catechism.app vs When You Pray
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
catechism.app
Access multiple Christian catechisms, including the New City, Westminster, Children's, Heidelberg, and Geneva. Study questions, answers, and scripture proofs with a feature to hide answers for memorization.
- New City Catechism
- Westminster Catechisms
- Heidelberg Catechism
- Geneva Catechism
- Scripture proofs
- Hide answer for memorization
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Features the New City Catechism, the Westminster Shorter & Larger Catechisms, the Children's Catechism, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Geneva Catechism. Each catechism contains questions and answers, Scripture proofs in multiple Bible versions, and a feature to hide the answer to aid in memorization.
When You Pray
This offline application helps users dedicate more time to prayer by providing tools to mark prayer items, review prayer history, and track progress. It aims to foster a closer relationship with Christ through consistent devotion.
- Offline prayer functionality
- Mark prayer items
- Prayer History log
- Calendar view
- Statistics tracking
- No in-app purchases or ads
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I struggle with devoting time to prayer as Christ did, so I created this app to help the brothers and sisters in Christ to devote time to prayer. This app is completely usable offline and does not connect to the internet for any reason and also there are no in-app purchases nor ads. The links below go to my other websites. Mark certain items for your prayer time, and it will save it to the Prayer History for you to review, Hopefully we all get closer and closer to Christ and His perfect example of how he lived a perfect life, died in the place of sinners like you and me and rose from the dead. Be more like Christ in prayer! With features such as History (showing only notes), Calendar and Statistics, this offline prayer app should help you put the time in for Christ. Buy once for a small price and enjoy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: When You Pray at none against catechism.app's 1. When You Pray also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). catechism.app's advantage is ratings volume (166 vs 3). On price, 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. catechism.app sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per year. When You Pray asks for nothing beyond the download.
When You Pray holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: catechism.app has 166 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of catechism.app's written reviews are positive against 100% of When You Pray's.
catechism.app ships an update every 6 weeks, When You Pray weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | catechism.app | When You Pray |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (166 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 166 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Deo Volente, LLC | James Kinsman |
Customer experience
catechism.app
When You Pray
Bugs and requests
catechism.app
Reported bugs
2 issues- iPad in silent mode error
- Screen issues fixed by update
Requested features
11 requests- Copy scripture texts
- Add Fisher’s catechism
- Add Baptist Catechism based off 2nd LBCF 1689
- Copy portions to clipboard
- Attach notes to text
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- Searchable content
- Background info on catechisms
- Add more catechisms
- Real human to read material aloud
- Share feature to text friends
- Dark mode option
When You Pray
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
catechism.app
- Donation Subscription Small$1.991 Year
When You Pray
No in-app purchases
Questions
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