God First: Pray, Then Scroll
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A short pause to pray with a Bible verse before you open the apps you choose.
- Downloads
- 12+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Nov 7
- 2026 · v0.6.2
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About God First: Pray, Then Scroll
GOD FIRST
Before you scroll, you pray.
When you reach for a social media or video app that takes your time, God First comes first with a short pause:
• It asks how your heart is
• It shows you a Bible verse for that moment
• It offers a word of counsel and a short prayer
• You tap "I prayed · Continue" and your app opens
That simple. No sermons, no guilt. Just a minute with God before the feed.
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WHO IT'S FOR
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For believers who want their faith present right at the moment of distraction: not later, not "in general," but before each scroll.
For anyone who knows they spend too much time on their phone and would rather turn that moment into prayer than simply fight it.
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HOW IT WORKS
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1. Answer a few quick questions to set up your plan.
2. Choose the apps you want to pause, from a list of popular social media, video and messaging apps.
3. Turn on the pause. When you open one of those apps, God First comes first. Choose how you feel, pray, and continue.
God first in every phone habit, not apart from it.
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WHAT'S INSIDE
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• More than 1,400 prayers and words of counsel for real moments
• 12 moods: anxiety, overwhelm, sadness, loneliness, fear, tiredness, guilt, anger, hurt, boredom, gratitude and "not sure," each with verses chosen for that moment
• 49 real-life topics: grief, addiction, finances, children, marriage, temptation, waiting in prayer, new beginnings…
• Scripture from the World English Bible, with many verses from the Gospels, including the Sermon on the Mount
• You won't see the same verse again right away
• Adjustable text size (Aa) for comfortable reading
• Works without internet. No ads.
• If you're going through a crisis, the app shows a support line: local lines in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and an international directory elsewhere. God First is a companion for prayer, not a replacement for professional help.
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PLANS
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Try every feature for 7 days, with no card required. After that, choose a weekly or yearly subscription to continue. No ads. Cancel anytime in Google Play.
Crisis support lines are always available, with or without a subscription.
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PRIVACY
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• We don't read the content of the apps you open. The app only checks which app was opened, to see whether it's on your list.
• We don't read your messages, contacts, photos or location.
• Your name, your answers and the verses you've seen stay on your phone.
• We don't show ads and we don't sell data.
• You can delete your data anytime in Settings → Delete my data (only the trial dates stay, so the trial can't restart).
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PERMISSIONS
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• Usage access: to know when you open an app on your list. It's used for nothing else.
• Display over other apps: to show the pause on top of the app you opened.
• Notifications: to let you know the pause is on and keep Android from turning it off.
We explain each permission before asking for it. You can remove them anytime in your phone's settings.
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WHAT IT ISN'T
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• It isn't tied to any particular denomination.
• It isn't a long devotional. The pause is brief on purpose (1 to 2 minutes).
• It isn't a password blocker: you can always continue to your app after you pray.
Questions or suggestions? Write to us at the contact email on this page.
"Before you scroll, you pray."
Before you scroll, you pray.
When you reach for a social media or video app that takes your time, God First comes first with a short pause:
• It asks how your heart is
• It shows you a Bible verse for that moment
• It offers a word of counsel and a short prayer
• You tap "I prayed · Continue" and your app opens
That simple. No sermons, no guilt. Just a minute with God before the feed.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHO IT'S FOR
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
For believers who want their faith present right at the moment of distraction: not later, not "in general," but before each scroll.
For anyone who knows they spend too much time on their phone and would rather turn that moment into prayer than simply fight it.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HOW IT WORKS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1. Answer a few quick questions to set up your plan.
2. Choose the apps you want to pause, from a list of popular social media, video and messaging apps.
3. Turn on the pause. When you open one of those apps, God First comes first. Choose how you feel, pray, and continue.
God first in every phone habit, not apart from it.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHAT'S INSIDE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• More than 1,400 prayers and words of counsel for real moments
• 12 moods: anxiety, overwhelm, sadness, loneliness, fear, tiredness, guilt, anger, hurt, boredom, gratitude and "not sure," each with verses chosen for that moment
• 49 real-life topics: grief, addiction, finances, children, marriage, temptation, waiting in prayer, new beginnings…
• Scripture from the World English Bible, with many verses from the Gospels, including the Sermon on the Mount
• You won't see the same verse again right away
• Adjustable text size (Aa) for comfortable reading
• Works without internet. No ads.
• If you're going through a crisis, the app shows a support line: local lines in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and an international directory elsewhere. God First is a companion for prayer, not a replacement for professional help.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PLANS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Try every feature for 7 days, with no card required. After that, choose a weekly or yearly subscription to continue. No ads. Cancel anytime in Google Play.
Crisis support lines are always available, with or without a subscription.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PRIVACY
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• We don't read the content of the apps you open. The app only checks which app was opened, to see whether it's on your list.
• We don't read your messages, contacts, photos or location.
• Your name, your answers and the verses you've seen stay on your phone.
• We don't show ads and we don't sell data.
• You can delete your data anytime in Settings → Delete my data (only the trial dates stay, so the trial can't restart).
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PERMISSIONS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• Usage access: to know when you open an app on your list. It's used for nothing else.
• Display over other apps: to show the pause on top of the app you opened.
• Notifications: to let you know the pause is on and keep Android from turning it off.
We explain each permission before asking for it. You can remove them anytime in your phone's settings.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHAT IT ISN'T
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• It isn't tied to any particular denomination.
• It isn't a long devotional. The pause is brief on purpose (1 to 2 minutes).
• It isn't a password blocker: you can always continue to your app after you pray.
Questions or suggestions? Write to us at the contact email on this page.
"Before you scroll, you pray."
What’s new
Version 0.6.2 · Updated November 7, 2026
Twice the art: 60 classic artworks now go with your prayers, with more scenes from the Gospels and the Psalms.
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