Chaplet of Divine Mercy Audio

At three o'clock each afternoon, many Catholics pause for the Hour of Mercy and pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. It is a short prayer, but it can be hard to settle into on your own, especially in the middle of a busy day. Praying alongside other voices helps the words slow down and sink in.

Praying with a community

Chaplet of Divine Mercy Audio lets you pray the chaplet together with Fr. George Kosicki, one of the great promoters of the Divine Mercy devotion, and the nuns of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery. Their voices are calm and unhurried, and it is easy to simply pray along, speaking the responses or listening quietly. While you pray, you can swipe between different images of the Divine Mercy to keep your eyes and heart on Christ. The settings let you adjust how you pray, so you can shape it to your own habit.

The app does one thing and keeps it simple. There is no prayer library to scroll through and nothing competing for your attention. You open it, press play and pray.

What to know before you download

It is free, and its users clearly love it: a 4.9 rating from 841 ratings is remarkable for a single-devotion app. The honest caveat is age. It hasn't been updated since November 2018, so it may look dated on a newer phone, and there's always a chance an older app will stop working after a future iOS update. For now, though, the recording itself is what matters, and that holds up well.

This app suits anyone who prays the Chaplet daily and prefers to pray with others rather than read from a screen. It is a good fit for the Hour of Mercy at work, for a quiet moment in the car before you drive off, or for praying at the bedside of someone who is ill. If the Divine Mercy Chaplet is part of your day, this is one of the most prayerful ways to pray it on your phone, and it costs nothing to try.