Comparison

Prayer Notes vs Daily Prayer App

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

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About

Prayer Notes

This app helps you track prayer requests and answers, serving as a daily journal for thoughts and scripture. Organize your prayer journey with simple tools and share requests easily. It's designed for daily devotion and quiet times.

Highlights
  • Track prayer requests and answers
  • Daily journal for thoughts and scripture
  • Organize prayers by category and day
  • Password privacy protection with Touch ID
  • Share requests via AirDrop, Email, SMS
  • Daily prayer time reminders
  • Apple Watch and Desktop support
Features
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"I'll pray for you." Then the day gets away from you, and by evening you can't remember who asked. Prayer Notes is where that promise goes the moment you make it. Write it down in ten seconds, put it on a day of the week, and it comes back round when you sit down to pray. Fifteen years and thousands of people later, that is still the whole idea. TEN SECONDS, BEFORE YOU FORGET Someone asks on a Sunday morning. Type a title, type what they need, done. Add the verse you want to pray over it, a photo, the days you want it to come up. File it under Family, Church, Work — or whatever categories fit your life. A LIST FOR EVERY DAY Seven days, seven lists. Sunday's requests on Sunday, Thursday's on Thursday — the method people have kept in paper notebooks for generations, with today's list on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen and your Apple Watch. PRAY TOGETHER Start a group for your small group, your family or your church, and invite the people you choose. Everyone sees the same requests, posts their own, adds an update when something changes, and taps to say they prayed. Your personal prayers stay personal — only what you post is shared. THE ANSWERS STAY Mark a prayer answered and it moves to its own list with the date and what happened. Months later it is still there. People tell us this is the part they reread — the record of what God actually did, in their own words. A JOURNAL FOR QUIET TIME Write what you read and what it stirred, with the passage attached. Browse it by date or by book of the Bible, so you can see everywhere Psalms has met you this year. WHEN THE WORDS DON'T COME Some mornings you have nothing. Prayer Builder takes today's list and writes an outline with matching scripture, right on your iPhone — nothing is sent anywhere. Edit it, pray it, or just use it to start. PRAYERS IN SCRIPTURE Hannah's prayer. David's. The one Jesus taught. Read them, pray them as they stand, or build your own from any verse — six translations included. FOCUS WHILE YOU PRAY Set a timer and let Prayer Focus quiet the apps that would have interrupted you. YOURS, EVERYWHERE iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac, in sync through iCloud. Face ID lock. Widgets. Nightly backups you can restore, and an export you can keep. YOUR PRAYERS COME WITH YOU If you have been using Prayer Notes for years, everything you have written is already here — every request, every answer, every journal entry, in the same categories. Nothing is deleted and the old database is kept untouched in case you ever want it back. Previous in-app purchases are still honored. Write it down. Pray it. Watch God answer. Auto Renewable Subscriptions: Subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your Apple ID subscription settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms and Conditions (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.chuchutrain.com/privacy-policy.html

About

Daily Prayer App

Develop consistent spiritual practices with daily scripture readings and prayer. This ad-free app offers guided rhythms for morning, midday, and evening, incorporating the Book of Common Prayer and ESV Bible translations. Customize notifications to fit your schedule and deepen your connection with faith.

Highlights
  • Daily prayer and scripture reading
  • Morning, midday, and evening rhythms
  • Integrated ESV Bible with audio
  • Customizable prayer notifications
  • Anglican liturgy and Book of Common Prayer
  • Daily Office Lectionary readings
Features
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Daily Prayer is a beautiful, ad free, experiential app designed to develop long lasting spiritual rhythms of prayer and scripture reading based in centuries old Anglican rhythms and the Book of Common Prayer. DAILY RHYTHMS Join us as we pray and read scripture in the morning, in the midday, in the evening and in the late evening. Whether you can open our app at all of these times, or at one of them, you can always expect new content each and every day. BIBLE INTEGRATION All referenced scripture is included in the app, from the ESV translation. On the go? Just click the "play" button to have the scripture read to you! CUSTOM NOTIFICATIONS Need a helpful nudge to quiet your heart throughout the day? Set custom notifications for each prayer time, and set the times to match your schedule. We will take it from there and provide you with a notification that will help you establish your daily rhythm. SOUND ORTHODOXY While this app was designed for all believers from all walks of the Christian faith, the rhythms found within are all adapted in some form from Anglican liturgy, and from the Book of Common Prayer. We believe that these ancient patterns of connecting with the Lord have deep meaning in our modern times. LECTIONARY As you walk through your day in prayer and scripture reading, you will be presented with different scripture readings every morning, midday, evening and late evening, taken from the Daily Office Lectionary, St. Mary’s Day Revision, 2018. For more information about the structure of the readings, head to dailyprayer.church.

Screenshots

Prayer Notes4 screens
Daily Prayer App3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Prayer App at none against Prayer Notes's 8. Daily Prayer App also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (93% vs 74%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Prayer Notes sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Daily Prayer App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Prayer Notes against 4.8 for Daily Prayer App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.8K and 1.6K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Prayer Notes's written reviews are positive against 93% of Daily Prayer App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prayer Notes ships an update every 2 months, Daily Prayer App every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Prayer Notes versus Daily Prayer App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrayer NotesDaily Prayer App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.8K ratings)4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews93.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.8K — better1.6K
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChuChu Train ProductionsRethinkMe LTD

Customer experience

Prayer Notes

All ratings3,832 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral9.2%
Negative16.7%

Daily Prayer App

All ratings1,594 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews169 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral1.8%
Negative4.7%

User reviews

Prayer Notes

From 3.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Helps keep prayer life organized
  • 👍 Ability to categorize and schedule prayers
  • 🚀 Syncs across devices
  • 👍 Useful for tracking answered prayers

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited free version, need to pay for full features
  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs reported
  • 🔒 Ads in free version
  • 👎 Confusing or unintuitive UI for some users

Daily Prayer App

From 1.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Beautiful and simple design
  • 🙏 Helpful for establishing a prayer routine
  • 🎨 Lovely background images
  • 🔍 Easy to navigate
  • 🔊 Audio option for scripture readings

Room to improve

  • 🔁 Repetitive prayers
  • 📖 Limited translation options for scripture
  • 🌐 Lack of language support beyond English
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding specific prayers or features
  • 🌙 Lack of dark mode/night theme

Bugs and requests

Prayer Notes

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Prayers disappearing or being deleted after updates
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • App freezing or becoming unresponsive

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow users to mark prayers as completed without removing them
  • Add ability to sort and reorder prayers
  • Improve date/time formatting options for international users
  • Add support for Apple Pencil

Daily Prayer App

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Bible readings not opening properly
  • App not updating with new content
  • Orientation issues on tablets

Requested features

6 requests
  • Allow users to add their own personal prayers
  • Provide more variety in daily prayers and readings
  • Integrate with other prayer/devotional apps or services
  • Offer a widget for quick access on the home screen
  • Add support for different Bible translations
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  • Implement a progress tracking system

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Prayer Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Features$4.991 Month
  • Premium Features7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time6
  • Calendar View$2.99
  • Database Transfer$3.99
  • Unlimited Requests & Answers$4.99
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  • Unlimited Journal Entries$4.99
  • Remove Ads$7.99
  • Unlock All Features$79.99
None

Daily Prayer App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prayer Notes free?
Prayer Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Prayer App free?
Daily Prayer App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Prayer Notes or Daily Prayer App?
Daily Prayer App is rated higher. Prayer Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings, while Daily Prayer App averages 4.8 from 1.6K ratings.
Do Prayer Notes or Daily Prayer App have ads?
Prayer Notes shows ads; Daily Prayer App does not.
Which is updated more often, Prayer Notes or Daily Prayer App?
Prayer Notes ships an update every 2 months, and Daily Prayer App every 5 weeks. Most recently, Prayer Notes was updated on October 23, 2026 and Daily Prayer App on October 22, 2026.

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