- Starting price
- Free, then $37/yr in-app or $57/yr on the web
- Free tier
- Yes
- Platforms
- iOS - iPadOS - macOS (M1 or later) - visionOS - Android - Web
- Developer
- Soulspace Co.
- Launched
- 2019
- Updated
- Jul 26, 2026
The verdict
Soulspace suits someone who wants a short, calm, Scripture-anchored audio prayer each morning plus bedtime audio for children, and who values one consistent narrator over a vast catalogue. It is the wrong pick if you want a searchable Bible study tool, documented offline behaviour, or a help centre you can actually read - and buy it inside the app rather than on the website, because the same Plus tier is priced $37 a year in one place and $57 in the other.
Try Soulspace ↗Opens soulspace.co
Soulspace is an audio app built by Jim and Jamie Choi, a married couple in Bend, Oregon, with support from their congregation at Westside Church. Jim writes the code; Jamie records the narration; Corey Parnell, a former worship leader, writes and sings the music; Jim's niece edits the audio. Samaritan Ministries reported in April 2021 that the idea began in 2018, when the Chois went looking for a faith-based alternative to the secular meditation apps. The App Store gives the release date as 20 December 2019, weeks ahead of the first COVID lockdowns.
The word "meditation" is doing a lot of work in the store listing, and it is worth being precise rather than trusting the label. What Soulspace plays is a narrated track - about five minutes on the free tier - in which a passage of Scripture is read, restated and prayed back, with instrumental music underneath and pauses for silence. The paid library extends that into topical sets covering anxiety, grief, identity and healing, plus sleep audio, instrumental worship, lullabies, children's bedtime stories and short courses. There is no mantra practice and no non-Christian source material. Whether a tradition welcomes the term "Christian meditation" is a live question in some churches; what the app does is guided Scripture reflection and spoken prayer.
The app publishes a six-point statement of faith at soulspace.co/faith, which is more than most products here bother to do. It affirms the Bible as the only inspired, infallible, authoritative Word of God; one God in three persons; the indwelling regeneration of the Holy Spirit as essential to flourishing; Jesus as the model for discipleship; ongoing spiritual conflict with forces of evil; and the deity, virgin birth, atoning death, bodily resurrection and personal return of Christ. That is a broadly evangelical statement with a heavy emphasis on the Holy Spirit, and the marketing leans on it hard. Readers from liturgical or confessional traditions will recognise what is and is not there; the point is that it is stated plainly.
On whether the product is still alive: it is. The current iOS version is 2026.7.14, released 14 July 2026, twelve days before this review, and Google Play shows a 13 June 2026 update. This is not a project that shipped once and went quiet, a real risk in a category full of abandoned two-person apps.
✓ The good
- Genuinely usable free tier with no advertising - one new Scripture-based audio prayer daily, plus the full Bible in 100 Days series and the Peace in Political Uncertainty set
- One narrator across the library - Jamie Choi voices the content, and the consistency is the most-praised thing in the store reviews; no jarring switch of presenter mid-series
- All content original and produced in-house - meditations, music, lullabies and bedtime stories are written and recorded by the team rather than licensed from a stock library
- A published statement of faith at soulspace.co/faith - six affirmations, so you can decide whether the app fits your tradition before subscribing
- A real lifetime option, rare here - $149 one time on the web, with App Store lifetime SKUs at $139.99 and $89.99, against rivals offering no escape from annual renewal
- Broad platform coverage from a tiny team - iPhone, iPad, Mac on Apple silicon, Apple Vision, Android and a web app, with 4+ kids content included in Plus
✗ Watch out
- The same Plus tier carries two prices - soulspace.co/subscribe prints $57/year while both app store listings say $37/year, and the vendor never explains the $20 gap
- No content count on the vendor's own website - the 300+ meditations figure appears only in the app store descriptions; soulspace.co gives no number
- Read-along text and favourites are paywalled - seeing the words you are hearing, and saving a track you want again, are Plus features rather than baseline
- Web subscribers cannot cancel themselves - the terms require emailing co@chois.co, and state all payments are non-refundable and non-transferable
- No help centre to read - soulspace.co/support-center is one email address, and the listing, support page and terms give three addresses (help@, hello@, co@chois.co)
- English and Portuguese only, with nothing published about offline downloads or Family Sharing - the lifetime page frames more languages as a goal your purchase funds
Best for
- Morning Scripture prayer in five minutes
- Christian bedtime audio for young children
- Listeners who want one consistent narrator
- Buyers who prefer a one-time lifetime purchase
Avoid if
- Searchable Bible study and cross-references
- A large multi-narrator audio catalogue
- Liturgical hours, rosary or lectionary structure
- Documented offline and family-sharing behaviour
What Soulspace is
Soulspace is a Christian audio app for guided prayer, Scripture reflection and sleep. You pick a track and listen while a narrator reads a passage, unpacks it in a few sentences, prays it back, and leaves silence for you to do the same, with instrumental music underneath. Free sessions run about five minutes; Plus adds longer versions.
Around that core sit four shelves. Topical sets group prayers by what you brought with you - anxiety, grief, identity, healing. Sleep audio covers night prayers, blessings, Scripture readings and instrumental worship. A kids section holds Bible bedtime stories and lullabies. Devotional courses run multi-session, with published examples including soul care for new mothers and grief. Bible in 100 Days sits on the free side.
One voice, one household, and a price that depends where you stand
What Soulspace has that its bigger rivals structurally cannot buy is a single voice. Jamie Choi narrates the library, and her husband told Samaritan Ministries he had not heard one person say anything negative about her voice. That is unfalsifiable, but it is consistent with the store rating of 4.9 from 4,719 votes. Large catalogues rotate presenters, celebrity readers and licensed audio, and the seams show. Here there are none, because there is one person and a family around her - music, audio editing, email and artwork each handled by one named individual.
The flip side of a household-scale operation is household-scale process, and it shows in the pricing. The website asks $57 a year. Both app stores say $37. The App Store purchase list carries six SKUs across two product names, including two live lifetime prices, and nothing reconciles them. A buyer who reads the website and taps Subscribe pays $20 a year more than one who never leaves the app, for the same library.
The daily prayer, and what the free tier actually permits
The free tier is one new audio devotional prayer each day, Scripture-based, roughly five minutes, with no advertising. Soulspace also leaves two full series open: Bible in 100 Days, a hundred instalments, and Peace in Political Uncertainty. That is a working daily habit rather than a three-day teaser.
What free excludes is more revealing. Guided prayers by topic, every sleep track, the kids section, the courses, longer versions, favourites, wallpapers and read-along text are all Plus features. The last two sting: seeing the verse you are hearing, and bookmarking a track you want again, are baseline expectations in audio Bible apps.
Sleep, lullabies and the kids shelf
Sleep is where the app puts most of its paid weight. Plus opens all sleep tracks, which the pricing page breaks into lullabies, prayers, blessings and Scripture, plus instrumental worship; the store listing adds Bible sleep stories and Christian lullabies. It is the shape of the secular sleep-audio market with the narration swapped for Scripture and spoken prayer, aimed squarely at parents - the store copy names parents exhausted by sleepless nights as a target audience.
The kids shelf is Bible bedtime stories and lullabies, included in Plus rather than sold separately, and the app carries a 4+ rating. What is not documented anywhere a buyer can read is how that content behaves across a family: the terms grant a limited licence for personal, non-commercial use and prohibit making the app available to multiple users - standard language that sits awkwardly beside a family-oriented pitch.
Pricing
Free Daily Prayers
Free
One new Scripture-based audio devotional prayer each day, described in the App Store listing as about five minutes, plus the Bible in 100 Days audio series and the Peace in Political Uncertainty series. No advertising; funded by the paid tiers rather than ads or donations.
Soulspace Plus (annual)
$37/yr in-app, $57/yr on the web
Unlocks guided prayers by topic, all sleep tracks (lullabies, prayers, blessings, Scripture), the kids bedtime section, the courses, and extended features listed as longer versions, favourites, wallpapers and read-along text. The App Store also lists a $3.99 monthly SKU the website omits.
Soulspace Plus Lifetime
$149 one time (web)
Billed on soulspace.co as unlimited access to everything forever, including future updates, with a complimentary mug and a stated contribution to multilingual expansion. The App Store separately shows lifetime SKUs at $139.99 and $89.99 under the name Soulspace Christian.
Report both figures, because the vendor publishes both and reconciles neither. soulspace.co/subscribe prints $57/year for Soulspace Plus Annual. The App Store description prints $37/year for the same tier, the App Store purchase list shows Soulspace Plus - Yearly at $37.00, and Google Play shows $37/year. The gap is $20 a year, or 54 percent on top of the in-app price, depending only on which surface you were looking at.
The monthly option exists in only one of those places. The App Store lists Soulspace Plus Monthly at $3.99; soulspace.co/subscribe offers annual and lifetime only. $3.99 x 12 = $47.88, which is $10.88 more than the $37.00 in-app annual - but $9.12 less than the $57 the website charges. A web visitor wanting the cheapest twelve months of Plus is better off installing the app and paying monthly.
The lifetime tier has at least three published prices. The website and app.soulspace.co/lifetime both say $149 for unlimited access forever, with a mug included. The App Store list shows Soulspace Christian - Lifetime at $139.99 and, separately, at $89.99, alongside a Soulspace Christian - Yearly at $18.99 that appears in no marketing material. Six SKUs, two product names, no explanation. Break-even depends on which annual price you were quoted: against $57, $149 lifetime pays for itself in 2.6 years; against $37 it takes 4.03 years; the $89.99 SKU against $37 is 2.4 years. Lifetime here means the lifetime of a family business, not a funded company.
On refunds the terms are unambiguous. Chois & Co. states that all payments made are non-refundable and non-transferable except as expressly provided, and that cancelling produces no refund for a period already paid. The terms also reserve the right to terminate access at any time without notice, and route disputes to binding AAA arbitration under Oregon law.
Where Soulspace falls behind
No content count on the vendor's own site. The 300+ meditations figure lives only in the App Store and Google Play descriptions. soulspace.co describes the library qualitatively - meditations, bedtime stories, courses, calming music, lullabies - with no number anywhere. By contrast soultime.com puts 200+ guided meditations and 80+ music, Scripture readings and sleep stories directly on its homepage. A buyer choosing between the two cannot compare like with like from the vendors' own sites.
No searchable support documentation. soulspace.co/support-center is a single line inviting you to email hello@soulspace.co; the store listing directs questions to help@soulspace.co; the terms direct cancellations to co@chois.co. There is no FAQ and no article base, so no published answer exists to ordinary pre-purchase questions - does audio download for offline listening, does Plus cover Family Sharing, what happens to a lifetime purchase if the company stops trading.
Two languages, and scale, plainly stated. The App Store lists English and Portuguese; the lifetime page frames multilingual expansion as something your purchase helps fund, which is honest, but Spanish is not shipped. Google Play shows 100K+ installs, and Samaritan Ministries reported the app approaching 100,000 downloads in April 2021, suggesting the install base has not changed order of magnitude in five years. glorify.global claims over 20 million downloads and over 1,000,000 ratings; Soulspace has 4,719 iOS ratings and 6.13K Google Play reviews. This is a well-made small product competing with two heavily funded ones, and no amount of narration quality closes a gap that wide.
Soulspace vs. Soultime vs. Abide vs. Hallow
Soultime is the closest direct comparison, and the differences are narrow enough to be specific about. Both are independent Christian audio apps built around guided meditation, sleep audio and topical prayer rather than venture-scale platforms. Soultime publishes 200+ guided meditations and 80+ music, Scripture readings and sleep stories on its own homepage; Soulspace publishes 300+ meditations, but only in its app store descriptions, with no count on soulspace.co. Soultime advertises 50% OFF without printing a price, so a shopper cannot see what they will pay; Soulspace prints $57/year but charges $37/year in the app. Soulspace wins on the lifetime option and single-narrator consistency; Soultime wins by telling you how big the library is.
Abide is the volume play in the same shape. abide.com lists $39.99/yr, marked down from $69.99, or $9.99/mo with 7 days free, and claims over 100,000 five-star reviews. Critically, Abide gives away a full free audio Bible plus daily devotions and reading plans - materially more free content than one prayer a day. On paid annual pricing the two are close, $39.99 against $37.00 in-app, so the decision is library shape, not cost.
Hallow and Glorify are a different weight class. Hallow is built Catholic-first, with the rosary, liturgical calendar and Divine Office as structure rather than topics, so for a Catholic reader it is not really a substitute; note that hallow.com does not print a price on its homepage. Glorify is the broadly evangelical mass-market product, claiming over 20 million downloads and over a million ratings on glorify.global. Both have marketing budgets and localisation programmes a five-person team in Bend cannot match. Soulspace is a craft product competing with two well-funded platforms, and the reason to choose it is that it sounds like one person praying with you rather than a pipeline.
The bottom line
Soulspace does one narrow thing carefully: a short, calm, Scripture-anchored spoken prayer in one voice, with original music, plus sleep and children's audio behind a paywall. The free tier is real - one new prayer daily, the whole Bible in 100 Days series, no ads - and the app is still shipping, with an iOS release dated 14 July 2026. The reasons to hesitate are administrative rather than artistic: a $37 versus $57 price split the vendor never explains, three lifetime prices live at once, no content count on its own website, no readable help documentation, no self-serve cancellation for web subscribers, and a hard no-refunds clause. Buy it inside the app, consider lifetime if you expect to keep it four years, and do not expect a Bible study tool.
Alternatives to Soulspace
SoultimeThe nearest direct rival: Christian guided meditation, sleep stories and topical audio, publishing 200+ guided meditations and 80+ music and Scripture tracks on its homepage. More transparent about library size, less about price.
AbideBigger catalogue and a far more generous free tier - a full free audio Bible plus daily devotions and reading plans. Lists $39.99/yr or $9.99/mo with 7 days free. Choose it for volume, not a single voice.
HallowCatholic-first prayer app with the rosary, liturgical calendar and Divine Office built in as structure rather than topics. Not so much a substitute as a different tradition served properly.
GlorifyThe mass-market broadly evangelical devotional app, claiming over 20 million downloads and over a million ratings. Polished, heavily marketed, and where most people here end up by default.
Lectio 365Free with no paid tier at all, from the 24-7 Prayer movement. Morning and evening audio on a fixed prayer-rhythm framework rather than a topical library. The first stop if you object to paying for daily prayer audio.Frequently asked questions
What does Soulspace cost, and why do I see two different prices?
Both prices are published by the vendor. soulspace.co/subscribe prints $57/year for Soulspace Plus Annual; the App Store description, the App Store purchase list and Google Play all print $37/year for the same tier. The App Store also carries a $3.99 monthly SKU the website omits, and lists lifetime at $139.99 and $89.99 under the name Soulspace Christian, against $149 on the website. Buying in the app is cheaper.
What can I actually use for free?
One new Scripture-based audio devotional prayer every day, described in the App Store listing as about five minutes, with no advertising. Two full series are also free: Bible in 100 Days, a hundred audio instalments, and Peace in Political Uncertainty. Everything else - topical prayers, all sleep tracks, the kids section, the courses, longer versions, favourites, wallpapers and read-along text - is a Plus feature.
How much audio is there, and who narrates it?
The store listings say 300+ meditations in Plus, plus sleep stories, sleep prayers, lullabies, worship instrumentals, kids Bible stories and devotional courses. soulspace.co publishes no count, so 300+ is the only figure the vendor has committed to. Jamie Choi, one of the two founders, narrates; Corey Parnell, a former worship leader, writes and sings the music. Samaritan Ministries reported all content is original and produced in-house.
Is Soulspace still being updated, or has it gone quiet?
It is actively maintained, not quiet. The current iOS version is 2026.7.14, released 14 July 2026 - twelve days before this review. Google Play shows a 13 June 2026 update.
Is this Christian meditation in a sense my church would recognise?
The label is contested in some traditions, so judge the practice rather than the word. What the app plays is a narrated track in which a Bible passage is read, briefly restated and prayed back, with instrumental music and pauses for silence. There is no mantra and no non-Christian source material. Soulspace publishes a six-point statement of faith at soulspace.co/faith covering biblical authority, the Trinity, the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit, discipleship, spiritual conflict, and the person and work of Christ. Read it and decide for yourself.
Can I cancel or get a refund, and what platforms does it run on?
App Store and Google Play subscribers cancel through Apple or Google. Website subscribers must email co@chois.co, as the terms describe no self-serve cancellation, and state all payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. The app runs on iOS and iPadOS 15.0 or later, macOS 12.0 with an M1 chip, visionOS 1.0, Android and the web, at about 65.5 MB. Languages are English and Portuguese only, and nothing published documents offline downloads or Family Sharing.
Sources & further reading
More Prayer Apps
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Pray.comThe biggest non-denominational Protestant prayer app on the market, built around audio you can fall asleep to - and a celebrity bench most competitors cannot touch.Lectio 365A free daily prayer app from the international 24-7 Prayer movement that has quietly become the rhythm-keeper for Christians who wanted contemplative prayer to actually stick - and discovered it could.
PrayerMateThe quiet workhorse of evangelical intercession - a structured, list-driven prayer organizer that has earned a near-cult following among people who actually pray for everyone they said they would.