How this app is made

The Our Father, the Hail Mary, the Memorare, the Prayer to St Michael, the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the Rosary are the Church’s prayers, prayed in their received wording. Where a prayer is a modern composition, its page says so.

Scripture is quoted from the Douay-Rheims and the World English Bible (Catholic), and every quotation is checked against the published text before it ships — see the review section below.

“Ask” is the app’s AI guide to Catholic teaching. It does not hear confessions, it does not absolve, it does not bless, and it will send you to your own parish when a priest is what you need. It will not attribute a teaching to a named living person, and it is told never to invent a paragraph number or a verse.

On this website, every substantive answer ends with the Scripture, Catechism or Canon Law reference it drew on, so you can check it — and you should. If a question has no doctrinal source — a practical or pastoral one — it says so rather than forcing a citation. We are rolling the same rule out to Ask inside the iPhone and Android apps; until that ships, answers there may not carry a reference.

The review has two halves, and a text has to pass both.

The first is mechanical. Every Scripture quotation is compared byte for byte against the published text of the translation it claims — the Douay-Rheims and the World English Bible (Catholic). This is what catches a dropped word or a verse pasted into the wrong place, and it has caught both.

The second is doctrinal. Every passage is read from four angles — canon law, systematic theology, pastoral and psychological safety, and whether the text keeps Christ rather than the devil at the centre — against Scripture, the Catechism and magisterial sources. Anything flagged as serious is rewritten and checked again until nothing serious remains. The decision to publish is made by a person.

This is a check on the text. It is not the Church’s judgement: we claim no imprimatur and no formal endorsement.

The whole policy — what we write from, the doctrinal and pastoral rules, and how to report a mistake — is written down in our editorial standards.

Reading is free. Every prayer in the library, the Bible in three translations, the Daily Rule and the Communion are open without paying.

The subscription pays for the things that cost us to produce and to run: the narrated read-along audio, the reading-plan campaigns, the Household Vigil, the Protection Masterclass, the sleep narrations and the Ask guide. The full comparison is on the pricing page.

Choosing between Catholic apps? We compared ten of them, ours included and disclosed as ours, with every fact sourced: Catholic prayer apps compared.

The guided prayers are narrated by the AngelGuard voice, produced for the app from the written texts. It is not a recording of a priest or of any named person.

If you are writing about AngelGuard, this and the rest of the facts, each with its source, are on our press page.