You never have to figure out what to say. You just have to say it.
Every morning your prayer arrives over a photograph of God's creation, one for every day of the year: sunrise over mountains and the sea, still lakes, meadows, autumn woods in the autumn and snow in the winter. In the evening the picture turns to a sunset, and at night to the stars. A year of praying is a year of mornings that never repeat.
Photographs are by the photographers named on each picture, shared on Unsplash. The paintings shown here are from the app's first year, from museum open access collections; mornings kept then keep them.
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.
Pray Aloud is a membership, and it starts with seven days free: everything in the app, from your first morning, with nothing charged until the trial ends and a reminder two days before it does. Then $49.99 a year, or $6.99 a month, or $149.99 once, for life. If a friend gives you their code, you start with 30 days free and the yearly plan is $39.99. And once you are in, you get a code of your own: one friend who starts with it makes your next year half price, three make it free, every year. If you installed Pray Aloud before version 2.0, your morning prayer stays free, as we promised.
No, and not because we promise not to. Because we never built anywhere to put them. Pray Aloud has no account, no sign-in and no server. Your prayers, the names you carry and the things you're carrying yourself live only on your iPhone. We could not hand them to an advertiser, a data broker or anyone else who asked, because we do not have them. In 2022 an investigation found several prayer apps reserving the right to share users' prayers (about addiction, divorce, suicide) with third-party ad vendors. We think the only real answer to that is architectural, so that's the one we built.
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, British Edition (WEBBE)), 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.
It is on the App Store now, for iPhone. Android follows once the iPhone app is excellent; follow @prayaloud and you will know the moment it is.
Seven days free, then it is yours for the price of a coffee a month. Download it, say tomorrow's prayer out loud, and see what it does.