Updates — What's New in Orabimus

Week 2step by step, ferociously

July 12, 2026

Last week these prayers learned to be read in seven new languages. This week, you can also listen to five of them!

Second update, and the pace has not let up. This time, nailing what the first one only started: the words you could read, you can now hear, each one lit as the voice speaks it. The rest went to the people you pray with, a simpler way to share your Rosary, and a few small graces besides.

New

Fellows, reworked

See the people who pray alongside you, and follow anyone whose intentions move you. When they follow you back, you become fellows, kept in their own list beside the people who follow you and the people you follow. No one you pray with is more than a tap away.

The new languages, now spoken

The main prayers are now read aloud in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Polish, and Ukrainian, slowly and with reverence, so you can pray along. Each word lights up as the voice speaks it, so you only have to listen and follow. And when you read in one language while listening in another, it lights a whole line at a time instead, so it can never fall on the wrong word.

Share your Rosary

Tap the number of Rosaries you have prayed, and it becomes a small card, gold on parchment, in the same hand as the app itself. Keep it, or send it to family, a friend, or your parish. Sometimes the gentlest invitation to pray is showing someone that you already do.

Surprise, Milestones!

As your Rosaries add up, the app now marks the milestones with you: your first, your tenth, and onward. Each one is a small, warm moment, never a demand. It is only there to say that your prayer is seen and that it counts, never to make you anxious.

A gentle call to pray

When a fellow you follow begins a live Group Rosary, Orabimus can now send you a quiet notification, so you can join them in prayer even when the app is closed. They stay off until you choose to turn them on, and a single tap silences them again. It is only ever an invitation to pray together, never a demand on your time.

See the ongoing Rosaries

Open Orabimus now, even without signing in, and you can spot the larger Group Rosaries being prayed at that very moment, somewhere in the world. Tap one to meet the person leading it and step in beside them, or simply follow them so you can find them again. The doors are open to everyone, so no one has to pray alone for lack of an invitation.

Also fixed and refined

On your phone, the top of the screen is quieter now, leaving more room for the prayer itself.
The read-along is smoother, and now follows you when you open a prayer to full screen.
Prayer titles stay put as you move between them.
Menus and cards open cleanly the very first time.
New intentions settle smoothly into the feed as they arrive.
Your name now shows the same way everywhere in the community.
And a handful of quiet refinements to type and spacing throughout.

Two updates in two weeks, and I would rather keep that pace than promise it. Everything here was paid for the same way the first was, by people who give to something that asks nothing of them, and built with the same care I would want for my own family's Rosary. Keep Orabimus in your prayers, and I will keep earning them. Gradatim, ferociter. — Teo

The First Updateone week after launch

July 4, 2026

Orabimus opened its doors one week ago. This is the first of what I hope will be a long line of updates, and, just as much, a standing record for the people who support this work of exactly where their help goes.

I am writing on the Fourth of July, the morning this country I love so much marks two hundred and fifty years. It felt like the right day to send the first update, though what it carries is meant for the whole Church and not any one corner of it. Fittingly, then, the largest change of this first week is that the Rosary now prays in far more of the world's languages.

New

Read in seven new languages

The complete Rosary, every prayer and all four sets of mysteries, now prays in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Polish, and Ukrainian, beside English and Latin. None of it is machine translation. Each language keeps the words its faithful have long prayed, and every Scripture passage comes straight from that language's own historic Catholic Bible (Torres Amat for Spanish, Matos Soares for Portuguese, Martini for Italian, Crampon for French, Allioli for German, Wujek for Polish, and Khomenko for Ukrainian).

Pray hands-free

A new auto mode reads each prayer aloud and moves to the next on its own, carrying you through an entire decade without a single tap. It rests at the end of each set so nothing feels rushed, then picks up again the moment you are ready to continue.

Instant sign-in with passkeys

Set up a passkey once, and you are back in with only Face ID or Touch ID, with no password to remember and no detour out to Google. It is faster every time, and phishing-proof by design.

A steadier Group Rosary

When a live Group Rosary reaches its end, the completion is now recorded for everyone in the room, so no one's prayer goes uncounted, however large the group or wherever in the world they joined from.

Also fixed and refined

Light mode now holds even when your device is set to dark. Your choice is respected, always.
Signing in inside the installed iPhone app is seamless now, with no more getting stranded on the Google screen.
The community feed is gentler about shared links, so far fewer honest intentions are held back by mistake.
The intention box reads more clearly, and the live feed now shows more of the community at a glance.
The small encouragements in your first days of praying appear right on cue.
You can see the exact version your app is running, quietly noted at the bottom of your account.
And a scattering of small visual refinements throughout.

A week in, the plainest thing I can say is thank you. Every improvement here was paid for by people who chose to give to something that costs nothing to use, and every one was made with the care I would want for my own family's prayer. This page will keep growing, one entry at a time, so you can always see your support at work. Keep Orabimus in your prayers, and I will keep it worthy of them. — Teo

Pray the Rosary now. Free, and no account needed.

The full guided Rosary with audio, now in nine languages, a live community praying alongside you, and real-time Group Rosary rooms.

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