FOCUS: A Tool for Mission
Fellowship of Catholic University Students Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
FOCUS: A Tool for Mission is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Fellowship of Catholic University Students. Requires iOS 15.1.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 52 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Sep 29
- 2026 · v4.5.1
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About FOCUS: A Tool for Mission
FOCUS wants to help you grow as a missionary disciple of Jesus Christ — in your prayer, your friendships, and your mission. Built by FOCUS, this app brings together the daily rhythm of a Catholic life and the community you're walking with, in one place. GROW IN PRAYER • Build your own plan of life — Mass, adoration, the rosary, Scripture, the examen, or fully custom practices. Weekly and monthly practices like Confession wait their turn instead of showing every day • A gentle daily check-in gathers the ways you met the Lord today, and ends looking forward with one small intention for tomorrow • Today's Mass readings on your home screen • Prayer Mode — swipe through your group's requests and your own intentions one card at a time, filter by tag, and see dated intentions first as the day draws near • Optional reminders for the prayers you choose, like the Angelus or the Morning Offering • Coming back after time away is a welcome, never a broken streak WALK WITH YOUR PEOPLE • Keep the people you're investing in close — notes, tags, important dates, and gentle reminders before birthdays and anniversaries • Share prayer requests with your group and pray for each other with one tap • Group chat with replies, reactions, photos, and pinned messages LEAD YOUR GROUP • Run Bible studies from custom content or the full FOCUS Equip catalog, or discipleship groups built on Foundations for Discipleship • Live meetings with real-time step sync — whoever starts the session hosts it, and your group follows along • Scheduling, RSVPs, attendance, calendar integration, and shareable invite links • Share study guides, files, links, and notes with your whole group SHARE YOUR FAITH • A faith-sharing trainer — build your testimony in four simple parts and learn the Gospel in five movements • Group challenges to put faith into action together YOUR PRIVACY Nothing you write in FOCUS is sent to an AI service. The only AI feature is an optional scan that turns a photo of your handwritten notes into text. Crash reports reach us automatically but never include your name, email, or anything you've written. Have an idea or found a problem? Send us feedback from inside the app. FOCUS is free to use. Anyone can use it to grow in the habits of a missionary disciple. Privacy Policy: https://focus.org/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: [email protected]
What’s new
Version 4.5.1 · Updated September 29, 2026
Send us feedback from any screen, with an optional screenshot only our team can see. Prayer Mode is now a deck of cards you swipe through, can be filtered by tag, and brings dated intentions to the front as the day nears. More optional reminders: set times for prayers like the Angelus, get nudges before birthdays and anniversaries, and snooze the check-in reminder. Your rule of life fits real life better: weekly and monthly practices like Confession wait their turn instead of showing every day. Tags are easier: manage them all from My Things on your profile. Groups: whoever starts a live session hosts it, meeting prep is easier, and archiving a group ends its prayer requests. Plus a new tab bar on iPhone, today's date on Home, better layouts on small phones, and automatic crash reports that never include your name or anything you've written.
App privacy
The developer, Fellowship of Catholic University Students, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
- Contacts: Contacts
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Customer Support, Other User Content
- Sensitive Info: Sensitive Info
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality