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Rosary (Audio) free?
My Rosary (Audio) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iPieta or My Rosary (Audio)?
iPieta is rated higher. iPieta averages 4.7 out of 5 from 516 ratings, while My Rosary (Audio) averages 4.5 from 187 ratings.
Do iPieta or My Rosary (Audio) have ads?
Neither iPieta nor My Rosary (Audio) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPieta or My Rosary (Audio)?
iPieta ships an update fortnightly, and My Rosary (Audio) every 2 months. Most recently, iPieta was updated on October 23, 2026 and My Rosary (Audio) on October 24, 2026.

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