Pray Aloud 2.0 If you had Pray Aloud before this update, your morning stays free, as we promised. A proper welcome. Before your first morning, Pray Aloud asks what is hardest about prayer for you, how long you have, when your quiet moment is, how close God feels right now, who you are carrying and what is on your heart this week. Then it says it all back to you, and your mornings are built from it: their names are spoken at the end of every prayer, what you are carrying becomes a line of it until the day it is answered, and the reminder says the moment you chose. A covenant, in your own hand, if you would like one. Invite friends. You now have your own code, shown once your first week begins. When a friend starts with it, they get 30 days to try Pray Aloud, and your next year of Pro is half price. When three do, that year is free, and three more make the year after free too. The count is on your You tab. Every morning, a new photograph of God's creation: 366 of them, one for every day of the year, so no morning's picture comes round twice. Sunrise over mountains and the sea, beaches, still lakes, meadows, forests, 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: the Milky Way, the moon on the water, the northern lights. The morning picture lives. It shifts as you tilt your phone, drifts slowly toward its subject, and warms or cools with the hour. Tap it to see who took it and one line about it. Hold it to see it alone. Prayers shows what is behind each door: today's verse with words taken away as you learn it by heart, the Hebrew or Greek word beneath today's verse, a prayer for what you're facing, an evening prayer before sleep, and forty days of prayer as a road into the dawn. Five tabs: Today, Prayers, Circle, Journey and You. Mornings in a row, kept with grace. A missed day covered by grace keeps your run going, and you can hide the count whenever you like. Awards for the mornings you keep, the verses you learn by heart and the seasons you pray through. Your voice, visible. The words light up one at a time as you say them, each in its turn, and a soft light around the screen follows your voice as you pray. Every door opens with its picture growing to fill the screen. Each morning's verse now arrives on your Lock Screen with its picture. Pray with a friend: every phone gets the same verse and the same prayer each day. A year of mornings: 275 new prayers, so no morning comes round twice in a year. Pray with me: a voice prays each line with you while the words light up. For the car, a tired morning, or the first time you pray out loud. Wind down for sleep: a psalm read slowly, three quiet questions and a prayer, then silence. Let them know: after a morning that named someone, send them a card that says I prayed for you this morning. Everyone, one by one: pray through everyone you carry in one sitting. Larger words and a plainer page, in Settings. Our promise, in one place: what this app will always do, and what it never will. A new night icon.

The words keep up with your voice. On iPhones running iOS 26, the read-along now follows you word by word while you speak, instead of catching up when you pause. On every other iPhone it works exactly as it did. Fifty six prayers rewritten so they read naturally when said out loud. Your first three mornings now show how far through the prayer you are. The painting gets its full height back on Today and after Amen, and the credit no longer sits under the settings button. The praying screen now reads properly with VoiceOver: the prayer is announced as one sentence, and every control has a name. Nothing is recorded. Nothing leaves your phone. There is still no account.

The paintings are back on every door. Mornings and More are a gallery again, not a list.

Simpler, and it listens better. • The words now follow your voice as you speak them — no waiting for a pause, no getting stuck on a missed word. • A quieter prayer screen: one colour, less on it, and the controls fade while you pray. • Three tabs — Today, Mornings, More. The people you pray for and what you're carrying are one tap from home. • Milestones, counted in mornings — every date you reached is still here. • One evening door, which becomes a prayer for the small hours after midnight. • Eighteen mornings rewritten to be said, not read. Plain words everywhere.

A new face, and a ladder that only climbs. • Every day its own painting — a public-domain landscape behind every morning's verse, the same one on your Lock Screen and in the reminder. Any ninety days are ninety different works. • The Wall — your month as the paintings you prayed under. A Grace Day is a gold frame with a seed; a day that never took a painting is plain paper. Nothing is ever marked missed. • The Ladder — Silver at seven mornings, Gold at forty, Platinum at a hundred and fifty, Diamond at a year, Diamond Plus at a thousand, Black Diamond at two thousand. Counted in mornings with God, the number that never resets. Nothing here is a streak, and no step is ever taken back. • Stones — fourteen stones of remembrance, laid as they happen: your first morning, the first evening, a prayer answered, a Forty finished, a verse by heart, a morning before dawn, Christmas, Easter. • Awake at 3 a.m.? One dark screen with a prayer for this hour — from the Lock Screen, from Control Center, in two seconds. Nothing is counted. • Give a friend a month of Pro. It costs you nothing, and today's painting goes with it. From Platinum, give a season. • Same morning — the same verse and painting are on every phone on the same day; now you can say so, and pray it in two voices. • The evening keeps the day: no morning, but a night prayer said, and the day is kept. • Welcome back, never "you missed" — after a week away the morning simply has a number waiting. • Two taps from praying; gentler listening, and Amen is always yours to tap. In your words finds the nearest of sixty hand-written prayers, entirely on your phone. The evening prayer, Sundays said back, prayers for two voices, and a person from your Contacts in your morning (Pro). • Lock Screen widgets that stay right even if you never open the app; the verse in the morning notification; "Pray" in Control Center and on the Action button; from noon to two, one line to breathe with. • There is no server: the app makes no network call of its own. Codes are redeemed through Apple's own sheet, and only there. • The Forty can live in your calendar. A season of rest, if you need one. Can't afford it? Say so, and it's a year on us. Send a prayer to someone's hard moment — the whole prayer, as a message.