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iPhone app for Sabbath keepers
Make room for the Sabbath.
Sunset times, a preparation routine, an offline Bible, and a weekly journal — in one quiet app that keeps everything on your phone.
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Built for Seventh-day Adventists and Sabbath keepers.
The week moves fast. Sabbath invites you to slow down.
Work, notifications, and unfinished thoughts rarely stop on their own. SabbathMate gives the transition a shape — so the day arrives instead of slipping past.
Friday, 3:40 PM
The week is still running.
Friday, 3:40 PM
The week is still running.
2 hours to sunset
A quiet countdown begins.
2 hours to sunset
A quiet countdown begins.
Preparation
Loose ends, gently closed.
Preparation
Loose ends, gently closed.
Sunset
Sabbath begins.
Sunset
Sabbath begins.
01Prepare
Prepare before sunset.
Friday afternoon has its own rhythm. SabbathMate helps you finish, tidy, and settle — long before the light goes.
Friday
1:47:20
until sunset
- Close the week's work
- Tidy the house
- Prepare meals
- Silence notifications
Preparation checklist
Build your own list and reuse it every week.
Reminders before sunset
A nudge with enough time left to act on it.
Sabbath intentions
Name what you hope this Sabbath will be.
Gratitude
Close the week by noting what carried you through it.
Digital preparation
Decide in advance what stays quiet.
Sunset countdown
Always know how much of Friday is left.
02Enter
Welcome the Sabbath.
At sunset, the app changes with the day. Nothing is forced — you choose how the Sabbath begins.
Sunset 6:12 PM
The Sabbath begins
Enter when you are ready. Sabbath Mode is optional.
Enter Sabbath
Local sunset calculation
Sabbath times calculated for where you are.
Sabbath countdown
Hours and minutes, quietly counted.
Sabbath Mode
A calmer version of the app for the day itself.
Peaceful transition
A slow visual shift from evening into rest.
Optional restrictions
Set limits if you want them. Turn them off if you don't.
Focus guidance
Works alongside your device's Focus settings.
03Keep
Be present.
A small set of tools for the day itself — enough to help, quiet enough to stay out of the way.
Sabbath School
- Keep up with weekly lessons
- Track reading progress
- Study offline
Sabbath Mode
- Reduce digital distractions
- Configure the level of restriction that works for you
Reminders
- Thoughtful reminders rather than notification overload
04Remember
Your Sabbaths become memories.
The Sabbath Journal is not a daily diary. It is a record of one day — written down while you still remember how it felt.
- Where
- With
- Worship
- Sermon / study
- Activities
- Meaningful moment
- Gratitude
- Reflection
Sabbath · 18 April 2026
Potluck after church
- Where
- Riverside SDA Church, then home
- With
- Mum, Dad, Thabo, the Ndlovu family
- Worship
- Morning service · choir sang “It Is Well”
- Sermon / study
- Sermon: rest as trust · Hebrews 4:9–11
- Activities
- Long lunch, walk by the river before sunset
Meaningful moment
Dad told the story about his first Sabbath again. Nobody stopped him this time.
Gratitude
A slow afternoon and a full table.
I came in tired and left lighter. I want to remember that resting was something we did together, not something I had to earn.
One Sabbath becomes many.
Week after week, the entries begin to accumulate. Nothing to keep up with — just a day, written down again.
7 March 2026
HomeRain all morning. Read Psalm 27 twice.
The house was quiet in a way it hasn’t been in months.
21 March 2026
Riverside SDA ChurchSermon on manna and enough.
Sat with Gogo through the whole service.
4 April 2026
LakesideVespers outdoors as the sun went down.
Thabo asked what Sabbath was for. We tried to answer.
18 April 2026
Church, then homePotluck after church. Hebrews 4.
Dad told the story about his first Sabbath again.
2 May 2026
Grandparents’ houseBible study on the Psalms of ascent.
Grandma sang the old hymn. Wrote down the words.
Illustrative example entries — not real user content.
Many Sabbaths become a story.
Years later, the journal is no longer a list of weeks. It is a record of who you were with, what you heard, and what stayed with you.
2026
52 Sabbaths kept
- First Sabbath in the new house
- Hebrews 4 · rest as trust
- Four generations at Christmas
2027
52 Sabbaths kept
- Sunset over the lake in June
- A year of Psalms
- Thabo’s baptism
2028
52 Sabbaths kept
- Sabbaths away from home
- Isaiah 58 came up again and again
- Gogo’s last Sabbath with us
2029
52 Sabbaths kept
- Quieter afternoons
- Reading through the Gospels
- The table got bigger again
Look back and remember what mattered.
Your journal stays exactly as you wrote it. In time, SabbathMate will be able to read back through your own entries and help you notice what kept returning.
Available now
Your written journal
- Weekly Sabbath entries
- People, places and activities
- Sermons and Bible passages
- Photos and meaningful moments
- Gratitude and personal reflection
- Search and export, kept on your device
Coming soon
Journal insights
- Yearly Sabbath highlights
- Recurring themes across your entries
- Memorable family moments
- Bible passages you mention most
- Meaningful events, gathered by year
- Your reflections over time
Insights will draw only from what you wrote. They will never invent a memory, never rewrite an entry, and never replace your journal. Your original writing stays the permanent record.
You are not just recording a week. You are preserving a Sabbath.
Privacy
Your Sabbath memories belong to you.
SabbathMate is built local-first. Your journal lives on your device, and you decide what — if anything — goes further.
- Local-first architecture
- Works offline
- No account required for core features
- Your journal stays private to you
- Cloud services are optional
- You control your data
- No unnecessary tracking
Everything inside
A complete Sabbath companion.
Sabbath countdown
See how long until Sabbath begins and ends.
Sunset calculation
Sabbath times based on your location.
Friday preparation
A reusable checklist for getting ready.
Sabbath Mode
A quieter app and optional limits for the day.
Bible reader
Read, highlight, and take notes offline.
Sabbath School
Weekly lessons with progress tracking.
Sabbath Journal
A growing weekly record of your Sabbaths.
Reminders
A few thoughtful nudges, not a stream of alerts.
Widgets
Sabbath times and countdown on your home screen.
Focus integration
Works with your device's Focus settings.
Offline access
Core features work without a connection.
Data export
Take your journal with you whenever you want.
Optional cloud backup
Turn on backup only if you want it.
The app
A calmer screen, all Sabbath long.
Every screen is built to be looked at less.
Sabbath
Home
Sabbath at a glance
Home
Sabbath
Countdown
Time until sunset
Countdown
Sabbath
Preparation
Friday checklist
Preparation
Sabbath
Enter Sabbath
The transition
Enter Sabbath
Sabbath
Bible
Offline reading
Bible
Sabbath
Sabbath School
This week's lesson
Sabbath School
Sabbath
Journal
This Sabbath, remembered
Journal
Sabbath
Sabbath Mode
A quieter device
Sabbath Mode
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Make room for Sabbath.
Prepare with intention. Be present. Remember what mattered.
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Questions? hello@sabbathmate.com