Catholic Novenas: Daily Prayer

Catholic Novenas: Daily Prayer is a large library of novenas, about 400 of them, with a tracker that keeps your place from one day to the next. It marks each day you pray, lets you follow several devotions at once, and can remind you when it's time.

You can browse the novenas as cards with sacred art or search by saint, devotion or intention. The well-known ones are there, including St. Jude, St. Joseph, St. Thérèse, the Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Rita. Each has a short note on its purpose and where its prayers come from.

Before you start, know that the collection mixes traditional prayer texts with patron-saint novenas "adapted from a historical nine-day form," in the developer's words. Not every novena here is one the Church has prayed for generations. Many are newer prayers written on the familiar pattern, so if a particular novena matters to you, read its source note first.

The texts work offline, and you can back up your progress with Google on Android or iCloud on iPhone. It's free with ads, which the listing says appear when the app opens and after you save a prayed day. Google Play rates it Teen for violence and blood, so look through the art before handing it to a child.

The app comes from the developer of The Catholic Rosary and is brand new on both stores, so there are no ratings yet. On iPhone, Apple's privacy label says it uses an identifier to track you across other companies' apps and websites, which is why its privacy score is low.