Tend vs Just a Prayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tend
This app offers a personalized daily prayer journey based on your real-life challenges and feelings. It provides scripture, reflections, guided prayers, and actionable steps to help you connect with your faith and live it out daily. Track your spiritual growth through visual progress and a personal journal.
- Personalized daily prayer journeys
- Scripture passages and reflections
- Guided prayer sessions
- Actionable steps for daily living
- Spiritual growth tracking
- Journaling for faith development
- Reminders and widgets
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Tend helps you pray through what you’re actually facing. Whether you feel anxious, spiritually dry, overwhelmed, uncertain, or simply want to reconnect with God, Tend creates a personal daily prayer journey around your real life. Each day, Tend gives you: • a Scripture passage to ground your focus • a reflection shaped around your journey • a guided prayer • one small step to help you live it out Instead of opening a Bible app and wondering where to start, Tend gives you a simple rhythm for the season you’re in — prayer, Scripture, reflection, and gentle follow-through. Use Tend for: • anxiety and stress • spiritual dryness • big decisions • discipline and consistency • relationships • healing and grief • purpose and direction • everyday faith As you continue, Tend helps you see the story of your growth. Your plant grows, your streak builds, and your journal keeps track of what God is forming in you over time. Tend also includes reminders, widgets, personalized journeys, and a calm daily rhythm to help your faith stay visible throughout the day. Your faith lived — one day, one prayer, one step at a time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://walk-worthy-kohl.vercel.app/privacy
Just a Prayer
This app offers a peaceful space for daily prayer, featuring a single prayer each day and a curated library for specific needs. It also includes a personal prayer journal, sermon note-taking, and an audio prayer option for a quiet, reflective experience.
- Daily prayer with refresh option
- Curated prayer library by need
- Personal prayer journal
- Sermon notes with verse references
- Audio prayer library
- Home screen widget
- Gentle reminders
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Just a Prayer is a calm, quiet place to pray. Open the app and you have one prayer for today — nothing to scroll, nothing to dismiss. Refresh it, favorite it, or share it. When you need words for a specific moment, a small library is organized by need: Peace, Strength, Guidance, Gratitude, Forgiveness, Family, Work, Morning, Evening, and Healing. These are real prayers, spoken to God — not affirmations, not motivational quotes. Honest, reverent, and grounded in Scripture. A PLACE FOR YOUR OWN PRAYERS Keep a personal prayer journal. Write your own prayers, save them, and come back to them. Your journal stays on your device. SERMON NOTES Hold on to what you heard. Capture sermon notes with verse references and keep them close. LISTEN WHEN READING ISN'T WHAT YOU NEED An audio prayer library lets you simply listen — calm pacing, a clear voice, no theatrics. QUIET BY DESIGN - One daily prayer, refreshable - A small, focused prayer library - Personal prayer journal - Sermon notes with verse references - Audio prayers - Home screen widget to keep a short prayer close - Gentle reminders for a prayer rhythm that fits your day - Favorites - Export your journal and notes - English and Swedish PRIVACY BY DEFAULT Your journal and notes stay on your device. No account required to pray. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS Just a Prayer is free to use. The daily prayer, core categories, and saving and sharing are always free — no one should have to pay to pray. One optional one-time purchase unlocks the full app: expanded prayers and seasonal packs, the full audio library, AI-assisted prayer writing, all themes, and unlimited saving. One purchase. Yours forever. No subscription, no renewal. Sincere, simple, and quiet — a small app for daily prayer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tend at 5.0 against Just a Prayer's 4.5. Tend also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Tend sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Just a Prayer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Tend ships an update monthly, Just a Prayer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tend | Just a Prayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KEEGAN JACOB RYAN | Think Heart Apps AB |
Customer experience
Tend
Just a Prayer
In-app purchases
Tend
- Tend$7.991 Month
- Tend Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
Just a Prayer
- Full App Unlock$7.99









