Comparison

Prayer Journal vs Mark

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

Head to head
About

Prayer Journal

This app provides a dedicated space to cultivate a daily prayer habit. It allows users to record prayers, track people they are praying for, and mark answered prayers. Optional premium features include unlimited prompts, guided journeys, and AI-assisted writing.

Highlights
  • Record prayers
  • Prayer list
  • Mark answered prayers
  • Morning and evening reminders
  • Guided prayer journeys
  • Home screen scripture widget
  • AI assisted prayer writing
Features
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A quiet space to make prayer a daily habit. Prayer Journal helps you capture your prayers, remember the people you love, and look back on how God has been faithful over time. What you can do: Write prayers anytime, anywhere. Get gentle help finding the words when they're hard to come by. Keep a list of the people you're praying for. Mark prayers as answered and revisit them later. Receive gentle morning and evening reminders. Take guided prayer journeys for specific seasons of life. Add a home screen widget for a daily scripture verse. Free vs Premium The basics are free with no limits and no ads. That includes journaling prayers, your prayer list, answered prayers, reminders, and the scripture widget. Premium adds: Unlimited prayer prompts. Guided prayer journeys like 7 Days of Gratitude and Praying Through Anxiety. Unlimited AI assisted prayer writing. Subscription details Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription. Subscriptions auto renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the renewal date. You can manage or cancel anytime. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.privacys.app/privacy/prayer-journal Contact: privacy@privacys.app

About

Mark

This app helps you capture everyday moments and track personal habits. It provides prompts to inspire reflection and allows you to organize entries by chapters for significant life events. Review your past entries through a searchable timeline.

Highlights
  • Journaling with prompts
  • Habit tracking
  • Photo and voice memo attachments
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • Chapter organization for life events
  • Web access for journaling
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Remember your life. Mark is a simple journal for your everyday life. Save the little moments, keep up the good habits that matter to you, and watch your days turn into a story you can look back on. A quiet morning coffee. A family milestone. A new puppy. Your first car. Little things rarely feel important in the moment. Later, they're the ones you want back. Mark makes them easy to keep. No guilt when you miss a day. No pressure. Just a calm place for what matters. NO BLANK PAGE Don't know what to write? You don't have to. Everything you save during the day builds your day's story for you. * Your moments and habits show up together, in order * Forgot something? Add it to any day, even last week * Stuck? Mark offers one question at a time, drawn from your own days * Pick prompt packs, like gratitude, fun or fitness: 245 questions in all SAVE YOUR MOMENTS * Add a photo, a note, a place or a voice memo * Add the song that was playing, and the day's steps or workout from Apple Health * Save it right away, or come back to it later WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH With your permission, Mark reads the day's workouts, steps and exercise minutes from the Apple Health app and adds them to that day's moment. Read only: Mark never writes to Health. Turn it on or off in Settings › Apple Health. RITUALS: THE GOOD HABITS THAT GROW YOU In Mark, a ritual is simply something you do regularly because it makes your life better: a morning walk, the gym, meditation, piano lessons, Sunday dinner with family. * Daily, weekly or monthly, whatever fits your life * Tap to mark it done, and it goes straight into your day's story That's different from a chore. Laundry and bills are tasks. Rituals are the things that make you, you. CHAPTERS FOR THE BIG STUFF Some days are part of something bigger: a trip, a new job, an illness, a wedding. Mark lets you name that stretch of days. * Each day shows where you are, like "Travelling · Day 2 of 3" * Your chapters show up on your calendar * One tap brings up every day in a chapter LOOK BACK * Scroll through your life in photos * Search for any moment, habit or note * Rediscover the ordinary days that made you who you are BRING YOUR JOURNAL WITH YOU Coming from Day One? Export your journal there and share it to Mark. Every entry comes over with its date, photos and places, and your tags become threads. YOUR JOURNAL ON ANY COMPUTER Read your whole journal at markjournal.app, and write with a real keyboard: on a Mac, a Windows PC or any computer with a browser. Everything is sealed on your iPhone before it goes anywhere; our server can't read a word of it. MAKE IT YOURS * Eight themes * Your own colors * Easy-to-read type that feels like home PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your journal is just for you. No feed, no followers, no showing off. A life isn't built from big milestones alone. It's built from ordinary days. Mark helps you keep them. MARK PREMIUM Mark is free to keep, with your whole history. Mark Premium adds up to 30 photos per moment, voice memos, chapters, every prompt pack, Mark on iPad and your journal on the web. Choose an auto-renewing subscription, yearly or monthly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Nothing is ever deleted: if Premium ends, everything you wrote stays yours to read. Terms of Use (EULA): https://markjournal.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://markjournal.app/privacy Support: https://markjournal.app/support

Screenshots

Prayer Journal4 screens
Mark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mark at every 5 days against Prayer Journal's every 2 months. On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Prayer Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Mark sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prayer Journal ships an update every 2 months, Mark every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Prayer Journal versus Mark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrayer JournalMark
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer1001206169 ONTARIO CORP.Mark Pernitsch

Customer experience

Prayer Journal

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mark

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Prayer Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$29.991 Year
4 purchases

Mark

Subscriptions2
  • Mark Premium Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Mark Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime — Founders$79.99
  • Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Prayer Journal free?
Prayer Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mark free?
Mark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Prayer Journal or Mark have ads?
Neither Prayer Journal nor Mark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prayer Journal or Mark?
Prayer Journal ships an update every 2 months, and Mark every 5 days. Most recently, Prayer Journal was updated on October 24, 2026 and Mark on October 29, 2026.

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