Comparison

Gratia Prayer vs Ember

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

Head to head
About

Gratia Prayer

This Catholic app offers a peaceful and intuitive way to deepen your prayer life. It features guided Rosary prayers, daily saint profiles, and uplifting reflections to inspire gratitude and faith throughout your day.

Highlights
  • Guided Rosary player
  • Saint of the Day profiles
  • Daily uplifting reflections
  • Elegant and minimal design
  • Bead tracking and animations
Features
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Gratia Prayer is a calm, beautifully designed Catholic app created to help you pray with peace and intention throughout your day. Begin each morning with the Saint of the Day, pray the Rosary with a fluid and intuitive experience, and receive uplifting reflections that inspire gratitude, faith, and clarity. What you’ll find in Gratia Prayer: • Guided Rosary A smooth, modern rosary player with bead tracking, soft animations, and optional auto-advance. • Saint of the Day Discover the life, virtues, and story of today’s saint through a short, elegant profile. • Daily Inspiration Receive a spiritually uplifting quote or reflection every day to help you stay grounded in peace. • Elegant + Minimal Design A contemplative interface crafted to reduce distraction and support your prayer routine. Whether you’re at home, at work, or on the go, Gratia Prayer brings beauty and calm to your daily spiritual life. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://graciaprayerads.blogspot.com/2026/01/privacy-policy-gratia-prayer-last.html

About

Ember

This app offers a minute-long daily prayer rooted in Scripture, with guided breaths and Scripture citations. It also includes the full Rosary, liturgical calendar integration, and customizable prayer reminders. Designed for privacy, it collects no user data and is completely free.

Highlights
  • Minute-long daily Scripture prayer
  • Full Rosary and decade prayers
  • Liturgical calendar integration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable prayer reminders
  • Private by design, no data collection
Features
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Prayer that fits inside a real day. Ember is a Catholic prayer app built around a practice, not an endless scroll. Arrive with one slow breath. Pray one Scripture-rooted line — with its citation right there. Hold it until it settles. Sixty seconds later, your ember is glowing, and the Word goes with you into the day. THE DAILY PRAYER Begin with the Sign of the Cross and a guided breath. Pray each line slowly — hold to pray, release, amen. Close with the Glory Be. It takes about a minute. It is the minute that changes the other 1,439. ROOTED IN THE WORD 1,260 prayer lines across 14 collections — Trust, Peace, Gratitude, Morning, Beloved, Evening, Hope, Courage, Providence, Mercy, Presence, Charity, Wonder, and Joy. Every line is rooted in Scripture, the Catechism, the saints, or the Church's traditional prayers, and every line carries its citation. Nothing vague, nothing invented, nothing repeated until you have prayed the whole library. THE ROSARY, BEAD BY BEAD Ember knows today's mysteries — Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, or Luminous, following the Church's rhythm through the week and the seasons. Pray the full Rosary or a single decade: every prayer written out, every bead counted, the fruit of each mystery held in view. About 20 minutes for the whole crown, 3 for a decade. THE CHURCH'S CLOCK Ember keeps the liturgical calendar: seasons, feasts, and a theme that quietly wears the day's vestment color — violet in Advent and Lent, white in Christmastide and Easter, green through Ordinary Time. One-tap prayer times set reminders at the hours the Church has always prayed: the Morning Offering, the noon Angelus, the three o'clock Hour of Mercy, the Evening Examen. A STREAK THAT STAYS KIND Pray daily and your ember glows brighter. Miss a day and it simply dims, ready to be rekindled — no guilt, no broken chains. Faithfulness, not perfection. ALWAYS WITH YOU • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with a real line and its citation • Reminders that carry a whole prayer — worth the glance on its own • Add your own intentions and prayers; they join your feed and daily practice • Favorites, beautiful share cards, and themes that feel like candlelight PRIVATE BY DESIGN Prayer is between you and God. Everything stays on your iPhone: no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Our App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected," and we intend to keep it that way. FREE. ALL OF IT. FOREVER. The daily prayer, the full Rosary, all fourteen collections, the longer 5- or 7-line prayer, every theme and icon, unlimited prayers in your own words, up to six daily reminders, widgets, and favorites. No subscription, no unlock, no ads — nothing to buy, ever. Prayer should not have a paywall. Begin again. The Lord was already waiting.

Screenshots

Gratia Prayer4 screens
Ember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ember at none against Gratia Prayer's 1. Ember also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Gratia Prayer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Ember asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gratia Prayer against 5.0 for Ember. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gratia Prayer ships an update every 6 weeks, Ember every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Gratia Prayer versus Ember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGratia PrayerEmber
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.3 GB5 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperVicente BrugueraPerry Hampton

Customer experience

Gratia Prayer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ember

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gratia Prayer

Subscriptions1
  • Gratia Premium (Annual)$9.991 Year
None

Ember

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gratia Prayer free?
Gratia Prayer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gratia Prayer or Ember?
Gratia Prayer and Ember are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Gratia Prayer or Ember have ads?
Gratia Prayer shows ads; Ember does not.
Which is updated more often, Gratia Prayer or Ember?
Gratia Prayer ships an update every 6 weeks, and Ember every 2 weeks. Most recently, Gratia Prayer was updated on October 28, 2026 and Ember on October 27, 2026.

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