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Hallow
#1 Echo Prayer 
#1 Pause 
Jackie H.
#1 Abide Jackie H.“Just a glorified meditation app. Not sure it actually draws you closer to God.”
Meet the testers
Each used Hallow side by side with other apps“Doesn’t feel like I am actually communicating with God and building a relationship with God.”
“It is quite pricey, so some people might not want to pay for all of the features.”
“Hallow is the middle ground. Decent design, but I'm not keeping it.”
What they’d use instead
Inside the app
Hallow’s pricing
Freemium
About the app
Summary · not an editor reviewHallow is a Christian prayer and meditation app offering over 10,000 audio-guided sessions covering prayer methods like the Rosary, Lectio Divina, Divine Mercy Chaplet, novenas, and Bible meditations. It includes sleep stories, music, and themed prayer challenges led by voices such as Fr. Mike Schmitz, Jonathan Roumie, and Mark Wahlberg. Users can build daily prayer habits with customizable routines and track progress toward prayer goals.
The app is designed for Catholics and Christians of all backgrounds who want a structured, accessible way to pray daily. A free tier provides access to core prayers and an introductory challenge. A premium subscription unlocks the full library of content. Hallow reports over 1.6 billion prayers prayed by its community and is regularly ranked as the top Christian prayer app on both major app stores.
Common questions
Hallow is free to download and includes a real free tier, with the Daily Rosary, daily Mass readings, the Examen, and Fr. Mike Schmitz's Bible in a Year and Catechism in a Year. However, the large majority of its 10,000+ guided sessions require a paid Hallow Plus subscription.
It is built around Catholic devotion, so Catholics get the most from it, and its prayers, chaplets, and Rosary are distinctly Catholic. Many features like Scripture reading, meditation, and sleep content are enjoyed by Christians of other traditions, though non-Catholics may find parts less relevant.
Hallow Plus is about $9.99 per month or $69.99 per year in the US, with a Friends & Family annual plan around $119.99 covering up to six people. Every paid plan starts with a free trial, and pricing can vary by region.
Yes. Hallow Plus subscribers can download prayers and sessions to listen offline, which is handy for commutes, travel, or times without a reliable connection.
Hallow spans guided prayer and meditation: the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Lectio Divina, the Examen, Taizé and Gregorian chant, homilies, Bible sleep stories, Christian meditations, and seasonal challenges like Pray40.
More prayer apps
“Doesn’t feel like I am actually communicating with God and building a relationship with God. Felt more like it’s something to do for one self only and not build a real relationship with God. If you want a real, authentic relationship with God, I would skip this app.”
Best audio. Best content. AI voices are nice.
Just a glorified meditation app. Not sure it actually draws you closer to God. Expensive too.
Some should be relabeled as meditation apps and not prayer. Like Hallow. I’d use the Lectio or the PrayerNotes.
“It is quite pricey, so some people might not want to pay for all of the features. It is also heavily skewed towards the Catholic faith.”
Hallow offers the widest range of content in the group, with audio prayers, meditations, Bible stories and verses, intentions, and reflections, while apps like Pause and Soultime focus mainly on one practice. Its free content is also generous, including prayers, sleep stories, games, and music, which is more than Soultime offers for free and a big step up from Abide, where nothing is free. For Catholic users, it's a stronger choice than Amen, with a cleaner design (9/10 compared with 7/10) and more variety.
Hallow is the most expensive app in the group at $69.99 a year, compared with $39.99 for Abide and $5.99 a month for Soultime's full access, while Pause, Reflect, and Amen are completely free. It's also heavily Catholic, so it won't suit everyone the way Pause, Reflect, Soultime, and Abide do, since those seem non-denominational. Pause beat it overall with a slightly higher design score, everything free, and an app I'd keep using.
Hallow and Amen are both Catholic and packed with features. Hallow has the widest range of content, from prayers and Bible stories to music and games, which makes it a strong choice for churches and families, but at $69.99 a year, it's hard to recommend for personal use.
“It is quite pricey, so some people might not want to pay for all of the features. It is also heavily skewed towards the Catholic faith.”
Compared to Abide: Hallow has the better App Store rating, 4.5 against Abide's 4.1. Bedtime Bible's 4.8 is higher than both, but I could actually use and evaluate Hallow, which I couldn't do with Bedtime Bible since it's iPhone only.
Abide beats it on both price and design. Abide is 39.99 a year versus Hallow's 69.99 a year, and Abide edged it out on design too, 10/10 to Hallow's 9/10. Hallow is also heavily skewed toward the Catholic faith, which could be a drawback for users looking for something more broadly Christian or denomination neutral.
Hallow is the middle ground. Decent design, but I'm not keeping it. It's pricier than Abide (69.99 a year versus 39.99) and locks every sleep story behind the paywall with no free sample.
