Today
Open the app to a short, focused list of what to pray for today, with a week of dots marking your rhythm. Tap once to mark a request prayed. Tap again if you didn't mean to.
Remember who you're praying for.
Sursum is a quiet prayer companion for iPhone and iPad. It keeps your prayer requests and the people behind them in one place, and helps you come back to them each day.
Simple enough to use every day.
Sursum doesn't try to be a devotional, a social network, or a habit tracker. It helps you remember people and keep praying for them.
Prayer requests
Write down a request in a few words: for someone you love, for yourself, or a verse to keep close. Add a deadline for things like an interview on Saturday, and Sursum will remind you.
People
Keep a short profile for each person you pray for, with what they're carrying and notes from your last conversation. The person you haven't prayed for in the longest time comes first.
Schedules
Give each day its own focus, like family on Sunday and church on Wednesday. Show everything on a schedule each time, or rotate through a long list one request at a time.
Birthdays and dates to remember
If you choose to, bring in birthdays and anniversaries from Contacts, and add the harder dates too. Sursum puts them on Today when they come around.
Answered prayer
Praying and answered are different things. Mark a request answered when it's answered, and it moves to an archive you can look back on with thanks.
Let them know
Write a short "I'm praying for you" message to someone and Sursum opens it in Messages. You read it over and send it yourself.
Siri and Shortcuts
"Add a prayer request in Sursum." "Pray for Sarah in Sursum." Capture a request or mark someone prayed for without opening the app.
On all your devices
Your prayer list syncs between your iPhone and iPad through your own private iCloud account. There's no account to make and no server of ours in the middle.
Made for iPhone and iPad.
Private by design
Your prayers stay yours.
What you pray for is between you and God. Sursum keeps your data on your devices and in your own private iCloud account, and we have no way to see it.
- No account to create and nothing to sign in to.
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party code.
- No servers of ours. Sync goes through your private iCloud account.
- Contacts access is optional, and Sursum asks only when you choose to import someone.
- You can choose to keep names and prayer details out of lock-screen reminders.
Lift up your hearts.
Sursum corda is one of the oldest lines in Christian worship: "Lift up your hearts." We hope Sursum helps you do that a little more often, for the people God has put in your life.