Prayer lock & Bible chat for iPhone
Your phone is the first thing you reach for. What if it was God?
Alma gently locks your distracting apps until you've spent a moment with God — a short prayer, today's verse, or a conversation with Bible chat. Pray first, live better.
★ 4.9 on the App Store · Free to start · No credit card
tap the phone to see the moment
The morning scroll
the average person checks their phone 205 times a day
That's over five hours of screen time — most of it on autopilot. Willpower alone doesn't beat an algorithm designed by thousands of engineers. And blocking apps isn't enough either: an empty screen leaves a void, and the void is why you go back. Alma fills that moment with something better.
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How Alma works
pray first. then your apps open.
Choose your distractions
Pick the apps that pull you in — social media, games, anything.
Alma locks them, gently
When you reach for them out of habit, Alma pauses you with a moment of calm — a dove, not a wall.
You're invited to pray
A short guided prayer, today's verse, or a question for Bible chat. Then your apps open, and you move on centered.
More than a blocker
everything for a daily walk with God
Prayer lock
The only app lock that replaces the scroll with prayer
Build the habit without relying on willpower alone. Alma stands between you and the feed with something worth stopping for.
Daily verse
Your daily verse, always with you
A fresh verse waiting on your lock screen, every day — before you even unlock your phone.
Bible chat
Ask anything, any hour of the day
Ask anything — "how do I pray when I feel distant from God?" — and get thoughtful answers rooted in Scripture, any hour of the day.
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Journeys & streaks
Walk through the whole story
Walk through the whole story with guided journeys like the 21-day Beginner's Guide to the Bible — 5 minutes a day. Watch your prayer streak and mood trends grow.
Loved by people like you
join thousands building a daily prayer habit with Alma
★★★★★ 4.9 on the App Store
God
“It's so good it made my relationship even better with god recommended”
The app is amazing
“The app is amazing because it keeps me on track”
To Alma
“I really love how you help me pray and get closer to god thank you very much”
This is amazing
“I need to get closer to god and stuff, and this is the perfect app”
God is my everything
“I go to the United House prep for all this helping me grow close to God”
Great
“Will definitely help me in my faith”
Blockers leave you with an empty screen. Alma leaves you with God.
Your prayers stay between you and God. Alma uses Apple's own Screen Time technology to lock apps — your app selection never leaves your device.
Simple pricing
free to start. always.
Prayer lock, your daily verse, and your first guided journey are free forever. Alma Plus unlocks unlimited locks, full Bible chat, and every guided journey — try it free, cancel anytime.
questions, answered
Alma is for all believers. The prayers and journeys are rooted in Scripture and welcoming to Christians of every tradition, wherever you are in your faith journey.
Those apps block distractions and leave you with an empty screen. Alma replaces the moment with prayer, a verse, or Bible chat — so you're not just avoiding something, you're moving toward Someone.
Alma is a gentle guide, not a prison. You choose which apps to lock and when — the pause is there to break the autopilot, and most people find that's enough.
Bible chat is designed to answer with Scripture, always pointing you back to the Word itself. It's a study companion — not a replacement for your Bible, your church, or your pastor.
Yes. App locking runs on Apple's Screen Time technology, and your app selection never leaves your device. Your conversations and prayers are yours.
Alma is free to start — prayer lock, the daily verse, and your first journey cost nothing. Alma Plus unlocks everything else, with a free trial and cancel-anytime billing.