How it works
Every app blocker you have tried says no. That works for a day, because a wall is something you climb. PrayerMax gives you a door: you can always get through, and the way through is a minute with God.
Free app. Locks your apps until you pray.
Pick the apps that pull you away. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Snapchat, games. PrayerMax shows you your phone's own app list and you tick the ones that cost you. You can change them any time.
Choose when they lock. Once a day is free. Pick the hour that hurts most: first thing in the morning, or the hour before bed. Pro lets you add more locks through the day.
When you reach for a locked app, PrayerMax opens instead. No red warning, no guilt screen. A quiet, dark screen and three choices: a written prayer, a short Bible story, or a prayer written for what you are carrying right now.
Pray. Read it slowly. Take the minute. Most people find this is the only minute of real quiet in their day.
Your apps unlock for a few minutes. Then they rest again until the next lock. The scroll is still there; it just comes after God now, not instead of Him.
Most focus apps make you wait. Ten seconds, thirty seconds, a breathing exercise. The idea is that friction alone breaks the habit. It does, a little. But the friction is empty: you sit there waiting for the timer, and nothing good fills the space.
PrayerMax fills it. The minute you would have spent staring at a countdown, you spend with God. And because the trigger is the exact moment you reached for the phone — the bored moment, the anxious moment, the lonely moment — you end up praying at precisely the times you most need to and are least likely to.
Over a few weeks this rewires something. The reach for the phone becomes a reach for God. Not because you white-knuckled it, but because you did it forty times and it stuck.
You can always get through by praying; that is the whole design. You cannot get through without praying, unless you go into your phone's settings and remove PrayerMax's permission, which takes several deliberate steps. The friction is the point: it is enough to stop the automatic reach, not enough to feel like a prison.
Any app installed on your phone, and on iPhone also whole categories (all social apps, all games) and websites in Safari. It uses Apple's Screen Time framework and Android's equivalent, the same systems parents use for children's devices, so it works at the operating-system level and does not rely on the apps cooperating.
Yes. PrayerMax is built for both iPhone and Android. The blocking works slightly differently under the hood on each platform, but the experience is the same: locked app, quiet screen, pray, unlock.
Free: block any apps, one lock per day, personal prayers written for you, and a starter library. PrayerMax Pro unlocks the full library of prayers and Bible stories and lets you lock apps several times a day. Pricing is shown in the app.
PrayerMax does not need an account and does not collect your usage. The operating system's screen-time controls do the blocking, and by design they do not expose what you do inside apps to us or to anyone else. What you write in a personal prayer is used to write the prayer and is not stored on our servers afterwards.
