Ascent
Ascent: Daily Formation
One step a day. Reading, reflection, challenge, prayer, and journal. Every reading is free — all 43 steps — on iPhone.
What Ascent Is
A Framework for the Journey Toward Holiness
Ascent is a quiet daily formation app for people who want a spiritual rhythm without another noisy feed.
Each step gives you a guided reading, reflection prompts, a daily challenge, a prayer, and space to journal what stands out. You complete one step, come back tomorrow, and keep climbing. The path runs 43 steps through seven stages — conversion, vice, virtue, the Beatitudes, the gifts, devotion, and integration.
Every reading is free — all 43 steps, lesson and prayer included. Premium opens the practice: the guided four-phase journal (Capture, Convert, Pray, Plan), reflection prompts with daily and weekly practices, the guided review at the close of each step, and the ability to revisit and refine any step you've walked. $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year.
How It Works
Five Elements. One Step a Day.
A short, guided lesson written for the day's step. Every reading is free — all 43 of them, start to finish. The lesson sets the day's work; everything that follows builds on it.
Prompts that pull the reading into your own life. Not abstract questions — specific ones, about your circumstances, your habits, and what the day's virtue or vice actually looks like in your week.
One concrete thing to do before the day is over. Formation happens in action, not in agreement. The challenge is small on purpose — small enough to actually do, repeated enough to change you.
A short prayer written for the step, to sit with rather than rush through. A prayer life isn't built in a moment — Ascent gives it structure, rhythm, and intention, one day at a time.
The guided four-phase journal — Capture, Convert, Pray, Plan — turns what stood out into what comes next. Stored on your device. With Premium, close each step with a guided review and return to refine any step you've walked.
The Heart of It
"Every person is called to holiness. Not just priests and religious. Not just the extraordinarily devout. Everyone. Ascent was built on that conviction — and for the person who has heard that call and wants to answer it."
— Todd Lemieux, Founder
Every reading is free on iPhone. No ads. No social feed. No public profile. Just one guided step each day.