Seraph vs Laudate
A free Catholic utility that stacks Mass, Hours, Catechism, and Rosary in one download, and a quieter flame that never asks for an account. This page is written by the maker of Seraph — read it knowing that — and it will be generous to Laudate, because Laudate has earned it.
Our bias, declared: we make Seraph. The linked Laudate sources support the specific free-download price, feature list, store listings, permissions wording, and privacy wording identified below; this is not an independent review of either app. Our product details describe Seraph’s current published offering. If we've got something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.
The main difference
Consider Laudate if you want one Catholic toolkit on the phone: Daily Mass Readings, Liturgy of Hours, Catechism, Rosary, Confession, New American Bible, and a Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible for offline use. The US listing lockup on this check is “Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS,” seller Andrzej Krawczyk, developer Aycka Soft. JSON-LD Offer on that page is price 0, currency USD. This check found no In-App Purchases section on that listing. The catch is the product, not a paywall. Laudate is a grid of Catholic tools. It is not a silent one-flame office, and it is not a full King James Bible you can finish as a plan. Their Android page also points at Google Play and Amazon Kindle Fire. We do not have Android.
Choose Seraph if you want something quieter: one flame kept daily, the whole King James Bible readable free, guided prayer paced by breath — and a hard privacy line: no account to create, no ads, and a public vow of no prayer analytics. Your prayer life stays on your device. Seraph+ is $6.99/mo or $59.99/yr on our US App Store listing and on our pricing page. The daily office is free. Sacred Seasons, including Advent, are not. There is no Seraph+ trial.
Side by side
| Feature | Seraph | Laudate |
|---|---|---|
| Annual price | $59.99/yr | No yearly plan. The US App Store listing (id499428207) lockup is “Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS,” re-read September 10, 2026. JSON-LD Offer on that page is price 0, currency USD. This check found no In-App Purchases section and no IAP SKU list. The Google Play listing JSON-LD Offer is also price 0, currency USD. We do not invent a subscription. |
| Monthly price | $6.99/mo | None published. Same US listing lockup and Offer. Same Play listing Offer. No monthly SKU is named on the pages cited here. |
| Family plan | — | No family SKU published. This check found no Family Sharing sentence on the US listing. We do not invent a family plan price. |
| Free trial | None — the free tier is the trial | Not applicable. There is no paid library to trial on the pages cited here. |
| Free, forever | Daily verse · 2 guided sessions · the whole KJV Bible (1,189 chapters) · every reading plan · streak flame · reminders | The download they price at 0. The US listing names Daily Mass Readings (with Saint of the Day and Reflections), Liturgy of Hours, Latin Liturgy of Hours, Latin Mass, New American Bible, interactive Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy, further rosaries and chaplets, multiple Stations of the Cross, searchable prayers and Latin prayers with English translation, Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible for offline use, Daily Prayer and Daily Bible Verse, podcasts for daily meditations and Rosary, Catechism of the Catholic Church, My Prayers, five Confession apps, Vatican documents (2nd Vatican Council, Code of Canon Law), and Daily Mass live video stream. The Play listing adds Order of Mass, Daily Examination of Conscience, export/import for prayers, and papal encyclical letters. We do not restate ranking or download marketing from those pages. |
| Subscription opens | Full guided-prayer library (12 sessions) · Sacred Seasons (Advent & Lent) | Nothing on the pages cited here. The US listing has no In-App Purchases section. The Play listing JSON-LD Offer is price 0. Related-app chips on Play are not Laudate’s storefront. We found no Contains ads chip on that Play page. We do not invent ads or IAP from a third-party review. |
| Account required | No — no sign-up exists | No Laudate account sentence on the pages cited here. The US listing describes My Prayers as storing your own prayers and moving them between iPad and iPhone — a local list, not a login. Their terms and privacy page is a license plus a no-collection policy; it does not tell you to register. We do not invent an account requirement from Apple ID or from My Prayers. |
| Liturgy of the Hours | Quiet daily office paced by breath. Not the Roman Breviary. No Invitatory-through-Night-Prayer cycle. | Named in the download. The US listing: Liturgy of Hours and Latin Liturgy of Hours. The Play listing repeats Liturgy of Hours and Latin Liturgy of Hours. Those pages do not publish an Hour-by-Hour table (Lauds through Compline plus Office of Readings). We print the heading they use. We do not invent a missal-and-breviary license. |
| Mass readings | None. Not a missal. No Order of Mass. | Named in the download. The US listing: Daily Mass Readings (with Saint of the Day and Reflections), Latin Mass, Daily Mass live video stream. The Play listing: Daily Mass Readings, Order of Mass, Latin Mass, Daily Bible Verse on the Daily Readings screen, podcasts of Daily Readings with read-along text and meditations. |
| Rosary, Catechism, Confession | None of these as listed products. Breath-paced guided prayer, not a tile grid of Catholic tools. | The rest of the toolkit. The US listing names interactive Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Seven Sorrows Rosary, Chaplet of St. Michael, Franciscan Crown Rosary, Latin Rosary, Latin Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Servite Rosary, further chaplets, multiple Stations of the Cross, Catechism of the Catholic Church with bookmark and share, five Confession apps, Vatican documents. The Play listing adds Holy Wounds Chaplet, St Jude Chaplet, Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession), Daily Examination of Conscience. Their iPhone page is how-to for import prayers and create MyPrayer, not a second storefront. |
| Spoken audio | None. Breath-paced guided prayer, not a spoken breviary. | Podcasts, not a paid spoken Hours add-on. The US listing: “Multiple podcasts for daily meditations and Rosary.” The Play listing: podcast for Rosary and Stations, Daily Meditations, podcasts of Daily Readings with read-along text. Their FAQ explains the phone-state permission as stopping the podcast player when a call starts. |
| Prayer analytics | None — a public vow. Prayer data never leaves your device | Three first-party pages do not say the same sentence, and none of them is a prayer-analytics vow. Apple’s App Privacy label on the US listing (self-reported, not verified by Apple): Data Not Collected — “The developer does not collect any data from this app.” This check found no “Data Linked to You” section and no “Data Used to Track You” section. Their Google Play Data safety section: “No data shared with third parties”; “No data collected.” The same Play description: the app reads phone state to interrupt the podcast player and reads SD card to save and import files for My Prayers, “but we don't read or keep any of the phone data.” Their privacy policy: “Laudate DOES NOT collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information”; “We will NOT collect any personal information of the individual concerned”; “We will NEVER retain any personal information.” Their FAQ: “we don't collect anything or read anything off your SD card except /CatholicOne folder.” We print all of that. We do not restate rating or ranking marketing from those pages. |
| Bible | Full KJV bundled; offline on iPhone | Catholic translations in the toolkit, not a 1,189-chapter King James you can finish as a plan. The US listing: New American Bible; Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible for offline use. The Play listing repeats both. We do not invent a Protestant reading plan inside Laudate. |
| Platforms | iPhone and web | The US listing Information section names iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac (macOS 12.5 or later, Apple M1 or later), and Apple Vision. The same listing’s lockup prints “Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.” JSON-LD availableOnDevice on that page is “iPhone, iPad, iPod.” We print all three. The Google Play listing is Android, developer Aycka Soft, About the developer Bogdan Pytlik. Their Android page links that Play listing and Amazon Kindle Fire. There is no Laudate web office on the pages cited here — the blogs are how-to and policy. |
| Tradition | Broadly Christian, KJV | Catholic utility. The US listing developer is Aycka Soft, seller Andrzej Krawczyk, category Reference; it names Mass, Liturgy of Hours, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Vatican documents, and Latin beside English. Copyright on that listing is © Aycka Soft. Their iPhone page links a Truste privacy-policy URL; that URL did not return a readable policy on this check, so we do not quote it. |
| If you cannot pay | No scholarship or sponsorship path published. Advent and most guided sessions require Seraph+. | Download the app they already price at 0. The US listing Offer is price 0. The Play listing Offer is price 0. No donation path for Laudate is named on the pages cited here. |
Laudate’s US listing is a free download with a Catholic toolkit inside. Their privacy pages say they do not collect personal information; their Play description still names phone-state and SD-card permissions for podcasts and My Prayers. Read the table, not a single label. No worldwide cheapest-price claim is made here.
What Laudate does better
Breadth, and the door price. If “Mass readings, Hours, Catechism, Rosary, Confession, NAB, Douay-Rheims, Latin, Android” is the requirement, they meet it in one install. Their listing Offer is price 0. We gate ten guided sessions and Sacred Seasons behind Seraph+. They do not publish a paid plan on the pages cited here. We are a simpler daily office. They are a Catholic reference drawer.
They also ship Android, and their Android page still points at Kindle Fire. If you want the Catholic Mass and Hours as a free utility, a Catechism you can bookmark, a Rosary tile, Confession guides, or a phone that is not an iPhone, Laudate is the honest recommendation, and we are not in that contest.
What Seraph does differently
Restraint as a feature, and a Bible you can finish. No account between you and prayer — Laudate’s privacy policy says they do not collect personal information, and we found no matching app-account sentence on the listing. Prayer data never leaves the device; their US listing reports Data Not Collected, and their Play listing reports no data shared and no data collected, while still explaining phone-state and SD-card permissions. Two prices, written in plain numbers: $59.99 a year or $6.99 a month, auto-renew, cancel anytime. The entire KJV free — not a day’s Mass readings — bundled offline on iPhone, every chapter. A public web office you can open without installing an app. A streak that forgives a missed day instead of shaming it. No ads on free or paid. Guided prayer paced by breath. Compare the plan and features that fit your use, rather than assuming one worldwide price difference.
Three disclosures that belong here. The web subscription and the iPhone subscription are separate purchases and do not unlock each other. The complete offline Bible is the iPhone app; on the web, chapters you have already opened stay readable. And restoring a web subscription in a new browser emails a magic link, so we will not claim “no email ever.” There is no Seraph+ trial: you never try a paid session before buying it. The daily office is the trial of Seraph, not of the paid library.
When each app wins
Laudate — if you want a free Catholic Mass, Hours, Catechism, and Rosary drawer
Start from the US listing or the Play listing. Open Daily Mass Readings. Open Liturgy of Hours. Open the Catechism. Pray a Rosary. Use Confession if that is the work. Use Android if that is your phone. Do not come here first for a full King James you can read offline as a plan, or for a silent one-flame office with no account and a public vow that prayer never leaves the device. They are Aycka Soft’s Catholic utility, and the listings say so.
Seraph — if you want a quiet office with no account, a full KJV, and a price you can read before you install
Ours, last on purpose. A flame, the KJV, two free guided sessions, reading plans, no sign-up. Paid for the remaining sessions and Sacred Seasons, free for the office. Small, new, iPhone-and-web only. If none of those sentences is what you came for, Laudate is the better fit, and we would rather you found it here than felt sold to.
Sources and scope
Checked against the following official Laudate pages on . These references do not establish an independent review or endorsement of Seraph. Subjective product fit remains our assessment.
- Laudate US App Store listing (id499428207)
Supports “Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS,” JSON-LD Offer price 0 / USD, seller Andrzej Krawczyk, developer Aycka Soft, category Reference, copyright © Aycka Soft, the Mass / Hours / Latin / NAB / Rosary / Catechism / Confession / Douay-Rheims Challoner / My Prayers / Vatican documents / live Mass stream copy quoted above, Information devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac with Apple M1 or later, Apple Vision), JSON-LD availableOnDevice “iPhone, iPad, iPod,” App Privacy as parsed from the live HTML (Data Not Collected; no Track section and no Linked section on this check), the App Store–linked privacy URL below, and no In-App Purchases section on this check. We do not restate their rating, review count, or ranking marketing.
- Laudate on Google Play
Supports an Android listing, JSON-LD Offer price 0 / USD, developer Aycka Soft, About the developer Bogdan Pytlik, the Mass / Order of Mass / Hours / Rosary / Catechism / Confession / Douay-Rheims / encyclical copy quoted above, the phone-state and SD-card explanation for podcasts and My Prayers, Data safety “No data shared with third parties” / “No data collected,” no Contains ads chip on this check, and JSON-LD author URL pointing at the Android blog below. We do not treat related-app In-App Purchases chips as Laudate’s storefront. We do not restate review counts or install totals from that page.
- Aycka Soft — Laudate for iPhone
Supports how-to links for import prayers and create MyPrayer, and a link labeled Privacy Policy for Laudate to a Truste policy URL. That Truste URL returned HTTP 500 on this check, so we do not quote its body. The App Store–linked privacy page is cited separately.
- Aycka Soft — Laudate for Android
Supports a download link to the Play listing (package com.aycka.apps.MassReadings) and a download link for Amazon Kindle Fire, plus how-to for import prayers and create a prayer in MyPrayers, and a Privacy Policy for Laudate link.
- Aycka Soft — FAQ
Supports the phone-state permission as stopping the podcast player for a call, SD /CatholicOne as My Prayers backup and import, and “we don't collect anything or read anything off your SD card except /CatholicOne folder.” That page still uses older product names (CatholicOne, Mass Readings) in install-troubleshooting answers. We print the collection sentence. We do not treat those older names as a second current storefront.
- Laudate terms of service and privacy policy
Supports a personal, non-commercial use license, and the privacy sentences “Laudate DOES NOT collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information,” “We will NOT collect any personal information of the individual concerned,” and “We will NEVER retain any personal information.” This page does not describe an account, a subscription, or ads. The US listing’s App Privacy label is cited separately above.
Daily office free, with no account · Seraph+ $6.99/mo or $59.99/yr · auto-renews · cancel anytime
Web and iPhone subscriptions are separate purchases and do not unlock each other