2.0

Experience a refreshed app interface with a calmer 'Today' screen and a redesigned Prayer tab for a more streamlined, readable, and organized experience with an adaptive layout. The main app navigation now features three tabs: Today, Prayer, and Devotionals, integrating content previously found in Journey. The Journey timeline also features improved readability and visual design.

Enjoy improved app stability and performance, including faster app launch, reduced memory usage, and quicker loading for the Today and Prayer tabs.

Accessibility features are enhanced with improved VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and touch targets.

You can now upload, replace, and remove your profile photo using in-app tools. New accounts receive 3 welcome credits upon signup, and 'Create Devotion' entitlements now clearly display 'Balance unlimited' for eligible accounts.

Create private, requested, or group prayers from a single, guided screen with an enhanced editor, and use a new global quick-add menu to consolidate creation options. You can now import prayers directly from photos or pasted text, customize their wording, and organize your personal prayers into custom folders with enhanced encrypted sync. Manage your private prayer library with filtering options, durable history, and daily grouped activity. A unified recipient picker is available for individuals and Private Circles when creating or sharing prayers.

Take control of received prayer requests with new private management options to archive, snooze, or mark them as 'keep praying', and share requests more easily through a dedicated flow.

Set more flexible recurrence patterns for prayers and reminders, including monthly, ordinal weekday, and annual options.

Gain more control over which prayers appear in your 'Today' section, including the ability to schedule prayers for specific weekdays using 'Keep in Today'. Your Today screen now features new sections like 'Ending soon' and 'Needs attention' to help you manage your prayers, and you can view 'Today' prayers within their respective personal folders, unfiled prayers, and shared requests.

Prayer sessions are enhanced with redesigned playback controls, offering options to toggle word highlighting, rewind, and pause. A new synchronized prayer transcript mode features phrase chunking, word timing, automatic scrolling, and improved word highlighting. Sessions now start with an introduction screen and 'Begin' action, and Today prayer sessions include a 'Skip' action, refined 'I Prayed' controls, and clearer session queue choices. You can easily organize, find, and select prayers for your sessions using enhanced filtering and search by folder, status, and unfiled items. New read-aloud options for prayers include play, pause, seek, replay, remove audio, and an expanded collection of curated prayer voices. Live Activities for Today prayer sessions provide synchronized playback and controls directly from your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island.

Manage your devotional library more efficiently with an updated card layout, refined progress bar, and clearer actions, including a half-screen view with improved interactions and swipe gestures. Creating new devotions is now a clearer three-step process.

Create and join private Prayer Groups (2-6 participants) with end-to-end encryption for all group messages and prayer requests. Enjoy a streamlined join flow with secure invitations via QR codes or private links. Group owners can manage members, roles, and status, while all members can send text messages, share Scripture, manage prayer requests, withdraw messages, report content, and block members within groups.

Enjoy improved reliability for sending messages and consistent message display in chat, with instant delivery and retry options. One-to-one chats now display the latest 50 messages by default with an option to load older messages and include context menus for message management, reporting, or blocking. You can also turn your own messages into prayer requests and share Scripture passages directly from your messaging app using the new Glean Messages extension.

Manage your Private Circles on iOS and web, including listing, viewing details, renaming, and editing membership.

Take more control over your notifications with new dedicated and contextual settings, including separate controls for sending notifications and managing acknowledgements. Notification preferences, including quiet hours, are now more consistently applied and synchronized across devices. Prayer reminders are more reliable, private, and synchronized, intelligently skipping if a prayer has been marked as prayed. A new persistent Prayer notification bell displays your unread count and activity history.

The Journey timeline now displays both devotional and prayer milestones, offering filtering, paging, and privacy-safe expandable daily prayer summaries. Introduce "God Moments" to capture personal reflections with photos and optional location, integrated into your Journey timeline. Monthly Memories can now incorporate content from your devotional notes, prayer updates, and private notes, with enhanced generation and audio narration. Guided Reflection now has a consistent user interface with Guided Prayer and immediately generates results upon completion.

You can optionally save location information with your prayer events and history. This feature is off by default and requires your permission.

Access a new public help center with support articles, search, topic filters, and direct contact options including a chat widget. Provide feedback and suggestions directly within the app, including viewing, submitting, and voting on ideas. Enjoy an improved support conversation experience.