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Privacy-first · source-reviewed · iOS-first

A family of faith apps,
built quietly.

FaithApps turns daily practice into a private, source-aware companion: today's rhythm, reviewed content, family practice, sacred-time awareness, places, guidance, and community connection — without ad tracking or invented religious authority.

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No ad tracking Local-first defaults Manual location Verified-human guidance
Today · Wed reviewed
Maghrib in 1h 12m
Sacred Wheel · provider-driven
StandBy · Smart Stack · AppIntent
Fajr
Dhuhr
Asr
Maghrib
Source Passport · v3 · last verified Apr 12
Family Circle
Bedtime · 4 readers
Script Lens
Gurmukhi · trans · audio
Diaspora Bridge
Toronto · Mumbai
Qibla
manual · 247° NW
Sacred Wheel
panchang · zmanim
Portfolio

One platform. Distinct apps.

Each app is configured by tradition, denomination, local institution, language, calendar provider, and reviewed content sources. The shared platform gives every app deep native capability while keeping authority, privacy, and review boundaries explicit.

Orthodox Christian

Orthodox Liturgical Hub

Foundation built

A source-aware Orthodox Christian daily rhythm app for families, parishes, and learners.

The Orthodox app is designed around the shape of a lived church week: today's liturgical context first, then the readings, home practice prompts, feast preparation, fasting-aware household planning, parish connection, and pastoral support that an institution has actually reviewed.

Signature capabilities
  • Daily Home opens on the current liturgical day, upcoming service windows, home-practice action, and source status.
  • Liturgical calendar, readings, saints, fasting guide, feast prep, catechumen roadmap, and household practice surfaces.
  • Chant and audio learning modules carry Source Passports for recording, license, reviewer, locale, and version.
  • Parish discovery, livestreams, giving, sacramental-prep links, and community-directory surfaces can be enabled per institution.
  • Pastoral guidance routes to verified humans with consent and safeguarding triage, not to a generic chatbot.
  • FaithIntents, StandBy, Smart Stack, Wallet, Calendar, and Live Activity surfaces can carry the parish day without turning prayer into screen time.

Daily practice

  • A Today view combines feast/fast context, readings, saints calendar, next service time, and a single primary action.
  • Household practice packs can present reviewed prayers, iconography learning, family prompts, and preparation checklists without inventing devotional text.
  • Quiet Companion sessions can silence non-critical notifications during a prayer window and reward completing practice by leaving the app.

Parish and learning

  • Parish directory cards can expose verified public contact, livestream schedule, location, accessibility notes, and giving destination metadata.
  • Catechumen and family-learning flows are modular, so a parish can publish reviewed lesson packs without changing the app shell.
  • Audio surfaces support chant libraries, sermon or teaching collections, and reviewed recordings with honest missing-state messaging when licensing is not ready.

Native moments

  • Watch and Live Activity surfaces can show the next public service or practice countdown using derived state only.
  • Kiosk Mode can turn an iPad into a parish lobby display for public schedules, livestreams, places, and giving without personal data entry.
  • Source Passport Index makes the release state of every reading, calendar provider, audio file, and giving endpoint inspectable.
  • FaithWidgetKit keeps widget and Live Activity data leaf-level, so a parish extension can ship source-passported countdowns without dragging the full app UI graph.
Trust model
  • Calendar, readings, fasting rules, parish listings, chant audio, and giving destinations require reviewed providers before release.
  • No AI guide by default.
  • Pastoral contact flows require verified human guides, consent before contact, and reviewed safeguarding policy.
  • Donation routes require certifier-verified institution metadata and reviewed payment destinations before Apple Pay, NFC, or Wallet receipt summaries appear.
Source PassportLive ActivityReviewed providersPastoral consent
Sikh

Verified Gurbani Family App

Foundation built

A family-oriented Sikh learning and practice app centered on reviewed Gurbani access, audio, and gurdwara connection.

The Sikh app treats Gurbani access, pronunciation support, kirtan audio, and family learning as trust-sensitive surfaces. It gives households a calm daily rhythm while keeping every text, translation, transliteration, timing marker, and audio source reviewable.

Signature capabilities
  • Daily Home keeps family learning continuity visible across nitnem, listening, reading, and local gurdwara context.
  • Gurbani reader includes Script Lens modes for Gurmukhi, transliteration, translation, audio timing, and missing-state honesty.
  • Kirtan support can show artist, recording, source, license, reviewer, language, and version metadata before playback.
  • Family Circle and teacher dashboard flows support parent guide, reader, listener, child response, and reviewed lesson packs.
  • Gurdwara discovery, livestreams, seva/giving surfaces, and verified human guidance can be configured per community.
  • Shortcuts, Watch Action Button, and StandBy can open quiet practice, today's reading, or a family session through privacy-safe AppIntents.

Reader and audio

  • Script Lens can pair original script with transliteration and translation while preventing unreviewed machine transliteration from masquerading as reviewed guidance.
  • Word-level audio follow-along appears only when reviewed timing markers exist, so the interface never implies precision it does not have.
  • Kirtan and recitation libraries are audio-first, source-passported, and designed for family listening instead of social sharing.

Family learning

  • One-device household sessions assign roles for adult guide, reader, listener, and child response, keeping the experience local and bounded.
  • Teacher dashboard foundations can stage reviewed question packs, lesson sequences, and practice prompts without exposing private family notes.
  • Children's Reverence Mode supports large readable type, reviewed read-aloud audio, and parent-authorized sessions.
  • Sacred text inputs disable Apple Intelligence Writing Tools by default, so a child's reflection or family blessing is never silently rewritten.

Community connection

  • Gurdwara listings remain discovery hints until reviewed; verified cards can add public contact, livestreams, accessibility notes, and source metadata.
  • Guidance requests route to verified human guides with consent and local triage for urgent or safeguarding-adjacent messages.
  • Kiosk and public display surfaces can be configured for a gurdwara lobby without collecting personal data.
  • Sangha Echo can show thresholded, noisy practice presence at tradition/country/hour level without revealing exact counts or identities.
Trust model
  • Gurbani text, translations, transliterations, timing markers, kirtan audio, and gurdwara listings must come from reviewed sources.
  • No generic spiritual chatbot.
  • Family learning records are local-first unless a reviewed institutional workflow explicitly requires something else.
  • Blessing and Heirloom artifacts can be verified by receivers, so signed family care is not just decorative metadata.
Script LensFamily CircleWriting Tools offHuman guidance
Hindu

Hindu Diaspora Devotion Planner

Foundation built

A diaspora-first Hindu family practice app for sacred time across here and home, festival prep, and privacy-preserving community.

The Hindu app is built for families whose practice spans regions, languages, calendars, temples, and household traditions. It centers the panchang, festival preparation, home puja planning, diaspora clocks, and reviewed audio without storing precise location by default.

Signature capabilities
  • Daily Home and Sacred Wheel can be driven by reviewed panchang providers, sunrise/sunset windows, and festival calendars.
  • Diaspora Bridge keeps here/home region clocks and family prompts visible without requiring GPS storage.
  • Festival prep, vrat planning, puja checklists, deity path learning, bhajan audio, and home-practice modules fit one app shell.
  • Temple discovery, livestreams, giving surfaces, and verified human guidance can be enabled with reviewed institutional data.
  • Quiet Sharing uses native share sheets for family reminders and source-passported links without recipient capture.
  • Pilgrimage Live Activities, Watch complications, and walking-workout metadata can turn reviewed routes into battery-conscious sacred journeys.

Sacred time and home practice

  • Sacred Wheel can show panchang events, vrat windows, festival prep periods, sunrise/sunset, and family-relevant reminders from reviewed providers.
  • Puja checklists can be prepared as reviewed content packs with source status, locale, version, and reviewer notes.
  • Spatial Planning Preview can help plan rangoli, home shrine, mandala, and festival decor layouts with reviewed asset packs.

Diaspora family mode

  • Here/Home clocks help a family coordinate practice across time zones while keeping region setup manual and privacy-preserving.
  • Family contact prompts can be shown only after consent and can avoid storing private religious activity analytics.
  • Festival prep can combine shopping/checklist timing, reviewed audio, household tasks, and one-tap quiet sessions.
  • Family Reverence Profiles can suppress normal surfaces during sandhya, festival prep, or home practice windows when a guardian has explicitly configured them.

Temple and community

  • Temple listings remain hints until reviewed, and user-submitted updates enter a reviewer queue before public claims appear.
  • Dietary suitability around prasad, vrat, sattvic, or festival meals is never claimed without reviewed certifier/source metadata.
  • Livestream, guidance, and giving surfaces can be configured per institution with public data and Source Passports.
  • Tap-to-donate routes remain locked until the institution is certifier-verified and the destination has reviewed Source Passport metadata.
Trust model
  • Panchang events, festival dates, mantras, bhajan audio, temple listings, dietary suitability, and donation destinations require reviewed providers.
  • Precise location is not stored by default.
  • The app must not claim dietary or ritual suitability without reviewed source or certifier metadata.
  • Source Passport public URLs let external temple pages link back to the exact reviewed source document instead of vague app claims.
Diaspora BridgePilgrimageVerified donationManual location
Jewish

Jewish Home Learning

Configurable base

A pluralist-configurable Jewish home and family learning app for Shabbat, holidays, zmanim, Omer, and rabbinic guidance.

The Jewish app is a configurable home-learning and household-practice companion. It can adapt by movement profile and institution, while keeping zmanim, calendar calculations, kosher guidance, Hebrew text, translations, and rabbinic contact behind reviewed sources and explicit authority.

Signature capabilities
  • Jewish Home surface combines Shabbat prep, holiday prep, zmanim, family learning, and reviewed daily actions.
  • Zmanim, Omer counter, candle-lighting windows, audio learning, text study, and lifecycle prep share one source-aware shell.
  • Synagogue discovery, livestreams, community directory, and giving surfaces can be configured per institution.
  • Kosher and Passover-related guides are certifier-gated and cannot claim suitability from unreviewed listings.
  • Rabbinic guidance routes to verified humans with consent, local triage, and no generic spiritual chatbot.
  • Candle-lighting, Omer, yahrzeit, and study surfaces can appear through AppIntents, StandBy, Smart Stack, Wallet, Calendar, and Live Activity plans.

Home rhythm

  • The Today surface can put Shabbat or holiday preparation ahead of generic content browsing, with countdowns, reviewed checklists, and source status.
  • Zmanim and candle-lighting displays are provider-driven and can open the Source Passport behind the calculation.
  • Family learning flows can combine Hebrew, transliteration, translation, audio, and discussion prompts only where reviewed content exists.
  • Family Reverence Profiles can quiet a child's normal app surface during candle-lighting or learning windows with guardian consent and no raw activity log.

Learning and lifecycle

  • Text study and audio learning modules can be assembled from reviewed packs with locale, version, citation, and reviewer metadata.
  • Lifecycle prep can be configured as institution-approved checklists and learning paths rather than generic advice.
  • Omer, holiday, and home-practice surfaces can be made movement-aware without hardcoding one universal Jewish voice.

Community and food

  • Synagogue listings, events, livestreams, and giving links remain public-data surfaces with explicit review state.
  • Kosher guide entries show verification status and certifier metadata; discovery hints never become dietary claims.
  • Guidance flows can route to verified rabbis, teachers, or chaplains with consent and safeguarding-aware triage.
  • Opt-in chaplaincy exports can produce FHIR spiritual-wellbeing observations from user-approved summaries, never raw journal text.
Trust model
  • Zmanim, calendar calculations, kosher metadata, Hebrew/translation content, synagogue listings, and rabbinic rosters require reviewed sources.
  • No halakhic claims without reviewer approval.
  • Legacy and typed tradition configuration are reconciled so movement/profile data cannot silently disagree.
  • Public Source Passport JSON-LD makes reviewed text, calculation, place, and donation provenance linkable outside the app.
Pluralist configSmart StackVerified guidesFHIR export
Muslim

Privacy-first Muslim Family Companion

Configurable base

A Muslim family companion for prayer setup, Qibla, Ramadan, dua learning, and verified scholar guidance.

The Muslim app is built around prayer rhythm, family practice, and careful configuration. Prayer calculation, Qibla, Ramadan surfaces, dua learning, mosque discovery, donation endpoints, and scholar guidance all stay explicit about variant, source, reviewer, and privacy boundaries.

Signature capabilities
  • Prayer Times can expose reviewed calculation provider, method, asr handling, location policy, and source status.
  • Qibla locator supports manual location fallback, no precise-location storage by default, and optional haptic alignment.
  • Ramadan Mode, suhoor/iftar reminders, dua scaffolds, Islamic calendar, Qur'an learning, and family learning share one shell.
  • Mosque discovery, livestreams, giving/zakat surfaces, and verified scholar guidance can be source-gated per community.
  • Variant profiles support configurable Sunni schools, Ja'fari, Ismaili, Ibadi, and local reviewed policy surfaces.
  • Maghrib and Ramadan countdowns can become source-passported Live Activities, StandBy surfaces, Smart Stack hints, Wallet passes, and Calendar events.

Prayer and Ramadan

  • Prayer setup can show calculation method, target location policy, manual override, and provider Source Passport instead of hiding assumptions.
  • Ramadan surfaces can combine suhoor/iftar timing, family prompts, reviewed duas, countdowns, and quiet practice sessions.
  • Haptic Qibla can use restrained taps for orientation while keeping camera use directional-only and manual location available.
  • FaithIntents can open Qibla, today's reading, quiet practice, or a Reverent Block from Siri, Shortcuts, Watch Action Button, Vision quick actions, and StandBy.

Learning and family

  • Dua and Qur'an learning modules can present reviewed Arabic, transliteration, translation, audio, and commentary metadata.
  • Script Reader Assist can gate word timing and pronunciation aids on reviewed markers instead of guessing.
  • Family learning flows support shared household sessions and local-first completion state, not social pressure.

Community and guidance

  • Mosque listings, prayer spaces, livestreams, and public contact details remain discovery hints until reviewed.
  • Giving or zakat destinations require Source Passports so users can inspect destination, license/context, reviewer, and version.
  • Scholar or chaplain guidance routes through verified humans, requires consent, and locally redirects urgent safety, medical, legal, financial, or therapy-adjacent requests.
  • Verified donation routing can prefer Apple Pay or approved NFC paths, with a share-sheet fallback when eligibility or destination metadata is not ready.
Trust model
  • Qur'an text, hadith, duas, translations, tafsir, fiqh rulings, prayer-time calculations, mosque listings, and donation endpoints require reviewed sources and qualified approval.
  • No AI guide by default.
  • Manual location must work without GPS permission, and precise location is not stored by default.
  • Whisper Mode, Sacred Language Practice, and sacred text fields keep audio, transcripts, and AI rewriting out unless a reviewed flow explicitly allows it.
Manual locationLive ActivityAppIntentsScholar routing

Variant engine

Manifest-first apps for denominations, schools, families, and local institutions.

The platform now includes cross-faith household onboarding by default and a generated catalog of app variants across the major traditions. Each variant stays source-gated until its calendar, content, places, dietary, and human-guidance providers are reviewed.

3
bahai
9
buddhism
28
christianity
3
communitySpecific
3
eastAsian
10
hinduism
3
interfaith
12
islam
5
jainism
11
judaism
6
sikhism
3
zoroastrianism
christianity

Catholic Parish Companion

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dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdcontentReader
islam

Sunni Shafi‘i Companion

sunni-shafii

dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdcontentReader
islam

Shia Ja‘fari / Twelver Companion

shia-jafari-twelver

dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdcontentReader
judaism

Modern Orthodox Community Companion

modern-orthodox

dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdjewishHome
judaism

Reform Community Companion

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dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdjewishHome
buddhism

Theravada Buddhist Companion

theravada

dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdcontentReader
jainism

Jain Diaspora Family Companion

diaspora-family

dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdcontentReader
interfaith

Interfaith Couples Companion

cross-faith-couples

dailyHomejourneyIntakeinterfaithHouseholdcontentReader
Shared platform

Modules, not monolith.

Every app is composed from the same source-aware modules. Each one can be enabled, configured, or held back until reviewed providers exist.

01

Daily Home

The app opens to today's practice, not a content database: next ritual window, primary action, family prompt, countdown, source status, and offline-ready content.

02

Sacred Wheel

A calendar-native, provider-driven view of sacred time: sunrise/sunset, prayer times, fasting windows, festival periods, Shabbat/holiday prep, Omer, panchang — without hardcoded theology.

03

Source Passport

A visible provenance layer for content, audio, translations, places, calculations, giving, and external links. Source, license, jurisdiction, reviewer status, version, last verified, public HTTPS resolver, and JSON-LD export.

04

FaithWidgetKit

Widget and Live Activity data now live in a leaf package, so app extensions can render source-passported countdowns, readings, and ritual states without importing the full SwiftUI app surface.

05

FaithIntents

Six privacy-safe AppIntent surfaces: start quiet practice, open Qibla, compose blessing, show today's reading, start Reverent Block, and log reflection. Ready for Siri, Shortcuts, Watch Action Button, Vision quick actions, and StandBy.

06

Live Activity + StandBy

Ritual countdowns can become ActivityKit-ready plans with source-passported state, privacy-safe titles, interactive StandBy metadata, and Smart Stack relevance windows.

07

Quiet Companion

Anti-engagement design: focused practice sessions, post-practice quiet windows, notification silence during ritual windows, progress that rewards leaving the app.

08

Diaspora Bridge

Side-by-side Here and Home region clocks for families across time zones, with culturally significant family contact prompts and local-only consent.

09

Script Lens

A reader for non-Latin scripts done carefully: reviewed script/transliteration/translation modes, audio follow-along only when timing assets exist, honest missing-state messages.

10

Family Circle

A shared household session on one device: parent guide, reader, listener, child response, audio lead. Local-first by default and built for bedtime, holidays, and shared practice.

11

Spatial Audio Practice Rooms

Provider-ready immersive audio rooms for licensed chant, kirtan, recitation, dhikr, niggunim, and reviewed recordings. No AI voices, no unlicensed audio.

12

Apple Watch Ritual Companion

Single-glance ritual state: next sacred-time window, fasting countdown, Smart Stack metadata, source-backed live surfaces, privacy-preserving derived state, and Watch complication handoff to Source Passport details.

13

Places Discovery

Places of worship and faith-aware food discovery with manual location support and visible verification levels. Results are hints until a reviewed source verifies them.

14

Verified-Human Guidance

Consent-based routing to verified clergy, teachers, elders, chaplains, and scholars. Includes urgent-safety triage and offline drop-box architecture, not chatbot guidance.

15

Blessing and Heirloom Verification

.faithblessing and .faithheirloom artifacts now have verifier and Keychain-custodied Ed25519 signing models, so receivers can reject expired, tampered, malformed, or unknown-key signatures.

16

Sacred Text Protection

Reflection and blessing text fields can disable Apple Intelligence Writing Tools by default, requiring explicit opt-in before any sacred or pastoral text is rewritten.

17

Verified Donation Routing

Apple Pay, approved NFC, Wallet receipt summaries, and share-sheet fallbacks stay locked behind certifier-verified institutions and reviewed donation Source Passports.

18

Sangha Echo

A privacy-preserving aggregate for Reverent Block participation: noisy tradition/country/hour events with k-anonymity thresholds and no exact counts below release limits.

19

Reflection Journal

Local-first handwritten or typed reflection with Pencil-ready direction, protected text inputs, and optional user-approved FHIR spiritual-wellbeing summary export for chaplaincy.

20

Kiosk Mode

Institution-ready iPad and lobby presentation for public schedules, livestreams, places, and giving — with no personal data collection.

21

Sacred Neighborhood

Opt-in, zip-code-level interfaith literacy showing public observance windows nearby, without exposing individual identity.

22

Family Reverence Profiles

Guardian-consented child-account profiles can suppress normal app surfaces during sacred windows and show Reverence Mode instead, without precise location or raw religious activity logs.

23

Pilgrimage Surfaces

Reviewed FaithPilgrimage routes can drive Live Activities, walking-workout metadata, Watch complications, next-waypoint distance, and background-refresh-only journey state.

Latest capabilities

The newest platform work, explained.

The latest build is not just a longer feature list. It pushes FaithApps deeper into native iOS surfaces while keeping the same product contract: reviewed sources, explicit consent, local-first state, and no invented authority.

12 verified improvements across widgets, Live Activities, intents, custody, Wallet, pilgrimage, family controls, chaplaincy, and public provenance.
Extensions without the app graph

Leaf Widget and Activity Data

Widget extensions, Live Activities, StandBy, Watch Smart Stack

Capability
FaithWidgetEntry, FaithLiveActivityState, ritual descriptors, StandBy metadata, and relevance hints live in FaithWidgetKit, a leaf package that can be imported without the full SwiftUI app shell.
Guardrail
The extension receives source-passported data shapes only; FaithUI keeps the visual templates and review-sensitive presentation.
Verified by
FaithWidgetKit package with focused Codable/Sendable tests.
Lock screen sacred time

ActivityKit Ritual Countdown

Maghrib, candle-lighting, yahrzeit, pilgrimage, and Reverent Block countdowns

Capability
FaithRitualActivityAttributes wraps FaithLiveActivityState for ActivityKit, while the planner builds source-passported countdowns with privacy-safe titles, AppIntent identifiers, StandBy copy, and Smart Stack relevance windows.
Guardrail
Missing Source Passports, missing intents, unsafe titles, invalid date ranges, and precise-location storage fail closed.
Verified by
FaithWidgetKit planner tests cover success and rejection paths.
System-first actions

FaithIntents

Siri, Shortcuts, Watch Action Button, Vision quick actions, and StandBy

Capability
Six intent descriptors cover Start Quiet Practice, Open Qibla, Compose Blessing, Show Today's Reading, Start Reverent Block, and Log Reflection, with AppIntent/AppShortcutsProvider implementations behind platform availability guards.
Guardrail
Each descriptor declares its required module, whether a Source Passport is needed, and whether user-authored content is involved.
Verified by
FaithIntents tests verify catalog completeness and privacy summaries.
Crypto loop closed

Keychain Token Custody

.faithblessing and .faithheirloom files

Capability
Blessing and Heirloom artifacts are signed over canonical payload bytes, verified by receiver-side public-key fingerprints, and can use Keychain-custodied Ed25519 private keys through a testable storage seam.
Guardrail
Expired, tampered, malformed, unsupported-algorithm, unknown-key, fingerprint-mismatch, and invalid stored-key paths all fail closed.
Verified by
FaithCreative tests cover valid signatures, tampering, expiry, Keychain reuse, and invalid stored keys.
Writing Tools off by default

Sacred Text Protection

Reflection journals, blessing composers, pastoral text, and family-authored notes

Capability
FaithSacredTextField and FaithSacredTextEditor wrap SwiftUI text inputs and opt out of Apple Intelligence Writing Tools on supported OS versions unless the caller explicitly enables them.
Guardrail
Sacred or pastoral text stays user-authored by default; opt-in is explicit and can be limited to reviewed contexts.
Verified by
FaithUI tests cover default disabled policy and explicit opt-in.
One tap with proof

Verified Donation Routing

Apple Pay, approved NFC paths, Wallet receipt summaries, and share-sheet fallback

Capability
Donation routing chooses NFC Apple Pay, an Apple Pay URL, or a fallback route only after the institution is certifier-verified and the destination has complete reviewed Source Passport metadata.
Guardrail
Discovery hints, mismatched institution IDs, unreviewed destinations, and missing provenance cannot produce a payment route.
Verified by
FaithPlaces tests cover verified, fallback, and rejection cases.
Aggregate presence, not a social graph

Sangha Echo

Reverent Block and practice-presence surfaces

Capability
The client contributes noisy events keyed only by tradition, country, and hour, then surfaces soft presence language only when k-anonymity thresholds are met.
Guardrail
No exact counts below threshold, no identity, no precise location, and no raw participation graph.
Verified by
FaithCreative tests cover noisy values, normalized keys, threshold withholding, and no exact count exposure.
Route, Watch, Workout

Pilgrimage Live Surfaces

Reviewed routes across phone lock screen, Apple Watch, and walking workout metadata

Capability
FaithPilgrimage progress can drive a Live Activity, a Watch complication with next-waypoint distance, and walking-workout metadata so a pilgrimage walk can count without keeping the full app open.
Guardrail
Reviewed route and waypoint Source Passports are required, progress is background-refresh-only, and precise location is not stored.
Verified by
FaithPilgrimage tests cover complete live-surface planning.
Guardian-consented sacred windows

Family Reverence Profiles

Child-account devices during candle-lighting, maghrib, sandhya, holidays, and home practice

Capability
A guardian-approved profile defines sacred windows that suppress normal app surfaces and show Reverence Mode instead.
Guardrail
Guardian consent and child-account scoping are required; precise location and raw religious activity logs are rejected.
Verified by
FaithCore tests cover active windows and consent failure.
JSON-LD provenance

Public Source Passport URLs

External websites, shared links, institutional pages, and in-app provenance buttons

Capability
The resolver maps a Source Passport to a public HTTPS URL, keeps the faithapp:// deep link, and emits JSON-LD with source, license, reviewer, locale, version, status, and detail rows.
Guardrail
The document describes provenance; it does not invent religious authority or hide missing metadata.
Verified by
FaithCore tests cover public URL, deep link, and JSON-LD output.
Summary export, never raw journal

FHIR Chaplaincy Export

Hospital, hospice, military, and institutional chaplaincy handoff

Capability
A user-approved reflection summary can be exported as a spiritual-wellbeing Observation-style resource with score, tags, effective date, and Source Passport reference.
Guardrail
Explicit consent is required, raw reflection text is rejected, and out-of-range wellbeing scores fail validation.
Verified by
FaithCore tests cover consent, raw-text rejection, and successful export.
Visible when it matters

Wallet Smart Stack Relevance

Daily Reading Wallet Pass, lock screen, and Watch Smart Stack

Capability
Daily Reading Wallet Pass planning emits relevance start/end windows, score, reason, pass ID, reading ID, and Source Passport ID around sacred time.
Guardrail
Unreviewed readings, missing Source Passports, and privacy-unsafe titles are rejected before a pass or relevance hint can ship.
Verified by
FaithCreative tests cover Wallet pass creation and Smart Stack relevance behavior.
Creative features

Award-grade ideas, wired with guardrails.

These are the features that make FaithApps feel less like a database and more like a private daily companion: spatial, social, wearable, family-aware, cryptographically verifiable, system-integrated, and still restrained.

Nightstand sacred time

StandBy Live Activity

A countdown can live calmly on the lock screen, nightstand, or Smart Stack without becoming a feed.

How it works

A source-passported ritual activity plan carries privacy-safe titles, an ActivityKit content state, an AppIntent identifier for interaction, and a relevance window around sacred time.

Product guardrail

No free-text title leaks, no missing Source Passport, and no precise location storage.

Capability preview
StandBy Live Activity
Review stateSource-gated
ProviderRequired before release
Anti-engagement

Quiet Companion

A faith app that helps people finish and leave.

Family across time zones

Diaspora Bridge

Here and home stay visible together.

AirPods + Vision-ready

Spatial Audio Practice Rooms

Licensed audio becomes a quiet, room-scale practice space.

Shared family device

Children's Reverence Mode

Bedtime and family routines become calm, readable, and bounded.

Trauma-informed routing

Offline Guidance Drop-Box

A user can compose a request offline without losing safety routing.

Trust you can inspect

Source Passport Index

The citation system becomes a visible product primitive.

Non-Latin scripts

Script Reader Assist

Original script, transliteration, translation, and audio timing stay in sync.

Single glance

Watch Ritual Companion

The Watch becomes the lead surface for prayer-rhythm traditions.

Public iPad mode

Institutional Kiosk

A lobby display can be useful without collecting personal data.

Private handwriting

Pencil Reflection Journal

Reflection feels intimate instead of extractive.

Interfaith literacy

Sacred Neighborhood

Neighbors can understand public observances without exposing private identity.

AR literacy

Sacred Space AR

A camera can explain a sacred space without inventing meaning.

Directional, not decorative

Haptic Qibla AR

A user can orient quietly without staring at a phone.

Home setup

Spatial Planning Preview

Families can plan ritual spaces before moving furniture.

Send care, not a feed

Blessing Token

A blessing becomes a signed, expiring artifact sent through any messaging app.

Human-mediated

Institutional Prayer Requests

Prayer requests follow the institution, not a social feed.

Share sheet only

Messaging Share Targets

LINE, WhatsApp, Telegram, Messages, Mail, SMS, and Signal can receive beautiful previews.

Headline flow

Reverent Block

Watch, phone, audio, and optional blessing line up into one restrained ritual block.

Blessings that outlive the sender

Heirloom Token

A signed, sealed-until-date artifact a grandparent can leave for a grandchild's future moment.

The call without the app

Ambient Presence

Tradition arrives as a low-volume tone at the right moment — without opening anything.

Private pronunciation coaching

Sacred Language Practice

Read aloud in Hebrew, Arabic, Gurmukhi, Sanskrit or Geʽez and see word-level feedback.

Practice in your Wallet

Daily Reading Wallet Pass

The day's reviewed reading lands in Apple Wallet next to your boarding passes.

Interfaith translation, in your ear

Whisper Mode

A first-time attendee at a service in an unfamiliar tradition hears a whispered translation of just the phrases that matter.

visionOS · empty cathedral

Sacred Space Immersive

Sit silently inside a permitted, reviewed scan of a real sacred space — alone or with iCloud Family.

Silent-default emergency surface

Crisis Pack

When something terrible happens, the normal app disappears and a reviewed, tradition-specific surface takes its place.

A baton, not a metric

Generational Streak Continuation

A practice held by a grandparent can continue with the next generation — by consent, never by inference.

Less app, more practice

Calendar Sync

Each day's reviewed reading shows up as an all-day event in Apple Calendar.

Leaf-level widgets

FaithWidgetKit

Widgets and Live Activities can ship without dragging the whole app UI graph into every extension.

Siri, Shortcuts, Watch

FaithIntents

The most important actions can start from the system, not only from an app tab.

Crypto loop closed

Blessing Token Verifier

A beautiful signed blessing is no longer decorative. The receiver can actually verify it.

Nightstand sacred time

StandBy Live Activity

A countdown can live calmly on the lock screen, nightstand, or Smart Stack without becoming a feed.

Writing Tools off

Sacred Text Inputs

Reflection journals and blessing composers do not get quietly rewritten by platform AI.

Apple Pay with proof

Verified Institution Donation

Giving can be one tap while still showing exactly where the money is meant to go.

Private aggregate presence

Sangha Echo

A user can feel that others are practicing nearby without anyone becoming a datapoint.

Route, Watch, Workout

Pilgrimage Live Surfaces

Reviewed pilgrimage routes can stay alive on the wrist and lock screen while the phone stays away.

Family Controls

Family Reverence Profile

A child's device can become quieter during sacred household windows without logging religious behavior.

JSON-LD provenance

Public Source Passport URLs

Source Passport becomes linkable outside the app, not just a button inside it.

Clinical chaplaincy

FHIR Chaplaincy Export

A user can share spiritual-wellbeing context with a chaplain without exporting a private journal.

Relevant at sacred time

Wallet Smart Stack Pinning

A reviewed reading or pass becomes visible right when it matters, then gets out of the way.

Mock screenshots

Concepts you can see before providers are connected.

These are product mockups, not live content. They show the intended interaction patterns while keeping sacred text, places, audio, and authority source-gated.

Mock screenshot · Blessing Token
.faithblessingexpires in 7 days
Safe travels

A user-written intention, signed locally, shared through the system share sheet.

SenderChosen display name
SignatureEd25519 · local key
No recipient identifiers stored
No read receipt or reply thread
No bulk send or leaderboard
Templates require Source Passport metadata
Delivery stays inside OS share sheets
Mock screenshot · Sacred Space AR
Architecture
Reviewed overlay
Orientation
Source Passport
Object context
Institution verified
institutionVerified venue
room scans not stored
Mock screenshot · Watch and Haptic Qibla
Smart Stack
Next window
23 min
triple tap when aligned
Complication
Long press opens calculation Source Passport
Haptics
Single tap means warmer; triple tap means aligned
Privacy
Derived state only; no precise Watch location storage
Presence
Pray Together has start/completed only, no chat
Mock screenshot · Reverent Block
4-minute block
Begin reverence
1Begin on Watch
2Reverence Mode
3Optional spatial audio
4Practice-only Live Activity
5Optional Blessing Token
6Disengage
Quiet-space packs are curated and read-only
Blessing is optional, never a feed
Completion can reward not sharing
Roadmap

Room to grow, without becoming generic.

Future categories arrive only with reviewed providers, qualified approval, and tradition-specific configuration. Listed, not assumed.

Future category

Catholic Prayer and Liturgy

  • Liturgical seasons, daily readings, rosary and breviary hooks
  • Parish, school, sacrament prep, and family prayer flows
  • Source-reviewed audio and calendar providers
Future category

Buddhist Practice and Learning

  • Calm audio-first practice, meditation timers, retreat surfaces
  • Sangha discovery and verified teacher routing
  • Vegetarian/vegan discovery only when source-reviewed
Future category

Protestant / Interdenominational Devotional

  • Reading plans, devotionals, prayer groups, sermon libraries
  • Church groups, livestreams, giving, pastoral guidance
  • Denomination-specific configuration, not one generic voice
Future category

Jain Family and Community

  • Calendar, fasting, learning, temple discovery
  • Jain vegetarian suitability only with reviewed certifier metadata
Future category

Baha'i and Institution-Dense Traditions

  • Calendar, study circles, official content, institution-aware guidance
  • Built as approved local or organizational variants
Future category

Local Institution Variants

  • Parish, mosque, synagogue, gurdwara, mandir, sangha, school, chaplaincy configs
  • Same platform, distinct terminology, authority, calendar rules, and visual identity
Trust

Trust you can inspect.

Religious activity is sensitive by default. FaithApps minimizes analytics, avoids ad tracking, and keeps draft content visibly labeled until reviewed.

  • Manual city/region setup works without GPS
  • Precise location is not stored by default
  • Contacting a guide requires consent
  • Sharing uses native share sheets — no social graph collection
  • Draft / source-gated content stays visibly labeled until reviewed
Source Passport
module/preview
Source
—
License
Reviewed text license required
Jurisdiction
Per tradition
Reviewer
Qualified reviewer
Version
draft
Last verified
pending
Data inventory
minimal
Location policy
manual
Consent gates
explicit
Offline packs
ready
Review status
visible
Verification
tiered
Built as a platform

One foundation, many faithful expressions.

Reassuring for institutions, families, and partners — without forcing a single voice or aesthetic.

01Manifest-driven apps
02Shared modules with tradition-specific providers
03Local-first privacy posture
04Source-gated content packs
05Accessible typography, reduced motion, VoiceOver-friendly
06Tab app · Watch · Live Activity · Smart Stack · Kiosk · Wallet · Calendar · Vision
07FaithWidgetKit leaf package for widget and ActivityKit data shapes
08FaithIntents for Siri, Shortcuts, Watch Action Button, Vision quick actions, and StandBy
09Keychain-custodied Ed25519 signed and verified Blessing and Heirloom artifacts, no server
10On-device Speech for Whisper Mode and Sacred Language Practice
11Writing Tools disabled by default for sacred and pastoral text inputs
12Verified donation routing with Apple Pay, NFC eligibility, Wallet summaries, and share-sheet fallback
13Private Sangha Echo aggregate with noisy events and k-anonymity thresholds
14Pilgrimage Live Activity, walking workout bridge, and Watch next-waypoint complication
15Family Reverence Profiles for guardian-consented sacred windows
16Public Source Passport URLs, JSON-LD provenance, and opt-in FHIR chaplaincy export
17Crisis Pack surface suppresses the normal app when life calls for it
18Future providers plug in without rebuilding the family

Bring FaithApps to your community.

We work with parishes, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras, mandirs, sanghas, schools, and chaplaincies to configure tradition-appropriate variants with reviewed sources.

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