# ActivePray — Daily prayer, kept active.

> Daily prayer, kept active. (iPhone/iPad app by Benjamin Weberink.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/activepray/id6808369218 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Benjamin Weberink](https://appshunter.io/developer/6808369220)
- Category: Lifestyle, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.1 · 32 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-18
- Data updated: 2026-10-26

## What is ActivePray?

ActivePray is a prayer app for daily religious practice. Prayer times, the right calendar, the appointed days, and the scripture to read — set to the branch you follow, and working whether or not you have a signal.

THREE FAITHS. EIGHT BRANCHES.

Judaism (Karaite, Conservative / Masorti, Reform)
Islam (Sunni, Shia (Twelver))
Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant)

The layout is shared. Nothing else is. Each branch keeps its own calendar — its own months, its own leap years, its own hour at which a day begins — and its own prayers, fasts and dates. Where two branches disagree, each is followed on its own terms rather than averaged into one.

THE FIVE SCREENS

Today — the next prayer, the window you are in, and what today is in your own calendar: ordinary, a fast, or a day set apart.
Prayer — the services, the readings, the psalms and the prayers appointed for the day, in the original script alongside the English. With a guided washing flow when your branch asks for one.
Calendar — your branch's own calendar with its appointed dates inline, and the detail behind any day.
Active — the daily ring, streaks, mercy days and badges, for showing up.
Profile — the branch you follow, reminders, bookmarks and settings.

Plus a compass pointing where your branch faces, a Live Activity counting down to the next prayer, Home and Lock Screen widgets, and reminders built per branch.

RECKONED ON YOUR PHONE

Every time in this app is calculated from where you are and where the sun is — nothing is fetched, so nothing breaks when you are offline. The dates have been checked one by one against outside authorities, and where the app disagrees with a published table, the disagreement is recorded rather than quietly smoothed over.

PRIVATE BY BUILD, NOT BY PROMISE

No analytics. No advertising. No tracking. Your name, streaks, history, saved verses and photo stay on your device and in your own iCloud, which we cannot read. Your location is used on your device to work out your times and is never sent to us. The single exception is your username, which has to be unique and so lives in a database we keep — and the privacy policy says exactly what is in it.

ACTIVE+ (OPTIONAL)
The core is free and stays free: every prayer time, the sun and moon times yourccalendar turns on, the calendar itself, the compass, reminders, and the Home Screen widget.

Active+ adds a private prayer journal, end-to-end encrypted in your iCloud; custom reminder timing, a morning prayer alarm that rings even on silent, Lock Screen widgets, the Year in Prayer (your year month by month, your most-kept prayers and every streak), Quiet Progress for practising without the numbers, a supporter star, places of worship near you, the fasting planner, alternate app icons, and the pilgrimage planner.

€2.99 a month, auto-renewing until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation of purchase, and renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings, under your Apple Account.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://activepray.com/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Active+ | $2.99 | per month |


## Is ActivePray safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess ActivePray.

## Is ActivePray legit?

ActivePray has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ActivePray is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.4 — 2026-10-25

Release 2.4

- The Islamic branch once called Twelver Shia is now simply Shia. It still follows Twelver (Jafari) practice
- Every dua and supplication now has its transliteration under the Arabic, to say the words while you learn to read them (Sunni, Shia)
- The prayer guide now gives every word of the prayer, in Arabic with its transliteration: tap the ? beside the rakat count (Sunni, Shia)

Bugs squashed
- The Rosh Chodesh countdown shows all through Elul (Masorti, Reform)
- Reminders allowed in iOS Settings start straight away
- Reading an old journal entry no longer counts as writing today (Active+)
- One notice on Saturday evening for the Lord's Day and Evening Prayer (Catholic, Protestant)
- A prayer marked after midnight counts for its evening, also with a city in another time zone
- Holy days say Confirmed only once their own month is announced (Sunni, Shia)
- The water sound in the cleanse comes back after a call
- Opening the app offline no longer takes away Active+ or resets its settings
- A journal entry begun on one device is no longer removed by another (Active+)
- A prayer shows a tick only once you have marked it prayed
- Asr on the Shia path keeps the Jafari time, whatever was chosen on the Sunni path (Shia)
- Maghrib and Isha prayed together can both be marked after midnight (Shia)
- Reminders for a sitting of two prayers say "begin" (Shia)

### 2.3 — 2026-10-18

Release 2.3

In your hands
- The duas of the Sunnah, from Hisn al-Muslim, on the Sunni path, and nine supplications in full on the Shia path, from Kumayl to Jawshan al-Kabir
- The Sabbath at home on the Karaite path: Kiddush and Havdalah from the Karaite siddur, with this Sabbath's times
- The Karaite blessings over bread, wine and food, as the Karaite siddur gives them
- Morning blessings, festival blessings, and blessings for moments of wonder and for the home (Masorti, Reform)
- Interactive widgets: mark a prayer as prayed, or count the tasbih, from the Home Screen (Active+)
- Add a verse to your journal from any reader, and find what you wrote from the verse (Active+)
- The journal opens ready to write, with Underline and Strikethrough (Active+)
- Two weeks of Active+ free, where the App Store offers it
- The Angelus and the Regina Caeli as reminders, off until you turn them on (Catholic)
- The Douay-Rheims Bible on the Catholic path, all 73 books
- The Apocrypha, if you want them, on the Protestant path
- Epiphany, Ascension and Corpus Christi on Sunday, as a setting (Catholic)
- Sign-up asks the Orthodox their calendar and Protestants how they pray
- Pilgrimages and nearby churches for each Christian branch
- The Umrah and Hajj on the Shia path close with Tawaf al-Nisa
- A change of faith now keeps your account, journal and badges
- A bookmark opens on its verse, lit faintly so your eye finds it
- The cleanse is still water: a ring spreads with each breath, and each act can be ticked
- Reminders tell you when iOS isn't letting them through, and how to fix it, and start the moment you allow them
- Report a bug can attach crash and freeze reports, only when you switch it on

Bugs squashed
- A journal entry closed straight after typing is kept, and a journal that can't save says so
- Wudu corrected for Sunni and Shia, and the Karaite washing as Karaites do it: shoes off, then the hands
- Every calendar names the month of the city it shows, at the turn of a month too
- The Sunni prayer card follows a change of calculation method at once
- Reading the Haftarah now keeps the day
- The Catholic and Orthodox Church Year shows the whole year ahead, Easter and Pascha included
- The Hours give each psalm both its numbers, to find it in the Douay-Rheims
- Christian hours stay put when the clocks change, and a prayer marked after midnight counts for its evening
- Orthodox feasts and fasts begin at Vespers, and the Orthodox fast follows the Typikon
- Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant prayers in their traditional words, and every holy day under its church's own rank
- The water sound stays silent on silent, loops without a seam and comes back after AirPods
- Reading time stops when you leave the tab
- Tasbih Reset asks first, and the tasbih stops at the hundred
- Journal entries can be deleted without Active+
- Sign out and a change of faith say exactly what they clear
- Delete Account removes your journal from iCloud even when you're offline
- Try again when iCloud can't be reached for your username
- Qur'an and dua search find a name in the spellings people use and in Arabic, Shia supplications included, and say when nothing matches
- Israel is recognised on a Hebrew or Russian iPhone (Masorti)
- Nearby tells "Nothing found" apart from "Can't reach the map"
- And many smaller fixes

On the eyes
- Study tiles as panels, each with one grey line, and Bookmarks as a glass button
- The close button at the far right, everywhere
- The readers lead with the original language, with English that is easy to read
- Each tradition's holy days under their own names
- A member's Active+ page, one look across Active+, and the account panel in black glass
- The salawat after the Prophet's name, as Qur'an and hadith apps write it
- The tasbih: the Arabic above the ring, its reading and meaning below, and the ring at the middle of the screen
- The tasbih's Arabic grows with your text sizeDo we

### 2.2 — 2026-10-13

Release 2.2

In your hands
- Support can now change your branch: write in with the support code behind the (i) beside your username
- The tasbih moves on to the next dhikr by itself when a set is complete
- Text follows Larger Text in your iPhone's settings
- Tap anywhere in a day on the calendar to open it
- Day panels fit what is in them, and name the day's prayers on every path
- Shabbat at Home now lives in Prayer, under Blessings
- Candle-lighting 40 minutes before sunset in Jerusalem, as the city keeps it
- Confirmed new moons arrive without an app update
- Subscribed holy-day calendars now run to 2030, refresh daily and link back to ActivePray
- VoiceOver reads what each calendar day holds

Bugs squashed
- Prayer reminders no longer stop when the app stays closed for a while
- The widget no longer goes blank after a week
- The morning prayer alarm is no longer lost when the app stays closed (Active+)
- Sunni and Shia prayer times are right on the days the clocks change
- Maghrib no longer comes before sunset around the equinoxes, and Asr follows the true shadow
- Rosh Chodesh shown on both its days
- The Kiddush, the Shema, the Amidah's line for rain and dew and four blessings now complete (Masorti, Reform)
- No "chag sameach" on Yom HaShoah or Yom HaZikaron
- The Reform calendar no longer lists fasts Reform does not keep
- Karaite Shabbat counted the same on the Calendar as on Today
- St John the Baptist keeps his day in 2028
- Every holy day labelled in its own tradition's terms
- Catholic fast days read "All day", and the Eucharistic fast is a standing note
- Fasting seasons show their dates instead of clock times
- Times follow your iPhone's 12- or 24-hour clock on every page
- Praying distance written the English way, as 4,548 km
- The Autumn Harvest badge can be claimed, and Add to Calendar saves the right day, on an iPhone set to the Islamic or Hebrew calendar
- The close button on the Autumn Harvest card now works
- Keeping a prayer redraws only what shows it, so Profile responds faster
- Changing a setting no longer holds up the app while it syncs to iCloud
- The app now builds without a single warning
- And many smaller fixes

On the eyes
- Lighter type throughout the app, the widgets and the Live Activity
- A warmer grey for dates and captions
- Your profile picture on the Profile tab
- Active+ wears a new compass mark, in its own colour, blood orange
- Your Christian branch named on your profile
- English names only for the Catholic and Orthodox prayers
- "today" in green on every path
- One colour scheme for the holy-day cards on every calendar
- True bronze and onyx for the 7-day and 730-day badges
- The ActivePray figure on the sign-in page
- Arabic names spelt one way throughout the app

### 2.1 — 2026-10-10

Thanks for praying with ActivePray this autumn. This release squashes a few bugs and makes the app faster.

### 2.0 — 2026-10-05

Autumn Harvest release 2.0

In your hands
- Prayer Journal, with an optional Face ID lock privacy setting (Active+)
- Morning prayer alarm that rings even on silent (Active+)
- Year in Prayer: your year month by month, with past years kept (Active+)
- Siri and Shortcuts: ask for the next prayer, or start a prayer or a body cleanse
- Add holy days to your calendar app
- Mindful minutes in Apple Health
- The whole Tanakh on the Jewish paths, with Tehillim by its own name
- Catholic and Orthodox prayers named in Latin and Greek
- Shabbat and Yom Tov as days of rest for your streak and reminders (Reform can change this setting)
- New streak notifications: a reminder, a mercy day used, and a streak that has ended
- New profile panels: today's date in your calendar, the new moon, fasting, scripture read and some more
- The new default profile starts with your branch, your streak and your praying distance
- Choose which badges show on your profile
- Getting Started badges and the Get Active badge
- The limited-edition Autumn Harvest badge, 5 October to 30 November
- Clickable account info panel behind your handle that displays membership and your location if you choose
- A new Active+ app icon: Maple

Bugs squashed
- Active+ now unlocks reliably on iOS 27, including Restore
- Tapping a reminder on the Lock Screen no longer closes the app, and opens the right screen
- "Use my location" is remembered after closing the app
- Saved Bible verses now show in Bookmarks
- The longest streak now counts mercy days
- Another branch's progress no longer mixes into yours
- The Get Active badge no longer announces itself at every launch
- The Badges tile counts every badge
- Signing out and deleting your account now clear the widget, Live Activity and last place
- Signing out keeps your profile photo; a revoked Sign in with Apple signs you out
- Sign-up: the photo step shows your photo, and the handle step no longer gets stuck
- No more dark band when leaving Profile, and tabs no longer replay their entrance
- The Prayers page footnote no longer hides under the tab bar
- Long feast names fit their line
- The Regina Caeli in Eastertide, as the app says
- Every surah has one name
- Badges stay inside their panel
- Every prayer time and holy day through 2027 checked against published sources

On the eyes
- Liquid Glass across sign-up, the account panel, the branch sheets and the Active+ card
- Active+ redesigned
- New symbols for the Qur'an, the Bible, the Tanakh, Tehillim, the Tasbih and the Rosary
- Settings in grey, and a quieter journal
- Lists fade softly at the edges
- In-app notes carry their own icons
- Profile now has its entrance, like the other tabs
- A faster, cleaner launch screen
- The compass arrow without its glow
- Requires iOS 26.1 or later

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