This update makes Fasting Companion easier to find your way around, and brings the whole Bible and every guided study to you in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino. The Spiritual Library Home has a new door: the Spiritual Library. One tap opens a page of six tiles the Bible, Studies, Articles, Audio, Strength & Courage, and Stories of Strength. Pray and Reflect, made simple Pray and Reflect now work like the Fast tab: choose a path and it opens right below, with no extra screens. • Pray: Why We Pray, Pray Now, Prayer Audio and Prayer Memory. In Pray Now, Guided Prayer and Write Prayer come first. • Reflect: Daily Reflection, Reflect Now, Daily Examen and Reflection Memory. Your Daily Check-in now sits at the top of Reflect Now. • Each tab shows its own verse, a new one every day. • Write Prayer offers five prompts and Free Write five questions, all in view, with nothing to swipe. • The help button (?) explains whichever path you have open. Settings in six groups Appearance, App Language, Reminders, Fasting, Help & feedback, and Privacy & data. Tap a group and its settings open in place. Account & Data stays at the very bottom. The Bible in your language • Read the whole Bible in Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909), Portuguese (Almeida 1911) or Filipino (Ang Salita ng Diyos), as well as English. It is built into the app, so it opens even without a connection. • Every guided study now reads in your language: titles, daily readings, meanings, reflection questions and prayers. • Book names appear in your language on every screen, such as Salmo 46:10 or Mga Awit 46:10. • Prayers you write in the supported languages are kept in Prayer Memory. Fast with a Friend • Tell the host: if a message needs attention, quietly let your host know. Only the host sees it, marked Reported. • Host tools: the host can remove a message, mute someone, or remove someone from the fast. • Leave this fast: if you need to step away, leave with one tap. Your place opens for someone else, and your timer ends quietly. • When you share a prayer request anonymously, your own copy shows Anonymous, so you know how it went out. Also in this update • Reminders: tap your check-in reminder and today's check-in opens right where you are. Journey Marker notices and the Apostles' Fast reminders now read in your language. • Widget: the Home Screen and Lock Screen show each fast's own stage, such as Fasting together on a friend fast, and the themes of Lent and the Apostles' Fast. • Check-in: the check-in line on Journey opens today's check-in. • Export: Export My Data now also saves your study progress, what you have read and listened to, and your friend fast history. • Privacy: a new Share usage statistics switch in Settings › Privacy & data lets you choose whether to share how you use the app. What you write is never shared.

Fast with a Friend has been rebuilt, so starting, joining and praying together is simple, and everything you share lives in one place. Between iPhone and Android we have more than 12,000 users, and we hope this change brings more of you together to support each other. Start a shared fast in a minute Tap Fast with a Friend at the top of the Fast tab. Name your fast, say what you're praying about together, and tap Start and invite. Your fast begins straight away and the share sheet opens, so you can send your invite by message or email. The first time you host, you confirm your email once: tap the link in the email, or type the six-digit code it shows. Friends join with just a code Your friends tap your invite link, or tap Join a friend's fast and type your code. Before they join, they see who's hosting, what you're praying for, how many have joined and how long the fast runs. They join with the name they already use in the app, with no email and no sign-up, and their fast starts on the same clock as yours. Up to eight people can fast together. Pray and encourage each other in one place While a shared fast runs, the Fast tab shows your shared timer, everyone fasting with you, and one conversation for the whole group. • Send a message, or share a prayer request, anonymously if you prefer. • Tap Praying on a request so your friend knows they're being prayed for. • With one tap, let everyone know you're Praying, you Need encouragement, or you're Still going. • The host can post an announcement that stays at the top while the fast runs. • Earlier days fold away neatly, and Home tells you when new messages are waiting. Kind and safe Press and hold a message to report it or to block the person who wrote it. Blocked people's messages are hidden from you for that fast, and you can unblock someone from the list of people fasting with you. Hosts can remove a message or mute someone when needed. Focused on prayer A friend fast keeps its attention on prayer and on each other: its timer shows the time you've fasted together and the time left, without body-stage details. Finish together When the fast ends, you'll see how many people fasted together, your combined hours and the prayer focus you shared, and the summary is saved in Reflect › Reflection Memory. A calmer welcome Fasting Companion now opens on a quiet dawn with a cross of light, and takes you into the app sooner. Steady from the first tap Start a fast, and you're fasting. Starting a fast or changing its start time is instant, and the setting-up happens quietly in the background, so nothing holds you up. Clear about what's always yours These stay free: Our First Light Fast Together, 16:8, the 1 Day fast, Biblical Dawn to Dusk and the Media fast; Fast with a Friend for up to eight people; Guided Prayer and the Lord's Prayer guide; Daily Reflection and Free Write; the whole Bible, five guided Bible studies, and four audio teachings that are yours for life. Your first fast, walked with you Our First Light Fast Together is twelve hours and always free. Begin after your evening meal, sleep through the middle, and wake to breakfast, with a passage, a prayer you can borrow and one simple step at each stage. Share how it's going, when you're ready Rate Fasting Companion in Settings opens the App Store review page, so you can leave a rating or a few words whenever you choose. Now and then, after a good moment such as a completed fast, we may invite you to rate the app: at most three times a year, and never just after a fast you ended early.

Our First Light Fast Together Your first fast, fully guided — twelve hours, always free. Never fasted before, or want a gentle way back in? Begin after your evening meal, sleep through the middle, and wake to breakfast. Five short steps open through the evening and morning, on the fast screen and on Home: a passage, a prayer you can borrow when your own words run out, and one simple thing to do. Two quiet reminders at most, never late at night. Before you begin, a short tour shows you where the rest of the app can help — and once you've walked it, you can walk it again any time, straight from the tour. Starting a fast is instant again Tap Start, and you're fasting. Some versions could freeze when starting a fast or editing its start time. That's fixed, and starting is snappier than before. Learn About Fasting, lighter to read The same teaching, easier to take in. A shorter page, the benefits at a glance, and the Scripture anchors one passage at a time. Your shared-fasting sign-in stays with you A dropped connection no longer costs you your group. A timeout or a lost signal used to sign you out of Fast with a Friend. Not any more — your groups stay yours. When a friend fast ends, it says so The note now names your friend fast, thanks you properly, and clears after a day instead of lingering for a week. Done properly, quietly The small things, taken care of. A fast that fails to save no longer leaves a stray reminder behind. Premium members are recognised the moment the app opens, even offline. Writing a reflection? The keyboard now gets out of the way of the Continue button.

We’re sorry. In version 1.1.11, while trying to fix an issue for some users with storage issues we then caused other returning users to be incorrectly sent back to onboarding and their fasting history, stats, reflections, and journey data may have looked missing. The data was not deleted or removed. The app was looking in the wrong local storage path, which meant existing information on the phone could be ignored and the app treated the user like a new profile. This update restores the app’s connection to existing local history, stops returning users from being pushed into onboarding when history already exists, and improves recovery checks around saved data. We’ve also changed our release process going forward: any update that touches local storage, profiles, onboarding, or saved history must include a tested restoration path before release. The only normal way user data should be removed is when the user chooses to delete/reset it in Settings.

Find your next step faster. New guided help explains key screens in simple terms, with practical tips for starting a fast, using prayer support, writing reflections, exploring Biblical Guidance, and understanding your Journey. We also fixed unusual local storage issues affecting some iOS versions.

This focused update refines the fasting journey with clearer access to advanced fasts, a cleaner Bible Study experience, and improved fast completion flow. We also included stability and reliability improvements to keep Fasting Companion running smoothly as we continue building the spiritual formation experience. We have to implement some fixes with the introduction of the new Bible translations and rendering some of the larger chapters.

This is one of our most meaningful Fasting Companion updates yet. This update is about more than new features. It is about helping you fast with purpose, pray with memory, reflect with honesty, stay rooted in Scripture, and grow with God one step at a time. What’s new: • Read the full Bible, free for everyone forever, giving you easier access to Scripture inside the app. • Bible Studies have been added to help you grow in understanding, encouragement, and spiritual formation. • Prayer Memory is now available, so you can save prayer moments, return to them, update them, and record answered prayers. • Answered Prayers helps you remember how God has moved, building a personal testimony of faithfulness over time. • Reflection with scripture has been added so you can look up any Scripture and build your reflection with the Word of God. • Reflection Memory has been added so your reflections can become part of your spiritual journey, not just a one-time moment. • Free users can continue praying and reflecting, with recent saved moments kept available. • Premium users receive deeper history, richer memory features, and more complete access to ongoing spiritual formation tools. • Premium biblical journey previews are now clearer, helping you explore Daniel Fast, Apostle Fast, Lent Journey, and Esther Fast before upgrading. • Shared fasting flows have been improved, including Fast with a Friend and Esther Fast Circle messaging. • Settings have been improved with clearer layout, acknowledgements, and scripture license information. • Localisation coverage has been strengthened, with cleaner translated text and better support for future languages. • Localisation Scripture support has been added where available, with English fallback where needed. • We also made stability, polish, and release-readiness improvements across the app. Fasting Companion now brings Scripture, prayer, reflection, and guided biblical journeys closer together, helping you build a deeper and more consistent rhythm with God.

This update brings a more polished and reliable fasting companion experience. We refreshed Guided Fasts with cleaner, more focused fast choices, improved Prayer Memory and Reflection Memory, added a dedicated Fast Memory area in Journey, and made Journey statistics more accurate across prayer, reflection, fasting, and biblical guidance activity. We also strengthened local data protection during app updates so saved prayer, reflection, fasting, and journey history remains preserved more reliably across upgrades. This release brings a more thoughtful and polished spiritual companion experience across prayer, fasting, reflection, and learning. We have also added memory to your prayers, so you can come back and update them as answered prayers. We love this change, providing us all with a record of God's greatness and blessing within our lives. For free accounts you can save up to 10 prayers and then they rotate - with premium it's not limited. • A lot of changes to the fasting with friends to make it easier to join a fast with others. • Onboarding is now simpler and easier to complete, Daily Reflection is clearly available as a free reflection path, and Biblical Audio is easier to reach directly from Home. • We added a lot more of Gods word throughout the app, we hope you enjoy reading the living word as much as we do. • We’ve expanded the audio so Premium can support a library of up to 50 prayer and biblical guidance recordings, while keeping foundational audio freely available to everyone. • A dedicated Daily Examen reflection tool, with background on the Examen, guided steps, and a self-led option. • A new Reflection Memory area on the Reflect screen, making it easier to return to saved reflections, Daily Examen entries, free writes, and fast-linked journal moments. • A cleaner Prayer Memory experience, with saved prayer review brought into a more compact and focused card for Premium users. • Prayer Guidance Audio and Biblical Library audio have been refined, more recordings for free users and clearer Premium access for the full audio library. • Filipino, Spanish, and Portuguese localisation coverage has been expanded across prayer, fasting, reflection, audio, Strength & Courage, and journey insights. • With the introduction of Filipino we needed to do some layout improvements make longer translated text fit more cleanly, especially on the Journey and Reflect screens. • Fast cards, fast history, and discipline fast titles now localise more consistently. • Strength & Courage support now feels clearer, more localised, and more encouraging when fasting feels difficult. .

This update makes Fasting Companion more prayerful, more accessible, and more welcoming for Christians everywhere. We believe every Christian should have access to the primary tools for fasting, prayer, reflection, and spiritual rhythm. That is why core fasting and prayer features remain available for free, while Premium adds deeper journeys, fuller history, and richer formation tools for those who want to go further and for those items that require storage. New in this version: • Prayer Memory: save prayer moments, revisit them, edit them, and record answered prayers. • Free prayer history: free users can pray as often as they like, with the 5 most recent saved prayer moments kept. • Premium prayer history: Premium keeps full prayer history, answered prayer memory, and gentle prompts to return to open prayers. • Answered Prayers: record how God has answered and build a meaningful testimony of remembrance. • Filipino language support: added Filipino app localization, with ASD Scripture support where available. • Premium fast previews: clearer previews for Daniel Fast, Apostle Fast, Lent Journey, and Esther Fast so users can explore before upgrading. • Better app polish: improved localization coverage, settings updates, acknowledgements, and release-readiness fixes. A more generous, prayer-centered Fasting Companion for building faithful rhythms with God.

This update makes Fasting Companion feel more personal, helpful, and easier to use. • Visual updates to Prayer and Reflect Screens • Fast completion screens are now shorter and clearer, with less text and a stronger focus on what matters most. • Completion reflections now respond more directly to your onboarding choices, including your goals, struggles, fasting experience, and preferred support style. • Food fasts that end early now include rotating encouragement notes that are honest, light, and motivating without shame. • Language switching is more reliable across Journey and Reflect, so cards update properly when returning to English. • Added easier access to the Fasting Companion website from Home and Settings, with links to more articles, community details, and privacy information.

New Free Discipline Fast - Service Fast is now free. • Benefit: users can now access two free Discipline Fasts, Media Fast and Service Fast, giving them more ways to practise fasting beyond food through attention, service, and spiritual formation. Improved Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese Support • Expanded localisation across Reflect, Pray, Home, and linked reflection screens. • Benefit: Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese users get a more natural, consistent experience with fewer English labels appearing unexpectedly. Cleaner Localised Layouts • Improved handling of longer translated text in hero cards and key visual areas. • Benefit: screens look more polished and professional for Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico), with less text overflow or cramped presentation. Reflect Screen Improvements • Guided Reflection, Prompted Reflection, Free Write, and journal history now use translated headings, prompts, placeholders, and saved reflection titles. • Benefit: users can reflect more comfortably in their chosen language without being pulled out of the experience by English text. Prayer Experience Improvements • Prayer-related text and prompts have been tightened up for localisation. • Benefit: users can pray and journal with clearer language that better matches their selected language. Biblical Guidance Access Restored • Article loading has been corrected where recent localisation changes interfered with content lookup. • Benefit: users can access biblical guidance content reliably again.

This update improves localisation, polish, and Biblical Guidance reliability. • Improved Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese support across key prayer, fasting, reflection, and guidance screens. • Fixed Prayer screen text that was still appearing in English after changing language. • Fixed Home screen “Today with God” supporting text so it now follows the selected language. • Improved hero card layouts so longer translated text fits more cleanly and avoids overflow. • Improved Biblical Guidance performance by making the article list feed lighter and loading full article content only when an article is opened. • Kept article titles, categories, and paths unlocalised where needed so article matching remains reliable. • Spanish (Mexico) • Portuguese (Brazil)

• Added beta app localisation for Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. • Localised key app areas including Home, Fast, Pray, Reflect, Journey, Settings, Onboarding, Daily Check-in, Fasting Phases, and Journey Markers. • Added localised scripture support using trusted public-domain translations. • Updated the App Language setting so users can choose English, Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese directly. • Improved readability on hero image cards, including the Pray Now card. • Refined translated wording to keep the app’s calm, devotional tone across supported languages. • Improved fallback behavior so unsupported or incomplete translated content can safely remain in English.

New and improved: • A new Prayer Guidance Audio Series appears in the Prayer screen when prayer-focused audio teachings are available. • Audio teachings now have a premium-style library experience for all users. • Audio teachings can now be played directly in the app, with listened items moved lower in the list. • Audio teachings now support favourites, listened status, and smarter ordering. • A refreshed Biblical Guidance experience with latest articles, topic-based browsing, and easier access to teaching content. • Favourite articles so you can return to meaningful content quickly. • Read articles are now marked automatically and moved lower so fresh guidance stays easier to find. • Added encouragement around building a consistent prayer life, with Scripture focused on God’s peace through prayer. • Articles now support favourited and read status. • Read articles and listened audio move lower in lists so users can focus on fresh content first. • Topics have been cleaned up to become clearer themes such as Scripture & Tradition, Getting Started, Common Struggles, and Spiritual Formation. • Biblical Guidance remains available to free users, with selected article and audio integration included. • Group fast limits have been improved so full fasts are handled more clearly. • Users now receive clearer guidance when a shared fast is full, including encouragement to host another fast.

This is a large update for all users, we have opened up more free audio and guidance content. Audio is now much more reliable after making changes that enable better scalability. There is now better guided teaching activities for people new to fasting. Changes made to settings including the Temple health area. Biblical Guidance • Free users now get meaningful Biblical Guidance content, not just premium prompts. • All users get new Biblical Guidance experience with fresh teaching articles inside the app. • Articles can now automatically update from the new website, so users can discover new guidance without waiting for a full app update. • All users now get “Related teaching” that is surfaced quietly in the right places without overwhelming the main fast screen. Audio Teachings • All users now get New Audio Teachings library inside Biblical Guidance. • All users now get featured audio teaching that rotates over time. • All users can play audio directly from the audio list without opening the full article. • Audio teachings remain available in the app even if older articles are archived from the website. • All users can mark audio teachings as favourites. • Listened-to audio is clearly marked and moved lower in the listening list. • Favourites are grouped separately for quick return listening. Learning And Discovery • Better support for people new to fasting through guided teaching and beginner-friendly recommendations. • Helpful teachings can now appear alongside fasting, prayer, reflection, and journey moments. • Guidance is more personalised without making the app feel busy. Reliability • Improved audio loading so the app no longer tries to load missing audio files unnecessarily. • More scalable audio handling as the library grows.

1. Biblical Library & Spiritual Content Expansion Users now have access to a growing collection of: Biblical fasting teachings Phase 1 of our audio guidance role out Scripture-supported fasting guidance Spiritual formation content Prayer and fasting articles 2. Improved User Journey & Navigation Flow The app now has smoother transitions and more intentional flows between: Fasting, Prayer, Reflection, Encouragement, Journey progression and Biblical teaching experiences 3. Fixed some issues for original testers that were not able to run production versions. 4. Moved settings to home page for easier access after feedback. 5. Added tokens 6. Better error code managment to help with diagnostics