Gratia Prayer vs Ember
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Guided Rosary player
- Saint of the Day profiles
- Daily uplifting reflections
- Elegant and minimal design
- Bead tracking and animations
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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
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Gratia Prayer | Ember |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.3 GB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Vicente Bruguera | Perry Hampton |
Customer experience
Gratia Prayer
Ember
In-app purchases
Gratia Prayer
- Gratia Premium (Annual)$9.991 Year
Ember
No in-app purchases









