User guide · how it works

How to use My Life Prayer.

A short tour of the five quiet motions — capture, return, pray, track, feel progress — and the features that hold them together.

Getting started

Download My Life Prayer from the App Store and sign in with Apple, Google, or email. Your account syncs across all your iOS devices in real time. Today the full app is free.

  1. Tap the + button to add your first prayer.
  2. Type or use the microphone to capture what's on your heart.
  3. Run a focused session when you're ready to actually pray.
  4. Mark prayers as answered when God moves.

The prayer deck

The Today screen holds the prayers you've captured. Tap any card to read the full prayer, add a note, or send it to a session. There's no infinite scroll and no notifications — the deck waits for you.

Focused sessions

Choose a few prayers, hit Start, and they appear one card at a time:

  • Swipe left — mark this prayer as prayed (Amen).
  • Swipe right — skip it for now.
  • Tap the music icon — choose one of twelve ambient tracks (soaking piano, river, dreamscape, and more). Audio plays in the background and works with the silent switch on.
  • At the end — write a short reflection note if you want, then put the phone down.

Capture with voice

On the Add Prayer screen, tap the microphone. Speak whatever's on your heart — long, messy, unedited. Notes can be as long and detailed as you need. Tap Tidy and an AI helper reshapes the wording without changing what you meant. You always keep the original draft.

Help me pray

When the words won't come, tap Help me pray during a session. You'll get a gentle, AI-written starter prayer and a matching scripture verse — yours to pray as-is, edit into your own voice, or simply read. It's a prompt, never a replacement for your own words.

Reflections

Each prayer keeps its own quiet history. Add a reflection whenever something shifts — a small update, an answer in part, a change of heart. Reflections show on the prayer and travel with it, so you can look back and see how it grew.

Marking answered prayers

Open any prayer, tap the status badge, choose Answered. A quiet moment of celebration marks the occasion, the date is logged automatically, and the prayer moves into your Answered book. If you'd like, you can share a short answered-prayer testimony with the people you love. Answered prayers stay visible in your history, and you can keep adding notes after the fact.

Widgets · Founders Pro

With Founders Pro, add a widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen to keep prayer close: your current streak, today's prayers, your most recent reflection, or a daily verse. Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap +, and search for My Life Prayer.

Streaks and progress

The You tab shows a gentle calendar-day streak (one prayed day per calendar day, timezone-aware). There's no scolding and no “you broke your streak” popup. Just a quiet record.

Privacy and security

Your prayers are encrypted at rest on our own secure servers in Frankfurt. We never share them, sell them, or use them to train any AI. Face ID or Touch ID can be enabled in Settings as a biometric lock. You can delete your account permanently from Settings at any time.

Languages

My Life Prayer is available in 14 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, and Russian. The app follows your device language automatically.

Founders Pro

The core app is free for good — up to 25 prayers. Founders Pro($1.99/month or $9.99/year) starts with a 7-day free trial and unlocks unlimited prayers, the Prayer Archivewith full-text search, monthly reflections, and the Home & Lock Screen widgets. Founders pricing is a limited, locked-for-life rate for early supporters — your price never rises while your subscription stays active, and there's no Lifetime tier.

New Pro features arrive with each release. On the way:

  • Folders to organize prayers by theme, person, or season.
  • Scripture templates for praying through specific passages.
  • The Praise Wall — a gallery of every answered prayer.
  • A December year-in-prayer review.
  • Android alongside the existing iOS app.

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Need help?

Email support@nextstarai.com. We answer everything personally. Bug reports, feature wishes, prayer requests — we read every message.