Two apps that take daily prayer seriously, built on different convictions. This page is written by the maker of Seraph — read it knowing that — and it will be generous to Pray.com, because Pray.com has earned it.
Our bias, declared: we make Seraph. Every claim below was checked against Pray.com's own help center, the US App Store listing, and pray.com/subscribe on the date above; if we've got something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.
Choose Pray.com if you want a faith audio platform — daily and nightly prayers, bedtime Bible stories, celebrity-voiced readings, prayer plans, church communities, and prayer requests you can post and join. The download is free. The free tier is real: radio, daily prayer, podcasts, a text Bible, and communities, with ads. Premium is a large audio library, and they typically offer a 3-day trial of it before yearly auto-renew.
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 | Pray.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Download | Free | Free |
| Listed paid prices | $59.99/yr or $6.99/mo | No single list price on pray.com/subscribe (the page loads prices in-app). US App Store IAPs, periods unlabeled: Premium $1.99 and $7.99; No Ads $14.99; Pray Bible Experience $49.99, $59.99, $69.99, $109.99 |
| How they bill | Two auto-renewable plans, monthly or annual | Help center: mainly annual; monthly described as a US Verizon carrier option. Typical trial is 3 days, then yearly auto-renew |
| Family plan | — | Yes — up to 6, per their subscription-plans article. No family dollar amount on the US App Store IAP list we retrieved |
| Free trial | None — the free tier is the trial | Yes, typically 3 days of the full library |
| Free, forever | Daily verse · 2 guided sessions · the whole KJV Bible (1,189 chapters) · every reading plan · streak flame · reminders · no ads | Daily verse · Pray Radio · podcasts · text Bible · communities and prayer requests — with advertisements |
| Ads on paid | None | Premium still has ads, per their plans article. A separate “Premium Subscription No Ads” SKU removes dynamic ads, not every embedded sponsor read |
| Subscription opens | Full guided-prayer library (12 sessions) · Sacred Seasons (Advent & Lent) | Bedtime Bible stories, biblical sagas, meditations, kids' stories, prayer plans, music, and the rest of the premium audio library |
| Account required | No — no sign-up exists | Yes — email account, even to skip the paywall into the free tier |
| Prayer analytics | None — a public vow. Prayer data never leaves your device | Apple's App Privacy label lists data used to track you, including purchases, location, contact info, identifiers, and usage |
| Scripture | Full KJV bundled; offline on iPhone | Text Bible on the free tier; 500+ audio Bible stories in Premium |
| Platforms | iPhone and web | iPhone, Android, and web |
| Tradition | Broadly Christian, KJV | Broadly Christian; community and celebrity audio |
Pray.com prices and plan facts from their help center (including “Is Pray.com free?”, “Subscription Plans”, and “How does the Pray.com free trial work?”), the US App Store listing for Pray.com (id 1161035371), and a retrieve of pray.com/subscribe, all on September 2, 2026. We did not invent a headline annual price: they do not publish one dollar figure on the subscribe page HTML, and Apple does not label which IAP is monthly or yearly. Their audio library — James Earl Jones and Charlton Heston among the voices they name — is genuinely a different product than a quiet daily office, and worth knowing.
Sheer audio and community. Bedtime Bible stories and sleep catalogs. Prayer plans with daily and nightly prayers. Church communities, prayer requests, and mobile giving. Android as well as iPhone. A family plan. A real free trial of the full library. If you want a faith-audio world you can share with a household, Pray.com is the honest recommendation.
Restraint as a feature. No account between you and prayer. No ads on free or paid. The entire Bible free — not excerpts. A streak that forgives a missed day instead of shaming it. Two prices, written in plain numbers: $59.99 a year or $6.99 a month. And a privacy stance we've made contractual with our users: no prayer analytics, ever.
Free to begin · Seraph+ $59.99/yr or $6.99/mo · auto-renews · cancel anytime