Rosary Guide vs Saint Jude Thaddeus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rosary Guide
This app provides a guided experience for praying the five-decade Rosary. It automatically selects the appropriate Mysteries for the day and offers options for seasonal adjustments and different prayer versions. The app also saves your progress, making it convenient for daily devotion.
- Auto-selects daily Mysteries
- Adjustable Mysteries for seasons
- Choice of Luminous or Traditional Mysteries
- Optional Latin prayers
- Saves prayer progress
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A simple guide for praying the five-decade Rosary. Features include: • Auto-selects the Mysteries for the day of the week. • Option to adjust the Mysteries for Advent and Lent. • Option for Luminous or Traditional Mysteries. • Optional Latin prayers. • Saves your place for the day. PLEASE NOTE: When the option to adjust the Mysteries for Advent and Lent is enabled, the order of the daily Mysteries is adjusted automatically for these seasons. Your locale might not follow this practice, either way is optional. We'd like to thank everyone for your comments and support. Knowing that others have found this app helpful makes it worthwhile. God Bless and keep praying the Rosary!
Saint Jude Thaddeus
This app offers a practical novena to Saint Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of desperate cases. It guides users through daily prayers, tracks progress, and allows for saving personal prayers with photos. Features include audio playback with highlighted text and reminders to foster a consistent prayer habit.
- Novena Prayers
- Progress Tracking
- Save Personal Prayers with Photos
- Audio Player with Highlighted Text
- AutoPlay Function
- Daily Prayer Counter
- Completion Alerts
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SAINT JUDE THADDEUS NOVENA Practical Novena to St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. 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: - Novena Prayers - Simple interface - The app saves your progress. - List of prayers. - Audio Player. - Prayers with Audio. - Automatically plays the Novena and the Rosary Highlighting the Text that the Audio is reading. - New AutoPlay Function: With the touch of the Play Button, the Audio and the Text of the Prayers are Automatically Played. - New Counter of Novenas and Rosaries that help to create the Habit of Daily Prayer. - New Alerts indicating the completion of a Novena or Rosary.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rosary Guide at none against Saint Jude Thaddeus's 1. Rosary Guide also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 67%). Saint Jude Thaddeus's advantage is ratings volume (662 vs 40) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Jude Thaddeus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rosary Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Rosary Guide against 4.9 for Saint Jude Thaddeus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Saint Jude Thaddeus has 662 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Rosary Guide's written reviews are positive against 67% of Saint Jude Thaddeus's.
Rosary Guide ships an update monthly, Saint Jude Thaddeus every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rosary Guide | Saint Jude Thaddeus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (40 ratings) | 4.9 (662 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 | 662 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Big River Software, LLC | Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Rivera |
Customer experience
Rosary Guide
Saint Jude Thaddeus
User reviews
Rosary Guide
From 40 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 💡 Interactive beads feature
- 🙏 Helpful for new users
- ✨ Clean and elegant design
- 🔄 Ability to resume prayer
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes on older iOS
- ❓ Missing detailed mystery descriptions
- ❓ Lacks more prayers (e.g., Fatima, before/after)
- ❓ Older version of Apostles Creed
- ❓ Saving changes/descriptions not working
Saint Jude Thaddeus
From 662 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✝️ Spiritual growth and faith enhancement
- 👍 User-friendly and simple design
- 📱 Accessible across multiple platforms (iPhone, Android)
- 🙏 Helps track novena progress and daily prayers
- ✨ Powerful and inspiring prayer content
Room to improve
- 🤖 Robotic and monotone computerized voice narration
- 🔊 Audio quality is poor and unpleasant
- 🐢 Audio rushes through prayers without proper pauses
- 😕 Difficult navigation and app layout
- ⚙️ Limited functionality or hidden features
Bugs and requests
Rosary Guide
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes on iOS 8
- Saving changes/descriptions not working
- Incorrect mysteries for certain days
- Jumps back to crucifix
- Settings not saved
Requested features
19 requests- Add audio for listening
- Save progress feature
- Spanish version
- Add more prayers (Fatima, before/after)
- Update Apostles Creed
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- Add detailed mystery descriptions
- Add Bible passages for mysteries
- Add Litany
- Option for single decade
- Add Novena feature
- Add audio for Latin
- Add petitions section
- Add Memorare prayer
- Add Preparatory Prayer
- Multilingual support
- Audio in multiple languages
- Save settings
- Include images of mysteries
- Divine Mercy Chaplet
Saint Jude Thaddeus
Reported bugs
4 issues- Audio playback malfunction and crashes
- Language settings not functional despite premium purchase
- Computerized voice mispronounces words
- Audio playback issues with St. Jude Novena
Requested features
6 requests- Professional human voice narration for audio
- Language selection settings (Spanish support)
- Updated version post-Vatican II
- Improved app navigation and layout
- Better audio pacing and pauses
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- Text formatting for proper prayer responses
In-app purchases
Rosary Guide
No in-app purchases
Saint Jude Thaddeus
- Premium Version - Lifetime Access$2.99
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