Pray Always † vs Venite.app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pray Always †
This app provides an Orthodox Christian prayer book to help users maintain their daily prayer life, even with busy schedules. It aims to make prayer accessible for everyone, facilitating a consistent spiritual practice.
- Orthodox Christian prayer book
- Daily prayer guidance
- Accessible for busy schedules
- Facilitates consistent prayer life
- Spiritual practice tool
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Take your prayer book with you with Pray Always † for iOS. Daily prayer is essential to a healthy Orthodox Christian life. With today's busy schedules, not everyone has as much time as they desire for their prayer life. The goal for this app is to allow even the busiest to take time to pray.
Venite.app
Create daily prayer bulletins and access the Daily Office with this app rooted in the Anglican tradition. Features include automatic bulletin generation, saved verses, a meditation timer, and customizable prayer reminders. Listen to liturgy in various voices with optional background tracks.
- Automatic bulletin generation
- Save favorite verses/prayers
- Meditation timer
- Custom prayer reminders
- Listen to liturgy aloud
- Export to Word document
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Venite.app is a bulletin creator and Daily Office prayer app rooted in the Anglican tradition of the Episcopal Church. Features • Automatically generate bulletins for the Eucharist or Daily Office for any date • Save favorite verses or prayers • Take a moment to breathe with an in-app meditation timer • Set custom reminders to send you notifications when it's time to pray • Pray the Office, listen to it read aloud, or export it to a Word document Audio • Listen to the liturgy spoken in a variety of voices • Optional background tracks to help focus your prayer • Easy integration with Bluetooth audio and other remote controls to pause, fast-forward, and rewind Content • Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline • Rite I, Rite II, and Enriching Our Worship • Coverdale Psalter, 1979 BCP Psalter, and Inclusive Psalter • NRSV, ESV, KJV, and more Bible translations
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Venite.app at none against Pray Always †'s 1. Venite.app also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 82%). Pray Always †'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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
Both are free to download. Pray Always † sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Venite.app asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Pray Always † against 4.8 for Venite.app. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 93 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Pray Always †'s written reviews are positive against 93% of Venite.app's.
Pray Always † ships an update monthly, Venite.app fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pray Always † | Venite.app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (81 ratings) | 4.8 (93 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 | 93 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Negnet Solutions | Gregory Johnston |
Customer experience
Pray Always †
Venite.app
Bugs and requests
Pray Always †
Reported bugs
7 issues- Inserted images will not load
- App is frozen and won't scroll
- App freezes up after update
- App is frozen
- Cannot use the app at all, it is frozen
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- Subscription doesn't show in Apple account but charged monthly
- Cannot cancel subscription in app or Apple account
Requested features
27 requests- Add prayers for before and after meals
- Ability to select text
- Include Paschal hours
- Hymns from Triodion and Pentecostarion
- Section on Confession
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- Ability to add more prayers to sections
- Add own prayer rule
- Include Fifth prayer of St Macarius
- Include ninth prayer of Peter the Studite
- Adjust dark/night mode with system settings
- Include hymns from Lenten Triodion and Holy Week
- Include basic Kontakia for Pre-Lent and Great Lent
- Include Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian
- Add The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
- Add Vespers & Matins
- Add more Akathists, Canons, and Troparion/Kontakion
- Personalize and add own prayers
- Include Orthodox prayer for pets
- Include more icons
- Copy of the Divine Liturgy text
- Update Jesus Prayer page with an icon of Christ
- Include an icon gallery
- Include St. Brigid of Kildare
- Make modern English translation available
- Add more prayers like Jordanville Prayer Book
- Add customization for Patron saint, Hierarchs, Spiritual Father, Living & Departed names
- Backup customizations to iCloud
Venite.app
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pray Always †
- Full Version$2.99
Venite.app
No in-app purchases
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