BreatheBase vs The Prayer Candle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BreatheBase
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Your landing place for release, relaxation, and recovery. Inside the app, you’ll find guided breathwork and state-shifting meditations designed to help you manage stress, regulate your adrenaline, recover faster after workouts or injury and minimize your lose your sh*t moments - on the field, in the boardroom, and beyond. New sessions added every month. Built for both high-performing athletes and health-conscious, mindful individuals who want practical tools to feel better, perform better, and move through life with more calm, focus, and control. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Prayer Candle
This app provides a private space for daily prayer and reflection. Light a virtual candle, set intentions, and record answered prayers in a personal journal. It offers ambient sounds, sleep music, and the option to use your own music or an AI prayer starter.
- Virtual candle lighting
- Set prayer intentions
- Record answered prayers
- Library of 300+ written prayers with audio
- Ambient nature sounds and sleep music
- AI prayer starter suggestion
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A quiet place to lay down what you carry. The Prayer Candle is a private prayer journal for people who want to pray every day, but do not want another app shouting at them. Light a candle. Write what is true. Mark the prayers God answers. The candle remembers. What you can do. Strike a real match and watch the flame catch. Set an intent for the prayer. Speak it, write it, or pick from a library of more than three hundred written prayers with read-aloud audio. Mark a prayer answered and it joins your memoir: a private record of the moments your prayer was heard. Pray with ambient nature sounds (waves, rain, fire, forest) or with sleep music underneath. Use your own music from Spotify, Apple Music, or any podcast app, and the prayer voice will play gently on top. What you will not find here. No accounts. No sign-ups. No passwords. No advertising. No trackers. No social feed. No leaderboard for who prayed most. No premium tier for people who can afford a deeper prayer. Your words stay on your device. The only time anything leaves your phone is the optional "Help me pray my words" feature, which sends a single sentence to an AI to suggest a short prayer starter. It is never logged, never stored, never used for training. You can turn it off in Settings. A note from the builder. I built this for my own family. We have prayed out loud over candles for as long as I can remember. When my kids started asking questions about faith, I wanted something that felt like that moment, in their pocket. Not an app that points to God. An app that quietly gets out of the way and lets you find Him yourself. Adam, FaithLabz
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Prayer Candle at none against BreatheBase's 6. The Prayer Candle also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. BreatheBase sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. The Prayer Candle asks for nothing beyond the download.
BreatheBase ships an update every 2 weeks, The Prayer Candle every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BreatheBase | The Prayer Candle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 1.1 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marisa Rylan | ADAM CHARLES WILBER |
In-app purchases
BreatheBase
- Breathe Base Membership$9.991 Month
- The Everyday Edge$12.991 Month
- Everyday Edge2 variants$19.991 Month
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- Athlete Advantage$49.991 Month
- WAG Wellness$49.991 Month
The Prayer Candle
No in-app purchases
Questions
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