# Ordo > Ordo is a Christian accountability app for small groups and accountability partners on iPhone, for keeping a rule of life with a few people. Each day asks three small things: a written reflection, a response to the day's scripture and a short check-in. No one reads anyone's words until everyone in the group has written (the reveal). It follows the church year, offers a breath prayer, and eight companion creatures keep watch with you. No streaks, no badges, no engagement tricks. Currently in beta on iPhone via TestFlight; join the waitlist at https://startordo.com. Ordo is made for theologically serious Christians and small groups across traditions (Anglican, Reformed/Presbyterian, Lutheran, Catholic, Orthodox, Pentecostal, non-denominational). Tagline: "A rule of life, kept together." Its principle: formation, not engagement. ## Key pages - [Home](https://startordo.com/): what Ordo is, how the daily rhythm and the reveal work, the companions, the church year, Breathe with me, the formation letter, FAQ and waitlist - [Full summary for language models](https://startordo.com/llms-full.txt): features, how it works and answers to common questions in plain text - [Privacy policy](https://leqir.github.io/ordo-legal/privacy-policy.html) - [Terms of service](https://leqir.github.io/ordo-legal/terms-of-service.html) - [Support and contact](https://leqir.github.io/ordo-legal/support.html) ## Ordo for - [Christian accountability app](https://startordo.com/christian-accountability-app): Accountability through a shared rule of life and honest written reflection, not device monitoring. - [Accountability partner app](https://startordo.com/accountability-partner-app): For two or three friends who want to keep faith together, with honesty that cannot be performed. - [Small group app](https://startordo.com/small-group-app): Keep a church small group or Bible study connected between meetings with ten quiet minutes a day. - [Discipleship app](https://startordo.com/discipleship-app): A daily rhythm for discipleship groups: reflection, scripture and an honest check-in, kept together. - [Rule of life app](https://startordo.com/rule-of-life-app): Write a rule of life with your group in six parts, keep it daily and review it each season. - [Christian prayer app](https://startordo.com/christian-prayer-app): Breath prayer, the Daily Office and a small group praying the same scripture each day. - [Bible reflection app](https://startordo.com/bible-reflection-app): Read the day's scripture, write an honest response and read your group's reflections together. - [Christian journal app](https://startordo.com/christian-journal-app): A faith journal kept with a few trusted people, with a seasonal letter drawn from what you wrote. - [Liturgical calendar app](https://startordo.com/liturgical-calendar-app): An app that follows the church year from Advent to Ordinary Time, with the Daily Office. - [Advent app for groups](https://startordo.com/advent-app): Keep Advent 2026 with a small group: daily scripture, reflection and a check-in from 29 November. - [Lent app for small groups](https://startordo.com/lent-app): Keep Lent 2027 together, from Ash Wednesday on 10 February to Easter Day on 28 March. ## Guides - [Guides index](https://startordo.com/guides): plain guides to the practices Ordo is built on - [What is a rule of life?](https://startordo.com/guides/rule-of-life): The old monastic practice of a chosen pattern of prayer and work, and how to write one with a group. - [Covenant discipleship, explained](https://startordo.com/guides/covenant-discipleship): From Wesley's class meetings to today's covenant groups: mutual accountability that makes honesty possible. - [Breath prayer and the Jesus Prayer](https://startordo.com/guides/breath-prayer): A short prayer prayed with the breath, from the desert and the Hesychasts to Psalm 46. How to begin. - [The church year, explained](https://startordo.com/guides/church-year): Advent to Ordinary Time: the seasons, their colours and this year's dates, and why keeping them helps. - [How to run a Christian accountability group](https://startordo.com/guides/accountability-group): Honesty, confidentiality and a simple rhythm, and the quiet ways groups go wrong. - [Christian accountability questions](https://startordo.com/guides/accountability-questions): Forty questions for groups and partners, by area of life, with Wesley's questions and how to ask them kindly. - [How to find an accountability partner](https://startordo.com/guides/accountability-partner): Who to ask, what to agree at the start, and how to keep a partnership honest past the first month. - [The spiritual disciplines, listed](https://startordo.com/guides/spiritual-disciplines): Foster's inward, outward and corporate disciplines, Willard's abstinence and engagement, and how to begin. - [The daily examen, step by step](https://startordo.com/guides/daily-examen): Ignatius of Loyola's short evening prayer for reviewing the day with God, and how to pray it tonight. - [Lectio divina, in four steps](https://startordo.com/guides/lectio-divina): Guigo II's ladder of reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation, and how to pray scripture with a group. - [The Daily Office, explained](https://startordo.com/guides/daily-office): Morning and Evening Prayer from Daniel and the psalms to the Prayer Book and the Hours, and how to begin. - [How to keep Advent](https://startordo.com/guides/advent): Advent 2026 begins on 29 November: the wreath, the O Antiphons and simple ways to keep the four weeks together. - [How to keep Lent](https://startordo.com/guides/lent): Lent 2027 begins on 10 February: fasting, prayer and almsgiving, what to give up or take on, and keeping it together. ## Features - Rule of life written together in six parts: scripture, prayer, reflection, absence, accountability areas, review; weighted light, moderate or deep to a group's tradition - Daily rhythm: reflection, scripture response, check-in (about ten minutes), drawn as a timeline - The reveal: reflections open to the whole group at once, only after everyone has written - The church year: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Eastertide, Ordinary Time. Photographs, prompts and readings turn with the season - Breathe with me: a breath prayer (Jesus Prayer or Psalm 46) at the pace of your companion's breathing, four counts in and six out - Eight companions (lamb, owl, fox, hare, deer, sparrow, bear, mouse) that keep watch while the day asks something and sleep once it is kept - A formation letter at the close of each season; a personal archive of every season with a day grid and a thread of reflections - The Daily Office; warm walnut dark mode - No streaks, badges, red dots or "you've been away" notifications ## Optional - Reflections are encrypted at rest and visible only to the members of the invitation-only group they were written for. No public feed, no third-party advertising trackers, personal information is not sold. - Ordo does not monitor or filter your device. It is accountability by honest account within a small group, unlike internet-monitoring accountability apps. - Works for a pair of accountability partners, a small group, or alone (solo mode). iPhone only for now; no Android yet. - Made in Sydney, Australia, by Nathanael Thie.