Comparison

Pray Path vs Sermon Sidekick

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

Head to head
About

Pray Path

This app helps you integrate faith into your daily routine by turning screen time into prayer time. Set custom prayer schedules, block distracting apps, and complete guided prayers to unlock them. Track your progress and build a consistent prayer habit.

Highlights
  • Set prayer times and active days
  • Block specific apps or categories
  • Complete guided prayers to unlock apps
  • Daily Bible reading
  • Prayers by topic
  • Track prayer streaks and progress
Features
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What if every time you reached for your phone, you reached for God first? Pray Path turns screen time into prayer time. Set your prayer schedule, choose the apps to pause, and when it’s time — complete a short guided prayer to unlock them. A moment with God before you scroll. HOW IT WORKS • Set prayer times and active days that fit your rhythm • Choose which apps (or categories) to block during each session • When a blocked app opens, pray first — then get back in • Track streaks toward your daily prayer goal WHAT’S INSIDE Guided Prayer to Unlock Apps Short, meaningful prayers when you need them most — including custom requests for what’s on your heart. Daily Bible Reading Read Scripture, highlight verses, and save study notes and reflections. Prayers by Topic Health, faith, relationships, work, guidance, and more — so you always know where to start. Streaks & Progress Build a consistent prayer habit and watch it grow, one day at a time. Your phone is the most-picked-up object in your life. Pray Path helps make God part of that rhythm too. Pray Path is free to use. The free version includes ads. Optional Pray Path Pro is an auto-renewable in-app purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://praypathapp.com/terms

About

Sermon Sidekick

This app integrates Bible reading, guided study, sermon notes, and personal journaling. It offers tools for in-depth passage exploration, verse saving, and note-taking with optional AI summaries. Users can also access published church messages and take service notes.

Highlights
  • Integrated Bible reading and study tools
  • Guided study plans for deeper understanding
  • Sermon note-taking with audio recording
  • Personal journaling with verse attachment
  • Optional AI summaries for notes
  • Access to church-published messages
Features
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Sermon Sidekick brings Bible reading, study and your church's weekly message into one place. Read all 66 books in a calm, focused reader. Return to your place, type a reference like "Romans 8:28" to go straight there, and listen with Read Aloud. Tap a verse to highlight it, save it or add a personal note. On iPad, turn sideways to read across two pages. Study a passage a step at a time. Most lessons have five parts: Read, What it says, What it means, Your response and Remember. Practice recalling the verses you want to keep, play Find the verse to discover answers in the passage itself, and explore the places behind the passages on the study map. Genesis, Mark and Psalms are free in full, and the first lessons of every other book are free too. Carry Sunday into your week. This Week gives you the passage to read, understand and practice, with a private page for your service notes. Enter your church's code to read its message. Your Journal keeps your writing and saved passages together, and syncs to your account when you sign in. "Summarize my notes" is an optional AI feature, five a month, that reads back only the entries you choose, after you agree. Silas, your study companion, opens passages, walks you through a passage, compares BSB and KJV and starts Read Aloud, all on your device. With Sidekick Plus you can also ask Silas about the passage you're reading. After you agree, your question and the passage are sent to an AI service (Anthropic) to write an answer, which is labeled as AI-assisted and can be wrong. Group Study, with Sidekick Plus, lets you read a passage with a small group you lead or join, with shared notes and discussion. What you post is visible to that group's members. You can report a post or block a member, leaders can remove posts, and you must be at least 13 years old. Bible reading, notes, highlights, your Journal and reading progress stay free. Optional Sidekick Plus opens complete studies for every book, Ask the Passage (AI-assisted answers about the passage you're reading), online answers from Silas, Group Study and five more themes. If Plus ends, nothing you wrote is deleted. Sidekick Plus is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Prices, any free trial and renewal terms are shown in the app and by the App Store before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Deleting the app or your Sermon Sidekick account does not cancel a store subscription. Support: https://sermon-sidekick.web.app/support.html Privacy: https://sermon-sidekick.web.app/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://sermon-sidekick.web.app/terms.html

Screenshots

Pray Path4 screens
Sermon Sidekick4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Sermon Sidekick at freemium against Pray Path's subscription. Sermon Sidekick also leads on ads (none vs shown). Pray Path's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Pray Path sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Sermon Sidekick sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pray Path against 5.0 for Sermon Sidekick. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pray Path ships an update every 2 weeks, Sermon Sidekick every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pray Path versus Sermon Sidekick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPray PathSermon Sidekick
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB202 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGaguro Labs, LLCChristopher Judge

Customer experience

Pray Path

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sermon Sidekick

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pray Path

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Pro$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Family Yearly Pro$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Sermon Sidekick

Subscriptions2
  • Sidekick Plus$9.991 Month
  • Sidekick Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Pray Path free?
Pray Path is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sermon Sidekick free?
Sermon Sidekick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pray Path or Sermon Sidekick?
Pray Path and Sermon Sidekick are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Pray Path or Sermon Sidekick have ads?
Pray Path shows ads; Sermon Sidekick does not.
Which is updated more often, Pray Path or Sermon Sidekick?
Pray Path ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sermon Sidekick every 9 days. Most recently, Pray Path was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sermon Sidekick on October 31, 2026.

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