Comparison

When You Pray vs PrayIt

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

Head to head
About

When You Pray

This offline application helps users dedicate more time to prayer by providing tools to mark prayer items, review prayer history, and track progress. It aims to foster a closer relationship with Christ through consistent devotion.

Highlights
  • Offline prayer functionality
  • Mark prayer items
  • Prayer History log
  • Calendar view
  • Statistics tracking
  • No in-app purchases or ads
Features
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I struggle with devoting time to prayer as Christ did, so I created this app to help the brothers and sisters in Christ to devote time to prayer. This app is completely usable offline and does not connect to the internet for any reason and also there are no in-app purchases nor ads. The links below go to my other websites. Mark certain items for your prayer time, and it will save it to the Prayer History for you to review, Hopefully we all get closer and closer to Christ and His perfect example of how he lived a perfect life, died in the place of sinners like you and me and rose from the dead. Be more like Christ in prayer! With features such as History (showing only notes), Calendar and Statistics, this offline prayer app should help you put the time in for Christ. Buy once for a small price and enjoy.

About

PrayIt

This app offers a personal and organized way to manage your prayer list. You can add people and events, categorize them, and set specific requests with customizable rhythms. It helps you stay on track with your prayers and record answered requests and updates.

Highlights
  • Add and categorize people/events
  • Set specific prayer requests
  • Customize request rhythms (daily, weekly)
  • Track answered prayers and updates
  • Daily devotional options
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Offline data backup and restore
Features
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PrayIt is a quiet, personal way to pray for the people and things that matter to you — and to actually keep it up. Add the people and events you want to pray for, sort them into categories like Family, Church, and Friends, and give each one a list of specific requests. Then open the Pray tab each day and PrayIt walks you through them, one category at a time. HOW IT WORKS • Add people and events, and group them into categories you set • Write as many prayer requests as you like under each one • Give a request a rhythm — daily, weekly, every few days — or leave it unscheduled • Open the Pray tab and move through your list, marking each request as you pray STAY ON TOP OF A LONG LIST • Unscheduled requests rotate a handful at a time, so you cover everyone over days and weeks instead of facing a wall of text every morning • Scheduled requests are spread evenly across the calendar automatically, so no single day is overloaded • Pick up exactly where you left off — today, tomorrow, or next week RECORD WHAT HAPPENS • Mark a request answered with a note, and it moves to your Answered list • Add dated updates to anything ongoing, without closing it out • Review everything in one place — Active, Answered, or All — and share or export a plain-text prayer list A DAILY DEVOTIONAL, IF YOU WANT ONE • Start each session with a verse and a prayer • Write your own to cycle through, or use a bundled public-domain classic: Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, or Streams in the Desert • Import your own devotionals in bulk from a spreadsheet YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS • Syncs across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account • No account to create, no ads, no subscriptions, no tracking • Nothing is ever sent to us — we have no servers and no way to see your list • Back up and restore your whole list as a file whenever you like Requires iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

When You Pray4 screens
PrayIt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: PrayIt at free against When You Pray's paid. When You Pray's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for When You Pray against 5.0 for PrayIt. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

When You Pray ships an update weekly, PrayIt every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
When You Pray versus PrayIt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhen You PrayPrayIt
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames KinsmanBruce Barclay

Customer experience

When You Pray

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PrayIt

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

When You Pray

No in-app purchases

None

PrayIt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is When You Pray free?
When You Pray is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrayIt free?
PrayIt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, When You Pray or PrayIt?
When You Pray and PrayIt are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do When You Pray or PrayIt have ads?
Neither When You Pray nor PrayIt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, When You Pray or PrayIt?
When You Pray ships an update weekly, and PrayIt every 10 days. Most recently, When You Pray was updated on November 4, 2026 and PrayIt on November 6, 2026.

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