Apps like Echo Prayer

Echo Prayer, from The Parable Group, is the most-rated prayer list app on the App Store: 21,710 ratings at 4.8, last updated 3 September 2026, and 100,000+ downloads on Google Play. A personal list is free. Groups are where it charges: creating one, or publishing a church prayer feed, needs ECHO+. People looking past Echo usually want one of two things. Some want groups without a subscription, and some only want a private list and none of the group features.

Prices, devices and groups, side by side

Read on 21 October 2026, in the US. Ratings and update dates come from Apple’s lookup API and Google Play. Prices come from each publisher’s site where it gives one and from the App Store’s In-App Purchases row, which shows prices without billing periods.

The privacy column is the top line of each App Store privacy panel, as the developer declared it. Prayer Notebook’s last update was 17 June 2021.

Three prices for one subscription

Echo’s ECHO+ page says $15 a year after a free 7-day trial. The App Store description, on the same day, says ECHO+ renews monthly or yearly and starts with a 14-day trial. Apple’s In-App Purchases row lists ten entries, all named “Echo Plus+”, at $2.99, $3.99, $4.99, $5.99, $7.99 and $14.99, with no billing periods. The $14.99 entry matches the $15 yearly price on the site; which of the others is monthly is not stated. Whatever the price, Echo’s FAQ says only the person creating a group or feed needs ECHO+, members join free, and one membership can be shared with family on the same Apple ID or Google account.

The alternatives

PrayerMate, groups with no subscription

From Discipleship Tech, with 424 US App Store ratings and 3,155 on Google Play. It shares prayer requests privately with a small group at no charge; its Patron subscription ($0.99 a month or $10.99 a year on Apple’s row) only adds color schemes, and some prayer packs sell for $1.99 to $4.99. Each day it shows one subject from each of your categories as a card, and its site says it offers more than 500 prayer feeds from charities and churches, much as Echo’s feeds do. Its App Privacy panel lists contact info and identifiers as linked to you.

Prayer Notes, groups and sync on Apple devices

Michael Chu’s app has groups for a family, small group or church, and syncs everything through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. It adds a day-of-the-week list, a journal and widgets. It shows ads and sells eight items on Apple’s row, including Remove Ads at $7.99 and Unlock All Features at $79.99, and its App Privacy panel declares identifiers and usage data used to track you. It was updated on 21 October 2026, the day this page was checked.

Prayminder, a private list with reminders

For someone who used Echo only for their own list and reminders. Prayminder’s listing says it is free, shows no ads, needs no account, and keeps prayers on the phone; its App Privacy panel lists only diagnostics and usage data, not linked to you. It is built around reminders through the day and includes Bible reading through YouVersion. It runs on Android as well, with 1,170 ratings on Google Play.

Let Them Pray, ours

A personal list written for every faith, with no scripture, set prayers or religious symbols and optional tradition labels. The longest-waiting prayer comes first. Updates are dated, and each prayer ends answered or set down, both kept in a journal. Reminders can be set for one prayer or up to five named moments a day. There is no account, nothing written leaves the phone, and a copy can be saved to a file for a new phone. It can share one request as text, but there are no groups, no feeds and no Android version. Its one banner means its App Privacy panel declares location, identifiers and usage data used to track you.

Prayer Notebook, if an older app suits you

Free, with nothing to buy, and an App Privacy panel that reads “Data Not Collected.” It has 6,165 ratings, but its last update was in June 2021, and its FAQ says it does not sync between devices. We compared it with the rest in apps like Prayer Notebook.

What these do better than ours

For a group, almost everything. Echo, PrayerMate and Prayer Notes let people share requests with each other; ours cannot. Echo and PrayerMate carry church and ministry feeds, and Echo has a desktop app. Prayer Notes syncs across four kinds of Apple device, and Echo, PrayerMate and Prayminder run on Android. Prayminder says it has no ads, and Prayer Notebook declares no data collected; ours shows a banner. Echo has over twenty thousand ratings, and ours has none yet. If a group prays together on Echo, PrayerMate is the likeliest move without a subscription. Ours is for one person’s list. On paper, the guide to keeping a prayer list and the printable cost nothing.