A digital prayer board for you and your people

There isn't one right way. It depends on whether the board is just for you, or something you want to share with the people you pray with.

1. A phone wallpaper. Free and private, and you see it every time you pick up your phone. Best for a short list that changes once a week.
2. A Notion or Canva board. Free, roomy and easy to make pretty. Best for a longer list you look at on purpose, like a morning prayer time.
3. An app made for it. Best when other people are part of it: they add requests, they pray and you see that they did.

1. Pick four to six names or requests for this week. Fewer is better on a lock screen.
2. Open a blank design at your phone's screen size (1170 × 2532 fits most recent iPhones) in Canva or any photo app, or write on a card and take a photo of it in good light.
3. Leave the top third empty, so the clock doesn't cover your words. Add one verse at the bottom if you like.
4. Save it, then set it as your lock screen in your phone's wallpaper settings.
5. Pick a day, like Sunday evening, to swap in next week's list. Write answered prayers in your notes before you swap.

1. In Notion, make a new page with a board view and three columns: Asking, Waiting and Answered. In Canva, start from a whiteboard and draw the same three columns.
2. Add one card per request, with the person's name, what they need and today's date.
3. Add a verse or two you're holding on to at the top.
4. Pin the page to your phone's home screen, or open it at the same time each day.
5. When a prayer is answered, drag the card to Answered and write one line about what happened.

Want to share it? Both tools let you invite others, but anyone with edit access can change anything, reminders take setting up and you can't tell who has prayed. That's the gap an app fills.

PrayerBoard (one word) is a prayer board app for you and your closest people. Your Home screen is the board: requests from your family, your small group and your best friends, each in its own private circle.

• Post a request in a sentence or two, or keep it private so only you see the words.
• Friends hold to pray or leave a short note, and you get a notification like “Sarah prayed for you”.
• Add updates as things change, and mark a prayer answered when it is. You can share the story as a card.
• Set a daily reminder, with quiet hours so it never buzzes at night.

A board on the wall is lovely. It's where your eyes land in the morning, and kids can add to it. A digital board is what you carry, and what the people far away from you can join. Plenty of families do both: the wall for the names they pray over every day, the app for the requests they share.

If you'd like a head start on the wall, print our free printable prayer board kit: ten pages of request cards, “Answered” cards, labels and verse cards. For more ways to set one up, see our 18 prayer board ideas.

For a small group or Bible study, a circle works the same way: see our group prayer app page. For a whole congregation, where people who don't know each other share requests, our online prayer wall for churches is the better fit.