Comparison

Coeli vs Ember

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

Head to head
About

Coeli

Features
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Coeli is the most beautiful and reverent way to pray every day and care for your spiritual life. It brings together the essential Catholic devotions in a calm, distraction-free experience: • Holy Rosary — all four sets of mysteries (Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, Luminous) with step-by-step guidance. • Divine Mercy Chaplet. • Angelus and Regina Caeli, according to the liturgical season. • Multi-day novenas to accompany your intentions. • A treasury of traditional prayers, always at hand. To support your consistency: • A daily streak that rewards perseverance. • A calendar and heatmap of your prayer life. • Intentions: pray for what you carry in your heart. No ads during prayer. No noise. Just you, your faith, and a worthy space to meet God. Coeli requires a subscription to access all devotions and your spiritual life tracker. You can manage or cancel it anytime. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://coeli.app/privacy

About

Ember

This app offers a minute-long daily prayer rooted in Scripture, with guided breaths and Scripture citations. It also includes the full Rosary, liturgical calendar integration, and customizable prayer reminders. Designed for privacy, it collects no user data and is completely free.

Highlights
  • Minute-long daily Scripture prayer
  • Full Rosary and decade prayers
  • Liturgical calendar integration
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable prayer reminders
  • Private by design, no data collection
Features
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Prayer that fits inside a real day. Ember is a Catholic prayer app built around a practice, not an endless scroll. Arrive with one slow breath. Pray one Scripture-rooted line — with its citation right there. Hold it until it settles. Sixty seconds later, your ember is glowing, and the Word goes with you into the day. THE DAILY PRAYER Begin with the Sign of the Cross and a guided breath. Pray each line slowly — hold to pray, release, amen. Close with the Glory Be. It takes about a minute. It is the minute that changes the other 1,439. ROOTED IN THE WORD 1,260 prayer lines across 14 collections — Trust, Peace, Gratitude, Morning, Beloved, Evening, Hope, Courage, Providence, Mercy, Presence, Charity, Wonder, and Joy. Every line is rooted in Scripture, the Catechism, the saints, or the Church's traditional prayers, and every line carries its citation. Nothing vague, nothing invented, nothing repeated until you have prayed the whole library. THE ROSARY, BEAD BY BEAD Ember knows today's mysteries — Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, or Luminous, following the Church's rhythm through the week and the seasons. Pray the full Rosary or a single decade: every prayer written out, every bead counted, the fruit of each mystery held in view. About 20 minutes for the whole crown, 3 for a decade. THE CHURCH'S CLOCK Ember keeps the liturgical calendar: seasons, feasts, and a theme that quietly wears the day's vestment color — violet in Advent and Lent, white in Christmastide and Easter, green through Ordinary Time. One-tap prayer times set reminders at the hours the Church has always prayed: the Morning Offering, the noon Angelus, the three o'clock Hour of Mercy, the Evening Examen. A STREAK THAT STAYS KIND Pray daily and your ember glows brighter. Miss a day and it simply dims, ready to be rekindled — no guilt, no broken chains. Faithfulness, not perfection. ALWAYS WITH YOU • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with a real line and its citation • Reminders that carry a whole prayer — worth the glance on its own • Add your own intentions and prayers; they join your feed and daily practice • Favorites, beautiful share cards, and themes that feel like candlelight PRIVATE BY DESIGN Prayer is between you and God. Everything stays on your iPhone: no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Our App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected," and we intend to keep it that way. FREE. ALL OF IT. FOREVER. The daily prayer, the full Rosary, all fourteen collections, the longer 5- or 7-line prayer, every theme and icon, unlimited prayers in your own words, up to six daily reminders, widgets, and favorites. No subscription, no unlock, no ads — nothing to buy, ever. Prayer should not have a paywall. Begin again. The Lord was already waiting.

Screenshots

Coeli4 screens
Ember4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ember at none against Coeli's 2. Ember also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Coeli's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Coeli sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Ember asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coeli ships an update fortnightly, Ember every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Coeli versus Ember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoeliEmber
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB5 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperKOFAKTOR SpAPerry Hampton

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Coeli

Subscriptions2
  • Coeli Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Coeli Annual$34.991 Year
None

Ember

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Coeli free?
Coeli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ember free?
Ember is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Coeli or Ember have ads?
Neither Coeli nor Ember shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coeli or Ember?
Coeli ships an update fortnightly, and Ember every 2 days. Most recently, Coeli was updated on October 7, 2026 and Ember on October 16, 2026.

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