Pray As You Go (PAYG)
Designed by Jesuit Ministries in the UK, it is a daily prayer app that draws on Scripture for personal prayer and reflection. It is great for a way to start your day, or to put on as morning prayer in a retreat/reflection day. It is well produced, and each prayer is no more than 15 minutes. Here is the information they give about it:
Pray As You Go is a daily prayer session, designed to go with you wherever you go, to help you pray whenever you find time, but particularly whilst travelling to and from work, study, etc. A new prayer session is produced every day of the working week and one session for the weekend. It is not a ‘Thought for the Day’, a sermon or a bible-study, but rather a framework for your own prayer. Lasting between ten and thirteen minutes, it combines music, scripture and some questions for reflection. Our aim is to help you to: become more aware of God’s presence in your life; listen to and reflect on God’s word; grow in your relationship with God. The style of prayer is based on Ignatian Spirituality. It is produced by Jesuit Media Initiatives, with material written by a number of Jesuits, both in Britain and further afield, and other experts in the spirituality of St Ignatius of Loyola. Although the content is different every day, it keeps to the same basic format.
Insight Timer
This is a library of libraries for a whole range of music, meditations, reflections, courses and resources. Whether you can’t sleep at night, need some quiet reflective music for retreats and prayer, searching for a guided meditation across a number of faith and non-faith setting, or a talk on mindfulness, it is a huge collection of resources for personal and communal uses. And the great thing: the free version is full of so much great stuff! There are so many more features: an online community to connect with, or a premium version with many things (but who pays for apps, especially when it’s so good for free!).
Taizé Music
We all love Taizé, I know, so here’s one of the official apps that the Taizé community produce. It is focussed on providing simple text and music notation for the songs, as well as a guide to preparing the prayer. Not a lot of diverse content, but definitely a helpful resource for preparing Taizé prayer, and as a last minute reference!
Additional submissions from our team
Marist Daily Prayer App
This app is by the Marist Association which features prayer intentions (based on our local Marist communities and schools!), Gospel of the day, breaking open the word and beautiful prayers.
Laudate
This app offers the Readings of the Day, Divine Office, scripture reflections, bios of the Saints, more traditional and formal prayers, the order of the Mass, Confession prep, official Church documents – so basically, lots.
FUEL (from Ignite Youth)
Another app with the Readings of the Day. I often read the daily scripture reflection, which is written by a rotation of youth leaders and young people, for a grounded perspective on the scriptures. There’s also video content of speakers from various Ignite events.
Click to Pray
This is the Pope’s official prayer app. The app gives you the Pope’s prayer intention for the month, as well as prayers at different times of the day you can pray with the Pope. The app also includes a prayer network, where you can post your own prayer intentions, or pray the intentions of others. Plus, every time you pray you can click a button and satisfy all your instant gratification urges!