Personal devotionals

Devotionals based on your life.

Begin with what’s on your heart. Explore Scripture-centered readings and questions for your life, with space to reflect, save insights, and pray.

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A reflection prompt in Glean’s focused devotional mode on iPhone

A reflection prompt in Glean’s focused devotional mode in dark mode

How it works

Create a devotional from your own situation.

Describe what is happening and choose the tone and length. Glean creates a devotional with Scripture, reflection questions, and practical steps.

Describe what is happening.

Write a few sentences about your week, a difficult situation, or something you want to bring to God.

Choose a tone.

Choose a supportive tone or a more direct one.

Receive a complete devotional.

Glean brings together Scripture passages, reflection questions, and practical steps around what you share.

The devotional experience · Glean for iPhone

A little space.
A deeper reflection.

Not just something to read. A place to bring your own words, sit with Scripture, and notice what you want to carry into the day.

Creating a personalized devotional in Glean for iPhone

Creating a personalized devotional in dark mode

01 · Begin where you are

Your real life.
A devotional made for it.

A decision you’re sitting with. A season that feels unsettled. A desire to slow down. Begin with a few honest words about what’s present.

Glean creates a devotional with Scripture, reflection questions, and practical steps shaped around what you share.

“I want to slow down and notice God’s presence in ordinary moments.”

You choose the tone, length, and number of days before creating the devotional.

The devotional Step view with Scripture, a reflection question, and a personal answer

The devotional Step view with a personal reflection, in dark mode

02 · Read. Pause. Respond.

Let the reading
become a conversation.

Move through your devotional in Step view, with Scripture, reflection questions, and room for your own response. There’s no perfect answer to find.

Write what the passage brings up. Stay with a question. Return when you have more to say.

Prefer one thing at a time? Focus mode gives each reading and reflection its own space.

A personal reflection followed by an expanded AI-generated Insight in Glean’s devotional Step view

An expanded devotional Insight beneath a personal reflection, in dark mode

03 · Make room for insight

There may be more
in what you’ve written.

After answering a reflection question, choose Get Insight. Glean draws on the question, your response, and the situation you originally shared to offer another perspective.

The insight stays beside your reflection, so you can read them together and consider what resonates.

“Stillness can be an act of trust, not another task to finish.”From the example insight shown here

Insights are AI-generated reflections, not Scripture or a claim to speak for God. Weigh what you read. You can regenerate or remove an insight while keeping your own words.

Glean’s updated suggested-prayer sheet with the title A quieter heart, a copy control, and a floating Create prayer button

Glean’s updated suggested-prayer sheet with the title A quieter heart, a copy control, and a floating Create prayer button, in dark mode

04 · Carry it into prayer

Let your reflection become a prayer.

Sometimes you’ve named what you’re carrying, but don’t quite have the words to pray. In Glean for iPhone, ask for a prayer suggestion from your devotional writing.

Read it slowly. Keep what feels honest, edit it in your own voice, and save it as a prayer to return to beyond today’s devotional.

Nothing is saved as a prayer until you choose. Suggestions draw on the devotional context you choose; review the words before making them your own.

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The redesigned Devotionals tab with active and completed devotionals in Glean for iPhone

The redesigned Devotionals tab in dark mode

05 · A rhythm to return to

Keep what’s growing.
Come back to it.

Your devotional doesn’t disappear when you close the app. Active and completed devotionals stay in your library, with the reflections and insights you’ve saved.

Pick up where you left off—or revisit words that meet you differently now.

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A devotional rhythm for your fast

Give your next fast
a place to begin.

Bring what God has been drawing your attention to—a question, a decision, a part of life you want to surrender. Create a devotional around it, and set aside time to work through it.

Let Scripture, reflection, and a few honest questions help you begin. Then slow down, listen, and leave room for the Holy Spirit to lead.

An illustrative autumn morning: a man in a comfortable chair reflects on a devotional on his phone, with a Bible and notebook nearby — A question to sit with. Room for your own words.Actual Glean app screens · AI-generated lifestyle image

An illustrative evening at home: a man reads a devotional in his armchair by warm lamplight, with a Bible and notebook nearby — A question to sit with. Room for your own words.Actual Glean app screens · AI-generated lifestyle image

One day. Three invitations to return.

For a day when you choose to fast until dinner, here’s one possible rhythm.

Morning
Begin with the Word.

Use your usual breakfast pause to read Scripture slowly. Sit with a passage and write what it brings to your attention.
Midday
Return and reflect.

Come back at lunchtime. Read again, answer a reflection question, and make notes about what you’re noticing.
Before dinner
Bring the day into prayer.

Revisit your words. Give thanks, name what you’re still carrying, and consider what to carry forward.

A starting point, not a script. Stay with a passage, take your time, and let your devotional serve the time you’re setting apart for God.

See how to create your devotional

Three ways to create

Choose how to create your devotional.

Start with Glean AI, or explore the web app’s bring-your-own-key and copy-and-import options.

Glean AI · credits or Unlimited

Create with Glean.

Create a complete devotional day and save it in your library. Use one credit per day or an Unlimited plan. Reading, editing, and keeping your existing devotionals does not use credits.

See what a Glean credit includes

Your Gemini key · no credits

Bring your own key.

Connect your Gemini key in the web app. This uses no Glean credits; your AI provider may charge for usage.

Copy and import · no credits

Use another AI yourself.

Paste Glean’s prompt into the AI you prefer, then bring its answer back. It takes a few extra steps, but uses no Glean credits.

A devotional you can return to.

Keep your place.

Move through readings and questions at your own pace, then come back to where you left off.

Keep your reflections.

Your answers stay alongside the questions and Scripture passages that prompted them.

Carry it into prayer.

Ask for an optional prayer suggestion, review it, and save it to your prayers when you’re ready.

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Local use and protected sync

Keep your devotionals close.

In the web app, you can read, edit, and manually import devotionals locally without an account. Create a free account for encrypted sync between the web and your iPhone.

Local web use

Your browser keeps local devotionals on this device. Make a manual backup to keep a separate copy.

Protected when synced

Glean encrypts each devotional on your device before syncing it.

Optional AI processing

AI features process the text you provide. That is separate from encrypted account sync.

Create a devotional

Create a devotional based on what you’re going through.

Describe your situation, then choose the tone, length, and number of days.

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