Comparison

Pray4Me vs Called

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

Head to head
About

Pray4Me

Share and receive prayer requests globally with a community. Connect with others for spiritual support and encouragement.

Highlights
  • Share prayer requests
  • Receive prayer requests
  • Global community
  • Spiritual support
  • Connect with others
Features
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Pray4Me — Share prayer requests with a global community. Connecting believers worldwide since 2014. Send your prayer requests to believers around the world, and join others in prayer. Wherever you are, whatever you're going through, you're never alone. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Share prayer requests with a worldwide community - Pray for others and confirm your prayers - Get notified when someone is praying for you - Read prayers in your own language — automatic translation - Save meaningful prayers for offline reading - Light and dark mode FREE TO USE, POWERED BY COMMUNITY Pray4Me is free for everyone. If you'd like to support the app and help us keep it growing, you can make a voluntary donation through an optional subscription. Ads help cover our costs — and soon you'll be able to choose whether to see them. WHY PRAY4ME? - Over 10 years serving the prayer community - A global community of believers - Prayers translated into your language, automatically - Real notifications when someone prays for you - Read prayers anytime, even offline - Simple, focused, made with care Whether you need prayer or want to lift others up, Pray4Me makes it easy to be part of something bigger. Automatic translation requires iOS 18 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Called

This app helps build Christian communities and groups, fostering meaningful connections away from social media noise. It's designed for church-goers, ministry leaders, and faith-based organizations to organize events, manage groups, and engage in focused conversations.

Highlights
  • Discover Christian groups
  • Engage in meaningful conversations
  • Manage small groups
  • Organize church and ministry groups
  • Event creation and RSVP management
  • Customizable notifications
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Build an authentic Christian community where every person feels needed and known. Have you ever stood at the door after a great ministry event, celebrating what God just did, only to watch someone leave alone who no one really knows? Many leaders can feel overwhelmed with too many platforms, group texts, and several disconnected systems. Ministry has become scattered across emails, social media, spreadsheets, and apps, making it difficult to truly know your people and keep them connected throughout the week. Called gives you one simple place to reach your people, build real community, and guide them in their discipleship journey. From outreach to small groups to Sunday reminders, it all finally lives in one app built specifically for churches, ministries, campus ministries, and Christian communities. Every person deserves to feel needed and known. This is the heart of Called—and every feature exists to help leaders make that happen. Grow your ministry in 30 days. Guaranteed. Launch 3–5 active groups in your first month, or you don’t pay. Get your first 50 members onboarded automatically. With Called, Christian leaders will: • Know who’s engaged, new, or may need care • Help people find belonging through small groups • Stay connected beyond Sunday with prayer, chat, and discipleship • Turn communication into real engagement • Lead in a safe, trusted environment built for ministry • Spend less time managing tools and more time shepherding people Replace GroupMe, Facebook Groups, Remind, Flocknote, Eventbrite, and endless text threads. Called puts it all in one place. Whether you’re a pastor, ministry leader, small group leader, campus minister, or part of a Christian organization, Called helps build communities where people don’t just attend; they belong. “Finally, I found my people.” Your calling is to build disciples. Our calling is to make it simple. Join thousands of ministry leaders building stronger, more connected communities with Called. Download Called today. Connect with us: Support: https://support.called.app/knowledge Email: info@called.app

Screenshots

Pray4Me2 screens
Called4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Called at none against Pray4Me's 10. Called also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). Pray4Me's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and monetization model 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. Pray4Me sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Called asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pray4Me holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Called has 370 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Pray4Me's written reviews are positive against 75% of Called's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pray4Me ships an update every 5 weeks, Called every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pray4Me versus Called: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPray4MeCalled
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (370 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1370 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTNT StudiosCalled LLC

Customer experience

Pray4Me

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Called

All ratings370 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Pray4Me

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Called

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Cannot upgrade members to leader status
  • Cannot add members to existing group chats
  • App opens slow
  • Notifications don’t show correctly and clear
  • Text does not adjust with phone text adjustments
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  • Harder to navigate after update
  • Does not go to dark mode
  • Constantly shows notifications that are not there
  • Have to manually scroll emojis instead of searching

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to reply to individual messages in a thread
  • Search bar for emojis

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Pray4Me

Subscriptions5
  • Supporter$0.991 Month
  • Kind Donor$2.991 Month
  • Generous Soul$4.991 Month
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  • Heartfelt Contributor$9.991 Month
  • Pillar of Support$12.991 Month
One-time5
  • Support the project with.$4.99
  • Support the project with.$9.99
  • Support the project with.$19.99
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  • Support the project with.$39.99
  • Support the project with.$49.99
None

Called

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pray4Me free?
Pray4Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Called free?
Called is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pray4Me or Called?
Pray4Me is rated higher. Pray4Me averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Called averages 4.8 from 370 ratings.
Do Pray4Me or Called have ads?
Pray4Me shows ads; Called does not.
Which is updated more often, Pray4Me or Called?
Pray4Me ships an update every 5 weeks, and Called every 4 days. Most recently, Pray4Me was updated on October 26, 2026 and Called on October 25, 2026.

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