Ora

A Catholic app for a quieter phone

A phone that leads you to prayer.

Most apps are built to keep you scrolling. Ora is built to send you back to God and then get out of the way. It has the Scriptures, the Hours and the saints of the day, and a digital fast that locks the phone when you want to be still.

Free to try in your browser. The iPhone and Android app is in development.

What's inside

Everything a day of prayer needs, and nothing else.

Pray the day

Scripture, the Hours, the saints

The Douay-Rheims Bible with an illuminated initial for every book. The seven Hours of the Divine Office, from Lauds to Compline. The saint the Church keeps today, with a line to carry with you.

Ask

Questions of faith, answered with sources

Ask about purgatory, confession or the Rosary. Answers draw on the Catechism, Scripture and the Fathers, and name every source so you can check it for yourself.

Fast

A lock for the phone, not a feed

Ora counts the minutes you spend in it and asks you to leave. When you want real quiet, the digital fast shuts everything but prayer and the people you love.

“…technological products are not neutral, for they create a framework which ends up conditioning lifestyles and shaping social possibilities…”
Pope Francis, Laudato Si' 107

Ora takes that seriously. It measures itself by how soon you put it down, not by how long you stay.

The digital fast

Three ways to put the phone down.

Pick the one that fits the day. Ending a fast early takes a deliberate three-second hold, long enough to ask yourself whether you mean it.

Pilgrim20 minutes
A gentle limit. After twenty minutes on any app, Ora offers a psalm in its place.
Fast2 hours
Only Scripture, the Hours and phone calls. Everything else waits.
HermitUntil dawn
The phone rests until six the next morning. Calls from favourites still ring.

Waitlist

Be first to have Ora on your phone.

The full app for iPhone and Android is being built now. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it's ready.

Your phone

We'll only use your address to tell you when Ora launches. We never share it.