Catholic Rosary Audio

Some days you can't sit and read your prayers, but you can still pray. Catholic Rosary Audio is for those days, in the car or out on a walk. Press play and it leads you through the whole Rosary, from the Sign of the Cross to the closing prayers.

The developer also makes The Catholic Rosary, a plain text Rosary we reviewed earlier. That app has no audio, and this one fills the gap.

The app picks the right mysteries for the day, and you can choose a different set if you like. All four are here, including the Luminous Mysteries, and each of the 20 mysteries has its own illustration and a short Scripture reading from the Douay-Rheims. The prayers are the ones you'd expect: the Apostles' Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, the Fatima Prayer and the Hail Holy Queen.

There are four English voices, two American and two British, and you can change the speed. The voices are computer-generated rather than recorded by people, and the listing says so plainly. If a human voice matters to you, that's good to know before you install it. Each word is highlighted as it's spoken, so you can read along, or hide the text and just listen.

Everything works offline and keeps playing with the screen locked. If you stop partway, it picks up where you left off. A prayer calendar records the days you prayed, and you can turn on invitations to pray during Advent, Lent, May and October.

The app is free and supported by ads, with no paid version to remove them. It's new and Android only for now, so it has no ratings yet. For praying the Rosary while your hands and eyes are busy elsewhere, it's a simple place to start.