Rosary Guide vs Scriptural Rosary Lite
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!
Scriptural Rosary Lite
This app guides you through praying the Luminous or Sorrowful mysteries of the rosary with scriptural verses for each Hail Mary. It offers multiple Bible translations, font size adjustments, and a save-your-place feature. You can also use audio, record your own voice, add custom text, and pray with others nearby.
- Scriptural verses for each Hail Mary
- Multiple Bible translations (Knox, NAB, Douay-Rheims)
- Adjustable font size
- Save progress feature
- Latin prayers included
- Daily reminder
- Audio recitation and recording
- Group prayer via Bluetooth/WiFi
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Helping you to pray the Luminous or Sorrowful mystery of the rosary by providing verse from scripture for each Hail Mary. This will help you to meditate and keep focused on each mystery. You can choose between the Knox Bible, the New American Bible, or Douay-Rheims Bible according to your preference. To switch between Luminous and Sorrowful mysteries, you can go to the Settings and turn off the Luminous mystery option to switch to Sorrowful mysteries. To give you a better reading experience, it is possible to adjust the font size to display the prayer. You can continue right where you left off, if you get interrupted, because the app will save the place where you stopped. If you prefer to have the prayers in Latin, they are also included in the app. To encourage yourself to pray the rosary more often, there is a daily reminder feature. If you prefer audio, activate the built-in audio feature or you can also record your own voice or your loved ones while reciting the Scriptural Rosary. Include your petitions or thanksgiving within the app while praying the rosary with the custom opening or closing text feature. You can even pray the rosary in a group with friends nearby, the screens synchronize between the devices by way of Bluetooth or WiFi. The following languages are supported: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Indonesian. This is a universal app so you only need to download get this app to be used on both iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch devices. Please pray for the holy souls in Purgatory and for me, as I continue to develop Catholic apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rosary Guide at 4.8 against Scriptural Rosary Lite's 4.5. Rosary Guide also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (93% vs 84%). Scriptural Rosary Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.2). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 62 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Rosary Guide's written reviews are positive against 84% of Scriptural Rosary Lite's.
Rosary Guide ships an update monthly, Scriptural Rosary Lite every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rosary Guide | Scriptural Rosary Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (38 ratings) — better | 4.5 (62 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better | 84.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 62 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Big River Software, LLC | Leonard Mamangkey |
Customer experience
Rosary Guide
Scriptural Rosary Lite
User reviews
Rosary Guide
From 38 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
Scriptural Rosary Lite
From 62 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🙏 Enriches Rosary devotion
- 📖 Scripture verses included
- 🖼️ Beautiful artwork
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 💡 Meditations on mysteries
Room to improve
- 🤖 Robotic voice quality
- 💸 Paid version required for full access
- 🐛 App not functioning/crashing
- ⏳ Prayers too fast for meditation
- 🗣️ Poor audio quality
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
Scriptural Rosary Lite
Reported bugs
10 issues- App not functioning anymore
- Crashes in iOS 16
- App does not launch on iOS 16
- App stops when iPhone locks
- Update is bad, only Luminous rosary available
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- Audio tracks won't play
- Cannot hear audio tracks
- App crashes on newer iOS versions
- Error with '연옥' spelling
- Red '1' on icon with no way to clear
Requested features
14 requests- Fix app crashing on iOS 16
- Allow selection of specific mysteries for any day
- Improve audio quality with human voice
- Add Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Add English 1966 Jerusalem Bible translation
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- Add virtual rosary instead of 'Next' button
- View images during prayer, not just before
- Option to change color to Marian blue
- Ability to copy/paste recordings
- Support for Android devices
- Allow purchase history deletion
- Option to remove numbers on screen
- Add Spanish language version
- Support for audio playback via car audio
In-app purchases
Rosary Guide
No in-app purchases
Scriptural Rosary Lite
No in-app purchases
Questions
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