HolyHome vs Common Prayer App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HolyHome
This app provides daily Catholic faith content for families, including prayers, saint stories, and conversation starters tailored to children's ages. It offers interactive faith experiences and a family journal to capture memories. Premium features are available through subscription.
- Daily Faith Cards with prayer and saint stories
- Age-appropriate content for children
- Interactive faith experiences (Stations of the Cross, Rosary)
- Family Faith Journal for memories
- Ask HolyHome for faith-based parenting advice
- Recordable prayers from loved ones
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HolyHome is a daily Catholic faith companion for parents raising children at home. It brings prayer, saint stories, age-appropriate conversations, and family faith tools into one gentle experience for your whole family. Each day brings a new Daily Faith Card with a prayer, a saint story, and a question to spark meaningful conversation. Choose an age group for each child so the tone, stories, and questions meet them where they are. WHAT YOU CAN DO TOGETHER • Pray the day’s prayer with age-appropriate wording • Read saint stories adapted for your child’s age • Open a question of the day for deeper family conversation • Follow the liturgical calendar and today’s Mass readings • Build simple daily habits of prayer, reflection, and faith at home PRAYER LIBRARY HolyHome includes traditional Catholic prayers like the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, and Apostles’ Creed, alongside prayers for bedtime, meals, school, travel, and special family moments. INTERACTIVE FAITH EXPERIENCES • Stations of the Cross: 14 illustrated stations designed for children • The Rosary: a visual bead-by-bead guide with mystery illustrations • Mass Guide: a tappable church scene that helps children understand what happens at Mass ASK HOLYHOME Ask parenting and faith questions grounded in Catholic teaching, such as “How do I explain Confession to my 7-year-old?” or “What should I say about loss?” HolyHome offers warm, practical answers for Catholic family life. HOLYHOME VOICES Invite grandparents, godparents, and loved ones to record prayers for your children, creating a gift of faith they can return to again and again. FAMILY FAITH JOURNAL Capture the moments that matter: milestones, memories, prayers, photos, and the things your children say. Your family journal is private to your family. FOR PARISHES HolyHome also supports parishes with sacrament prep, religious education tracks, and parish communications. HolyHome+ unlocks the full family faith experience, including expanded prayers, saint stories, tools, and premium family features. Faith starts at home. HolyHome helps make it part of everyday family life. Questions, feedback, or prayer requests? Reach us at support@holyhome.io Terms of Use: https://holyhome.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://holyhome.io/privacy
Common Prayer App
This app provides a faithful companion for the Anglican life of prayer, offering the Daily Office, Church year, and fasting disciplines according to the Book of Common Prayer (1979). It simplifies prayer routines by presenting the correct office, readings, and collect without manual navigation. It also includes scripture reading, liturgical calendar tracking, and devotional practices.
- Daily Office (Morning, Noonday, Evening, Compline)
- Scripture reading in various translations
- Liturgical calendar and Church year tracking
- Fasting and Feasts reminders
- Devotional practices (Anglican Rosary, Examen)
- Reference library (Catechism, Articles, Creeds)
- Home screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts
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Common Prayer is a quiet, faithful companion for the Anglican life of prayer — the Daily Office, the Church year, and the discipline of fasting, all kept according to the Book of Common Prayer (1979). Whether you are new to the prayer book or have prayed it for decades, Common Prayer gives you the whole shape of the day without flipping pages or chasing lectionary references. Open the app and the right office, the right readings, and the right collect are simply there. THE DAILY OFFICE Pray Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline in full (Rite II), with everything resolved for today — psalms, the appointed lessons, the Collect of the Day, and the seasonal variations already in place. Pray on your own, or use the family form of the office together. SCRIPTURE, IN YOUR TRANSLATION Read the lessons in the King James Version offline, or choose the NIV, NIrV, or NASB 2020. The full Psalter is always close at hand. THE WHOLE CHURCH YEAR See where you stand in the liturgical calendar at a glance — the season, the week, the color. Holy Days and Principal Feasts are observed on their proper dates, with the prayer book's transfer rules handled for you, and optional commemorations of the saints surfaced day by day. KEEP THE FASTS AND FEASTS Common Prayer knows the days of fasting and special devotion appointed by the prayer book, and tells you plainly what today asks of you — and when the next fast falls. A DIGITAL FAST FOR DISTRACTING APPS Fasting has always meant setting something aside. Common Prayer lets you extend that discipline to your phone: using Apple's Screen Time controls, you choose which apps to quiet during a fast, and the app gently holds them shut until the day is done. Nothing leaves your device — it is simply a way to keep the fast you've chosen. PRACTICES FOR A DEEPER LIFE OF PRAYER - The Anglican Rosary, prayed with scripture and devotional cycles - The Daily Examen and the Examen of Conscience - Lectio Divina - The Great Litany - A library of Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings TO LEARN AND TO REMEMBER The Catechism (An Outline of the Faith), the Thirty-Nine Articles, and the historic Creeds are included for reference and formation. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY - Home Screen widgets that show today's office and season - Gentle reminders for the offices and the eve of a fast or feast - Siri Shortcuts to begin any office or practice by voice - Seasonal app icons, light and dark themes - Designed with care for larger text, high contrast, and unhurried reading PRIVACY Common Prayer collects no personal data. Your prayer life is your own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Common Prayer App at none against HolyHome's 4. HolyHome's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. HolyHome sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Common Prayer App asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HolyHome against 5.0 for Common Prayer App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
HolyHome ships an update daily, Common Prayer App weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HolyHome | Common Prayer App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zobel Solutions LLC | Forrest McDougal |
Customer experience
HolyHome
Common Prayer App
In-app purchases
HolyHome
- HolyHome Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- HolyHome Family Monthly$8.991 Month
- HolyHome Plus Yearly$49.991 Year
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- HolyHome Family Yearly$69.991 Year
Common Prayer App
No in-app purchases
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