Remove a prayer, or all of them.

Delete a single prayer

Open your prayers, or open the prayer itself. Choose More beside it, then Delete prayer, then confirm. This works the same whether or not you are signed in, and it is the step that reaches the prayer, its saved narration, and any sharing link made from it.

Clear the whole device library

Guest prayers are kept locally in the browser or app on the device where you made them, and there is no single button that empties every device. Delete each prayer in Prayer Pew first, because clearing browser or app data on its own leaves the stored narration behind. On the web, then clear this site’s stored data in your browser settings, usually under privacy, site data, or cookies, and remove prayerpew.com. That empties the browser library on this device and cannot be undone.

Delete your account

Signing in adds an encrypted cloud copy of your prayers. To remove it, open your prayers, choose Delete account, and type the word it asks you for. That deletes the account, every prayer and narration stored against it, and any sharing links made from them. The account and cloud copy disappear straight away, no device can pull them back afterwards, and it cannot be undone. Private narration deletion is queued before the account is removed, attempted immediately, and retried automatically if private storage is temporarily unavailable.

Two things it does not do. It does not empty the library held on a device: prayers kept in this browser stay in it, and prayers kept in the app on a device stay on that device, so clear each one with the step above if you want them gone as well. And it does not cancel a Plus subscription: the store you bought it from holds that, and only the store can end it, so cancel there first if you no longer want to be charged.

If you cannot reach the button, email us and we will do it by hand. Tell us the email address you signed in with so we can find the right records.

What is removed

Deleting a prayer removes it from the library on this device, removes the encrypted cloud copy when you are signed in, deletes its current narration audio and word timings from our private storage, and turns off any sharing link made from it so the shared page stops working. The plan the prayer came from goes too once nothing else is using it.

Deleting an Open Pew request removes it from the public feed immediately. Closing your account also removes requests you authored, your “I prayed” responses, and your block list. A published request expires automatically after 30 days even if you take no action.

What stays, and for how long

A turned-off sharing link leaves a record behind, marked as revoked and still holding the encrypted snapshot that link used to serve. It is kept so a withdrawn link cannot quietly come back. Ask us and we will remove it. In the same way, if you are not signed in and you change a prayer’s words after its narration was made, the earlier narration stays in our private storage and deleting the prayer will not reach it. Ask us and we will remove that too. Our database also keeps a rolling twenty-four hour history window, so a copy can sit there for up to a day before it ages out. Everything else is removed when you ask; a private-storage outage can delay narration cleanup, but the queued deletion is retried automatically.

Closing an account leaves three things standing, none of which holds a prayer and none of which stays attached to you. A billing record, because a refund or a payment dispute has to be answerable months later. The notification registration for a device on which you installed the app, which is the record that lets us stop sending to it. And any report you sent us about a generated prayer, kept so that a bad prayer still gets looked at, with your account taken off it.

An Open Pew report can also remain for up to 180 days with the reporter detached, so deleting an account cannot erase a safety report. Text-free automated moderation records may remain for the same period. A request held only because screening was temporarily unavailable is encrypted and removed after seven days; rejected request text is not stored.

A prayer that arrived by message

If you asked for prayer in a comment and we sent you a private link, opening that link places the prayer in that browser’s library. Delete it there and the link stops working for anyone who has it, exactly like a sharing link you made yourself. It is not tied to an account, so signing in will not pull it into your cloud library, and deleting your account will not reach it. The revoked record and the earlier-narration caveat above both apply to it. If you no longer have the browser you opened it in, send us the link and we will turn it off.

Copies on your other devices and browsers

Deleting removes the cloud copy and the local copy on the device you are using. If you made or opened a prayer somewhere else, delete it there too. On the web, you can also clear that browser’s stored data for this site.

Analytics and feedback

Our product analytics and error reports never carry prayer text, titles, prayer IDs, or sharing links, so there is nothing of your prayer to remove from them. If you sent us a note through the feedback form, that note is stored for our team to read, and we will delete it on request.

Advertising measurement

Optional advertising measurement is off until you allow it, and you can turn it back off at any time. It never carries prayer text, titles, prayer IDs, or private prayer addresses, so there is nothing of your prayer held there either. Change that choice here, or read what it sends on the privacy page.

Ask us to delete something

Tell us what you would like removed and, if you have an account, the email address you signed in with. Please do not paste your prayer text or a sharing link into the email; we do not need it to find the record. If you never signed in, there is no account for us to look you up by, so deleting the prayer inside Prayer Pew is the step that does the work, apart from the earlier narration described above. You can read what we collect on the privacy page.