Wake up, and you're already praying.

AmenAlarm is a morning alarm clock for Christians, built to turn prayer into something you actually do every day. The moment you turn the alarm off, your phone opens on scripture — one passage, what it means, and something to do with it today. Then a prayer, half of it written for the passage and half of it for whatever you're carrying.

The app open on the day's passage: Galatians 6:2, followed by an explanation of what Paul meant and one thing to do about it today.

What it's for

The hard part was never wanting to.

Almost nobody decides against praying in the morning. The day just starts first. So the thing that has to change isn't your intention — it's what happens in the ninety seconds after you wake up.

Prayer becomes a habit

You already set an alarm every night. This one ends with you praying instead of reaching for a feed. Enough mornings in a row and it stops being something you have to decide.

You learn the Bible

A passage a day with the context around it — who wrote it, who they were writing to, and what it asks of you. Not a verse on a gradient. A year of mornings is a year of passages you understand.

You grow closer to God

Not because an app can do that for you. Because the ordinary version of it is showing up daily, with something to read and something honest to say. This gets you in the room.

How it works

The stop button always works. That's the point.

Nothing here holds your phone hostage. iOS won't allow it, and a gate you resent is a gate you delete. What the alarm does instead is decide where you land.

It rings

A real system alarm on the lock screen, with the ringer and the volume iOS gives every other alarm.

You stop it

One tap, the way you always do. No puzzle, no held button, no waiting it out.

Scripture is already open

Stopping the alarm opens the app. Before you've decided anything, you're reading.

The morning

The same shape every day.

Set it once. What follows doesn't change, which is most of what makes it stick.

The alarm list: a 6:00 AM alarm labelled Morning prayer, repeating every day and switched on.
The alarm Pick a time and the days it repeats, then forget it's there. It behaves like every other alarm on the phone.
The Learn screen: Galatians 6:2, an explanation of the passage, and a section headed Today.
The passage Already on screen when you stop the alarm. What it says, what it meant to the people it was written to, and one thing to do with it.
The prayer screen: a prayer beginning Dear God, set one petition per line, with an Amen button at the bottom.
The prayer Opens from the passage, finishes with what you said you're carrying. One line at a time, sized to be read out loud.

The prayer

Written to be said out loud.

One petition per line, set large enough to read at arm's length four minutes after waking. It opens from the day's passage — the same for everyone — and finishes with whatever you asked to pray for.

Dear God,

There is a moment coming today where I will want to force my way through something small.

Help me notice it as it happens, before I have already reacted.

Give me one breath in that moment instead of the sharp answer.

Show me what patience would actually look like there.

Grow this in me, because I cannot manufacture it by trying harder.

Amen.

Plainly

What it is, and what it isn't.

365
One passage a dayChosen for teachability, a full year before any repeat.
WEB
Public domain scriptureThe World English Bible. No licence, nothing paraphrased.
0
No accountNothing to sign into. Your alarms and streak stay on the phone.
iOS
iPhone, iOS 26 or newerBuilt on AlarmKit, so it rings like a real alarm.

Start tomorrow morning with it.

It isn't on the App Store yet. Leave an email and I'll write to you once there's a build worth putting on your phone.