Comparison

Click To Pray vs MARCUS

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

Head to head
About

Click To Pray

This app provides daily prayer moments to connect with Jesus and pray for global challenges and the Church's mission. It fosters a digital prayer community, uniting users worldwide in prayer for the Pope's intentions. Engage with content across social media and receive daily prayers via email.

Highlights
  • Daily prayer moments
  • Pray for global challenges
  • Digital prayer community
  • Pray for Pope's intentions
  • Connect with other users
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Click To Pray is the Pope’s prayer app which helps us pray for the challenges facing humanity and the mission of the Church. Click To Pray offers you three brief moments of prayer each day which invite you to meet with Jesus and pray for the intentions of the Holy Father. Each prayer is an invitation to unite your heart with the heart of Jesus and make yourself available for a mission of compassion towards the world. Click To Pray is a digital community of prayer where you can share the intentions of the Holy Father and pray together with others. The community builds bridges between generations, where we all pray as one. Click To Pray is the app of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (including the Eucharistic Youth Movement). The app connects you with thousands of people who, in all the continents, are praying every day for the challenges of humanity and for the mission of the Church as the Pope proposes in his monthly prayer intentions. The platform is available in seven languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German and traditional Chinese. Click To Pray offers content updated on all major social media networks. Find all the proposals to deepen your prayer in: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. You can also receive daily prayers directly to your email address. Subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here. Pray, live and build a world which tastes of the Gospel. Give meaning to our live and put you prayer into action More about Click To Pray: https://clicktopray.org More about Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network: https://popesprayer.va

About

MARCUS

Features
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MARCUS is a daily Stoic practice app built on a simple premise: philosophy is something you do, not something you read. Most philosophy apps give you a quote and call it a day. MARCUS gives you a complete daily practice rooted in 2,000 years of Stoic tradition — morning intentions, structured lessons, guided exercises, and evening reflections that turn ancient wisdom into a living habit. FOUR PILLARS OF DAILY PRACTICE Today — Your Daily Anchor Each morning begins with a carefully chosen thought from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, or Seneca. Not a decorative quote — a lens for examining your day. Set your morning intention in under two minutes and return each evening for a virtue check-in. Learn — Depth, Not Soundbites 61 structured lessons covering seven pillars of Stoic philosophy: Control, Acceptance, Virtue, Mortality, Calmness, Obstacles, and Time. Each lesson pairs primary source excerpts with modern commentary and a practical exercise. Includes a dedicated "Stoicism at Work" journey applying Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca to difficult colleagues, hard emails, and the pressure to let a job become your whole identity. Reflect — Your Private Journal Guided journaling with rotating Stoic prompts. Every entry is stored locally on your device and never leaves it. Review your reflections over time and watch your practice deepen. Practice — Active Exercises 23 text-guided Stoic exercises grounded in classical practices: negative visualisation, the view from above, evening self-examination, and more — plus a set of 60-90 second "Quick Resets" for the moment you actually need them, not just morning and evening. DESIGNED FOR PRIVACY Your journal entries, reflections, and practice history never leave your device. No accounts, no cloud sync, no analytics, no tracking. MARCUS is free. No paywall, no trial, no ads.

Screenshots

Click To Pray4 screens
MARCUS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MARCUS at fortnightly against Click To Pray's every 6 weeks. Click To Pray's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Click To Pray ships an update every 6 weeks, MARCUS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Click To Pray versus MARCUS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClick To PrayMARCUS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (137 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings137 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPope's Worldwide Prayer NetworkOwen McLoughlin

In-app purchases

None

Click To Pray

No in-app purchases

None

MARCUS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Click To Pray free?
Click To Pray is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MARCUS free?
MARCUS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Click To Pray or MARCUS have ads?
Neither Click To Pray nor MARCUS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Click To Pray or MARCUS?
Click To Pray ships an update every 6 weeks, and MARCUS fortnightly. Most recently, Click To Pray was updated on October 19, 2026 and MARCUS on October 3, 2026.

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