Seraph vs Soultime
A Christian guided-meditation app that tracks mood and asks you to subscribe, 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 Soultime, because Soultime has earned a real product of its own.
Our bias, declared: we make Seraph. The linked Soultime sources support the specific free-download price, named US IAP SKUs, subscription and trial wording, account and privacy wording, and store listings 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 Soultime if you want Christian guided meditation with a mood checker, a personality report, sleep audio, and a “Soultime with Friends” alert. The US listing lockup on this check is “Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS,” seller Soultime Media Limited, category Health & Fitness. JSON-LD Offer on that page is price 0, currency USD. That 0 is the download, not the library. Their terms say that on download you get “a limited amount of content,” and that the full range needs a subscription purchased “monthly, yearly or as a Lifetime Subscription.” This is not Abide’s spoken NIV sleep library, not Hallow or Glorify’s produced prayer seasons, and not a Dwell-style audio Bible. It is mood-tracker / meditation / account-shaped.
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 | Soultime |
|---|---|---|
| Annual price | $59.99/yr | Several named SKUs, not one current year. The US App Store listing (id1369059690) In-App Purchases list, re-read September 10, 2026, prints: ANNUAL PLAN $59.99; MONTHLY PLAN $7.99; MONTHLY PLAN $5.99; QUARTERLY PLAN $19.99; ANNUAL PLAN $59.99; ANNUAL PLAN $59.99; ANNUAL PLAN $29.99; ANNUAL PLAN $39.99; MONTHLY PLAN $7.99; ANNUAL PLAN $47.99. Apple does not label which SKU is current. We do not pick one annual number as “the” price, and we do not invent an A/B-test story from third-party reviews. Their terms name monthly, yearly, or Lifetime Subscription. This US list has no LIFETIME PLAN row on this check. The Google Play listing JSON-LD Offer is price 0, currency USD, with an In-app purchases chip and no named SKU table on that page. |
| Monthly price | $6.99/mo | Same US listing prints MONTHLY PLAN $7.99 and MONTHLY PLAN $5.99 (and a second MONTHLY PLAN $7.99 later in the list). We print both. We do not pick $5.99 or $7.99 as the live monthly. Same Play listing Offer is the download at 0, not a monthly SKU. |
| Quarterly price | — | QUARTERLY PLAN $19.99 on the same US listing IAP list. Their terms name monthly, yearly, or Lifetime — they do not name quarterly on that page. We print the SKU. We do not invent a terms paragraph Apple did not write. |
| 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. There is no Seraph+ trial. | A trial is named, a length is not. The US listing subscription block: “Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription.” Recurring subscriptions “automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period,” and “You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings.” Their terms do not publish a trial length. We do not invent a 7-day trial from a third-party review. |
| 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, plus whatever they still call limited. Their terms: “On downloading the App you will be entitled to a limited amount of content. To release the full range of content you must sign up to a subscription.” The US listing says “Soultime with Friends” (invite up to 5 people, mood-checker alerts) “is completely free.” That sentence is Friends, not the 250-meditation library. We do not dump “more than 250 meditations,” “100+ music tracks,” sleep stories, or the personality report as forever free. Their homepage says “Enjoy 200+ guided meditations” and “80+ music, scripture readings and sleep stories” — those counts are marketing for the product, not a free-tier table. |
| Subscription opens | Full guided-prayer library (12 sessions) · Sacred Seasons (Advent & Lent) | The rest of the library. Their terms: without a Lifetime Membership or another Subscription you get only “a limited amount of the content.” The US listing names more than 250 meditations (anxiety, sleep, stress, a daily original, and the other titles on that page), a mood checker with stats over time, AI “empathetic Bible verses and guided meditations tailored to your mood,” a personality test report, 100+ music tracks, sleep stories, a journal, “a complete Bible,” psalm readings, and Apple Health for meditation activity. Their homepage names a 10-minute questionnaire and a recommended course of meditations. We print those product names. We do not restate ranking or celebrity marketing from those pages. |
| Account required | No — no sign-up exists | Account-shaped. Their privacy notice talks about “when you log-in to our App,” “username and password,” and that if they cannot perform the contract they “may have to cancel your account with us.” Their terms require you to be 18 “to accept these Terms and buy a Subscription.” We do not invent a skippable no-account path they did not publish. |
| Mood, Friends, Health | None of these as listed products. A quiet office, not a mood tracker. | Named on the storefront. The US listing: mood checker; stats from mood-checker results; “Soultime with Friends,” invite up to 5 people; Apple Health for meditation activity. Their homepage: invite up to 3 friends, and a link toward SoulHaven.app. We print 5 (listing) and 3 (homepage). We do not pick one. |
| Prayer analytics | None — a public vow. Prayer data never leaves your device | They collect. Apple’s App Privacy label on the US listing (self-reported, not verified by Apple): this check found no “Data Used to Track You” section. Data Linked to You, as parsed from the live HTML: Analytics (Contact Info — Email Address, Name; User Content — Customer Support, Other User Content; Identifiers — User ID, Device ID; Usage Data — Product Interaction; Diagnostics — Crash Data); Product Personalization (Contact Info — Email Address, Name; Contacts; User Content — Photos or Videos, Customer Support, Other User Content; Identifiers — User ID, Device ID; Usage Data — Product Interaction); App Functionality (Contact Info — Email Address; Contacts; User Content — Other User Content; Identifiers — User ID, Device ID; Usage Data — Product Interaction). Data Not Linked to You: Analytics — Diagnostics (Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data). The summary card on that page lists Linked Contact Info, Contacts, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Not Linked Diagnostics. Their privacy notice (last updated 27 November 2020) names Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Technical, Profile, Usage, and Marketing data; Special Categories of Personal Data including religious or philosophical beliefs (place of worship) and physical and mental health; they may aggregate Usage Data “to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature”; separately, “By aggregating responses within the website and the App we can provide a unique picture to church leaders”; analytics providers “such as Google”; and Stripe for payments. Their terms add technical information about the device and location data from the device. Their Play Data safety section: “This app may share these data types with third parties — Personal info, App activity and 2 others”; “This app may collect these data types — Personal info, Photos and videos and 2 others”; “Data is encrypted in transit”; “You can request that data be deleted.” We print all of that. We do not restate rating or ranking marketing from those pages. |
| Bible | Full KJV bundled; offline on iPhone | A complete Bible is named, a translation is not. The US listing: “A complete Bible” and “Gentle scripture readings of favourite psalms.” The Play listing JSON-LD description does not name a translation either. We do not invent a King James inside Soultime. |
| Platforms | iPhone and web | The US listing Information section names iPhone (iOS 13.0 or later), iPod touch, Mac (macOS 11.0 or later, Apple M1 or later), and Apple Vision. The same listing’s lockup prints “Only for iPhone” and “Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.” JSON-LD availableOnDevice on that page is “iPhone, iPod.” We print all three. The Google Play listing is Android, developer Soultime Media Limited, package com.soultime.app. Their terms still say the app needs Android (version(s) [5.5]) or iOS (version(s) [11]) — older than the US listing’s iOS 13. web.soultime.com on this check redirected to /check-up/intro and served marketing HTML with canonical https://www.soultime.com/. That is a check-up door, not a silent no-account office. |
| Tradition | Broadly Christian, KJV | Christian meditation in Health & Fitness. The US listing developer and seller is Soultime Media Limited, subtitle “Prayer, bible & bedtime story,” copyright © Soultime Media Limited from 2017. Their terms: company number 10890799, registered office 42 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, England, CB5 8EP. The US listing and homepage include a named endorsement we do not restate as product fact. |
| 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, then the limited content their terms describe. No scholarship path for Soultime is named on the pages cited here. Lifetime Membership on those terms is a paid SKU type, not a hardship grant, and the US IAP list on this check does not show a LIFETIME PLAN row. |
Soultime’s US listing is a free download with In-App Purchases. The IAP list prints several ANNUAL PLAN, MONTHLY PLAN, and QUARTERLY PLAN rows at once. Their terms still name monthly, yearly, or Lifetime. Read the list, not a single cell. No worldwide cheapest-price claim is made here.
What Soultime does better
Spoken Christian meditation, mood tools, and Android. If “guided meditations for anxiety and sleep, a mood checker, a personality report, Friends alerts, Apple Health, a journal, and a complete Bible inside a Health & Fitness app” is the requirement, they meet it. Their listing Offer is price 0 for the download; the library sits behind the subscription their terms describe. They ship Android. We do not. They name a free trial in the listing’s auto-renew paragraph — length unpublished on the pages cited here — and we do not: you never try a Seraph+ session before buying it. The daily office is the trial of Seraph, not of the paid library.
They also publish a Friends feature the listing calls completely free, and a mood checker the listing says can detect when you could do with a call. If you want that kind of check-in, or sleep stories and music as the main surface, Soultime 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 — Soultime’s privacy notice describes log-in, username and password, and an account they may cancel. Prayer data never leaves the device; their US listing reports Data Linked to You (contact, identifiers, usage, diagnostics, and more as parsed above), and their Play listing reports sharing and collection. Two prices, written in plain numbers: $59.99 a year or $6.99 a month, auto-renew, cancel anytime. The entire KJV free — not an unnamed complete Bible inside a meditation library — 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
Soultime — if you want Christian guided meditation, a mood checker, and Friends alerts
Start from the US listing or the Play listing. Read their terms for limited-content-until-subscription, monthly / yearly / Lifetime, age 18, and auto-renew on the store. Read their privacy notice before you log in. Use Android if that is your phone. Do not come here first for a silent one-flame office with no account, a full King James you can finish as a plan, or a public vow that prayer never leaves the device. They are Soultime Media Limited’s Christian meditation app, 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, Soultime is the better fit, and we would rather you found it here than felt sold to.
Sources and scope
Checked against the following official Soultime pages on . These references do not establish an independent review or endorsement of Seraph. Subjective product fit remains our assessment.
- Soultime US App Store listing (id1369059690)
Supports “Only for iPhone,” “Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS,” JSON-LD Offer price 0 / USD, seller Soultime Media Limited, category Health & Fitness, subtitle “Prayer, bible & bedtime story,” copyright © Soultime Media Limited from 2017, the meditation / Friends / mood checker / AI scripture / personality test / journal / complete Bible / Apple Health copy quoted above, the auto-renew / cancel / free-trial-forfeiture paragraph, links to soultime.com/terms and soultime.com/privacy, Information devices (iPhone iOS 13.0+, iPod touch, Mac with Apple M1 or later, Apple Vision), JSON-LD availableOnDevice “iPhone, iPod,” App Privacy as parsed from the live HTML (no Track section; Linked and Not Linked buckets above), and the In-App Purchases list we transcribed (ANNUAL PLAN $59.99, MONTHLY PLAN $7.99, MONTHLY PLAN $5.99, QUARTERLY PLAN $19.99, ANNUAL PLAN $59.99, ANNUAL PLAN $59.99, ANNUAL PLAN $29.99, ANNUAL PLAN $39.99, MONTHLY PLAN $7.99, ANNUAL PLAN $47.99). We do not restate their rating, review count, ranking marketing, or named endorsement as product fact.
- Soultime on Google Play
Supports an Android listing, JSON-LD Offer price 0 / USD, developer Soultime Media Limited, package com.soultime.app, an In-app purchases chip with no named SKU table on this check, Data safety “This app may share these data types with third parties — Personal info, App activity and 2 others,” “This app may collect these data types — Personal info, Photos and videos and 2 others,” “Data is encrypted in transit,” “You can request that data be deleted,” and no Contains ads chip on this check. We do not restate review counts or install totals from that page.
- Soultime terms and conditions
Supports Soultime Media Limited, company number 10890799, 42 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, limited content on download, subscription “monthly, yearly or as a Lifetime Subscription,” Lifetime Membership as access for as long as the App and content are available with no warranty they continue, age 18 to accept terms and buy a Subscription, download onto 5 devices, Android (version(s) [5.5]) or iOS (version(s) [11]), technical information about the device, and location data from the device. This page does not publish a trial length or a US dollar price list.
- Soultime privacy notice
Supports last updated 27 November 2020, log-in / username and password / cancel-your-account wording, the data groups quoted above including Special Categories of Personal Data (religious or philosophical beliefs including place of worship, and physical and mental health), Usage Data they may aggregate “to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature,” separately “By aggregating responses within the website and the App we can provide a unique picture to church leaders,” Google as an analytics example, Stripe for payments, and that the website and App are not intended for children. The US listing’s App Privacy label is cited separately above.
- Soultime homepage
Supports “Enjoy 200+ guided meditations,” “80+ music, scripture readings and sleep stories,” a 10-minute questionnaire with a personal report and recommended course, “Soultime with Friends” invite up to 3 friends, and a SoulHaven.app mention. We print those counts beside the US listing’s 250 / 100+ / 5-person Friends wording. We do not restate star-count marketing or named endorsement from that page as product fact.
- web.soultime.com
Supports a live hostname. On this check the origin redirected to /check-up/intro and served marketing HTML whose canonical was https://www.soultime.com/. It is not a no-account daily office.
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