The Best Rosary Apps in 2026, by How You Like to Pray

Published by the makers of Orabimus; not an independent review. Facts about other apps come from their own US store listings and help pages, verified October 31, 2026, and are linked in each section.

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The apps, by how you pray

For a guided audio Rosary: Hallow

Hallow's Rosaries are guided audio meditations ("Meditate with Mary through the mysteries of the Catholic Rosary," in the words of its US App Store listing). The Daily Rosary is in the free version, and the subscription opens all of Hallow's Rosaries and the Divine Mercy Chaplet, with the rest of its large library.

• Cost (US): free version; subscription $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year.
• Works on: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Amazon devices and the web.
• Good to know: you create an account and sign in to use the free prayers.

Sources: US App Store · Hallow help center, free and paid · Hallow help center, pricing · Hallow help center, the free version, verified October 31, 2026. More: Hallow vs Orabimus · free alternatives to Hallow

For the Rosary in Latin, or chanted: Ascension

In the Ascension app the full Rosary is free with all of its recorded voices: Fr. Mike Schmitz, Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, Jeff Cavins, the Sisters of Life and Paul Rose. You can pray in English or Latin, with options to chant the prayers. The app is also the home of the Rosary in a Year podcast, in which Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, builds the prayer up step by step.

• Cost (US): the Rosary is free; Full Access is $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year.
• Works on: iPhone, iPad, Android and a web browser.

Sources: US App Store · Ascension app FAQ · The Rosary in a Year, verified October 31, 2026. More: Ascension vs Orabimus

For many kinds of Rosary and chaplets: Laudate

Laudate has an interactive Rosary and a Latin Rosary, and also the Seven Sorrows, Franciscan Crown and Servite Rosaries. Beside them are the chaplets of Divine Mercy (also in Latin), St. Michael, the Sacred Heart, the Holy Spirit, St. Joseph and St. Mary Magdalene, and podcasts for the Rosary and for daily meditation.

• Cost: free; the US App Store lists no in-app purchases.
• Works on: iPhone, iPad, Macs with Apple silicon, and Android.

Sources: US App Store · Google Play, verified October 31, 2026. More: Laudate vs Orabimus

For beads that move like a real rosary: iRosary

iRosary's rosary moves like a physical rosary, and when you pray without audio you advance the prayers on the beads yourself. Studio-recorded male and female voices can be played alone or together, a speed control sets the pace, and paintings by artists such as El Greco and Murillo go with the mysteries.

• Cost (US): free. Ultra, $2.99 for three months or $5.49 a year, adds always-new audio, more designs and paintings, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and CarPlay.
• Works on: iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision, in English and Spanish.

Sources: US App Store, verified October 31, 2026. More: iRosary vs Orabimus

For a Living Rosary of five: Rosario

In Rosario, five people form a group and each prays one decade a day. The app gives each member a different mystery of the day, so the group completes a Rosary every day, each person praying in their own time. You can add an intention for the group and get a notification when the others have prayed.

• Cost: free; no in-app purchases listed.
• Works on: iPhone, iPad, Macs with Apple silicon, and Android.

Sources: US App Store · Google Play, verified October 31, 2026.

For praying along with a live broadcast: Relevant Radio

Relevant Radio prays the Family Rosary Across America on the air, and its US App Store listing invites you to "pray with thousands daily." The network's video app, Relevant Radio+, lists the Family Rosary Across America with Father Rocky live at 7:00 PM CT. You pray along with the broadcast, and the app also carries the Rosary among its daily devotions.

• Cost: free; its listing says "No subscriptions. No fees."
• Works on: iPhone, iPad, Macs with Apple silicon, and Android.

Sources: US App Store · Relevant Radio+ on the US App Store · Google Play, verified October 31, 2026.

For meditative and scriptural Rosaries: Amen

Amen, from the Augustine Institute, offers the Rosary in standard, meditative and scriptural formats, next to guided meditations, sleep recordings and lectio divina.

• Cost: free; no in-app purchases listed.
• Works on: iPhone, iPad, Macs with Apple silicon, and Android.

Sources: US App Store · Google Play, verified October 31, 2026.

For Scripture before every Hail Mary: Holy Rosary

Holy Rosary comes in two free editions, recorded by students of Franciscan University of Steubenville. In the Scriptural Edition a passage of Scripture is read before each Hail Mary; the Standard Edition is the same Rosary without those passages. On the US App Store the Scriptural Edition is rated 4.9 from about 600 ratings, and the Standard Edition 4.8 from about 1,800.

• Cost: free; no in-app purchases listed.
• Works on: iPhone and iPad.

Sources: Scriptural Edition, US App Store · Standard Edition, US App Store, verified October 31, 2026.

For recorded scriptural Rosaries: Rosary Army

The Rosary Army app has professionally recorded audio Rosaries from the founders of RosaryArmy.com, among them four scriptural Rosary recordings, with new artwork for each mystery. It is a paid app, and its listing says every download supports Rosary Army's mission of global rosary distribution.

• Cost (US): $3.99 once.
• Works on: iPhone, iPad and Macs with Apple silicon.

Sources: US App Store, verified October 31, 2026.

For live group Rosaries in a browser: Orabimus

Orabimus, which we make, is a free Rosary web app built around Group Rosary rooms. A room is live and synchronized: the host leads, and everyone in it moves to the same prayer at the same moment, step by step, each on their own phone or computer.

• Rooms: public, unlisted or private, scheduled ahead with reminders, and joined by link, six-character code or QR code, with no participant cap. In a spoken room, six people can speak and up to 400 can listen.
• Praying alone: the full guided Rosary, free, with prayer text in nine languages and studio audio in seven, including English, Spanish and Latin, read along word by word.
• Works on: any modern browser. It installs to the home screen and works offline after the first load.
• Cost: free; optional supporter plans start at $29.99 a year, and supporters can host spoken rooms.
• Account: none needed to pray; a free account to host or join a live Group Rosary.

More: the free Rosary app · how Group Rosary rooms work · the Latin Rosary

How we chose

• What is on the list. Apps a person in the US can use today, sorted by what each does best for someone praying the Rosary, not by a score.
• Where the facts come from. Each app's own US App Store or Google Play listing or help center, read on October 31, 2026. Where a listing did not say something, we left it out. We read the listings; this is not a hands-on review.
• What they cost. Most are free. One is a paid app, Rosary Army ($3.99 once), and three have optional paid upgrades: Hallow, Ascension and iRosary.
• Orabimus comes last. We make it, so it is listed last, for the one thing it is built around.

Questions people ask

More comparisons: Best free Catholic apps · Free alternatives to Hallow · Hallow vs Orabimus · Ascension vs Orabimus · Laudate vs Orabimus · iRosary vs Orabimus

Written by Teo, who builds Orabimus on his own. Published by the makers of Orabimus; not an independent review. Last updated October 31, 2026.

Sources (US listings and help pages, verified October 31, 2026): Hallow, US App Store · Hallow help center, free and paid · Hallow help center, pricing · Hallow help center, the free version · Ascension, US App Store · Ascension app FAQ · The Rosary in a Year · Laudate, US App Store · Laudate, Google Play · iRosary, US App Store · Rosario, US App Store · Rosario, Google Play · Relevant Radio, US App Store · Relevant Radio+, US App Store · Relevant Radio, Google Play · Amen, US App Store · Amen, Google Play · Holy Rosary Scriptural Edition, US App Store · Holy Rosary Standard Edition, US App Store · Rosary Army, US App Store