# Prayer Cycles — Never forget a prayer

> Never forget a prayer (iPhone/iPad app by Joshua Schwarting.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prayer-cycles/id6781150222 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Joshua Schwarting](https://appshunter.io/developer/6781150224)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-19
- Data updated: 2026-10-09

## What is Prayer Cycles?

Most of us mean to pray for people. We just forget who, and when.
Prayer Cycles keeps the people and things you care about in rotation, so nobody quietly falls off the end of the list.
HOW IT WORKS
Make a prayer list for any circle of life: immediate family, friends, coworkers, your church, your town. Give each list a rhythm, from every day to once a year, and set the interval yourself: every day, every three weeks, every six months.
Each day, the app surfaces one prayer from every active list and gathers them under Today's Prayers. It always chooses whoever you have prayed for least, so the list moves through everyone instead of circling the same few names. You never have to decide where you left off.
THE TIMEBOX
When you want to sit down and pray, open the Time Box. Set how long to spend on each prayer and it works out the total, or set the total and let it divide the time for you. It moves through the list on its own, with a gentle sound between each one, so you can close your eyes and stay with it rather than watching a clock.
WHAT IT DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO
There are no streaks, no counters, no charts, and no record of how long you prayed or when. Nothing is scored. This is meant to be a quiet place rather than a wall of achievements, and it will never make you feel behind.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Everything stays on your device. There are no accounts to make, no servers to trust, no analytics, and no tracking. The app makes no network requests at all and works completely offline. Your lists and prayers are encrypted on your device.
Export a backup whenever you like and send it wherever you want through the normal iOS share sheet, or import one to move to a new phone.
ALSO INSIDE
- Tags, for grouping prayers and lists across circles
- Notes on any prayer, for the details you want to remember
- Search across everything you have written
- Five themes
- English, German, Swiss German, Japanese and Mongolian
- Deleted lists are recoverable for 50 days
Free. No subscription, no adverts, no in-app purchases.

## Is Prayer Cycles safe?

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## Is Prayer Cycles legit?

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


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-09-30

Prayer counts are back: each prayer shows how many times you have prayed for it, and each list shows how many times you have prayed all the way through it.

Simpler lists: creating a list is now just a name and the people you are praying for. The cycle and frequency settings are gone.

Fixes: the prayer description now scrolls on the prayer timer, and switching to the timer no longer flashes a blank screen.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-19

No release notes.

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