English Rosary

English Rosary is an audio Rosary. Instead of reading the prayers yourself, you press play and a recorded voice prays them with you, bead by bead.

The audio covers all four sets of mysteries: the Joyful, the Sorrowful, the Glorious, and the Luminous. Because it is hands-free, you can pray along while you are driving, walking, or doing something around the house, and you can lead a group or a family by letting the recording carry the prayers.

The hands-free part is what makes it worth having. The Rosary often loses out to a busy day, but a commute or a walk is dead time you can hand over to prayer instead. I also think it is a fine way to bring children along; they pick up the rhythm by hearing it, the same way most of us first learned it.

It suits anyone who wants to pray the Rosary on the go, who finds it easier to follow a voice than to read, or who leads family prayer and wants help keeping the pace. For someone returning to the Rosary, having it spoken aloud takes away the worry of forgetting the order.

A few honest notes. This is a simple, single-purpose app, and it is older with only a handful of ratings, so it is plain in how it looks and runs. It is audio only, so there is no on-screen guide or reading text to follow if you prefer to see the words. What it promises, though, it delivers.

It is free, from developer edward curley. Here it is on the App Store: English Rosary. A straightforward hands-free Rosary for praying wherever you are.