Rosary Pro vs Padre Pio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rosary Pro
This application guides users through praying the rosary with audio accompaniment. It offers pre-recorded Spanish audio and the ability to record custom audio for a personalized prayer experience.
- Audio-guided rosary prayer
- Custom audio recording
- Focus on prayer
- Spanish audio included
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With this app you will be able to pray the rosary. The App will pray audio in an alternate way so you can focus on the prayer and not get lost. Warning: This app has Spanish audio recorded, but it allows you to record custom audio
Padre Pio
This app provides a guided experience for praying the Novena, Chaplet, and Rosary to Padre Pio. It features auto-playing audio with highlighted text, progress tracking, and customizable reminders to help users establish a daily prayer habit. Users can also save personal prayers with photos.
- Daily Novena prayer with progress tracking
- Auto-play audio with highlighted text
- Programmable daily prayer reminders
- Save personal prayers with photos
- Audio player for prayers
- Novena completion alerts
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PRAYERS TO PADRE PIO OF PIETRELCINA: Novena, Chaplet and Rosary to Padre Pio. This app allows you to pray the Novena daily and record your progress to help you easily continue the next day. Save your own prayers by adding a photo to make it easier for you to make your requests every day. Functions: - Simple interface - Automatically plays the Novena, Highlighting the Text that the Audio is reading. - New AutoPlay Function: With the touch of the Play Button, the Audio and the Text of the Prayers are Automatically Played. - New Counter of Novenas that help to create the Habit of Daily Prayer. - New Alerts indicating the completion of a Novena. - Programmable reminders to encourage the habit of praying daily. - The app saves your progress. - List of your Requests. - Audio Player. - Prayers with Audio. - Indications in Settings Tab to change the Narrator's Voice. - Change Language or Settings Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Italian: Pio da Pietrelcina), (25 May 1887 – 23 September 1968), was an Italian friar, priest, stigmatist and mystic, now venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Born Francesco Forgione, he was given the name of Pius (Italian: Pio) when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Padre Pio became famous for exhibiting stigmata for most of his life, thereby generating much interest. He was both beatified (1999) and canonized (2002) by Pope John Paul II.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Padre Pio at 4.8 against Rosary Pro's 4.0. Rosary Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Rosary Pro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Padre Pio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Padre Pio holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 108 and 298 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of Rosary Pro's written reviews are positive against 55% of Padre Pio's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rosary Pro ships an update every 9 days, Padre Pio every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rosary Pro | Padre Pio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (108 ratings) | 4.8 (298 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.2% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 108 | 298 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mariana Olmos Ventura | Jose Ignacio Gonzalez Rivera |
Customer experience
Rosary Pro
Padre Pio
User reviews
Rosary Pro
From 108 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Ability to record own voice
- 👍 User-friendly for some
- 🙏 Helps with daily prayer
- ✨ Customization options
- 🕊️ Aids prayerful experience
Room to improve
- 🐛 Spanish audio only
- 🐛 App is unusable now
- 🐛 Messy and confusing
- 🐛 Lost old features
- 🐛 Cannot choose prayers
Padre Pio
From 298 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🙏 Powerful prayers and spiritual connection
- 💖 Deeply appreciated for healing and guidance
- ✨ Easy to use and navigate
- 👍 Highly valued app for daily prayers
- 🌟 Offers comfort and a sense of love
Room to improve
- 🤖 Robotic and unnatural computer voice
- 💰 Paid features inaccessible or disappointing
- 💸 Users feel ripped off by premium version
- 💻 App not optimized for larger screens (iPad)
- 🤏 Tiny font size, difficult to read
Bugs and requests
Rosary Pro
Reported bugs
24 issues- Only Spanish audio available
- Cannot change language settings
- New version is unusable
- Cannot choose prayers in new version
- Mysteries not appearing on correct days
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- App does not work after upgrade
- Cannot get app to work
- Rolled up page effect obscures screen
- No audio available
- "No Audio" message for English
- No Fatima prayer between mysteries
- App only plays audio, does not advance
- App makes noise when praying with beads
- Intenciones for 2016 not appearing
- Recording feature is buggy
- Prayers split in weird places
- Second half of recording doesn't play
- App does not change pages/prayers
- Audio not installed
- Features are incomplete or incompatible
- Phone overheats when app is left on
- Recorded prayers not playing on iPad
- App crashes or freezes
- App is too large (50MB)
Requested features
10 requests- Add option to continue previous prayer
- Add option to start new rosary
- Add Fatima prayer between mysteries
- Add Nicene Creed option
- Add 'thou' instead of 'you' for Ave Maria
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- Add prayer for intentions at beginning
- Share audio among users
- Add Novena app
- Improve Apple Watch compatibility
- Make app compatible with Apple Watch
Padre Pio
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes frequently
- Lost progress after crashes
- Paid premium features not unlocked
Requested features
5 requests- Human voice for prayers
- Option to change voice
- Improve font size and readability
- Better functionality for upgraded version
- Vertical orientation optimization for tablets
In-app purchases
Rosary Pro
- Donation type 1$0.99
- Donation type 2$5.99
- Donation type 3$11.99
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- Donation Type 4$24.99
Padre Pio
- Premium Version - Lifetime Access$3.99
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