Prayer Notes vs Prayer Request Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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Prayer Notes is an application to help you keep track of your prayers requests and answers. It is designed with simplicity in mind, to allow you to quickly write, review, and share your requests with others. God listens and moves in your life each and everyday. Start journaling your prayer journey today! Prayer notes now includes a daily journal for thoughts and scripture references. Now this is your one stop app for devotional and quiet times. Prayer Notes is now available for the Mac desktop computers! Highlights • Simple and intuitive user interface. • Category groupings for prayers. • Organize prayers into days of the week. • Devotional journal and scripture references. • Today widget. • Password privacy protection (now with touch ID). • Share requests via AirDrop, E-mail and SMS*. • Archive prayers in the answers section. • Horizontal and vertical rotation supported. • Daily prayer time reminder. • Weekly prayer calendar. • Available for both iPhone and iPad. • Apple Watch support • Compatible with the Desktop version of Prayer Notes.
Prayer Request Notes
This app helps users organize and share prayer requests individually or in groups. It allows for the creation and management of prayer lists, with options to export them and access scriptures on prayer. The service is free and does not require an internet connection.
- Create and manage individual prayers
- Create and manage group prayers
- Export prayers to .txt and .csv
- Share or save prayer lists
- Free prayer request service
- Prayer Timer
- Scriptures on prayer
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Prayer Request Notes is the best app available to help promote praying. This is not just a tool to individually pray and keep track of what you pray for but also to help share and inspire others to pray as well. The perfect solution for churches, group leaders, families, friends, and anyone else organizing and wanting to manage and share prayer lists. TOP FEATURES: * Create and manage individual prayers. * Create and manage group prayers. * Create individual and list of group prayers in .txt and .csv files. * Share a list of prayers or save on your device. * Request Prayers a 100% free service inside the app. No limits. * Prayer Timer. * Scriptures on prayer. * No internet required. * No advertisements. * No app analytics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Prayer Request Notes at none against Prayer Notes's 6. Prayer Request Notes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Prayer Notes's advantage is ratings volume (3.8K vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price 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. Prayer Notes sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Prayer Request Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Prayer Request Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prayer Notes has 3.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Prayer Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Prayer Request Notes's.
Prayer Notes ships an update every 2 months, Prayer Request Notes every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prayer Notes | Prayer Request Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChuChu Train Productions | Jonathan Gillman |
Customer experience
Prayer Notes
Prayer Request Notes
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
Prayer Request Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prayer Notes
- 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$19.99
Prayer Request Notes
No in-app purchases
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