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ActivePray
“Daily prayer, kept active.”
Made by
Kastle Five: Benjamin Weberink, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Made by one person.
Released
First released on 18 September 2026.
Version 2.0, the Autumn Harvest update, on 5 October 2026.
For
iPhone, with iOS 26.1 or later.
In English.
Price
Free to download.
Active+, optional, is €2.99 a month in the eurozone; Apple sets the local price elsewhere.
Faiths and branches
Judaism: Masorti, Reform and Karaite.
Christianity: Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant.
Islam: Sunni and Twelver Shia.
Privacy
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking.
Prayer times are worked out on the iPhone, and nothing about where you are is sent to us.
Contact
In one sentence
ActivePray is an iPhone app for daily prayer across Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It keeps the prayer times, the calendar and the day’s scripture for eight branches, each on its own terms, worked out on the phone and private by design.
In a few paragraphs
ActivePray serves three faiths and eight branches: Masorti, Reform and Karaite Judaism; Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Christianity; and Sunni and Twelver Shia Islam. Each branch keeps its own calendar, its own hours and its own prayers, and where two branches differ, each is followed on its own terms rather than averaged into one.
Every time in the app is calculated on the iPhone, from where you are and where the sun is, so it works without a signal. There is no analytics, no advertising and no tracking.
Five tabs hold the day: Today, with the next prayer and what today is in your own calendar; Prayer, with the services, readings and psalms appointed for the day in the original script beside the English; Calendar, with the branch’s year; Active, with a daily ring, streaks and mercy days; and Profile.
The core is free and stays free. Active+, at €2.99 a month, adds a private prayer journal, end-to-end encrypted in your iCloud, and ten more things for those who want to keep the app going.
ActivePray is made by one person, Benjamin Weberink, under the name Kastle Five, in Rotterdam.
What 2.0 adds
A prayer journal, end-to-end encrypted, with an optional Face ID lock (Active+).
A morning prayer alarm that rings even on silent (Active+).
The Year in Prayer: your year month by month, with past years kept (Active+).
Siri and Shortcuts: ask for the next prayer, or start a prayer or the body cleanse.
Holy days in the Calendar app, one at a time or a branch’s whole year.
Time in prayer saved to Apple Health as mindful minutes.
The whole Tanakh on the Jewish branches.
Shabbat and Yom Tov kept as days of rest for streaks and reminders.
The limited Autumn Harvest badge, from 5 October to 30 November.
Pictures
Screenshots at the App Store’s full 1320 × 2868, and the icon at 1024 × 1024. Press one to download it.
