Prayer apps
Five apps UK Christians use to pray, what each one is for, what it costs, and whether it asks where you are. Every price and date below was read from the app's own pages on 20 September 2026.
We make one of the five, and it is marked. The other four are described as they describe themselves.
Before you install anything
Some prayer apps work by recording where you walk, which is what makes their coverage maps accurate. That suits an organised prayer walk and suits some people much less. If you would rather not share where you are, check this before you install anything, and check what the privacy notice says is stored.
Praying is not everyone's public business. Ask whether other people can see that you prayed, whether your church leader gets a list, and whether anything you write is stored against your name.
Most prayer apps for individuals are free and funded by donations. Tools built for churches are usually a monthly subscription paid by the church. Neither is wrong, but it is worth knowing which one you are looking at before you get attached to it.
Streaks, badges and leaderboards keep people opening an app. Some find that a help and some find it turns something quiet into a performance. Look at what happens when you miss a day.
Checked 20 September 2026
Made by 24-7 Prayer
A daily prayer app with morning, midday and evening prayer. The morning is a reflective reading of a passage, the midday is the Lord's Prayer, and the evening is a look back over the day. There are themed series for praying into what is happening in the world.
Best for: Daily rhythm, if you want to be led through prayer rather than decide what to pray.
Made by Discipleship Tech, a UK charity
A way to organise everyone and everything you pray for. You build lists, it hands you a few each day so the same names do not get missed, and you can subscribe to prayer feeds from Christian organisations.
Best for: Long prayer lists, if you are the person who prays for forty people by name.
Made by Every Home for Christ, with HOPE Together and Cinnamon Network
Built for praying for the people around you and sharing faith with them. You tag your street once you have prayed for it, and it is pinned as prayed for. Its App Store listing shows it was last updated in February 2023.
Best for: Praying for the neighbours you actually know, house by house.
Made by PrayerWalk App
A tool for churches organising prayer walks. As people walk and pray it records the streets they cover in real time, and a heatmap shows which parts of a town have been covered most and where the gaps are. The plans differ by how many walkers and events a church needs.
Best for: A church running organised prayer walks with rotas and teams on the ground.
Made by Us
A shared map of the whole world where every street starts grey. Choose any street, anywhere, pray for it, and it turns green for everyone who opens the map. Streets prayed for many times turn gold. Nobody is named, there are no streaks or badges, and you never have to be anywhere near the street you are praying for.
Best for: Praying for a whole street or town, including the one you grew up on and will never visit again.
Straight answers
It depends what you want it to do. For a daily rhythm of prayer, Lectio 365 is free and takes you through morning, midday and evening. For keeping track of the people you pray for, PrayerMate is free and funded by donations. For praying for the streets and homes around you, Pray My Street is free and never asks where you are.
Yes. Daily prayer apps such as Lectio 365 and PrayerMate have no reason to ask. Pray My Street is a map app that deliberately never asks: you choose a street by searching for it or tapping it, so you can pray for a street on the other side of the country.
For organised prayer walks with teams on the ground, PrayerWalk is built for it and charges the church a monthly fee. For a congregation praying for every street in its town from wherever they are, Pray My Street shows a church which streets are still grey without collecting anyone's location or name.
Start with the homes you can see from your front door and pray for them by number if you do not know the names. Many people work along their road a few houses at a time, then outward into the next street. Pray My Street exists to keep a record of that, so a street you have prayed for is coloured in and nothing gets missed.
Pray My Street
Every street on earth starts grey. Choose one, pray for it, and it turns green for everyone. Free, and it never asks where you are.
It is in its testing phase now. Put your name down to be invited to test it, or to hear the moment it opens to everyone. If you would rather just read along, there is the letter, which goes out once a month at most.