Comparison

BreatheBase vs The Prayer Candle

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

Head to head
About

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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

BreatheBase4 screens
The Prayer Candle4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BreatheBase versus The Prayer Candle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreatheBaseThe Prayer Candle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (28 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—28 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB1.1 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarisa RylanADAM CHARLES WILBER

In-app purchases

5 purchases

BreatheBase

Subscriptions5
  • 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
None

The Prayer Candle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BreatheBase free?
BreatheBase is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Prayer Candle free?
The Prayer Candle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BreatheBase or The Prayer Candle have ads?
Neither BreatheBase nor The Prayer Candle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BreatheBase or The Prayer Candle?
BreatheBase ships an update every 2 weeks, and The Prayer Candle every 3 days. Most recently, BreatheBase was updated on October 28, 2026 and The Prayer Candle on November 5, 2026.

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