Comparison

BuildSaints vs RSRY

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

Head to head
About

BuildSaints

This app helps users build daily spiritual habits through personalized prayer, scripture, and sacrament routines. It adapts content based on user activity and intentions, drawing inspiration from Catholic teachings and the lives of saints. Users can customize their plan, track their progress, and optionally share intentions with a trusted community.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily prayer and scripture
  • AI-generated reflections based on user input
  • Customizable spiritual habit routines
  • Sacramental schedule integration
  • Activity history and progress tracking
  • Optional community intention sharing
Features
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Your Catholic Agent From everyday activities to spiritual goals, BuildSaints helps you encounter God — prayer, Scripture, and community, grown the way you want. As introduced in Plan of Life: Daily Habits book by Msgr. Roger Landry. The core practices include: - The Morning Offering, the Rosary, and the Liturgy of the Hours - The day's Mass readings, and today's Gospel as a short film each morning - Reflections and prayers written for your own intentions, read aloud - An Examen that helps you find God's presence in your day Ask, and It's Made Everything happens in one simple chat. Say what you need in your own words: - "A prayer for my mother's surgery tomorrow" — written for her and read aloud. - "A short film on St. Teresa of Ávila" — her story and her own words. - "A reading plan on the Psalms, one each morning at 7" — it comes daily, at your time. - "A trivia on today's Gospel" — to play now or send to friends. Anything that should come every day arrives on your schedule, and you can turn it off in one tap. Ideas and Goals - Ideas — fresh ways to grow, picked for where you are: a prayer to try, a reading to start, a feast to keep, a game to play. - Goals — your spiritual goals in your own words, with a clear path and gentle tracking, never pressure. Daily Groups Start a group with friends, your parish, or your school. Each morning the day's Gospel film arrives, followed by one quick game: which line stuck with you, and can you guess what your group picked? Invite anyone with a link or a QR code — friends can join and play right away on the web, with no download needed. Events in New York A feed of young adult Catholic events across New York City, from Masses and holy hours to talks, socials and retreats, with RSVPs and short films that explain the teaching behind them. Saints You Find in Person Walk with a saint as your intercessor. Visit a partner church and scan a statue or a sacred work of art to meet that saint or devotion, then keep what you find in your collection. Going Further — When You're Ready Connect more of your life if you'd like: invest your money according to the Church's teaching, set spending habits that support your goals, or bring the people and places in your week into your prayer. These are always optional and always yours to decide — nothing is done in your name without your tap. Rooted in the Tradition BuildSaints draws on Scripture, the liturgical calendar, the Catechism, the Church's documents — including Magnifica Humanitas — and the writings of the saints, quoted exactly and cited. It never speaks for God, and never replaces a priest or the sacraments. Your reflections and personal content stay private — never sold, never shared. You choose what you connect and what you share. Free to begin — every daily practice, your groups, and your community, with a generous weekly allowance for things made just for you. A membership removes the weekly limit. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

RSRY

Features
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Tap Pray to start. As you speak, RSRY follows along with the prayer text, gently highlighting your place and advancing when each prayer is complete. RSRY includes the traditional Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries, selected automatically for the day. A minimal progress rail helps you see where you are in the Rosary, and an optional decade bell and haptics can mark your progress without interrupting the prayer. Features: Voice-following Lock Screen Live Activity for active prayer sessions Dynamic Island activity display on supported iPhone models Current prayer, mystery, and decade progress at a glance Full Holy Rosary sequence Traditional daily mystery selection On-device speech transcription Visual progress through the decades Optional decade bell Optional haptic feedback Clean, distraction-free design

Screenshots

BuildSaints4 screens
RSRY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RSRY at none against BuildSaints's 1. BuildSaints's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support 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. BuildSaints sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. RSRY asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BuildSaints ships an update every 3 days, RSRY every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BuildSaints versus RSRY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuildSaintsRSRY
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuildSaintsMatthew McCarty

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BuildSaints

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Account$4.991 Month
None

RSRY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BuildSaints free?
BuildSaints is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RSRY free?
RSRY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BuildSaints or RSRY have ads?
Neither BuildSaints nor RSRY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BuildSaints or RSRY?
BuildSaints ships an update every 3 days, and RSRY every 2 weeks. Most recently, BuildSaints was updated on October 30, 2026 and RSRY on October 31, 2026.

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