The best daily devotional apps for women, 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

Free daily devotional apps for women

If free is the first thing you need, here is where each app actually stands, taken from the table above.

• First 5 is fully free, with optional study guides you can buy.
• Lily has a free tier that keeps the daily seasonal devotional and 3 Bible conversations a day, with no ads at any tier.
• Bible Chat and Glorify have free tiers with a paid subscription on top.
• Daily Devotional For Women App has a free tier that shows ads.
• She Reads Truth gives you the app, and the plans are bought.
• Hallow is a paid app at $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year.

Free is a real word with small print, so it is worth knowing what it usually costs you instead. Ads pay for some free tiers, which means something interrupts your quiet time. Check whether a price is billed weekly or monthly before you tap, because a weekly number looks tiny and adds up fast over a year. And look at whether the free tier is the actual daily devotional or only a taster that stops after a few days.

Women's daily devotional app: what to look for

Almost every app here is good at something. The question is which something you need on a Tuesday morning, so check these four things before you install anything.

• Is it made for women, or marketed to them? Three of the apps here are built for women. The big ones serve everyone with the same content.
• Does it know your season? The words a grieving woman needs are not the words an exhausted mom needs. Some apps hand every user the same daily reading.
• How is scripture handled? Look for verses quoted word for word from a named translation, never written or reworded by AI.
• How long is a day? Three to five minutes is what most women keep. Anything that expects thirty will become another thing you are behind on.

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 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. Two honest notes: it expects more from you than three minutes, and the app itself has struggled lately (about 3.2 stars, not updated since 2024; longtime users describe crashes). The content remains lovely. Full Lily vs She Reads Truth comparison.

Daily Devotional For Women App: the longtime incumbent

If you search "devotional for women," this is usually the first result, and it has served women since 2016 with a large library and well-loved ambient music. It is one shared feed for every woman, and its free tier shows ads. Full comparison.

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 audio Bible listening at length: Dwell (compared here).
• 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.

From the study shop

If you would rather hold paper

An app is not the only way. These are printable studies from the same hands, made for the same woman. Start with the beginner guide if it has been a while.

Open It AgainA 2-week guide to studying the Bible, for women starting over

$13.99See it

The Women of AdventA 4-week Advent study: the promises, Elizabeth, Mary, Anna

$13.99See it

Under His WingsA 4-week study of Ruth: loss, loyalty, and quiet provision

$13.99See it

Instant download, no account, yours forever. Free sample first: 5 free Advent mornings or Ruth in 5 days, free.