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December 15, 2009

PrayerPartner for iPhone

Filed under: New Products, iPhone — Jeff Wheeler @ 6:00 am

PrayerPartner for the iPhone is now available on the Apple App Store. Search for “PrayerPartner” in the App Store, or try this link.

For only $1.99 (you may have paid more for a cup of coffee today), PrayerPartner helps you manage an important spiritual discipline: prayer.

PrayerPartner helps you by maintaining lists of prayer requests, keeping track of which ones have been answered, which ones you’d like to pray for today, and which ones have already been prayed for today. Each request can be categorized, associated with a contact from your Contacts Address Book, and scheduled to be prayed for daily, on certain days of the week, or certain days of the month. Customizable email templates let you quickly mail a personal note of encouragement to a request’s contact. Plus, use the dated journal to record your thoughts as you pray.

Not Excited Yet? Keep Reading

Many of our PocketBible beta testers jumped on board to help with final testing of PrayerPartner. One common comment from them went something like… well, let’s hear from a few directly.

“PrayerPartner has given me the push I need to stay on top of other people’s requests. How many times do people specifically ask for prayer, and we somehow forget to ever petition the Lord on their behalf? This app is helping me make sure that I take their requests seriously, and it makes it easier to follow up with them when their prayers are answered.”
— Lawson C.

“I have found PrayerPartner to be indispensable. I did not know I had a need for an app like this until I started using it, and now it is on my home screen with the applications I use all the time.”
— Paul W.

“I didn’t know how valuable PrayerPartner would be until I started using it. Now I use PrayerPartner every day!”
— Mike O.

It’s interesting that a common theme developed: “I wasn’t really interested in a prayer-related program, but I found that it’s been good for me.”

Sort of like eating vegetables and flossing, I guess. :-)

Seriously, though, I’ve found this to be true for me as well. Now that I’m through developing and testing, I’ve been adding my requests. Here’s what I’ve added so far.

  • a daily praise, different for every day of the month
  • a daily prayer for my children, a different topic every day of the month
  • some friends to be prayed for weekly (some on Monday, some on Tuesday, etc.); I make notes of special needs or stresses so that I can remember to pray for them
  • prayer for our pastor, church and its ministries

Like our beta testers, I’m finding that PrayerPartner is helping me be both more focused and disciplined.

Screen Shots


PrayerPartner Home Screen


Adding or Editing a Request


Picking a Category


Viewing the Full Request

Still To Come?

If PrayerPartner proves successful, we have ideas that would allow sharing requests with others, even (potentially) PrayerPartner users on other platforms.


22 Responses to “PrayerPartner for iPhone”

  • Ken Jeffrey comments:
    December 15th, 2009 at 8:40 am

    Very Cool!!! I love the way I can add contacts from my address book.


  • Ken Jeffrey comments:
    December 15th, 2009 at 8:41 am

    Very Cool!!! I love the way I can add contacts from my address book.


  • Chris Jones comments:
    December 15th, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Very cool… I have purchased it. What about a way to incorporate alarms into it to remind us to pray at specific times (for those of us who sometimes need help). :)


  • Lionel Dyck comments:
    December 15th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Cool - I haven’t used anything like this for many years and then it was in paper. I’ll download and give it a shot. I know my prayer life could use the help.


  • Chris comments:
    December 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    Can I easily create requests from emails? Most of my requests come in that way. Ideally I could forward them to an email address and have them show up in my lists… similar to how I do it now with Remember the Milk.


  • Craig Rairdin comments:
    December 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Chris and Chris: Thanks for the suggestions. Encourage others to purchase PrayerPartner. Assuming it turns out to be a popular app we have great plans for it.


  • Brent comments:
    December 15th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    Love it! Used this in prayer meeting tonight. Not sure what the future plans are, but would love to be able to move from one request to another by swiping. Found myself having to look for the arrows at the bottom to move to the next one to share with the congregation. My minor request aside, this app is so great and useful. The screenshots don’t do it justice, the app is way better than the screenshots. Thanks guys.


  • Wayne comments:
    December 16th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    We’ve been asking for years for a programme like this for Windows Mobile. Is there anything in the pipeline for the rest of us?


  • Jeff Wheeler comments:
    December 16th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Wayne, thanks for your interest. We haven’t announced any plans for bringing PrayerPartner to other platforms, such as Windows Mobile, Pre, or Android.


  • Michael Ziegler comments:
    December 17th, 2009 at 6:10 am

    PrayerPartner is Great. This is much better than a list. A Windows desk top version that syncs with the iPhone would be very helpful for typing and organizing large lists.


  • Jim comments:
    December 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    I like the request for alarms or push notifications. That would be a great feature add. I also second the request for a desktop version that syncs, too. Another feature add I’d like to see is the ability to password lock the application. Sometimes I share my iPhone with other family members to use a particular app or make a call, but I’d like to keep my prayer requests confidential.


  • Jeff Wheeler comments:
    December 18th, 2009 at 9:23 am

    I expect password support to be in version 1.0.1 or 1.0.2.


  • Claudette Eskola comments:
    December 19th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    Would be nice if Prayer Partner had security option to lock others out for privacy. media


  • Jeff Wheeler comments:
    December 19th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Claudette, please see the comment immediately prior to yours. ;-)


  • Paul comments:
    December 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm

    Purchased it firstly because I believe in the work you are doing and the quality of your products. Now that I’ve been using it, it is simply awesome. Thanks for future work on password protection.


  • Jeff Wheeler comments:
    December 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    Paul (and others) - thanks for the positive comments. Be sure to tell your friends! (And a nice review on the App Store would be helpful, too!)


  • RW comments:
    December 28th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    I too am really liking PrayerPartner. The only thing I’d like to see is some way of viewing prayers by their schedule - i.e. what’s being prayed for on which day. I use PrayerPartner for lots of recurring prayers, and it would be really good to see which days are “busy” and which are “quiet” to help with scheduling requests.

    Great work though and another excellent and good-value Laridian product.


  • Bill McKell comments:
    December 30th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    I just purchased. I’ll add more comments after using it. I have been using web-based Echo Prayer and like a lot of it’s features including the random scheduling. Might consider incorporating some of their features into the app.


  • Bill McKell comments:
    December 30th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    I just purchased. I’ll add more comments after using it. I have been using web-based Echo Prayer and like a lot of it’s features including the random scheduling. Might consider incorporating some of their features into the app.


  • Margaret comments:
    December 30th, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    I love this program!
    I have one request…I appreciate that I can show requests by category or contact. Is it possible to show requests by schedule (day of week, month)? I see this has been requested already…I second it (and the pc syncing and alarms are great idea).


  • Jeff Wheeler comments:
    December 30th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Margaret - glad to hear that you are liking PrayerPartner, and thanks for the suggestions. Regarding those same suggestions, as noted in the article, we have great plans if PrayerPartner proves successful.


  • Michelle comments:
    May 3rd, 2010 at 3:23 am

    Hi Jeff, great work on the Prayer Partner! I thought it was pretty good so I asked my friend to pick one for her ipod touch too!

    Anyway, I would like to have an option for my prayers to be organised in my prefered sequence apart from the current option for date entered, category only or contact only. I’ve so many prayers each day that it would be great if I could sort them out myself in terms of importance.

    Also, I would like a back up option.

    Lastly, on the pocket bible app, I hope that there is a way that I can sync my desktop notes to the iphone eventually. It’s been more than a year since I bought the app and I’m really underusing the app because I don’t have my notes (on my windows desktop) synced to the iphone.

    thanks, Michelle



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