Rosary Guide vs Pocket Chaplet
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!
Pocket Chaplet
This app offers a straightforward way to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. It provides the necessary prayers and tools to help users focus on their devotion without unnecessary features.
- Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
- Simple and sleek interface
- Includes prayers
- Focus on devotion
- Multiple languages
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Want to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet? No worries! With Pocket Chaplet you have a simple and sleek answer. Nothing fancy, just the beads, the prayers, and the tools you need to focus on God. The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy is a Christian devotion to the Divine Mercy, based on the Christological apparitions of Jesus reported by Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), known as ”the Apostle of Mercy.“ Languages: ● English ● More to come
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rosary Guide at none against Pocket Chaplet's 3. Pocket Chaplet's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). 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. Pocket Chaplet sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 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 Pocket Chaplet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 28 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Rosary Guide's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pocket Chaplet's.
Rosary Guide ships an update monthly, Pocket Chaplet every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rosary Guide | Pocket Chaplet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (38 ratings) | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Big River Software, LLC | Tercaet LLC |
Customer experience
Rosary Guide
Pocket Chaplet
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
Pocket Chaplet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rosary Guide
No in-app purchases
Pocket Chaplet
- Generous Tip$1.99
- Massive Tip$5.99
- Amazing Tip$9.99
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