Centering Prayer

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1. ★★★★★breaks after update and white screen

   Horrible. The sound doesn’t work, there’s no settings to adapt for the prayers or music to be heard. Other than the bongs.

2. ★★★★★other

   Self-Focused Prayer. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Indwelling Presence, amen and awoman. FINALLY! A prayer app where I can feel like I’m being a good “Christian” while focusing solely on me!! And it works! With the help of this app, Jesus and the Indwelling Presence really opened up my chakras and now my third eye can see beyond time and space. Looking into my spiritual mirror with my mind’s eye, I can now see my Christ auras and their like this greenish, bluish, red-ish, orangey color. Just remember sisters, brothers, and others in Christ, to meditate on the words of Steven Furtick “I AM god almighty!” So brave and stunning! Just like this app! Download it today and you can make yourself feel good by pretending to be a Christian too!!

3. ★★★★★breaks after update and white screen

   Somehow Hacked. Guidelines never appear. They just keep sending me back to the vestibule even though I pressed “apply”. Looking for help and it sends me to an Oops page that is no longer available. The worst: Sending me to Amazon even though I never pressed shop buy or anything like that. It was a non-starter for Ny type of prayer.

4. ★★★★★breaks after update and white screen

   Broken. Doesn’t seem compatible with IOS 13!

5. ★★★★★breaks after update and white screen

   This app hasn't worked since it was downloaded and I can't delete it either.. It has been six months maybe longer since I downloaded this app. It will not open and it won't delete from my iPad . My iPad is constantly rebooted and it still doesn't work. PLEASE FIX IT OR GIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DELETE IT.

6. ★★★★★other

   A Blessing with Room to Grow. I really enjoy using this app, it’s been such a blessing, and I find myself using it often. To make the experience even better, I’d love to see two improvements: • It would be wonderful if the opening and closing thoughts could be read aloud, so I can keep my eyes closed and fully reflect. • It would also help if the text size could be increased, since the current font feels quite small. These changes would make the app even more accessible and enriching.

7. ★★★★★timer and gong close the silence

   Reliable and simple for what it is. I use this to time my meditation sessions, that’s all, and it doesn’t mess up and is easy to use. Not really much more than a timer with opening readings. It’s inconvenient to go thorough these opening readings clicking on each one: maybe figure out a way to enable scrolling?

8. ★★★★★other

   Need AppleWatch version. I love the app. My only complaint is that I would like an Apple Watch version, at least for the timer and sounds.

9. ★★★★★timer and gong close the silence

   Following Christ. Without the timer I’d never see any improvement in practicing stillness because the inner critic is so loud. Thank you for all you offer!

10. ★★★★★choice of opening and closing prayers and verses

    Updates?. I really like this App, but it hasn’t been updated in forever. Is anyone attending to it? Would be great to see some new opening/closing prayers, sounds and backgrounds. Thanks!

11. ★★★★★screen turns off and notifications interrupt

    Brilliant but needs updating. I love this app, and love that it isn’t expecting me to pay $60/y for it. But a few things need updating for it to leap up to the 5 stars I want to give it. 1. Don’t let the screen turn off during prayer. 2. Allow the app to record Mindfulness Minutes to the Apple Health app via HealthKit. 3. Modernize UI for iPhone X/S/Max/R. Otherwise I think this is a great app that I would gladly pay for to support its ongoing development.

12. ★★★★★screen turns off and notifications interrupt

    I like this app but it has a few flaws. It’s helping me a lot with centering prayer, but I have two complaints. 1. It turns off when my iPhone auto-locks, so I have to change my normal auto lock of 30 second to “never” when I use the app. 2. I have to turn off notifications when using so I don’t get interruptions. Then I have to remember to turn both back on.

13. ★★★★★cannot add your own prayers and words

    Love it but desire one new feature. Like my silent prayer practice itself, I have used this app often for a long time, but more recently started using it every day. It’s wonderful! I love everything about it except for its inability to let me write in anything speaking to my heart for the opening and closing prayers, including my sacred word, my own prayers or scripture selections. I so wish and pray for that improvement, but otherwise everything about the app is perfect for me. Thank you so much for this wonderful blessing! 🙏🏼

14. ★★★★★other

    Nearly perfect. I like the minimalist format, the timer and tone options, and the overall function. It is very helpful. The one thing I would like added is background options that are plain and dark, to allow for better contrast in reading the prayers. I find no way to turn off the available backgrounds.

15. ★★★★★timer and gong close the silence

    I have a long search for this gong sound. Cannot depend on the time to ring the ending sound. Have to remember to set another timer for one minute later

16. ★★★★★screen turns off and notifications interrupt

    Volume. Why can’t we control the volume on the Centering prayer app?

17. ★★★★★cannot add your own prayers and words

    Nice app. This is helping me stay in my practice. I would like a way to customize and add my own readings to this. It s a useful tool.

18. ★★★★★choice of opening and closing prayers and verses

    New to centering prayer. I am new to the concept of centering prayer and a priest suggested the app as a good place to start. The opening and closing prayers help achieve the mindset for silence. Being still for 20 minutes is not easy and the app helps “center” your thoughts.

19. ★★★★★other

    Centering prayer app. I use this app every day. It is comforting to know that it is handy on my phone or all times

20. ★★★★★other

    My thoughts. Just beginning to learn about this. I enjoy it. Taking special quiet time. with a Good meaning thanks

21. ★★★★★screen turns off and notifications interrupt

    Very well for its purpose. I have enjoyed using this app very much over the past few years. Of course, it is not a totally customizable app (you can’t upload your own background images instead of the seasonal themes, nor enter your own opening/closing prayers, and the screen must stay on or lit during the prayer time without sitting the screen off, etc.). But, the begging and ending bell sounds are good quality (you can hear the ringing) and there are an ample amount of options for how you enter and exit the prayer time. I also like the brief list of “guidelines” at the beginning of the prayer time which have been a helpful reminder for me when I come back to it. Having some kind of tracking of when I last did the prayer, and for how long, would be helpful to have a sense of consistency/inconsistency. For being a free app, it’s well worth it. Thank you!

22. ★★★★★other

    Exactly what it needs to be. There are not many bells and whistles in the app but it does exactly what you would want from a prayer app-helps you pray through providing a clear and helpful structure! An essential app for me. I love it

23. ★★★★★choice of opening and closing prayers and verses

    I love this app. This is a great way to get started in centering prayer and meditation. It can be personalized with sounds, scriptures, and length of silence.

24. ★★★★★other

    Centering Prayer. I don’t know what makes the app so much an effective part of my meditation. It just seems to connect my spirit with the presence of God.

25. ★★★★★timer and gong close the silence

    Great app!. My only suggestion is that the three-gong recording gets redone. It gets cut off before the full tone has ended.

26. ★★★★★screen turns off and notifications interrupt

    Use it for every meditation. This is my preferred app for meditation meditation/centering prayer. I use it for a long Mo morning meditation of 50 minutes oand can reprogram duration for other meditation s throughout the day or for interruptions. I’ve used it for years. One minor drawbacks, it does not allow a preference to cutout notifications as in a do no disturb mode. Other than that, it is a five-star meditation app! I might also appreciate an interruption feature that would replay the intro souond and resume the duration of the time remaining. The lay monastic” is interrupted in daily life. That ought to be anticipating.

27. ★★★★★other

    Balance. This app helps me to stay balanced!

28. ★★★★★timer and gong close the silence

    Centering prayer. This app is great with one small exception. The music choices for the beginning and ending of meditation time are beautiful but end abruptly. With all the technology they could have / should have been able to fade out smoothly. That said I still use it nearly every day.

29. ★★★★★other

    Staying Focused. I like to use this app to help me pause through out the day and focus on God for a few minutes. It also connects you to some great websites to help you go deeper

30. ★★★★★screen turns off and notifications interrupt

    Please add two things. I enjoy this app very much. Two easy things would make it even better. A counter for number of days in a row one has completed a prayer sit. And second, total number of minutes prayed. A third could be total number of prayer sits, which could be a different number than number of days in a row. Some of us like to be reminded of such things.