Rosary Guide vs Focus Rosary
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!
Focus Rosary
This app offers a clean and focused rosary experience. It can optionally display relevant scriptures to accompany your prayers.
- Clean and focused design
- Optional scripture integration
- Guided rosary prayer
- User-friendly interface
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Rosary with a clean focused design that can optionally presents relevant scriptures as you pray.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rosary Guide at 93% against Focus Rosary's 0%. Rosary Guide also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (40 vs 5). Focus Rosary's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.2). 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.
Rosary Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rosary Guide has 40 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Rosary Guide's written reviews are positive against 0% of Focus Rosary's.
| Parameter | Rosary Guide | Focus Rosary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (40 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Big River Software, LLC | Byrne Publishing LLC |
Customer experience
Rosary Guide
Focus Rosary
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
Focus Rosary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rosary Guide
No in-app purchases
Focus Rosary
No in-app purchases
