A daily rhythm of Bible study, reflection and prayer.
A Christian daily routine you set yourself: Bible reading, prayer and reflection, at hours you choose. holyfit remembers, reminds, and gets out of the way.
The practice
It does not look the same for anyone
A sitting is a sitting whether it happens at a kitchen table before the house is up, on a train, or in a building built for it. holyfit has no opinion about where you are.
What it is
Most Christian devotional apps are built around a plan you are handed and a streak you are afraid to break. Both work until the first day you miss, and then they mostly work against you.
holyfit is built around a routine you set yourself. You say how many times a day you want your quiet time (to read, to pray, to write) and at what hours. Everything else follows from that one answer.
What holyfit does
The routine
It starts with one answer
How many times a day do you want to sit down, and when? Up to two sittings each of reading, prayer and reflection, at hours you pick. Everything else in the app follows from that: what today looks like, what it reminds you of, what it counts.
Study
Read, and keep what it left you
Build a plan from the passages you actually want to read (a book, a theme, a list someone gave you) and set the days it runs. One passage at a time, in your translation, ticked off when you have read it.
Pray
A list you keep, not a wall you perform on
Write down what you are carrying and come back to it. Nobody else can see it. There is no feed, no sharing, and no other reader anywhere in the app.
Today
The day, worked out rather than stored
Home shows what you have kept and what is next, derived from the routine you set rather than saved beside it. Open the app and the next sitting is already the first thing on the screen.
Reminders
It reminds you, quietly
Each sitting gets a notice at the hour you picked, scheduled on your phone by your phone. No server is ever told when you pray, because there is no push token to tell it with.
Profile
Your translation, your hours, your account
Pick the translation new plans are built in, change the routine whenever you like, and delete the account and everything in it from the same screen. Nothing is buried.
The fruit
One fruit, for a stretch of days
Take up kindness or self-control and the app asks you one question a day — “where did you stop yourself?” — with somewhere to put the answer. It sits beside the journal, because that is the same sitting.
Reflect
A few lines a day, where you can find them
One entry per day, private and searchable. The app works out your streak from the entries themselves rather than asking you to defend one.
The fruit
Who did you find hardest to be kind to today?
Take up one fruit of the Spirit for a stretch of days you choose. holyfit asks you a question a day and gives you somewhere to put the answer. It sits in Reflect, beside the journal, because that is the same sitting.
- Kindness
- Self-control
One at a time. Working on both at once is working on neither, so the app will not let you. And nothing is graded: a moment is kept or it slipped, and there is no streak, no percentage, and no score for how you did.
What we don’t do
Not promises about intentions. Statements about what is in the app. Each one is checkable against the privacy policy, which names every company that touches your data and exactly what it sees.
No analytics
There is no analytics SDK in the app. Not a self-hosted one either. We do not know which screens you open or how long you stay.
No advertising
No ad network, no ad identifier, no advertising profile. Nothing about you is used to sell anything to you.
No push notifications
Reminders are scheduled by your phone, on your phone. There is no push token, so no server learns the hours you keep.
No selling or sharing
Not sold, not rented, not handed to anyone for their own purposes, in the senses GDPR and California law give those words.
Questions
Is holyfit free?
Yes. No charge, no subscription and no advertising. If that ever changes it will be announced in the app before it takes effect, never applied to an account that already exists without warning.
Can other people see what I write?
No. Not your notes, not your prayers, not your journal, not your routine. There is no sharing feature and no public profile. Every row of your data is fenced off in the database by a rule that checks it belongs to you before it is returned, including for us.
Is holyfit a devotional app?
Not in the usual sense. A devotional app hands you today's reading and today's thought. holyfit asks what your routine is and then keeps it: you bring the passages, set the hours, and it reminds you and gets out of the way. There is no daily content written by us, no streak to defend, and nothing that turns red when you miss a day.
Which translations can I read in?
The list is served from our own API rather than built into the app, so translations can be added as licences allow without waiting for an App Store release. You pick one in Profile, and it is used for new plans.
Does it work without a connection?
Not fully, and it is better to say so. Your plans, notes, prayers and journal live on our server so they survive a lost phone, which means reading a passage or saving an entry needs a connection. Reminders still fire without one.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. holyfit is being tested on iOS first. There is no date to promise, and one will not be invented here.
How do I delete my account?
Profile → Delete account, inside the app. It asks twice and then removes the account and every plan, note, prayer and journal entry attached to it. It is permanent. If you have lost access to the app, privacy@useholyfit.com will do it for you.
Start with one sitting a day.
Change the routine whenever you like. Nothing is lost when you do.