Meet Psalmbook — Prayer journal. Stays on your phone

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Psalmbook

Prayer journal. Stays on your phone.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

What Psalmbook does

Psalmbook is the private offline prayer journal — the place to write what you're carrying, who you're praying for, and what you've seen God do, without an account, without ads, and without your most personal words sitting in someone else's cloud.

What ships in v1:

— Prayer list. People + intentions, tagged (family, friends, church, work, world). Mark when answered. — Freeform journal entries. Long-form writing — gratitude, lament, requests, examen, daily reflection. Each entry timestamped. — Daily prayer rhythm. Optional morning + evening notification. Suggested prompts (a name to pray for, a scripture, a question — bundled, not AI-generated). — Scripture capture. Type or photo-OCR (VisionKit) a verse you want to remember; attach it to a prayer entry or to a memory shelf. — Examen / structured reflection. Five-step prompts (gratitude, ask for light, review, confess, look forward) — for those who use the Ignatian rhythm. — Answered-prayer log. Mark a prayer answered and write what happened. Watch the list of God's faithfulness grow. — Face ID app lock for privacy. — No account, no cloud, no ads, no subscription.

Echo Prayer is simple but limited and stagnant. Hallow is Catholic-focused and $69.99/year. Psalmbook is the everyday offline prayer notebook that just lets you write.

A look inside

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What's inside

Prayer list — People + intentions; tagged; mark answered
Journal — Freeform entries, timestamped, searchable
Examen — 5-step Ignatian reflection prompt
Scripture — Type or VisionKit-OCR verses; attach to entries
Answered — List of answered prayers with notes; faithfulness shelf

Why we built it

Christians want a private prayer journal for sensitive content (confessions, names, struggles), but Echo Prayer is limited to list-based tracking with no freeform writing, Hallow is $69.99/year + Catholic-specific + cloud, and the entire prayer-app category is moving to AI-powered cloud features.

What makes it different

Psalmbook is the only iOS prayer journal that combines a tagged prayer list + freeform journal + Examen structured reflection + answered-prayer log + Face ID lock — entirely offline with no account, no ads, no subscription, no AI cloud — Echo Prayer is list-only with no freeform writing and slow development, Hallow is…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their gear, and their offline life.

In one line: Prayer journal. Stays on your phone.

Try it

See the Psalmbook app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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