Rome Pilgrim

Rome Pilgrim is a guide for visiting Rome as a pilgrim, built with the 2025 Jubilee in mind. It is meant to turn a sightseeing trip into a more prayerful one.

It maps out the major basilicas, points you to over 170 relics of saints, and lays out devotional routes around themes like Marian devotion or the Apostles. You also get Mass schedules in several languages, search filters, and short devotional guides for the places you visit.

What I like is that it treats Rome as a holy city, not a museum. Plenty of guidebooks give you the history and the opening hours. This one keeps pulling you back to why you came, the relics, the prayer, the chance to be near the tomb of an apostle. For a Jubilee year especially, that framing is the right one.

Good for anyone actually planning a pilgrimage to Rome, and good for the Holy Year crowds who want Mass times and routes in one place. Even if you are not going, it is an interesting way to learn what is inside those churches.

It is built around one city, so outside a Rome trip it has limited use. And a trip app lives or dies on how current its schedules and details are, which is worth checking once you are on the ground. It is solidly Catholic in content.

Free, made by Charbel Peter Boustany. Available on the App Store: Rome Pilgrim. If Rome is on your calendar, download it before you go.