Rosary Guide vs Pocket 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!
Pocket Rosary
This app offers a digital substitute for Rosary beads, providing the essential prayers and mysteries to aid in meditation. It's designed for users who want to focus on their spiritual practice without physical tools. Available in multiple languages for a wider audience.
- Digital Rosary beads substitute
- Includes essential prayers
- Features Rosary mysteries
- Focus on spiritual meditation
- Multi-language support
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Forgot your Rosary beads? No worries! With Pocket Rosary you have a simple and sleek substitute. Nothing fancy, just the mysteries, the prayers, and the tools you need to focus on God. The Rosary -- from the 13th Century -- incorporates ancient prayers of the Christian tradition. It is meditative and orients us towards on the Mysteries: events from the life of Jesus Christ and his Blessed Mother. New: write your own prayers in a Custom Language, see the Fruits of each Mystery, and optionally log your prayer time to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes. Languages: ● English ● French - Français ● German - Deutsch ● Italian - Italiano ● Korean - 한국어 ● Latin ● Polish - Polerować ● Portuguese - Portuguesa ● Spanish - Español ● Custom (create your own)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rosary Guide at none against Pocket Rosary's 3. Rosary Guide also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 20 months) and iOS requirement (16.2 vs 18.6). Pocket Rosary's advantage is ratings volume (157 vs 40). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Pocket Rosary 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 Rosary. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 157 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Rosary Guide's written reviews are positive against 98% of Pocket Rosary's.
Rosary Guide ships an update monthly, Pocket Rosary every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rosary Guide | Pocket Rosary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (40 ratings) | 4.9 (157 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | 98.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 | 157 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Big River Software, LLC | Tercaet LLC |
Customer experience
Rosary Guide
Pocket Rosary
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
Pocket Rosary
From 157 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- ✨ No distractions, just the rosary
- 👆 Swipe to advance beads
- 🎯 Bible verses for each mystery
- 🙏 Custom prayers at the end
Room to improve
- 🎨 Limited accent color options
- 🗣️ No narrated feature
- ❓ Some older reviews mention glitches resolved by reinstallation
- 🔊 Vibrations can be annoying (can be adjusted)
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 Rosary
Reported bugs
2 issues- App stuck on sorrowful mysteries (resolved by reinstallation/cellular data)
- Vibrations can be annoying (adjustable in settings)
Requested features
7 requests- Allow users to change accent color
- Include audio for younger children to follow along
- Update Apostle's Creed to reflect current Catholic Mass usage
- Add more language options (French, Esperanto)
- Spanish language option
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- Double vibration/different sound for major beads (mysteries/decades)
- Add 'find my prayer' on rosary beads
In-app purchases
Rosary Guide
No in-app purchases
Pocket Rosary
- Generous Tip$1.99
- Massive Tip$5.99
- Amazing Tip$9.99
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