Behind the Scenes of the Hallow App with Alex Jones

Oct 7, 2025

Alex Jones, co-founder and CEO of the Hallow prayer app, shares his inspiring transformation from an atheist to a devoted Catholic evangelist. He discusses the catalyst behind Hallow, its explosive growth to one billion prayers, and how it resonates with those yearning for peace amidst digital chaos. Alex highlights powerful testimonies of users who found hope through prayer and touches on the unique challenges of being a Catholic entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. His insights into blending technology with faith are both illuminating and uplifting.

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INSIGHT

Divine Role In Unexpected Growth

Hallow's rapid growth felt like God 'showing off' through unexpected success.
Alex credits divine action more than human design for major wins.

ANECDOTE

Conversion Sparked By Lectio Divina

Alex discovered Lectio Divina and the word “Hallow” in Luke 11, which rekindled his faith.
That 10-minute prayer led him back to Mass, confession, and a deep relationship with Jesus.

INSIGHT

Prayer As Bridge To Relationship

Leading with peace and contemplative prayer meets modern hunger for silence and meaning.
Short guided audio can bridge secular meditation and encounter with Christ.

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Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the Hallow prayer app. This wildly popular platform has grown exponentially over the past few years to help millions of people to pray—not to mention making a life of prayer more attractive and mainstream.

It’s a simple idea with profound results: use a smartphone app to guide people into a habit of daily prayer. Through monthly prayer challenges, reflections, videos, and music from some of the most recognizable and influential Catholics in the world (and I’m on there, too!), Hallow has recently crossed the incredible milestone of logging ONE BILLION prayers. Praise God!

In this episode of The Chris Stefanick Show, I am thrilled to welcome Hallow co-founder Alex Jones for an in-depth conversation that goes behind the scenes on the inspiration for the app, Alex’s personal faith journey, glory stories of how God is using this app to change lives, and lessons learned from being a Catholic entrepreneur in the secular world of startups.

Highlights:

0:00 Intro
2:50 Alex’s journey from atheism to prayer
7:16 Finding the Hallow app’s name through
Lectio Divina
11:50 Prayer as a gateway to relationship with Christ
30:00 The sacred surge happening in Catholicism
35:54 When the Super Bowl crashed the app
39:46 Mark Wahlberg, Kevin James, and other Catholic celebs
44:50 Working with Jonathan Roumie
49:49 “The Man Helping Silicon Valley Find God”
54:30 Using Smartphone Technology for Good
58:00 Having an Impact Beyond Metrics
1:06:35 Why Hallow Succeeds in Business
1:19:10 Alex’s Prayer Routine
1:27:48 How God Uses Success to Purify Your Soul
1:39:00 Join Chris and Alex in Silent Prayer

Prayer is a fundamental aspect of our faith. If you want to grow in relationship with someone, you have to spend time with them. Same goes for God! I’m so grateful to Alex and everyone at Hallow for creating an app that harnesses modern technology to actually bring us closer to the Lord.

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