Prayer board
Church prayer request app
A place for your congregation to ask for prayer between Sundays — including the requests people would never read out.
Members can share a prayer request with their whole church, post it anonymously, or send it to their church’s leaders alone.
Anonymous requests are anonymous in the database, not just on the screen — the author’s identity is never sent to anyone else’s device at all.
Others can tap “I’m praying” without having to find words. It is on the web and in the Psalmly app on iOS and Android.
How it works
A board your congregation can reach at eleven at night, which is usually when it is needed.
Step 1
Someone writes a request
On their phone or on the web, in their own words, whenever it comes to mind — not only on a Sunday.
Step 2
They choose who sees it
Three choices: the whole church, anonymously, or your leaders alone.
Step 3
The congregation prays
The board is there whenever anyone opens it, and "I'm praying" lets people respond without having to write.
Step 4
Admins keep it safe
Anything can be reported and reviewed, and members can block someone themselves.
Three ways to share a request
Chosen by the person asking, every time they ask.
- The whole church
- Your name and your request, on your church's board, where anybody in the congregation can pray for it.
- Anonymously
- The request is shared; you are not. Your name is withheld from everyone — see below for how far that goes.
- Your leaders only
- For the things you would say in an office with the door shut. Only your church's leaders and admins can see it.
Why people actually use it
A prayer board only works if the hardest requests can go on it.
- Anonymous means anonymous
- The identity of an anonymous author is withheld inside the database, before the request is sent anywhere. Other members' devices never receive the name, so there is nothing to leak, nothing to reveal by accident, and nothing that depends on the app behaving itself.
- A tier for what stays private
- Some things are for the pastor, not the congregation. A request can be set so only your church's leaders and admins see it, and the composer says plainly who that means.
- Praying, without performing
- "I'm praying" is one tap. It lets the quiet half of a congregation answer a request, which a comment box never does.
- Yours to edit or remove
- The person who wrote a request can change it or take it down whenever they want. What was true last month does not have to stay on the board.
- Moderated, and blockable
- Admins review anything a member reports, and a member can block someone without waiting for a decision from the office.
- In the app and on the web
- A tab in the Psalmly app on iOS and Android, and the same board on the web — so nobody is asked to install something to ask for prayer.
At a glance
| What you can do | Share prayer requests with your whole church, anonymously, or with your leaders alone — and respond with one tap. |
|---|---|
| Who can see it | Members of that church. The prayer board is never on your public website. |
| Where it works | The Psalmly app on iOS and Android, and the web. |
| What it costs | Included on every plan, Free included. |
Prayer boards are on every plan, including Free.
The core church app is free forever for churches up to 50 members, and the cap is soft — nobody who belongs to your church is ever kept out of it. AI is the one part of Psalmly a paid plan buys.
See what each plan includes →Questions churches ask
How anonymous is an anonymous request?
Completely. The feed is read through a function that withholds the author's identity before it ever leaves the database, so an anonymous request's author is never sent to anybody else's device. It is not a name hidden by the app — there is nothing there to reveal.
Can someone share a request with only our leaders?
Yes. A request can be set so that only your church's leaders and admins can see it, which is the right home for the things people would otherwise never write down.
Can people respond without writing something?
Yes, and most do. Tapping "I'm praying" lets someone say they are without having to find words for it — which is the difference between a board people read and a board people use.
Who moderates the board?
Your admins. Anything can be reported by a member and reviewed by an admin, and members can block someone themselves without waiting for anybody.
Does it work on phones?
Yes. The prayer board is a tab in the Psalmly app on iOS and Android, and it is on the web too. Requests turn up in the same place either way.
Can a request be edited or taken down?
By the person who wrote it, at any time. A prayer request is not a permanent record of somebody's worst week.
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