PrayerBoard questions, answered

PrayerBoard is a free iPhone and iPad app for praying with a few close friends and family. You share prayer requests in a small private circle, your friends pray for you with a tap or a short note, and you can mark a prayer answered and celebrate it together.

Yes, it's free, and there are no ads and no in-app purchases. We don't track you or sell your data.

Only the people in the circle you share with. Circles are private and invite-only, and there's no public feed or way for strangers to find you.

Yes. Make the request private, and your circle sees that you asked for prayer while only you see the words. It's a good fit when the story isn't yours to tell.

Yes, for now everyone in a circle uses the free PrayerBoard app on iPhone or iPad. When you send an invite as a link or in Messages, it takes them straight to the App Store and then into your circle.

Create a circle, then share its invite from the app as a link, a text or a card in Messages. Anyone with the invite can join, and the person who made the circle can remove members anytime.

Yes. PrayerBoard in Messages lets you share a prayer request or a circle invite as a card right in your conversation. Open a chat, tap +, then choose PrayerBoard.

Yes. You get a notification like "Sarah prayed for you", and each request shows who prayed and any notes they left. Hearing that someone actually prayed is the heart of the app.

Open your request and mark it answered, with a few words about what happened. Your circle gets to celebrate with you, and you can share the story as a card.

It's a weekly "How can I pray for you this week?" between two prayer partners, and it's coming in an update. Today you can start a circle with just the two of you and set a daily reminder to pray.

No. PrayerBoard never writes your prayers for you. You pray in your own words, or with a tap when words don't come.

No. PrayerBoard is a simple tool for Christians of any church or tradition who want to pray for each other. There's no built-in teaching or content to agree with.

Not yet. PrayerBoard is on iPhone and iPad today, and we'll share news about Android on this site when there is some.

Those apps are great at personal prayer lists, guided content or a big community. PrayerBoard does one thing: helping a few close people pray for each other privately, for free, with no ads. Our comparison page goes into detail.

It's a great fit for a small group, a family or a ministry team, with up to 30 people in a circle. For a whole church or a public prayer wall, our web prayer boards for churches and creators are the better tool.