You never have to figure out what to say. You just have to say it.
No stock sunsets. Every day, your prayer arrives over a work from the great collections — Monet's mist on the Seine one morning, Turner's light over Lucerne the next. A year of praying is a year walking through a gallery, three minutes at a time.
Artworks are public-domain masterpieces from museum open-access collections, credited on every screen.
When you say it, you hear it. When you hear it, you mean it.
And if praying out loud feels awkward — even alone, even whispering — you're exactly who this was built for. The disciples didn't ask Jesus for a better feed of devotional content. They asked, "Lord, teach us to pray." He gave them words. That's what this app does, every morning.
Habit apps run on streak fear: break the chain, get the red X and the guilt trip. We think that's a terrible way to treat a person who's trying to pray. So we built the opposite.
The app listens the way a friend does: to know you spoke, not to keep what you said. Everything happens on your device. There is no server full of prayers, because we never built one.
The most private thing you do shouldn't live in someone else's database.
He does — Matthew 6 warns against praying to be seen by others. That's exactly why this app works the way it does: you pray alone, in your own room, in your own voice, and nothing you say is recorded or shared. Not to be seen. Just to be heard — by you, and by Him.
The daily morning prayer, your walk, Grace Days, and the widget are free. A premium plan ($39.99/yr after a 7-day free trial) adds your prayer journal and archive, prayers written for people you name, themed series, and longer mornings. Grace is never behind the paywall.
It's processed on your phone and immediately discarded. Nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded, and there's no transcript kept. The app only needs to know that you prayed — never what you said. We can't read your prayers. Nobody can.
Christians, broadly. The prayers are scripture-anchored (World English Bible), Jesus-centered, and free of any one tradition's jargon. If you pray to the God of the Bible, it will feel like home.
Grace Days cover the odd miss automatically. Miss more, and your walk simply begins again — while your lifetime count of mornings with God keeps every morning you've ever prayed. That number never resets. Neither does His patience.
iPhone first: App Store this autumn, with early TestFlight invites announced on @prayaloud before that. Android follows once the iPhone app is excellent. Follow along and you'll know the moment it's live.
Pray Aloud arrives on the App Store this autumn. Follow along — early access invites and launch day both happen there first.