Holy Spirit Prompts · Last updated 6 October 2026
Holy Spirit Prompts is a place to capture promptings — what you sense, in the moment — and to write down God stories after the fact. Everything stays on your device.
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Email blakecampbell45@gmail.com. Please include your iPhone model and iOS version if you're reporting a problem.
There is no account and no sync, so moving happens through a backup file. In Settings → Export All Data, save the file somewhere you can reach from the new phone — iCloud Drive, Google Drive or Proton Drive all work, because they appear in the iOS Files app. On the new phone, install the app and use Settings → Restore from Backup, or just tap the backup file in Files.
Turn on Include Photos & Videos before exporting if you want the photos to come across too. Without it, the backup stores references to items in your Photos library rather than copies, so photos reappear only on a device that already has them. With it, the file carries full-size copies and will be considerably larger.
If it's going somewhere you don't control, yes. Export Encrypted Backup asks for a passphrase and protects the file with it. The passphrase is not stored anywhere and cannot be recovered — if you lose it, that backup cannot be opened. Write it down somewhere safe.
Yes. Restoring adds by default: anything already in your library is left alone, so importing an old backup can only put things back. If you specifically want to roll the library back to match the file, the restore flow offers a replace option behind two confirmations — that one does delete what's there first.
Transcription runs on your device, and iOS requires both settings on for that to work — not just Dictation:
Turning on only Dictation is the usual cause, and it's easy to miss because dictating in other apps keeps working. If you'd rather not enable them, the app offers to send that one recording to Apple to be transcribed instead — nothing else is sent.
Recordings are the only files the app stores itself, and iOS gives no way to browse them. Settings → Recordings on This Device lists every one, including any no longer attached to a prompting, so you can play it or save it out.
A prompting is something you sense and then track to an outcome — it carries tags, scripture references, attachments and a status of Active, Future, Fulfilled or Discarded. A God story is something that already happened and gets written down once: a date, up to 255 characters, and optionally one photo. They're deliberately kept separate.
The app recognises real Bible book names and abbreviations. If it can't make sense of what you typed, it keeps the text as you wrote it but has nowhere to send you — so "tbd" or a note to yourself stays a plain label. The suggestions that appear under a note are deliberately cautious with words that are also everyday English, so "Job" or "Mark" need a verse number before they're offered.
No. Everything works offline. The only feature that uses the network is sending a recording to Apple for transcription, and only when you choose it.
See the privacy policy. The short version: no server, no account, no analytics, nothing collected.