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Best Catholic Prayer Apps (2026)
Five Catholic prayer apps compared on price, the Liturgy of the Hours, daily Mass readings, the Rosary and audio.
Updated September 2026
·5 Catholic prayer apps compared
La
📿
Best free all-in-one
Laudate
U
📖
Best for the Hours
Universalis
🎧 Best guided audio
Hallow
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#1
La
Laudate
Free · iPhone + Android
91/100
Winner · Most in one free app
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U
Universalis
$9.99 once · universalis.com
89/100
#2 · Full Hours, works offline
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DO
Divine Office
Free · divineoffice.org
80/100
#4 · Liturgy of the Hours, read aloud
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| Price | |||||
| Price | Free | $9.99 onceiPhone · $12.99 Android | Free | Freedonation-supported | $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr |
| What is free | Everything | Website1-month trial on Android | Everything listed | Everything | Daily prayers+ 9-day intro challenge |
| Prayers | |||||
| Liturgy of the Hours | ✓+ Latin | ✓+ Office of Readings | ? | ✓USCCB-approved | Night Prayer only |
| Daily Mass readings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓with commentary | Link to USCCB | ✓Lectio Divina |
| Rosary | ✓+ chaplets | ✓spoken audio | ✓3 styles | Link to USCCB | ✓audio-guided |
| Confession guide | ✓5 guides | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Audio | Rosary podcasts | Paid add-onfrom $1.99 | ✓recorded prayers | ✓the Hours read aloud | ✓10,000+ sessions |
| Works offline | PartlyDouay-Rheims Bible | ✓ | ? | ✓daily download | ✓downloads |
| Languages | 17 | English+ Latin | English+ 20 Spanish prayers | English | 7 |
| Where it runs | |||||
| iPhone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web | ? | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ? |
| Last update | Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 | Sep 2026iPhone · Android Jun 2026 | Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| App Store rating | 4.03,752 ratings · Play 4.7 | 4.99,536 ratings | 4.945,333 ratings | 4.98,317 ratings | 4.9377,765 ratings |
| Try it | Try now | Try now | Try now | Try now | Try now |
Independent ranking. Every app here is scored the same way. Nobody can pay to rank higher. Free matters. If the best parts are locked behind a paywall, the score goes down. Every fact comes from the maker's own website or its App Store / Google Play page, checked 28 September 2026. Where a maker does not publish something, the cell says "Not stated".
✓ has feature
✗ confirmed none
? not yet verified
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