Sacred Hours vs Amaré
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sacred Hours
This app provides daily morning and evening devotions tailored to specific Christian traditions. It features Scripture readings, reflections, prayers, and a liturgical calendar to foster consistent spiritual practice. Audio options are available for reflections and prayers.
- Tradition-specific devotions (Catholic, Anglican, etc.)
- Morning and evening prayer routines
- Scripture readings and reflections
- Liturgical calendar integration
- Weekly virtue focus
- Audio playback for content
- Minimalist, calm interface
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Sacred Hours is a Christian prayer app and daily devotional. It brings a calm, unhurried rhythm of morning and evening prayer, rooted in Scripture and centered on Christ. Choose your tradition: Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, or non-denominational. Or begin with Exploring Christianity if you are returning to faith or exploring it for the first time. Sacred Hours adapts its prayers, reflections, and calendar to your tradition, so daily devotion feels rooted and familiar rather than generic. It combines Scripture, reflection, and prayer with a calendar attuned to your tradition, giving your practice structure without making it feel scripted. Whether you think of it as a devotion or a rule of life, a few unhurried minutes at dawn and dusk become a steady rhythm of returning to Christ, day after day. A COMPLETE DAILY RHYTHM First Light (morning devotion) offers Scripture, reflection, and a short prayer to begin the day in faith and love. Day's End (evening devotion) offers Scripture, reflection, an examen that gently reviews the day, and a closing prayer that entrusts your life to God's mercy and rest. KEEP THE RHYTHM See your mornings and evenings as they add up, and keep a private journal for your own reflections and prayers. The goal is small, steady faithfulness, one day at a time. SHAPED BY THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Sacred Hours follows the rhythm of the Christian year as your tradition keeps it: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and the feasts and observances your tradition holds dear. Seasons differ across traditions, but the purpose is the same: to let holy time shape daily prayer rather than generic themes. DEVOTIONS THAT SOUND LIKE HOME Scripture stays at the center of every devotion. Reflections and prayers are written to feel at home in your tradition, without flattening its distinctives into generic language. The aim is not novelty but a steady voice you can trust: reverent, readable, and grounded in the gospel. VIRTUE FORMATION, WEEK BY WEEK Each week highlights a virtue as a practice of discipleship, grounded in Scripture and received as a response to grace. Virtues become habits to practice in ordinary life, shaping your attention, speech, and action in love of God and neighbor. LISTEN, NOT JUST READ Listen to Scripture passages, reflections, prayers, and virtue content. Listen on a commute, during a walk, or in a quiet room when you would rather listen than look at a screen. DESIGNED FOR CALM, CONSISTENT PRACTICE No feed. No ads. No clutter. Just a clean, minimalist page that reads like a book, not a stream. A familiar structure and gentle morning and evening reminders make it easy to return. WHO IT'S FOR Sacred Hours is for busy people with only a few minutes, longtime believers who want structure for morning and evening prayer, and anyone returning to faith or exploring it for the first time. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S INCLUDED Free mode includes today's First Light in full, the current virtue of the week, the current season, and your three most recent journal entries. Subscribers unlock Day's End, audio listening, devotions from the past 30 days to revisit, all four seasonal virtues, the complete calendar for your tradition, and an unlimited journal. FREE TRIAL AND SUBSCRIPTION Sacred Hours offers an optional monthly or annual subscription. Both plans include a free three-day trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://sacredhours.app/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://sacredhours.app/privacy-policy/ PRIVACY AND SUPPORT We treat your data with care and do not sell personal data. For help, contact serve@sacredhours.app. Pause. Pray. Become.
Amaré
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Amaré is the app for a couple to grow together in love and in faith. Five minutes a day, for two. EVERY DAY, A QUESTION THAT OPENS TOGETHER A verse and a question chosen for your stage: dating, engaged, married or parents. Each of you answers on your own, and neither can read the other's answer until you have both answered. The app is not merely hiding it: the server does not hand it over before then. When both answers open at once, the conversation starts. "I PRAYED FOR YOU", IN ONE TAP Share what you carry in your heart. One tap tells your partner you just prayed for it. What God answers is kept as a testimony of you both. A STREAK THAT FORGIVES It counts the days you walk together. If one day you cannot, you do not lose what you built: the streak carries on with grace, without guilt. TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER A weekly quiz, "How well do you know me?": each answers for themselves and guesses the other, and the result opens when you both finish. Quick games: "Which of us?" and "Would you rather?", with cards you swipe. Brave conversations about money, family, children and faith, with a prayer to close. Couple quizzes: how you receive love, and how you draw close to God. SEVEN-DAY CHALLENGES Challenges to do together: one proposes, the other accepts. Seven days within ten, so real life fits. Seasonal ones too, for Advent and Holy Week. YOUR STORY, KEPT Everything you reveal to each other stays in "Our story". If you both turn it on, Amaré can write you a summary of your month, once a month. THREE LANGUAGES, ONE CONVERSATION Each of you reads in your own language, Spanish, English or Portuguese, in the same thread. The Bible version is chosen per person too. YOUR INTIMACY IS NOT OUR BUSINESS We do not sell data and we show no ads. What you write is seen by the two of you. You can delete your account and everything you wrote from the app, whenever you want. ONE SUBSCRIPTION, TWO ACCOUNTS One of you activates it and you are both covered, whoever pays. It starts with a free trial; if you do not cancel before it ends, it becomes a subscription. It renews on its own until you cancel it in your App Store account settings. Amaré does not replace pastoral counseling or couples therapy. Privacy policy: https://amare-app.com/en/privacy Terms of use: https://amare-app.com/en/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Amaré at every 4 days against Sacred Hours's every 4 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Sacred Hours sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Amaré sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sacred Hours ships an update every 4 weeks, Amaré every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sacred Hours | Amaré |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Eudemonia | KISSMA LLC |
In-app purchases
Sacred Hours
- Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year
Amaré
- Amaré Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Amaré Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year









