Hallow Alternatives: 7 Prayer and Meditation Apps Compared (2026)
Looking for a Hallow alternative? Seven Christian prayer, meditation, and devotional apps compared on price, tradition, content, and what fills the same daily slot.
Quick answer: The closest Hallow alternatives are Abide (Scripture meditation and sleep), Lectio 365 (free Scripture and prayer, morning and night), Glorify (daily devotional plus worship, $11.99/mo), Pray.com (narrated prayers and Bible stories, $9.99/mo), Soultime (Christian meditation with a mood check-in), Amen (free Catholic prayer app from the Augustine Institute), and Psalmlog (a Scripture reflection and audio meditation generated from your own entry, free to start, $9.99/mo). If you want Catholic prayers specifically, Amen. If you want the meditation to be about your own day, Psalmlog.
Last reviewed: September 2026 by the Psalmlog team.
Hallow is the biggest Catholic prayer app, and it earns it: the Rosary, Lectio Divina, the Examen, sleep stories, seasonal challenges, and a large library of guided meditations, at $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year. People look elsewhere for three reasons: the price, wanting something less Catholic or more Catholic-without-the-subscription, and finding the library too big to know where to start.
The seven Hallow alternatives
1. Amen (free)
The Augustine Institute's Catholic prayer app. Daily Mass readings, the Rosary, Lectio Divina, saint of the day, all free. Smaller library than Hallow, no sleep stories, no subscription.
Choose it if: you want Hallow's Catholic core for nothing.
2. Abide (subscription)
Bible-based meditations and sleep stories with a calm narrator. Protestant-friendly, strong on anxiety and sleep. Less structure for a daily prayer practice.
Choose it if: sleep stories and calming Scripture meditation are why you opened Hallow.
3. Lectio 365 (free)
24-7 Prayer's app: a short Scripture passage with a guided prayer in the morning and a night version to close the day. Ten minutes, read aloud, no cost.
Choose it if: you want a daily prayer rhythm read to you, free.
4. Glorify ($11.99/mo or $69.99/yr)
A daily devotional with worship music and reading plans. Broader and more Protestant than Hallow, similar price.
Choose it if: you want devotional plus worship rather than prayer plus meditation.
5. Pray.com ($9.99/mo or $69.99/yr)
Daily prayers, narrated Bible stories, bedtime content, and prayer groups. The most audio-entertainment of the group.
Choose it if: you want narrated stories and a community feature.
6. Soultime (subscription)
Christian meditation built around a mood check-in: say how you feel, get a meditation for it. Smaller than Hallow, more targeted.
Choose it if: you want meditation chosen by how you feel today.
7. Psalmlog (free to start, from $9.99/mo)
Psalmlog goes one step further than a mood check-in. You write or speak what is actually going on, and it returns a Scripture passage matched to it with chapter and verse, a reflection, a prayer, and one next step. On Faith Builder, Psalmcast turns that into a two to five minute narrated audio meditation. There is no library to browse. The session is generated from your entry.
It is Scripture-only and non-denominational, so it lacks the Rosary and the Examen, and it has no sleep content. What it has instead is a meditation that is already about the thing you named. Free with three entries on the web, Seeker $9.99 a month, Faith Builder $19.99 ($14.99 annual) for audio. See the Christian meditation app page, or Psalmlog vs Hallow.
Choose it if: you want the meditation built from your own day rather than picked from a catalogue.
Side by side
| App | Price | Tradition | Library | Sleep content | Journaling | Session from your own words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hallow | $12.99/mo, $69.99/yr | Catholic | Large | Yes | Basic | No |
| Amen | Free | Catholic | Medium | No | No | No |
| Abide | Subscription | Protestant | Large | Yes | No | No |
| Lectio 365 | Free | Ecumenical | Daily only | Night prayer | No | No |
| Glorify | $11.99/mo, $69.99/yr | Protestant | Large | Some | Prompts | No |
| Pray.com | $9.99/mo, $69.99/yr | Broad | Large | Yes | No | No |
| Soultime | Subscription | Christian | Medium | Yes | No | By mood |
| Psalmlog | Free, then $9.99/mo | Non-denominational | None, generated | No | Voice or text, the core | Yes |
How to pick
Tradition first: Catholic prayers mean Hallow or Amen. Then what you do daily: sleep and calm means Abide, a read-aloud rhythm means Lectio 365, devotional plus worship means Glorify. If the thing you want is a meditation on the one passage that fits today, Psalmlog.
FAQs
Is there a free alternative to Hallow?
Amen is free and Catholic, with Mass readings, the Rosary, and Lectio Divina. Lectio 365 is free and ecumenical. Psalmlog is free for your first three entries with the full written response.
What is the best Hallow alternative for Protestants?
Abide for meditation and sleep, Lectio 365 for a daily prayer rhythm, Glorify for devotional and worship, and Psalmlog for a Scripture meditation generated from your own entry. All four are Protestant-friendly and Scripture-based.
Does Psalmlog have guided meditations like Hallow?
Not a library of them. Psalmlog generates one reflection per entry, from what you wrote, and Psalmcast narrates it as a two to five minute audio. If you want to browse hundreds of sessions, keep Hallow. If you want today's session to be about today, Psalmlog.
Can I use Psalmlog and Hallow together?
Yes. Hallow for the Rosary, Examen, or sleep; Psalmlog for writing the day and getting the passage for it. They fill the same slot from different ends, and several users keep both.