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How a simple idea ended up creating millions of prayers around the world

Emma Ludvigsson & Panos Karageorgakis

Emma Ludvigsson & Panos Karageorgakis

The first seed

It all started during a conversation when we asked ourselves, “how can we pray more?”

At some point in life we get to feel a stronger urge that all the years of experience we accumulate —whether in work, ministry of simply in life— can be put to good use in order to give back something to the world. That’s where we were in the summer of 2017 when we made a decision to take a ‘sabbatical’ from work and create an app.

We didn’t have a clear idea yet of what exactly the app would be, but we were agreeing in some principles:

  1. The app should help Christians in an area relevant to their faith

  2. Quality should be ‘world-class’: setting the standards as high as the most popular apps out there

  3. Simplicity should be key; anyone should feel comfortable using the app regardless of their level of proficiency with mobile apps

  4. It should be completely free to use

During that time, our own walk of faith was revolving around our desire to improve our prayer life. We knew we wanted to pray more but ended up having very little time about it, so we started discussing how can we pray more? How can we shift our mindset from thinking of prayer not as something that we keep forgetting, but as a habit?

Prayer as a habit

Prayer as a habit

The idea was formed: create an app that would remind us to pray during the day. We knew that the problem was busyness and a simple solution would be to simply bring back our attention throughout the day.

That’s when we set to create the first version of Prayminder during the winter of 2017. A simple app that would allow you to write down what you want to pray for, then send you notifications during the day to remind you about them.

Our hope was that this would help make prayer a habit. They say that it takes about 30 days of doing the same thing until it becomes a habit, so our hope was that the same would happen with prayer.

The idea was formed: create an app that would remind us to pray during the day. We knew that the problem was busyness and a simple solution would be to simply bring back our attention throughout the day.

That’s when we set to create the first version of Prayminder during the winter of 2017. A simple app that would allow you to write down what you want to pray for, then send you notifications during the day to remind you about them.

Our hope was that this would help make prayer a habit. They say that it takes about 30 days of doing the same thing until it becomes a habit, so our hope was that the same would happen with prayer.

The first version of the app we only used ourselves; once we saw that it really did help us make prayer a habit, we knew we’d have to release the app to everyone. Even if it helped one person, we’d feel blessed to have made it.

Transforming prayer lives

Transforming prayer lives

What an amazing journey it’s been to see this app grow all around the world, from person to person. Folks from all five continents in more than 190 countries have been using Prayminder. Everytime someone taps ‘Amen’, a signal is registered (completely anonymous) so we can count the total amount of prayers.

We’re so happy to see more than 15 million prayers registered so far through Prayminder. And reading all the beautiful reviews that so many of you have written brings us so much joy; time and again we’re reading on how this app helped someone ‘transform their prayer life’, ‘bring them closer to God’, ‘see prayers being answered’ and overall helping make prayer a part of life. A lifestyle.

What an amazing journey it’s been to see this app grow all around the world, from person to person. Folks from all five continents in more than 190 countries have been using Prayminder. Everytime someone taps ‘Amen’, a signal is registered (completely anonymous) so we can count the total amount of prayers.

We’re so happy to see more than 15 million prayers registered so far through Prayminder. And reading all the beautiful reviews that so many of you have written brings us so much joy; time and again we’re reading on how this app helped someone ‘transform their prayer life’, ‘bring them closer to God’, ‘see prayers being answered’ and overall helping make prayer a part of life. A lifestyle.

Support our effort

We’ve got many ideas on how to keep improving Prayminder —many of the coming from your feedback— and look forward to have the time and resources to make them a reality. Developing a world-class app takes a lot of effort and time, especially when it’s for an app that gives us no income.

We’re happy to offer Prayminder for free and keep maintaining it in our free time, as a side project next to our regular day jobs. If you’re feeling that you could help in any way, it would be great to hear from you.

Some ways that you can help would be app development, backend development, ideas on how to improve Prayminder or give some financial support.

Or, you can donate and offer your contribution to help us keep improving the app.

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Prayminder is free to install and use. If you find it useful, please consider to give back by donating.

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Prayminder is free to install and use. If you find it useful, please consider to give back by donating.

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