Hadar
Hadar is the Hebrew word for splendor and honour: strength and honour are her clothing. It is the same majesty the Psalms say God himself is clothed in.
Forty days for a woman who wants to be nearer to God, to her own heart, to her people and to her calling. Each day: one passage prayed, one practice for the body, one question laid down at night.
Nothing here comes to us. No account, no server, no streak. The Word was here long before the app.
The body prays too. Nine ways to ground a woman, each older than the phone it runs on. Pick one.
The screen goes gold while a practice runs. That is the design.
The forty as they open, and the Word by need. Keep what reaches for you.
What stays with you, and why.
Nothing comes to us
Your name, your start date, the names of your people, the lines you lay down at night, what you keep. None of it comes to us, because there is nowhere for it to go: no account, no server, no analytics. The one copy that leaves the phone is yours, in your own iCloud. The type and the sounds are built into the app, so it does not even fetch a font.
Your own iCloud
In the iPhone app a copy of what you write is kept in your own iCloud, nowhere else, so a new phone brings it back. Turn it off on More and the copy is cleared. If you delete the app with it off, what you wrote is gone, and that is yours to do.
Apple
Apple's own TestFlight and App Store telemetry is Apple's, under your Apple settings. The app itself sends nothing.
The invitation
The invitation is a text from your own phone with Hadar in it. She begins her own forty when she opens it. Nothing passes between the two phones, and neither of you is told what the other does.
The morning bell
Off unless you set a time. When you do, the phone itself rings the note, with the day's reference; nothing is sent to anyone to make it ring, and nothing is counted when you answer it or when you do not.
The widget
If you put Hadar on your Home Screen or Lock Screen, it shows the day's passage. It reads your day one from the app, inside this phone, and nothing else. It counts nothing and sends nothing.
Photos
When you set a passage on a painting and save it, the image is added to your photo library. Hadar asks only to add, never to read your photos.
The name
Hadar is a Hebrew word for splendor, majesty and honour. Strength and honour are her clothing, says the last chapter of Proverbs, and the honour there is hadar. The Psalms use the same word for what God himself is clothed in: thou art clothed with honour and majesty. It is worn, not earned. The five letters are also five women. Hannah, who prayed. Abigail, who made peace. Deborah, who arose. Anna, who waited. Ruth, who stayed. Taken together, that is what the word means. On the wood of the cross he said, it is finished. The forty are built on that, not on you.
The Word
Scripture is the King James Version, public domain in the United States, pulled verbatim from two independent editions and compared before any of it was set here. The words of Christ are set apart on a gold face of their own. Where a verse opens with narrative and carries his words inside it, it follows the same rule.
What this is not
Not a church. Not a counselor. Not a substitute for a real friend in a real room. A hard season deserves a pastor or a counselor, and this app will never pretend otherwise. If someone is hurting you, you deserve help that can come to the door, and an app is not that.
Hadar, forty days · andrewcebulka.studio