Quick facts
- Name: HARK
- Tagline: A contemplative listening-prayer app
- Brand thread: hark. — the verb. The other half of prayer.
- Founder: Dominique Cooper
- Available: iOS (iPhone and iPad). Free with optional HARK Pro subscription ($5.99/mo or $49.99/year, 3-day free trial on annual)
- Built with: React Native, Expo, Supabase, Anthropic Claude, RevenueCat
- Privacy: Local-first. No ads. No data sold. AI is opt-in.
- Companion series: heard. — short conversations about real moments of listening
The pitch in one paragraph
Most prayer apps teach you how to talk to God. HARK is for the other half — the listening half. A contemplative companion that holds the silence with you, captures what surfaces, helps you test it gently against Scripture, and lets you carry it forward into a real day. The session arc is structured: Prepare, Listen, Reflect, Discern, Act. The privacy posture is unusual for the category — local-first, AI strictly opt-in, no third-party trackers, no data sold. The brand voice is unhurried.
The pitch in three paragraphs
HARK is a contemplative listening-prayer app, designed for the part of prayer most apps skip. Where existing tools focus on how to talk to God — guided prayers, scripted devotionals, audio meditations — HARK structures the practice of listening: silence, attention to what surfaces, and a four-question discernment filter for testing what you sensed before you act on it.
The session arc is deliberately small: five minutes is the default, five minutes is enough. After the silence, the user can capture impressions, test them against Scripture, and carry one short phrase ("daily carry") into the day. Returning months later, an Echo loop surfaces past entries with a quiet prompt — "You wrote this. What's changed?" — making the app a self- discipleship rhythm rather than a one-time tool.
The privacy posture matters: sessions stay on the device — protected by iOS device-level encryption while the phone is locked — and never upload unless the user explicitly chooses to share, either with a small private "HARK Circle" of trusted people or with the public Community surfaces. AI insights are opt-in and run through a privacy-aware proxy that doesn't log request bodies. HARK doesn't show ads, doesn't sell data, and doesn't claim to speak for God.
A note from the founder
HARK was built by a praying person, for praying people, in a season of her own listening. If it serves your walk — even one quiet five-minute session — that is the whole point.
— Dominique Cooper
heard. — the companion series
heard. is a short-form HARK series — conversations with people who have walked through real seasons of listening. Each episode is about fifteen minutes. No advertising. No clickbait. One person, one season, one thing they sensed in the silence. First season is being recorded now. More at harktime.com/heard.
Differentiators worth understanding
- The Echo loop. Past journal entries surface again at 30, 90, and 365-day anniversaries with a soft prompt. No other contemplative app does this.
- Three rings of disclosure. A "win" can stay private, become a Circle share, or be witnessed publicly as an anonymous testimony — the user decides per moment.
- The Listened feed. A slow public river of one verse + one anonymous sentence, surfacing out of thousands of quiet sessions. No reactions, no comments, no likes. Just the verses people heard today.
- Family / Couple / Peer rings. Circles come in three sizes (2, 6, or 8 members) with kind-specific copy. Couples can pray together; families can share gently; peer rings hold the trusted few.
- Soft streaks. "9 of the last 14 days" instead of brittle hard streaks. Missing a Tuesday is not failure.
Founder bio
Dominique Cooper is the founder of HARK. She has spent nearly 20 years working across national security, nuclear energy, space technology, business development, and mission-driven storytelling.
HARK was born out of a deeply personal season of grief, surrender, and listening. After a long fertility journey, an unexpected pregnancy, and a devastating miscarriage, Dominique found herself awake through the night searching for something more grounding than distraction. In those quiet hours, she returned to a listening-prayer framework she had created years earlier and began building what would become HARK: a guided space to slow down, hear God more clearly, reflect honestly, and take the next faithful step.
She lives in Virginia with her husband. She can be reached at hello@harktime.com.
Press contact
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Brand assets
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Suggested coverage angles
- The category gap — why every prayer app teaches talking, none teaches listening
- The privacy posture — how a religious-tech app holds out against ads, trackers, and data sales
- The Echo loop as self-discipleship infrastructure — a feature no Christian app currently has
- The Foundations curriculum — 12 lessons across listening prayer, discernment, the Examen, Lectio Divina, and the long view
- The heard. series — short-form audio with people sharing real moments of listening
- The contemplative tradition — how HARK draws from 1,500 years of Christian practice (Lectio, Examen, the desert monks) for a modern phone-first audience