Press kit
Updated July 19, 2026.
Launch press release
Manna: an app that offers a single prayer a day — and time to dwell in it
Against the grain of apps that multiply content and notifications, Manna makes the opposite bet: one prayer each morning, written to be prayed, and nothing else. The app arrives in summer 2026 on Google Play and the App Store, in French and English.
Its name states its principle. Like manna in the desert, Manna's prayer is fresh every morning and cannot be stockpiled: you come back for it each day, or you go without. No feed to scroll, no catalogue, no streak to protect — a brief text chosen for the person (their prayer intentions, their time of day, the way they address God), a verse that sheds light on it, a question to carry, and a journal to answer it.
“We wanted an app that gives attention back instead of taking it,” says the Manna team. “One prayer a day is a choice of voluntary poverty in a market that promises ever more. It is precisely that lack that makes room for prayer.”
Free, ad-free, no account required. Manna works fully offline and without signing up; the journal stays on the phone. The business model matches the project: “Companionship”, a pay-what-you-want support subscription — €2 to €20 a month, each person chooses — which opens a daily layer of deepening content and keeps the app free for those who cannot pay. You can also gift a year of Companionship to someone you love, with a simple code.
A writing workshop of a new kind. Behind Manna, a small team designs and builds the app, supported by an editorial workshop of AI agents that write prayers, commentaries and witness profiles every morning — in a tuned voice, systematically reviewed: verses checked at the source, authentic and sourced quotations, no fabricated testimony.
HD assets and full-access codes (one year of Companionship) available on request: contact@the-manna.app
In one sentence
Manna is a prayer app that offers a single prayer a day, chosen for the person — against the current of always-more.
What it is
Each morning, Manna offers a short pack: a prayer, a verse (public domain), a brief commentary, a question to carry through the day, and a space of memory to come back to it in the evening. A single prayer — not a feed, not a catalogue to browse. The image is that of manna: the desert bread that could not be stored, that you had to come back for each day.
The aesthetic choice is bareness: monochrome, no aggressive notifications, no gamification. The app is local-first — it works without an account and offline, and does not try to capture attention but to give it back.
Ecumenical in its witnesses (Catholic at heart, open to Protestant and Orthodox figures), Manna is written in French and English.
The content
The prayers, commentaries and questions are original compositions, written for Manna. Biblical excerpts are quoted from public-domain translations — Louis Segond 1910 in French, World English Bible in English — occasionally lightly modernised for readability.
The words of witnesses (the spiritual figures present in the app) are authentic, verified and sourced quotations; for modern figures, the app keeps to short, well-referenced quotes.
Every text goes through an editorial review before publication: verses checked at the source, no invented quotations, no fabricated testimony.
Who makes it
The Manna team designs, writes and develops the app, supported by an editorial workshop of AI agents that draft the corpus each morning, in a voice tuned and reviewed by the team — a new way of doing spiritual publishing, sober and demanding.
The model
Companionship: a support subscription, not an aggressive paywall. The essential of the app remains accessible; those who can, support the project. No advertising, no data resale.
Angles for the press
- A small team building a prayer app in 2026, with AI agents as a nighttime writing workshop.
- Sobriety as a spiritual gesture: one prayer a day against the attention economy.
- Praying from a phone: the contradiction owned — and how design resolves it.
Practical
- Platforms: Android (Google Play) and iPhone (App Store) — summer 2026.
- Languages: French, English.
- Price: free; Companionship as support.
- Contact: the Manna team — contact@the-manna.app
- Website: www.the-manna.app
Usage figures: to be published once meaningful.