Dad's Prayers vs The Daily Office
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dad's Prayers
This free Christian prayer app offers guidance for parents to pray for their children and family. It provides topical prayers with scripture references and daily prayer topics for two months, encouraging consistent spiritual practice.
- Topical prayers with scripture
- 100+ sample prayers
- 250+ scripture references
- Daily prayer topics
- Prayers for personal use
- Encouraging verses
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Pray for your children! Bless and protect your family! This free app (with no ads) will encourage you and help you to pray for your children. It has 2 sets of prayers to help you: 1) Topical prayers - 13 topics with 100+ sample prayers and 250+ scripture references. Includes a category for prayers for yourself. - Love - Praise - Wisdom - Helmet of Salvation - Sword of the Spirit - Breastplate of Righteousness - Shield of Faith - Belt of Truth - Shoes of Peace - Protection - Blessings - Misc - For Myself 2) Daily prayers - 2 months of daily prayer topics to help give your daily prayers variety. Our pastor once spoke on fasting and praying for your children, and ever since I have fasted breakfast one day a week and used the time to pray for my children while they are sleeping. There is something about the innocence of a still sleeping child that touches your heart and helps you to passionately pray. And Moms, don't let the app name scare you away, both parents can use this app! These are the prayers I use, and I hope they will be useful as guides to you too. But they are just starting points. Use these or use your own; the important thing is to pray! And don't be afraid to fast (if you are medically able). Fasting adds power to our prayers. Plus there are some verses to encourage you when times are tough. So reap the blessings of prayer - bless and protect your family - load this app, silence your cell phone, get in there and start praying!
The Daily Office
This app provides daily prayer services from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (2019). It offers offline access, customizable themes, and audio playback for a personalized prayer experience. Users can also share settings to pray together with others.
- Morning, Midday, Evening, and Compline prayer
- Offline access to daily services
- Customizable themes and text sizes
- Audio playback with screen lock support
- Family Prayer devotions
- Searchable Psalter
- Shareable prayer settings
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Pray Morning, Midday, Evening, and Compline (bedtime) prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (2019), every day, wherever you are. The Daily Office sets out each office on one page, in order: no flipping between sections, no looking up readings in the lectionary, no rubrics to decode. Join Christians around the world in the pattern of daily prayer the Church has kept since its earliest days. WHAT'S INSIDE • Morning Prayer, Midday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline for every day of the year • Family Prayer: shorter devotions in the same pattern, for households with children • The day's readings on their own, for Morning and Evening Prayer and the Holy Eucharist • The whole Psalter, searchable and arranged by topic, in contemporary or traditional language • Collects for the Christian year, the offices, and many occasions • The Great Litany • A calendar of the Christian year, with every feast, fast, and commemoration in its liturgical color • Lives of the saints, with traditions and further reading for each commemoration PRAY ANYWHERE, EVEN OFFLINE The days ahead download on their own, up to two months of the offices, Family Prayer, and the readings for your settings, so you can pray on a plane, on retreat, or anywhere without a signal. Keep the spoken office for today and tomorrow too, and the app refreshes your downloads in the background. PRAY ALONG WITH AUDIO Every office can be read aloud, with each word highlighted as it is spoken. Audio keeps playing with your screen locked, and you can pause, skip, and scrub from the lock screen or your headphones. BOOK VIEW Pray an office one page at a time, turning the pages like a printed prayer book, with nothing else on the screen. On iPhone Duo, open it like a book and the office opens to two pages, one on each side of the fold. PODCASTS Prefer your podcast app? Subscribe to Morning and Evening Prayer and the daily readings, or make a podcast with your own settings. MAKE IT YOURS • Light, sepia, and dark themes, or follow your device • Six typefaces, including the Caslon of the 2019 prayer book, Garamond, Baskerville, and a hyperlegible face for low vision • Any text size, with rubrics in italic or red • Every choice the rubrics allow: a 30- or 60-day psalter, a one- or two-year lectionary, canticles, the Traditional Language edition, and more • Bible translations including the ESV, KJV, RSV, NASB, NIV, and NABRE PRAY TOGETHER Share your settings with a link or QR code, so a household, small group, or congregation can pray the same office together, in the same room or online. FAITHFUL TO THE BOOK The Daily Office carefully follows the text, calendar, and rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer (2019) of the Anglican Church in North America. It is an independent project, generously supported by Anglican House Publishers, publisher of the 2019 prayer book. It is not a substitute for the printed book, but a faithful companion to it: at home, at work, or on the road. Free, with no ads and no account required. Your settings and downloads are kept on your device. Questions, corrections, or ideas? Write to feedback@dailyoffice2019.com. We read every message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: The Daily Office at 318 against Dad's Prayers's 16. The Daily Office also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Dad's Prayers's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 5.0 for Dad's Prayers against 4.9 for The Daily Office. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Daily Office has 318 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Dad's Prayers's written reviews are positive against 86% of The Daily Office's.
Dad's Prayers ships an update every 3 months, The Daily Office monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dad's Prayers | The Daily Office |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better | 4.9 (318 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 318 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Worship, LLC | The Daily Office, LLC |
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Dad's Prayers
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No in-app purchases
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