LiveSaintly
OUR STORY

Built by Catholics,
for the daily faithful.

LiveSaintly is a single solo project. No VC funding, no investor pressure to monetize the Rosary, no growth team optimizing for "engagement" over your soul.

"Whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you."

The problem we kept hitting

Over a year of trying every major Catholic app on the market, the founder of LiveSaintly kept hitting the same two walls. The subscription apps wanted $10/month to access the Rosary — a prayer the Church has given freely for 800 years. The free apps were Protestant-flavored devotional templates with a thin Catholic veneer, missing the Tridentine Latin Mass, lacking real saint biographies, and treating examinations of conscience as an afterthought.

Neither served the way real Catholics actually pray. So we built what we wished existed.

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.

If we get something wrong, we want to know. Email us. We'll fix it.

Our five values

For every Catholic
A welcoming guide for the new, a daily companion for the seeking, and a depth of content for the lifelong faithful. Start with a free month.
Faithful, not vague
Content reviewed by practicing Catholics. Grounded in CCC, the saints, and the Magisterium. Not "spiritual but not religious."
Beautiful, like a Missal
Serif typography. Liturgical color. Iconography that breathes. An app that feels like a sacred object, not a SaaS dashboard.
Private by default
No ads. No tracking pixels. No data sale. Your prayer is between you and God — and your chosen audience.
Latin and the Rite
The 1962 Tridentine Latin Mass is a first-class citizen, not an afterthought. Latin + English. Daily propers.
The Communion of Saints
200+ rich saint biographies. Examinations by the Doctors of the Church. The whole Body of Christ, alongside you.

Who's behind it

LiveSaintly is built by Marc Bonner, a Catholic developer in British Columbia, Canada. Solo project, nine months of evenings and weekends.

Your first month with LiveSaintly is free — long enough to build a real prayer rhythm and decide whether it belongs in your daily life. After that, a small monthly membership keeps the lights on so that LiveSaintly remains independent (no investors, no advertisers, no data sale) and so that the work can continue: 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.

"Pray without ceasing." — 1 Thessalonians 5:17

Begin the day in prayer. End it in His peace.

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