Frequently Asked Questions

Bearing Fruit is a free Christian habit app for prayer, Scripture, rest, and more. Start with one practice. Missing a day never erases your progress. It includes guided tools for 12 holy habits, such as prayer, Bible study, Sabbath, Scripture memorization, and service, and a visual garden that grows over time.

Yes. Bearing Fruit includes guided prayer tools like ACTS Prayer (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) and Breath Prayer (a short prayer paced with your breathing), plus Bible reading, Bible study lessons, Lectio Divina (prayerful Scripture reading), and Scripture flashcards. The tools give you a clear place to start when you open your Bible or sit down to pray.

Bearing Fruit treats holy habits as means of grace, without turning them into streaks or self-improvement goals. Growth is cumulative. Missing a day never erases your progress.

Not at all. Bearing Fruit is a companion to gathering with believers, reading Scripture, and unhurried time with God.

As you practice, the trees in your garden grow through stages (Seed → Sapling → Tree of Life). Each tree is a picture of practice kept over time. Growth is cumulative and based on total practices, so missing a day never sets you back. There are 12 trees in total, one for each Holy Habit.

Absolutely not. The 12 habits reflect the breadth of Christian formation, but you do not need to practice them all at once. Start with one or two habits, then add more over time as you are ready.

This app is for any Christian. While inspired by the Holy Habits sermon series at The Austin Stone, these practices are rooted in the shared heritage of the historic church. They depend on grace and center on Jesus and Scripture.

Absolutely. Bearing Fruit is designed for individual believers, and it also works well alongside small groups, sermon series, and church discipleship rhythms.

Bearing Fruit is completely free to use. After 14 days, we may invite support if it has been serving you. Giving is optional and honor-based ($3, $7, $15/month, or custom), and you are never blocked from using the app.

Three to five minutes a day is enough to start, or a little longer when you have more time. Formation is slow, quiet work, and Bearing Fruit is meant to fit into an ordinary day.

Your notes and prayers stay on your device. They are never uploaded to our servers. We process limited anonymous usage, diagnostic, and purchase-status data to operate and improve the app. See our Privacy Policy for details.