IMB Pray vs Prayer Shield
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IMB Pray
This app provides daily prayer guidance for unreached people and places globally. It offers strategic prayer points, updated regularly, to help users engage in impactful intercession. Connect with the developer's website for more information.
- Prayer guidance for unreached peoples
- Strategic prayer points
- Daily content monitoring
- Timely information updates
- Connect with web resources
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With the IMB Pray app you will be just a tap away from knowing how best to pray for unreached peoples and places around the world. Download it today and know that your prayers are strategic in nature and considered high priority by field missionaries. Content will be monitored daily and updated to provide you with timely information. Connect with us on the web at imb.org/pray The IMB Pray app was developed with Subsplash App Platform.
Prayer Shield
This prayer guide helps identify and counter spiritual schemes targeting loved ones. It offers a 40-day cycle of prayers that can be repeated or customized based on current needs, aiming to protect individuals for more effective ministry.
- Identify enemy schemes
- 40-day prayer cycle
- Repeatable prayer sessions
- Customizable prayer topics
- Focus on ministry advancement
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The purpose of this prayer guide is to get to the core of what schemes the enemy often uses to try to “take out” our sent one. These may not be a constant threat, but they definitely are being used against our sent one at some point. If we as senders pray for our sent ones so that the enemy no longer uses these schemes against them; we believe that this would “free” them up for a more powerful ministry. It is hard to deflect the schemes of the enemy and advance (although by the grace of God- they are!). But how much easier the advance if there are not flaming arrows coming at you!?! Let us be the shields for our sent ones. This guide is meant to be used more than once. In the app, the 40 days automatically recycle so you can pray over them again. These are struggles that will continue to need to be fought against. The suggestion is to go through the guide once completely and then as you continue to pray for our sent one look at the table of contents below and ask the Lord which topic they really need prayer for right then. Or if you prefer, just keep going through it! Thank you for your partnership in the advancement of the gospel!
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Verdict
IMB Pray and Prayer Shield both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Prayer Shield's written reviews are positive against 86% of IMB Pray's. IMB Pray's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for IMB Pray against 4.8 for Prayer Shield. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of IMB Pray's written reviews are positive against 100% of Prayer Shield's.
IMB Pray ships an update every 2 months, Prayer Shield every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IMB Pray | Prayer Shield |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | IMB | Matthew Draper |
Customer experience
IMB Pray
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In-app purchases
IMB Pray
No in-app purchases
Prayer Shield
No in-app purchases
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