PrayerList Pro vs Scripta Memoria
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PrayerList Pro
This app helps you track your prayer requests and monitor your spiritual consistency. Organize requests with photos and notes, mark them as prayed, and view your progress with weekly stats and daily streaks. It automatically logs prayer time to Apple Health.
- Create and organize prayer requests
- Attach photos and notes to requests
- Track prayed and answered prayers
- View weekly stats and daily streaks
- Syncs across Apple devices via iCloud
- Home screen widgets for quick access
- Logs prayer time to Apple Health
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PrayerList Pro is a beautifully simple app designed to help you stay faithful in prayer. Add prayer requests for the people and situations on your heart, pray, and watch your consistency grow over time. No accounts. No subscriptions. No data collection. Just open the app and start praying. Create prayer requests for people you love, situations you're facing, or things you're grateful for. Attach contact photos, add notes, and organize with color-coded categories. Mark each request as prayed, track answered prayers, and build a daily streak that tells a story of faithfulness. See your prayer journey at a glance. Weekly stats, daily streaks, mindful minutes, and answered prayers give you a clear picture of how your faithfulness has grown over time. Prayer time is automatically logged to Apple Health as mindful minutes. Your prayers sync seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch via iCloud. Browse prayers and mark them as prayed from your wrist. See your prayer list and streak from home screen widgets, no need to open the app.
Scripta Memoria
This app helps users memorize entire books of the Bible through guided practice modes and group synchronization. It offers various recall techniques and visual cues to deepen understanding and retention of scripture.
- Memorize passages, chapters, and entire books of the Bible
- Multiple practice modes (first-letter, fill-in-the-blank, recall)
- Small group practice with shared schedules
- Gentle progress tracking
- Over 100 visual cue icons
- Works offline
- Multiple Bible translations supported
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Imagine knowing an entire book of the Bible by heart. Not just a handful of verses — a whole letter. A whole psalm. The full arc of a story, from opening line to closing benediction. The kind of knowing where the words come back to you in conversation, in prayer, in the quiet of an ordinary Tuesday. That's what Scripta Memoria is for. HOW IT WORKS Choose a book — or start with a single chapter. Work through it section by section using gentle, proven techniques: first-letter prompts, fill-in-the-blank, and full recall. Each day you go a little further. Each week the earlier passages settle deeper. You can practice on your own or with a group. Invite your small group, your family, your accountability partner — and move through the same scripture together, at the same pace. That's it. Simple by design. WHY WHOLE BOOKS When you memorize scripture in context, something shifts. You start to hear the writer's voice — the urgency in Paul's letters, the poetry in the Psalms, the slow unfolding of a narrative. Verses that once felt isolated begin to connect. Meaning deepens. The word becomes something you carry, not just something you recall. This is the ancient practice. Before there were printed Bibles, whole communities held entire books of scripture in their hearts. Scripta Memoria is a quiet, faithful tool for continuing that tradition. FEATURES · Memorize passages, chapters, and entire books of the Bible · Practice modes that meet you where you are — first-letter prompts, fill-in-the-blank, spoken recall, and full recitation · Small group practice — invite others and move through a book together on a shared schedule · Gentle progress tracking that shows how far you've come · Over 100 handcrafted icons connecting visual cues to scripture themes · Warm, distraction-free design — no ads, no clutter, no pressure · Multiple Bible translations supported · Works offline — practice anywhere, anytime WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who has ever thought, "I wish I really knew this book." Whether you're starting with Philippians or working your way through the Psalms, whether you practice alone in the morning or with your small group through the week — Scripta Memoria is here to help you get there. A WORD FROM US We built this app for the person who wants to carry God's word deeply — not just a verse here and there, but whole books, the way scripture was meant to be known. We believe you can do this. And we believe the journey is worth every word. Start with one chapter. See what takes root.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scripta Memoria at none against PrayerList Pro's 4. Scripta Memoria also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). PrayerList Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. PrayerList Pro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Scripta Memoria asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PrayerList Pro against 5.0 for Scripta Memoria. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PrayerList Pro has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PrayerList Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Scripta Memoria every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PrayerList Pro | Scripta Memoria |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nextsulting | BRADLEY MICHAEL MCAULEY |
Customer experience
PrayerList Pro
Scripta Memoria
In-app purchases
PrayerList Pro
- Tier 1$9.99
- Tier 2$24.99
- Tier 3$49.99
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- Tier 4$99.99
Scripta Memoria
No in-app purchases
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