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Best Guided Prayer Apps (2026)
Four apps that talk you through a daily time of prayer, most of them by audio. We compare price, what is new each day, and where each one runs.
Updated September 2026
·4 guided prayer apps compared
🎧 Best free pick
Pray As You Go
🕰️ Best prayer rhythm
Lectio 365
✝️ Best for Catholics
Hallow
| #1 | ||||
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| Price | ||||
| Price | Freedonations welcome | Freedonations welcome | $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr | Free + Glorify PlusApp Store: $6.99-$9.99/mo, $41.99-$69.99/yr |
| What is free | Everything | Everything | Basic daily prayers+ 9-day intro challenge | Not stated |
| The prayer time | ||||
| Session length | 10-13 min | About 10 minmorning; shorter midday + night | 5, 10 or 15 min | About 10 min |
| New session every day | ✓ | ✓3 a day | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tradition | Catholic (Jesuit)open to all | Interdenominational24-7 Prayer | Catholic | Not stated |
| Also includes | Examen, kids' prayers | Night Examen, Lord's Prayer | Rosary, Examen, daily readings | Journal, prayer requests |
| Listening | ||||
| Audio | ✓music + Scripture | ✓with or without music | ✓50+ guides | ✓courses + meditations |
| Offline | ✓auto downloads | ✓up to a week ahead | ✓ | ? |
| Where it runs | ||||
| iPhone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web | ✓ | ✗ | ? | ? |
| Last update | Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| App Store rating | 4.5756 ratings | 4.81,077 ratings | 4.9377,765 ratings | 4.999,642 ratings |
| Try it | 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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