Comparison

Lexeme vs PrayerList Pro

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

Head to head
About

Lexeme

This app assists with crossword puzzles and anagrams. It offers advanced search capabilities for missing letters, letter rearrangements, and pattern matching. A built-in thesaurus helps refine results by meaning.

Highlights
  • Crossword completer
  • Anagram solver
  • Missing letter search
  • Pattern matching
  • Built-in thesaurus
  • Cryptic crossword syntax
Features
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Lexeme is an advanced crossword completer and anagram solver. It has a simple syntax designed to suit the default keyboard and the constructions typically found in cryptic crosswords. Lexeme can search for words and phrases where there are missing letters, anagrams of some or all letters, or a pattern inside another pattern at any position. It also has a built-in thesaurus that can be used to filter search results for a particular meaning.

About

PrayerList Pro

This app helps you track your prayer requests and monitor your spiritual consistency. Organize requests with photos and notes, mark them as prayed, and view your progress with weekly stats and daily streaks. It automatically logs prayer time to Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Create and organize prayer requests
  • Attach photos and notes to requests
  • Track prayed and answered prayers
  • View weekly stats and daily streaks
  • Syncs across Apple devices via iCloud
  • Home screen widgets for quick access
  • Logs prayer time to Apple Health
Features
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PrayerList Pro is a beautifully simple app designed to help you stay faithful in prayer. Add prayer requests for the people and situations on your heart, pray, and watch your consistency grow over time. No accounts. No subscriptions. No data collection. Just open the app and start praying. Create prayer requests for people you love, situations you're facing, or things you're grateful for. Attach contact photos, add notes, and organize with color-coded categories. Mark each request as prayed, track answered prayers, and build a daily streak that tells a story of faithfulness. See your prayer journey at a glance. Weekly stats, daily streaks, mindful minutes, and answered prayers give you a clear picture of how your faithfulness has grown over time. Prayer time is automatically logged to Apple Health as mindful minutes. Your prayers sync seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch via iCloud. Browse prayers and mark them as prayed from your wrist. See your prayer list and streak from home screen widgets, no need to open the app.

Screenshots

Lexeme4 screens
PrayerList Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PrayerList Pro at 4.9 against Lexeme's 4.0. PrayerList Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). Lexeme's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (94% vs 83%). On price, ads and monetization model 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. PrayerList Pro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Lexeme asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PrayerList Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PrayerList Pro has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of Lexeme's written reviews are positive against 83% of PrayerList Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lexeme ships an update every 6 months, PrayerList Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Lexeme versus PrayerList Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLexemePrayerList Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.3% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings215 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew FinnNextsulting

Customer experience

Lexeme

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive94.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.7%

PrayerList Pro

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lexeme

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

PrayerList Pro

One-time4
  • Tier 1$9.99
  • Tier 2$24.99
  • Tier 3$49.99
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  • Tier 4$99.99

Questions

Is Lexeme free?
Lexeme is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrayerList Pro free?
PrayerList Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lexeme or PrayerList Pro?
PrayerList Pro is rated higher. Lexeme averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while PrayerList Pro averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Lexeme or PrayerList Pro have ads?
Neither Lexeme nor PrayerList Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lexeme or PrayerList Pro?
Lexeme ships an update every 6 months, and PrayerList Pro every 2 weeks. Most recently, Lexeme was updated on October 6, 2026 and PrayerList Pro on September 30, 2026.

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