The Catholic prayer app Hallow became the No. 1 app on the App Store Charts on Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of 40 days of Lent, commemorating the 40 days Jesus Christ spent in the desert before he began his public ministry.
The prayer and meditation app shared in a post on X, “#1 in the App Store!! Glory Be – He is #1.” It also scored bragging rights as the first religious app to make it to the top.
“We are overjoyed with how powerful Day 1 of Lent Pray40 was,” the post read. “Not only did over 1 million people join the challenge and start a transformational prayer journey yesterday, Hallow also became the first religious app to ever reach the top of the App Store Charts!”
In the screenshot shared by Hallow, it showed the prayer app surpassed shopping app Temu followed by the social media app Threads. In a second post, the company noted while it has 85 employees…
