Comparison

Rosary Guide vs RosaryGo

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Auto-selects daily Mysteries
  • Adjustable Mysteries for seasons
  • Choice of Luminous or Traditional Mysteries
  • Optional Latin prayers
  • Saves prayer progress
Features
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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!

About

RosaryGo

This app offers a customizable and interactive way to pray the Holy Rosary, supporting multiple languages, rites, and devices including Apple Watch. Track your progress, maintain prayer streaks, and receive reminders to deepen your spiritual practice.

Highlights
  • Interactive Rosary with haptic feedback
  • Pray in 23 languages
  • Supports Latin and Maronite rites
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Daily prayer streak tracking
  • Customizable themes and layouts
  • Optional iCloud sync
Features
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RosaryGo is a simple and customizable companion for praying the Holy Rosary on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Whether you are learning the Rosary for the first time or have prayed it for years, RosaryGo helps you follow the prayers, keep track of your place, and pray at your own pace. Choose between the Latin and Maronite rites, pray in 23 languages, and personalize the experience to suit the way you pray. Features: • Apple Watch: Pray from your wrist in Focused or Overview Mode. Move bead by bead with the Digital Crown, Double Tap, or a swipe, guided by gentle haptics. Your progress, settings, themes, and streaks stay in sync with your iPhone. • Interactive Rosary: Tap, swipe, or drag across the beads as you pray, with Undo and Redo controls when needed. • 23 Languages: Pray in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Indonesian, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tamil, Malayalam, Tagalog, Cebuano, Swahili, Lingala, Malagasy, and Igbo. • Latin and Maronite Rites: Choose your preferred Rosary tradition. Both rites are available in every language, and Latin can be used as both the app and prayer language. • Arabic Reading Styles: Read the Arabic prayers without vowel marks, with partial vowel marks, or fully vocalized. • Focused and Overview Modes: Pray one bead at a time alongside the prayer text, or view the complete Rosary and your progress at a glance. • Mysteries and Spiritual Fruits: Automatically follow the appropriate mysteries for the day or manually select the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, Luminous, or No Mysteries option. View meditations and spiritual fruits throughout each decade. • Widgets, Complications, and Controls: See your current Rosary progress and daily streak on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch face without opening the app. On supported devices, you can also continue your Rosary from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action Button. • Prayer Streaks and Physical Rosaries: Keep a motivational daily prayer streak whether you pray inside RosaryGo or with physical beads. Simply confirm a physical Rosary so the day counts toward your streak. • Reminders and Streak Protection: Create optional daily reminders and receive an evening reminder when your streak may be at risk. • Optional Private iCloud Sync: Keep your streak history, settings, themes, and tutorial progress synchronized across your Apple devices. • Haptic Feedback: Feel distinct, gentle feedback on iPhone and Apple Watch when moving forward or backward, making it easier to pray without constantly looking at the screen. • Spoken Prayers: Listen to prayer text using the voices available on your device. • Customizable Appearance: Choose System, Light, or Dark appearance independently from your Rosary theme. Every theme adapts to Light and Dark. Select a built-in design or create, save, import, and share your own themes. • Flexible Layouts: Adjust the Rosary and navigation controls for your preferred hand. RosaryGo adapts to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, compact screens, different text sizes, and right-to-left languages. RosaryGo does not require an account. The complete prayer experience is available immediately after installation and can be used offline. iCloud synchronization is entirely optional. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Rosary Guide4 screens
RosaryGo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rosary Guide at none against RosaryGo's 5. Rosary Guide also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 6). RosaryGo's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ads and iOS requirement 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. RosaryGo sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Rosary Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RosaryGo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rosary Guide has 40 ratings behind it against 6, 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 100% of RosaryGo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rosary Guide ships an update monthly, RosaryGo weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Rosary Guide versus RosaryGo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRosary GuideRosaryGo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (40 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings40 — better6
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBig River Software, LLCMichel Sfeir

Customer experience

Rosary Guide

All ratings37 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral4.8%
Negative2.4%

RosaryGo

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

RosaryGo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Rosary Guide

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

RosaryGo

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Tier 1$1.991 Month
  • Monthly Tier 2$3.991 Month
One-time3
  • Americano$2.99
  • Cappuccino$4.99
  • Large Latte$8.99

Questions

Is Rosary Guide free?
Rosary Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RosaryGo free?
RosaryGo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rosary Guide or RosaryGo?
RosaryGo is rated higher. Rosary Guide averages 4.8 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while RosaryGo averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Rosary Guide or RosaryGo have ads?
Neither Rosary Guide nor RosaryGo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rosary Guide or RosaryGo?
Rosary Guide ships an update monthly, and RosaryGo weekly. Most recently, Rosary Guide was updated on October 31, 2026 and RosaryGo on November 1, 2026.

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