Yes. The heart of Devotio - all prayers, devotions, Scripture, intentions, and features - is free, with no subscription, no premium tier, and no advertising.

Devotio is supported entirely by voluntary donations from those who are able and willing to give. If you are not in a position to donate, please simply use the app and pray for this work. Your prayers are every bit as valuable as any financial gift.

Devotio includes three Catholic Bible translations, each serving a different need:

The Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) - a modern English translation that is clear, accessible, and a natural starting point for anyone new to praying with Scripture.

The Douay-Rheims Bible - the traditional English Catholic translation, produced by English Catholic exiles in the late sixteenth century from the Latin Vulgate. The language the English-speaking Church has prayed with for centuries.

The Latin Vulgate - the same text the Church Fathers, the Councils, and the saints read. For anyone who wants to pray with Scripture in the language of the Church's tradition.

You can switch between translations at any time within the app.

The Personal Oratory is Devotio's prayer session builder. Rather than offering you a fixed list of content, it starts with you — your intentions, your circumstances, the themes that matter to you right now — and builds a session around them.

Choose a theme, add your intentions, and Devotio draws from its library of saints, prayers, and Scripture to create a prayer session that is genuinely personal to your situation. Every session is different because every day is different.

Devotio includes a wide range of traditional Catholic prayers and devotions:

The full Rosary — all twenty mysteries, or the traditional fifteen, bead by bead. The Stations of the Cross. Chaplets. Litanies in modern English, traditional English, and Latin. The Surrender Novena, with your personal intentions woven in. Traditional Catholic prayers including the Memorare, the Angelus, the Anima Christi, and many more.

All devotions can be added into active prayer sessions, and the app includes a liturgical calendar so your prayer life stays connected to the rhythm of the Church's year.

Yes - and this is one of the things that makes Devotio different.

The Intentions Diptych is inspired by the two-panelled prayer tablets used in the early Church: the names of the living on one side, the departed on the other, carried into every prayer. In Devotio, you add the people and situations you are holding — and the app weaves them into your sessions, suggesting prayers, saints, and Scripture that speak to those specific circumstances.

Your intentions remain on your device for as long as you keep them. They are never transmitted anywhere.

Yes. Every devotion and prayer type in Devotio can be scheduled - the Rosary, short rosaries, Stations of the Cross, chaplets, novenas, and the Personal Oratory. You can set daily reminders, build a series, and the app will integrate your schedule with the liturgical calendar so feast days and seasons appear alongside your own rhythm.

If life interrupts a session, Devotio remembers where you left off. A notification on the home screen lets you continue exactly where you were, whether you return in five minutes or five hours.

No, and it was never intended to be.

The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. Nothing replaces participation in the Mass, the sacraments, or time spent before the Blessed Sacrament.

Devotio exists to support your prayer life between those sacred encounters - to help you carry the grace of Sunday into the rest of the week. It is a companion for the journey, not a substitute for the destination.

Devotio was conceived and designed by one independent Catholic who wanted something faithful, private, and intentional. The production app was built with the help of a skilled Catholic engineer, engaged feature by feature to bring the vision to life.

It is built as an apostolate rather than a business. The prayers, the devotions, the Scripture, your intentions — free to use, and the heart of it always will be.

If Devotio helps one person develop a regular, meaningful prayer life, the work was worth it.

Yes. Devotio is available as a free download on both the App Store (iPhone and iPad) and Google Play (Android).

Not at present. Devotio is a text-based prayer app — the prayers, Scripture, and devotions are read rather than heard.

Audio is something we hope to offer in the future, subject to the donations that make further development possible.

If audio comes, it will be done properly: a single distinguished voice recording the prayers and Scripture in English and Latin, with sacred music as accompaniment - not guided meditation, not narrated sessions, but the tradition as it has always been heard.

For now, the silence is part of the intention. Prayer is a conversation, not a performance. Devotio gives you the words. The rest belongs to you and God.