The Best Devotional Apps for Women in 2026, Compared Honestly

Honest disclosure: this guide is written by the small team behind Lily. We compare our own app with apps we compete against, we name what they do better than us, and we would rather you find the right app for you than pretend the others do not exist. Facts below were checked against live App Store listings in August 2026.

If you are a Christian woman looking for a devotional app, you have six real options worth knowing about. They are genuinely different from each other, and the right one depends on what your walk with God needs right now.

The quick answer

The honest breakdown

Bible Chat: the biggest, built for everyone

Bible Chat is the most popular app in this space by far (over 357,000 US ratings, and the #1 free Reference app as we write this). Its AI conversation is genuinely good, and its devotional library is enormous. What it is not: made for you specifically. It serves men, women, teens, and grandparents with the same experience. If you want maximum breadth and do not care about the "for her" part, it is a strong choice. Full Lily vs Bible Chat comparison.

Hallow: the gold standard for Catholic prayer

Hallow (over 373,000 US ratings) is a beautiful app with the best audio prayer and meditation content in the category: rosaries, novenas, sleep prayers, huge Lent challenges. If you are Catholic and want guided prayer and liturgy, choose Hallow, sincerely. It is not a devotional-first app, it is not made for women specifically, and its yearly price is the highest here at $69.99. Full Lily vs Hallow comparison.

Glorify: gentle daily worship

Glorify (about 98,000 US ratings) wraps a short daily flow of verse, reflection, and worship in one of the calmest designs in the category. It is lovely for building a light daily habit. It is for everyone, not women specifically, and there is no conversation feature for the days you need to talk something through.

She Reads Truth: real study, for women

She Reads Truth is one of the two established women-specific options, and its strength is depth: structured reading plans through whole books of the Bible, tied to beautifully printed studies, with a real community. It expects more from you than three minutes. If you want a study to work through rather than a daily companion to lean on, this is the one.

First 5: free and faithful mornings

First 5, from Proverbs 31 Ministries, is built on one lovely idea: give God the first five minutes of your day. It is free and trustworthy. It is also one-size, app-wide teaching content: it does not know your season, and there is nowhere to bring your 2am question.

Lily: made only for her, made for the season she is in

We built Lily because the two women-specific apps above are study products, and the two giant apps are for everyone. Nobody had built the daily companion: a three-minute devotional matched to her season (anxious, weary mom, grieving, waiting, and eleven more), a place to ask anything and get answers grounded in scripture that is never AI-written, and a prayer list that becomes her own record of answered prayer. No ads, no account, honest billing, and crisis moments route to real hotlines, never to AI. That is the whole product. Everything Lily does, in detail.

How to choose in 30 seconds

• You are Catholic and want guided prayer: Hallow.
• You want deep, structured Bible study with other women: She Reads Truth.
• You want free and simple mornings: First 5.
• You want the biggest all-purpose AI Bible app: Bible Chat.
• You want a daily devotional that knows your season, speaks to you as a woman, and gives you somewhere to take the hard days: that is exactly why Lily exists.