Comparison

Prayer Notes vs DevoteAbility

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

Head to head
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

DevoteAbility

This app facilitates group-based Bible study and prayer accountability for churches and small groups. It enables customized learning plans, time-based challenges, and private social networking to foster connection and spiritual growth within a community.

Highlights
  • Group-based learning platform
  • Customizable devotional challenges
  • Private social networking
  • Progress tracking for individuals and groups
  • Prayer request features
  • Privacy controls
Features
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DevoteAbility is a group-based learning platform for your church or small group designed to cultivate the kind of lasting connectivity that fosters meaningful relationships and transformation. With our private social networking app, your small group can participate in time-based challenges and customized learning plans all while interacting with one another through the group's home feed. Team members can see how each person is progressing along with how the group is doing as a whole. As a member of a DevoteAbility team, you will receive the encouragement and accountability you need to move from distracted to engaged. Consistently learning and growing alongside other group members will bring you closer to God and your community. HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: 1. You or your group leader creates a team on our app or website and sends out invites to join. 2. Team members install the DevoteAbility app, create an account and accept the invitation. 3. The team leader selects one of our 40-day devotional challenges or creates a custom challenge or learning plan. 4. Team members report their activity daily and encourage one another by sharing insights and discussing life applications of what they are learning. 5. Team members create prayer requests to remind themselves to pray for specific needs, and can share these requests with the team. FEATURES: * Easy and intuitive interface * Customizable devotional goals – “Read one Bible chapter per day”, “Pray 30 minutes per day”, “Pray for a friend”, “Read Genesis 1 today”, etc. * Customizable learning plans with video, reading, task and response elements * Communication tools to help you keep in touch with your community * Accountability features to encourage engagement and participation * Prayer request features that maintain confidence while encouraging teams to pray for each other * Privacy. Your questions, comments, posts, prayer requests and goal data is only visible to those who are in your organization. * Friendly and helpful customer support We have learned that consistent daily devotions are key to building community, deepening our relationship with God, and experiencing the transforming power of Jesus in our life. God wants you and your group to be close to Him, to flourish, and be spiritually healthy. You can cut through the noise of life and help rekindle the fire of your spiritual life. DevoteAbility is here to help.

Screenshots

Prayer Notes4 screens
DevoteAbility4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DevoteAbility at none against Prayer Notes's 6. DevoteAbility also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Prayer Notes's advantage is ratings volume (3.8K vs 6). On price, rating, update cadence and device support 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 6 one-off in-app purchases. DevoteAbility 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 DevoteAbility. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prayer Notes has 3.8K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Prayer Notes's written reviews are positive against 100% of DevoteAbility's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prayer Notes ships an update every 2 months, DevoteAbility monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Prayer Notes versus DevoteAbility: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrayer NotesDevoteAbility
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.8K ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.8K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChuChu Train ProductionsDevoteability, Inc.

Customer experience

Prayer Notes

All ratings3,831 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews173 reviews
Positive74.0%
Neutral9.2%
Negative16.8%

DevoteAbility

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

DevoteAbility

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Prayer Notes

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$19.99
None

DevoteAbility

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prayer Notes free?
Prayer Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DevoteAbility free?
DevoteAbility is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Prayer Notes or DevoteAbility?
DevoteAbility is rated higher. Prayer Notes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings, while DevoteAbility averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Prayer Notes or DevoteAbility have ads?
Prayer Notes shows ads; DevoteAbility does not.
Which is updated more often, Prayer Notes or DevoteAbility?
Prayer Notes ships an update every 2 months, and DevoteAbility monthly. Most recently, Prayer Notes was updated on October 20, 2026 and DevoteAbility on September 30, 2026.

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