Your phone stays locked
until you’ve prayed.

Behold is a prayer habit app for iPhone. You set Prayer Times through your day, and when one arrives, the distracting apps you chose, like Instagram and TikTok, lock until you pray. A prayer takes about sixty seconds and ends when you tap Amen. It is not a screen time tracker with a Bible verse attached; the prayer is the whole point, and the blocking is what makes it happen.

Behold uses Apple's Screen Time framework to shield the apps you select. When a Prayer Time starts, opening one of those apps shows a Behold screen instead of the feed. There is no ignore button and no countdown to wait out. You pray for about sixty seconds, guided by the P.R.A.Y. steps if you want them, tap Amen, and your apps open again.

Honestly: yes, and you should know that before you download. iOS lets anyone disable any Screen Time app from Settings, and Behold is no exception. But that is a deliberate, multi-step walk through Settings, not the two-second reflex tap that has been beating you for years. Behold is built to win the reflex moment. That same Settings switch is also the fail-safe that means Behold can never hold your phone hostage.

Yes, in one specific way. Apple's own App Limits put an Ignore Limit button on the screen, and most people tap it without thinking within a week. Behold's screen has no such button. The only way forward is a prayer with a sixty-second floor, and the Amen button does not even appear until that time has passed with Behold open. It removes the choice at the exact moment you are least able to make it.

It would be if Behold graded your prayer, but nothing about it is scored. The P.R.A.Y. steps (Praise, Repent, Ask, Yield) are a suggestion, not a gate. Nothing tracks whether you worked through them. If you sit in silence for the sixty seconds, you have prayed. Scheduled prayer also has deep precedent: Daniel prayed three times a day on a schedule, the Psalmist kept evening, morning and noon, and the apostles kept the hour of prayer.

P.R.A.Y. is a four-part shape for prayer: Praise: thank God for who He is and what He has done. Repent: confess honestly. Ask: bring your own needs and pray for others. Yield: sit quietly, listen, and commit to obey. In Behold it appears on screen while you pray, so you are never staring at a blank page wondering what to say.

Nothing bad. A missed Prayer Time is never marked red, never called a failure, and never counted against a streak. It simply stays open and waiting, and you can still pray it. Behold runs on grace, not guilt. If an app makes you feel worse about your walk with God, it is doing the opposite of its job.

Any app, website or category you choose through Apple's picker: Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, games, news, shopping. Behold shields only what you select. It cannot lock your whole phone, and it does not touch calls, messages or maps unless you specifically choose them.

No. App selection happens inside Apple's own secure picker, which hands Behold opaque tokens rather than a list of what you use. Behold does not collect or transmit your browsing history or app usage. Your Prayer Times, Boundaries and Practices are yours.

Behold is free to download from the App Store, and Behold Plus unlocks the full prayer habit system. The price is shown before anything starts, cancelling takes one tap in your Apple subscription settings, and there are no ads anywhere in the app, least of all between you and prayer.

Not yet. Behold is iPhone only and needs iOS 17.4 or later, because it is built on Apple's Screen Time framework. We would rather tell you that plainly than have you download something that cannot work on your phone.

Behold is built by Ralph Hermeling, a solo bootstrapped developer, alongside a day job. He and his wife built it for themselves first, after years of ignored Screen Time limits, deleted and reinstalled apps, and broken fasts. Support emails are answered by him personally, not a ticket queue.