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Find a beacon
Beacons mark real places: a park, a town square, a main street. Each one glows brighter as people pray there. Tap one to learn about it, and the radar shows those within 5 km.
Light up your neighbourhood through prayer.
COVR is a map of the places where people pause to pray: the park, the hospital, the main street. Go there, pray, and watch the shared light grow across your community.
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What is God doing around you? Every neighbourhood has places at its heart: the main street, the park, the square where people gather. COVR helps you find them, go there, and pray.
How it works
Pray where it happens
A prayer for a place is different when you’re standing in it. COVR brings prayer out of the building and onto the streets you share.
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Go there
COVR asks you to pray in person. Tap Guide me there for walking directions, and the Pray button lights up once you’re within 150 metres.
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Pray, and add light
Type or speak your prayer. The words are used once to find broad themes, then discarded, and the beacon glows a little brighter for everyone.
The map comes alive
Every prayer adds light
On COVR, prayer leaves a trace. Beacons brighten as people pray, and green life grows on the ground around them. You can see your neighbourhood being held in prayer.
Your neighbours are praying. Tap a beacon to join them. Here, a day passes in about seven seconds.
Light fades over three days
A beacon stays bright only while people keep praying there, so the map shows where prayer is alive right now.
Warmth builds over a month
Steady prayer warms a place and spreads into the streets around it, until a whole suburb glows on the map.
Sparks to share
Gather sparks as you walk. After praying, leave one at the beacon, where its colour glows for three days.
Prayer walks
Turn a walk into a prayer
Some prayers need more than one spot. Record a prayer walk and COVR draws it on the map as a line of light others can follow.
- Record the route you already walk: the walk to work, your evening loop, the long way to the shops.
- It keeps recording with your screen locked. Finish, then trim the route before you save it.
- Share it, and anyone can pray along it. They only need to be within 50 metres of the path.
Shared themes, not words
Pray together, without saying a word
COVR never shows or stores what you prayed. Instead, each prayer is gently distilled into a few broad themes, like “health” or “families”.
Once at least two other people have prayed at a place, its themes appear for everyone. You see what your neighbours are carrying, and nobody can tell who prayed what.
Riverside Park
Beacon · shared by a neighbour
What people are praying for
- families
- health
- community
- peace
- work
- loneliness
- the elderly
- young people
More shared themes will appear as the community prays.
Private by design
Your prayers stay between you and God
COVR is built to know as little about you as possible. These aren’t settings to find. They’re how the app works.
Your words aren’t kept
Prayer text is used once to check for abuse and find broad themes, then discarded. It’s never saved in COVR’s database or logs, and never shown to anyone.
No recordings
Spoken prayers are transcribed on your iPhone with Apple’s on-device speech recognition. No audio is ever created or uploaded.
Location checked, not tracked
Your location confirms you’re near a place when you pray, then it’s discarded. Precise locations are saved only for beacons and walks you choose to create.
No ads, no tracking
No advertising, no third-party analytics, no cross-app tracking. We don’t sell your data.
Sign in with Apple
No password, and we never ask for your name. Use Hide My Email if you’d rather we didn’t see your address either.
Leave whenever you like
Delete your account from inside the app at any time, along with your prayer history and the places you made.
The details are in our Privacy Policy, written to be read.
Make your own places
Mark the places you carry
Place a beacon at the park, the hospital, the church on the corner, or record a walk along your streets. You can have up to ten at a time.
Only me
A place for your own prayers
Every new place starts private. Mark where you pray for your workplace, your street or your town, and keep it between you and God.
Everyone
An invitation to your community
Share a place and people nearby can find it, pray there and add to its light. You’ll hear when someone has prayed at your places, but never who.
Shared names and descriptions are screened automatically, anyone can report a place that’s unsafe or inappropriate, and you can hide everything from a creator with one tap.
Questions
Good to know
Do I have to be there to pray?
Yes. COVR is about praying in the place itself, so the Pray button lights up when you’re within 150 metres of a beacon, or 50 metres of any point along a prayer walk. Tap Guide me there for walking directions.
Can anyone read my prayers?
No. Your prayers are never shown to anyone. The words are sent once to be checked for abuse and turned into a few broad themes, then discarded. Themes only appear at a place after at least two other people have prayed there, and never with your name.
Who can see the places I make?
New beacons and walks start as Only me, visible just to you. Choose Everyone to share one, and other people using COVR can find it and pray there.
Which phones does COVR run on?
COVR is for iPhone, running iOS 18 or later. There’s no Android version yet.
What if there are no beacons near me?
You could be the first. Place a beacon somewhere you already pray, or record a prayer walk along your streets, then share it so others nearby can join you.
How do I get help?
Our support page covers the common questions and how to reach us. We reply within two working days.
God is at work in these places.
COVR is on its way to the App Store. Be one of the first to light up your neighbourhood.
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