For churches & groups
Prayer Chain is free for every member, always. A parish subscription gives your community a chain of its own — your join code, your artwork, your moderation — and carries every approved request to every member's device at once.
No setup fee, no per-member charges, every group in the parish and your daily Mass intentions included, and nothing to install on your side.
Already in a parish that uses Prayer Chain?How to join your parish’s prayer chainWhat a subscription does
The office can enter a request directly…
…or approve one a member sent.
Every member's device, gently notified.
Within minutes, the whole parish is praying.
Free for every member · one annual price for the parish
That's the subscription. Free for every member, one price for the parish.
What you get
Your members download the same free app everyone else does. The subscription is what gives them a parish to belong to inside it.
A private prayer chain for your parish alone, opened with a short code you share however you reach people — an email, your website, the bulletin, or a word after Mass. Nobody outside it can see a single request.
Every member request lands in a queue for your administrators. Until one of them approves it, it stays that member's own private prayer.
Upload your parish's artwork once. It appears on every member's sign-in screen and on every screen after it — including the notification that reaches their lock screen.
The moment you approve something — a new request, or an update to one already on the chain — a notification appears on every member's device. The phone tree, without the phone tree, and without anyone staying up to make the calls.
Approve who joins, hand administrator rights to people you trust, and keep the list of who is being prayed for tidy and current.
Members choose the times of day they'd like a nudge to pray. You decide how long a request stays on the chain — thirty days by default — so the list turns over instead of growing forever.
Every group in the parish
A parish is more than one prayer list. Give each of your groups a chain of its own, under the parish's name and the parish's subscription, at no extra cost.
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Today’s Mass intentions
Turn it on, and each morning the day’s Mass intentions sit at the top of every member’s prayer list — who each Mass is being offered for, as your office scheduled it. Those who can’t be at Mass can still pray for the people it is offered for.
Included in every parish subscription, at no extra charge.
A week in the life
Nothing here takes an office more than a few taps. This is a real week on a parish chain, start to finish.
Pricing
Bands count the people actually on your prayer chain — not your registered families, and not everyone in the directory. That number is almost always far smaller than a parish expects: even a parish of 1,500 families will often have well under a hundred people on its chain. Every group in the parish shares that one count, and a person in several groups counts once.
Free
Up to 12 on the chain — one for each apostle. Enough for a family, a book club, or a small group.
$249/year
Up to 150 people across the parish, in as many as ten groups, with as many administrators as you need.
$449/year
Unlimited people and up to ten groups, for a very large parish or a multi-site one.
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Reduced pricing across 25 parishes or more, invoiced together.
No setup fee · no per-member charges · no charge for groups or Mass intentions · invoiced once a year, with no contract and nothing that renews unless you say so
Not only churches
Most chains are parishes, and the app speaks that way by default. But the word is yours to set — an AA chapter, a grief support group, a book club, a family. Wherever the app would say "parish", it says your word instead.
Questions parishes ask
Whoever you make an administrator — most parishes use two or three: someone on staff and a couple of trusted volunteers. A member's request waits in their queue, and until one of them approves it, nobody else in the parish can see it at all.
They install the app and enter your parish’s join code; you approve them in a tap, or they are let straight in if you invited them by email. Someone already on another chain uses Menu › Join another group instead of signing up again. Point people to getprayerchain.com/join for step-by-step instructions.
On most days, none. Approving a request is one tap on a phone, and the daily reminders go out on their own. The busiest stretch is the first fortnight, while members are joining and being approved.
On a server we run and maintain. Your chain is sealed off from every other parish on Prayer Chain — nobody else can see your requests, your members' names, or your notes.
Nothing is sold, nothing is advertised against, and there is no feed or algorithm anywhere in the app.
Your members keep the app, which costs them nothing — but your parish chain stops sending new requests. We will not delete anything without talking to you first, so if you need time or need your information back, ask.
Yes — up to ten groups inside the parish, all under the one subscription. Your parish administrator creates each group from the app, gives it a join code, and appoints whoever runs it.
Each group is private: its requests reach its own members and no one else. Joining with the parish's code puts someone on the prayer chain only, never into a group, so a grief support group stays among the people it was meant for. A member who belongs to more than one group simply joins the next one from the app's menu, with that group's code.
Yes, if you switch it on — it is off until you do, and it costs nothing extra. Each day’s intentions appear at the top of every member’s list, in the parish chain and in all of its groups, and disappear at the end of the day.
Whoever keeps them loads the list from the app: paste it from the bulletin, the office’s email or your website, or upload a spreadsheet, a month or a year at a time. Your administrators can give that job to someone in the office without giving them anything else to manage.
Only the people actually on your prayer chain and in your groups: those who have joined with a code and been approved. Each person counts once, however many of your groups they are in. Registered families, envelope numbers and directory entries have nothing to do with it.
No. Prayer Chain is free for them to download and use, with nothing to buy inside it. The parish subscription is invoiced to the parish, and members never see a price.
Start your chain
Tell us your parish and roughly how many people you expect on the chain, and we'll set it up and send your join code. Add the choir, grief support or any other group yourself, whenever you're ready. No card, no checkout — the parish is invoiced once a year.
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