"Whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you."
Why I built this
For a long time I went looking for one Catholic app that could carry my whole prayer life. Something to help me grow in the faith and stay accountable, day after day. I tried every major one on the market for more than a year, and kept hitting the same two walls.
The paid apps wanted ten dollars a month just to reach the Rosary, a prayer the Church has given freely for eight hundred years. The free ones were Protestant-flavored templates with a thin Catholic coat of paint: no Tridentine Latin Mass, no real saint biographies, examinations of conscience treated as an afterthought. None of them prayed the way I actually pray.
The other wall was simpler and more personal. I was carrying a stack of prayer books, flipping between a missal here and a novena there, trying to remember which page I left off on and what the day's readings were. It got overwhelming, and overwhelm is the quiet enemy of a steady prayer life. I kept asking myself one question: how do I solve this?
So I built the thing I wanted. An app I would actually open every single morning. One place for the Rosary, the Mass in both the modern and the 1962 Tridentine form, the saint of the day, the examen, and the habits that keep me honest. I built it for myself first, and never expected it to become anything more.
It did. What began as a tool for one stubborn Catholic grew, unexpectedly, into something for every Catholic and every person still making their way toward the Church. That is who LiveSaintly is for now.
What "Catholic" means in LiveSaintly
Every word of devotional content in the app has been reviewed by practicing Catholics with formation. The catechetical reflections cite the Catechism (CCC), St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope St. Pius X, and the Roman Catechism. The Tridentine Mass propers are drawn from the 1962 Missal as it has been prayed for centuries. The examinations of conscience come from St. Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises, St. Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life, and St. Alphonsus Liguori, not generic templates.
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Who's behind it
I'm Marc, a thirty-two-year-old Catholic and a developer in British Columbia, Canada. Away from the keyboard I train hard. Martial arts and weightlifting are a big part of my life, and both have drilled the same lesson into me: nothing grows without discipline and a routine you actually keep.
The interior life is no different. I need structure to pray well, and that conviction sits behind every screen in this app. LiveSaintly is the best tool I have found for staying accountable, and it is helping me grow deeper in my faith every day. My hope is that it does the same for you.
This remains a solo project. Nine months of evenings and weekends, no investors, and no one telling me to put a paywall in front of the Rosary. Just the work, and a lot of prayer. Deus Vult.
LiveSaintly is free to use: full access, every feature. LiveSaintly remains independent (no investors, no data sale) and the work continues: new saint biographies, more languages, lock-screen widgets, parish features.
What's next
v1.3.3 ships in May 2026 on iOS and Google Play. After launch, the roadmap includes lock-screen widgets (Verse of the Day, prayer reminders), expanded multi-language support beyond the current 10 languages, and a parish-level community feature that lets a parish priest invite his whole congregation into a single group.
If you want to suggest a feature, write to besaintlyapp.com@besaintlyapp.com. The founder reads every message.