Prosary is a Catholic prayer companion for iPhone, Mac, Android, and Windows, alongside two web services: Prosary Compose for authoring devotions and Prosary Prayers, the community devotion repository. This policy covers all of them.
The short version: the apps have no analytics, ads, or tracking. Prayer data stays on your device or in your private iCloud storage unless you choose to publish a devotion to the community repository.
The apps
The apps have no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no advertising or tracking SDKs. Your saved prayer configurations and reminder times live in a local database on your device (SwiftData on iPhone and Mac, Room on Android, SQLite on Windows).
- iCloud sync on Apple devices. On iPhone and Mac, your saved configurations and imported devotion bundles sync between your devices through your personal iCloud account (Apple’s CloudKit and iCloud Drive). This data stays inside your private iCloud storage — it is never sent to us, and we cannot read it. Signing out of iCloud keeps everything working locally.
- The community repository. Browse and Search can fetch the public devotion catalog from prayers.prosary.app and download bundles you choose to install. These requests carry the technical information every web request carries, such as your IP address, which our hosting processes transiently to serve the request. Each download also increments an anonymous per-bundle counter. No account, identifier, or tracking is attached. If you never open those tabs, this feature makes no requests.
Notifications
Prayer reminders are scheduled entirely on your device throughUNUserNotificationCenter on iPhone and Mac, AlarmManager on Android, or scheduled toasts on Windows. No reminder data leaves your device.
Permissions
- Notifications — only for prayer reminders you configure.
- Internet — listed explicitly on Android and used only by the community repository browser described above.
- Receive boot completed — Android only, used to reschedule your existing reminders after the device restarts.
No permission is used to collect or transmit personal data.
Prosary Compose
compose.prosary.app
Compose runs entirely in your browser. The devotions you write, artwork you attach, and bundles you build never leave your device. Work in progress is autosaved in your browser’s IndexedDB storage on your own machine. Compose has no accounts, no analytics, and sets no cookies.
Prosary Prayers
prayers.prosary.app
Browsing and downloading requires no account. If you create an account to publish devotions, we store only what the service needs:
- Username — public; it names your published bundles (
repo.<username>.…). - Passkey public keys — used for sign-in. There are no passwords, and biometric data never leaves your device; we receive only the public key it creates.
- Recovery email address — stored privately and used only to send account-recovery links through Brevo, our email processor. It is never displayed, shared, or used for marketing.
- Published bundles — public by design. A devotion, its name, description, tags, and your username are visible in the apps and on the site. You can remove your bundles from your account page at any time.
- A session cookie — strictly functional, keeping you signed in for up to 30 days. There are no tracking or third-party cookies.
Download counts are anonymous aggregates per bundle. Account data and bundles are stored on Vercel and Neon infrastructure in the EU. “Delete account” on your account page immediately and permanently removes your passkeys, recovery email, and every bundle you have published.
Hosting
prosary.app is served by GitHub Pages; compose.prosary.app and prayers.prosary.app are served by Vercel. Like virtually all web hosts, these providers process standard technical request data such as IP addresses transiently to deliver the sites and keep them secure. We run no analytics on any of them.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above will change accordingly.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent tomail@dkaluta.com.