Apps like Prayer Notebook

Prayer Notebook, from Kalon Creative, has 6,165 App Store ratings at 4.7 and still comes first in App Store search for “prayer list.” Its last update was version 3.1.2, on 17 June 2021. It is free, has nothing to buy, and its App Privacy panel reads “Data Not Collected.” Nobody needs to leave an app that still works for them. The usual reasons to look are a new phone, a second device, or a friend on Android.

What each one costs, and where it runs

Read on 21 October 2026, in the US. Ratings, versions and dates come from Apple’s lookup API and Google Play the same day. Prices come from each App Store page’s In-App Purchases row, expanded, which lists prices without billing periods, and from the publisher’s own site where it prints one.

Play counts are the number of ratings on each Google Play listing. Apple counts are US ratings only.

What Prayer Notebook does, and what it does not

Its listing names a fullscreen prayer mode (turn the phone sideways), prayers scheduled daily, weekly, monthly or for one day, categories, a contact or a photo on a prayer, reminders, updates, a message to the person once you have prayed, and answered prayers. That is a full list for a free app that declares no data collected. What it lacks is sync: its FAQ says prayers do not sync between devices and gives no date for adding it, and suggests an iCloud backup to carry them to a new phone. The same FAQ says there are no plans for Android.

The alternatives

Echo Prayer, the biggest list app, with groups

The most-rated prayer list app on the App Store, with 21,710 ratings at 4.8, and on Google Play with 100,000+ downloads. The free version keeps a personal list with tags, reminders and answered prayers, and you can join groups and follow church prayer feeds. ECHO+ is what creates a group or publishes a feed, and it adds stats, streaks and a desktop app. Its site prices ECHO+ at $15 a year after a 7-day trial; the App Store description says monthly or yearly with a 14-day trial, and Apple’s row lists ten ECHO+ entries from $2.99 to $14.99. Its App Privacy panel lists contact info, identifiers and your own content as linked to you. The listing is in English and quotes scripture.

Prayminder, free and kept on the phone

The closest match to Prayer Notebook’s privacy. Its listing says prayers stay on your phone, the app works with no account, and it is free with no ads; no In-App Purchases row appears. Its App Privacy panel lists diagnostics and usage data, not linked to you. You sort prayers into groups such as family, church or work, set your own reminder schedule, and can read the Bible in the app through YouVersion and attach verses to prayers. It runs on Android too, and its listing describes it as made as a ministry, open to Christians of every tradition. It needs iOS 17 or later.

Prayer Notes, if you use every Apple device

Updated the day this page was checked, and the one app here that syncs through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac, with widgets and a Face ID lock. It lays the list out by day of the week, the way many paper notebooks do, and adds groups for a family or church, a journal and scripture prayers. It shows ads unless you pay: Apple’s row lists Remove Ads at $7.99 and Unlock All Features at $79.99, among eight items, and its App Privacy panel declares identifiers and usage data used to track you.

PrayerMate, for a daily set of cards

PrayerMate picks one subject from each of your categories every day and shows them as cards to swipe through, which suits a long list. It adds private group sharing, prayer feeds from charities and churches, Dropbox export and a PIN lock. It is free; the optional Patron subscription ($0.99 a month or $10.99 a year on Apple’s row) adds color schemes, and some prayer packs are sold separately. It is on Google Play with 3,155 ratings.

Let Them Pray, ours

A prayer list for every faith: your own words, the longest waiting first, dated updates, reminders, and two endings, answered or set down, kept in a journal. “Sit with your list” opens one prayer at a time with no timer or streak. There is no account and nothing written leaves the phone; you can save a copy to a file and restore it on a new one. It shows one banner under the list, and its App Privacy panel declares location, identifiers and usage data used to track you, for the ad. It has no sync, no groups and no Android version.

A paper list

Free and fully private, and it never needs an update. Our printable prayer list is one page for a week, and the guide to keeping a prayer list covers the method behind it.

What these do better than ours

A lot. Echo, PrayerMate and Prayer Notes let a group share requests, and ours does not. Prayer Notes syncs across four kinds of Apple device, and Echo has a desktop app; ours keeps one list on one phone. Echo, Prayminder and PrayerMate are on Android. Prayminder says it shows no ads, and Prayer Notebook declares no data collected at all, where ours shows a banner and declares data used to track you for it. Each of the others has hundreds or thousands of ratings, and ours has none yet. If you need a list your small group can see, start with Echo or PrayerMate. If you want a free list that stays on the phone, Prayminder is the nearest thing to Prayer Notebook.