Siri and Shortcuts
Ask when the next prayer is without opening the app, or have Siri start your prayer or the cleanse. Nothing to set up.
Features
Everything ActivePray does
Eight branches across Judaism, Christianity and Islam, each kept by its own calendar and its own hours. Nearly all of it is free; Active+ adds a few things for those who want to keep the app going.
Version 2.0, the Autumn Harvest update, arrives on 5 October. What it adds comes first.
New in 2.0
What this version adds
Apple Health
Time with a prayer or a passage, and the body cleanse, saved as mindful minutes if you turn it on.
Prayer journal Active+
Write after you pray, from a bar on your profile. End-to-end encrypted in your own iCloud, with an optional Face ID lock.
Morning prayer alarm Active+
The day’s first prayer rings like an alarm, through silent mode, at the time it begins.
Year in Prayer Active+
Your year month by month: days kept, the prayers you mark most, and every streak.
Holy days in Calendar
Add a holy day to the Calendar app, or subscribe to your branch’s whole year.
The whole Tanakh
Karaite, Masorti and Reform now read the Prophets and the Writings too, all 39 books in Hebrew and English.
Days of rest
On Masorti and Karaite, Shabbat and Yom Tov no longer cost the streak, and no reminders arrive inside them. Reform can choose the same.
New profile panels
Today’s date, the new moon, fasting, sun today, direction and scripture read — and you choose which badges show.
Getting started
Seven first steps, each a few minutes, that earn the Get Active badge. Gentler streak reminders, and a note when a mercy day holds your streak.
Prayers in their own language
The Catholic hours carry their Latin names and the Orthodox services their Greek, as the Hebrew and Arabic always have.
Autumn Harvest
A limited-edition badge, yours to claim by opening the app between 5 October and 30 November.
Free in every branch
Kept by your branch’s own rules
Karaite, Masorti and Reform Judaism; Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Christianity; Sunni and Twelver Shia Islam.
Prayer times
Worked out on your iPhone from your own location, sunrise and sunset, each branch by its own rules and with its own services. The next prayer is always on screen, with a live countdown.
Today
The date in your own calendar — Hebrew, Hijri, or Julian and Gregorian with the day’s feast — with sunrise and sunset, and the new month as your faith names it.
Calendar
Your branch’s holy days and fasts, in its own year. Add a single day to the Calendar app, or subscribe to the whole year and let it keep itself current.
Direction
A compass to Jerusalem or the Kaʿba, the way your branch faces in prayer.
Scripture
The Tanakh, the Bible in your branch’s own canon, the Qur’an and the Psalms, with bookmarks and saved verses.
Prepare
A guided washing before prayer where your branch keeps one, and a quiet moment to prepare where it does not.
Reminders
For each prayer, for Shabbat, the holy days and the fasts — built for your branch, not one schedule for all.
Active
A daily streak, five mercy days a month, badges, and your year at a glance. On Masorti and Karaite, Shabbat and Yom Tov are days of rest: no streak lost and no reminders inside them. Reform can choose the same.
Profile
Arranged as you like from panels: your branch, streak, praying distance, direction, today’s date, the new moon, fasting, sun today, scripture read, badges, lifetime totals, the next prayer and a saved verse.
Apple Health
If you turn it on in Settings, time with a prayer or a passage, and the body cleanse, is saved to Apple Health as mindful minutes. Nothing is read from Health.
Widget and Siri
A Home Screen widget with the next prayer. Ask Siri when the next prayer is, or to start praying or the cleanse.
Your own iCloud
Your progress syncs through your own iCloud account. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Read the privacy policy.
Active+
A little more, and the app kept going
€2.99 a month — the eurozone price; Apple sets the local equivalent in each region. Cancel anytime.
- Prayer journal Write privately, saved as you type and end-to-end encrypted in your iCloud.
- Custom reminder timing Be nudged 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes before each prayer.
- Morning prayer alarm Fajr, Shacharit or the morning office rings like an alarm, even on silent.