Pray Board vs Confessio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pray Board
Organize your prayer life with personal and shared boards for intentions, gratitude, and scripture. Customize your experience with themes and journaling to reflect on your spiritual journey. Gentle reminders help you maintain a consistent prayer rhythm.
- Personalized prayer boards
- Shared prayer boards
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Prayer journaling
- Prayer reminders
- Verse randomizer
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Pray Board helps you build a daily rhythm of prayer — personal, shared, and beautifully your own. Create Pray Boards for the people, intentions, and scriptures closest to your heart. Organize what you're thankful for, what you're asking for yourself, what you're lifting up for others, and the verses keeping you grounded — all in one customizable space. FEATURES • Personal Pray Board organized by Thankful, Self, Others, and Verse • Shared boards to pray together with family, friends, or a small group • Customizable themes, colors, fonts, backgrounds, stickers and more • Journaling your prayer items so you can look back and see God's hand in your life • Notifications to gently remind you to return to prayer • Use Focus mode on each box as you move through your prayer to help you focus on those items • Verse Randomizer (when you have more than 7 verses) so you can get new favorite verses each day WHY PRAY BOARD Pray Board can help you organize your thoughts, prayers and reflections in one convenient, customizable space so that when you pray your mind is focusing on talking to and listening to God instead of jumping all over the place. PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Pray Board offers a free tier with core features, plus an optional Premium subscription for more boards, advanced customization, and shared boards with other members. • Free 7-day trial available for new subscribers • Subscription auto-renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase Privacy Policy: https://manpadev.com/prayboard/privacy Terms of Use: https://manpadev.com/prayboard/terms SUPPORT Questions, ideas, or feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Email: support@manpadev.com
Confessio
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Confessio is your companion for a deeper prayer life and a well-prepared confession — with absolute privacy. Everything you record stays encrypted on your iPhone and protected by Face ID. Your confessions are sacred, and the app was designed around that. EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE Record and organize your examination of conscience with discretion. Clear categories help you prepare for confession calmly and deeply. PRAYERS A library of dozens of traditional Catholic prayers, to read in silence or hear aloud, with the text following the voice. Search, favorites, and tracking of your prayer days. ROSARY WITH AUDIO Pray the Rosary guided by audio, with all 20 mysteries (Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious), alternating voices, and a sacred musical background. Adjust the speed and language. PRAYER PLANS Build your own sequence of prayers, heard aloud or read in silence. The app moves from one to the next, and a reminder calls you at the hour you choose. APPLE TV Pray the rosary in your living room, with a 4K painting for each mystery in five styles (Masters, Stained glass, Icon, Fresco and Watercolor), made with artificial intelligence and reviewed one by one. The Gospel and the saints of the day read aloud, the prayers, the guided devotions and the liturgical seasons. On the TV, only prayer: no sins and no examination of conscience. IPHONE AND APPLE TV IN STEP A rosary prayed on the TV counts toward your streak and the season's day on your iPhone, and the other way round. Only the prayer log travels, through your private iCloud, encrypted field by field. CARPLAY Pray on the road with your iPhone in your pocket: the Gospel and the saints of the day read aloud, the rosary, the guided devotions, and your prayer plans. On the car screen, only prayer. WIDGETS The Gospel and the saint of the day, the liturgical season, and your prayer streak, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. GOSPEL AND SAINTS OF THE DAY Each day's Gospel and the saints celebrated, to read or to hear in Confessio's voice, on iPhone, in the car and on the TV. The Gospel on Apple Watch too. LITURGICAL SEASONS Advent, Lent, the Month of Mary and the 40 days with Saint Michael the Archangel, one day at a time. When you complete one, a keepsake to save and the blessings you received, written by you and encrypted. INTERIOR HEALTH AND APPLE WATCH The app follows your heart rate variability and, in moments of stress, gently suggests a prayer suited to your state. Prayers you complete become Mindful Minutes in the Health app. PRIVACY FIRST • Everything encrypted on device (AES-256) • Unlock with Face ID / Touch ID • Works offline — you never lose your records • Optional, private sync between iPhone and Apple Watch • Between iPhone and Apple TV only the prayer log travels: through the private database of your iCloud, which we have no access to, with every field encrypted on the device before it leaves. With Advanced Data Protection on, not even Apple can read it • In the car and on the TV, sins, the examination of conscience, and health data never appear on screen Confessio exists to help you prepare for confession with dignity, silence, and respect for your spiritual journey.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Confessio at none against Pray Board's 2. Pray Board's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 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. Pray Board sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Confessio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pray Board ships an update daily, Confessio every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Pray Board | Confessio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 271 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manpa Dev LLC | Ilan Salviano |
In-app purchases
Pray Board
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Confessio
No in-app purchases









