REH-COR-DOR · Latin: "I call to mind, I ponder in the heart"
Recordor
From the prayers to the Mass, doctrines to traditions, Scripture to the saints — memorize what matters and keep it fresh in your heart and mind — so you'll be ready at any moment to pray with your parish, proclaim the Gospel, and lead your family to Christ.
Voice-first recital. Spaced repetition that fits how memory actually works. Built for adult converts and anyone who didn't grow up absorbing the prayers by habit.
I went through OCIA in my thirties.
I was working full time, busy in the way most adults are. During the preparation for baptism, we were asked to pray the Hail Mary.
I didn't know it.
No one had ever explicitly told me to sit down and practice remembering the important prayers. I was expected to absorb them — by being in the room, by hearing them at Mass, by some kind of osmosis. I felt left out, until I made myself practice.
Mass was similar. Someone who grew up Catholic, or who attended Catholic school as a kid, can take for granted that the prayers and the responses are just there — already in them. Adult converts know better. Anyone who didn't form that habit early knows better. Every prayer memorized, every piece of doctrine internalized, was earned. With commitment. With dedication. With intention. Few of us are blessed with the gift to remember without effort.
Recordor is the tool I needed and didn't have. It's for the OCIA candidate at week 12 who can recite the Apostles' Creed in their head on the drive to their weekly class. For the convert who wants to participate in the Mass responses confidently for the first time. For Catholic school kids who'll graduate knowing not just what the prayers say, but holding them in their hearts so they can pray them when no one's prompting.
How it works
Three modes, one engine. Pick whichever fits the moment.
Memorize
Phrase by phrase
You say the prayer aloud, one phrase at a time. We listen via your phone's microphone and compare what you said to the canonical text. You see exactly what you missed; the next attempt builds on what you got right.
Learn
Doctrine + scripture
Flashcard + quiz courses for the Catechism, the sacraments, the liturgical year. Adaptive difficulty so you're never bored and never crushed. Built on the same spaced-repetition engine the prayer recital uses.
Quiz
Prove you know it
Mock exams, free-recall checks, OCIA exit-style reviews. For Catholic schools, for diaconal formation programs, for anyone preparing to be examined on what they believe.
Why it sticks
- You speak it aloud. Saying something from memory beats reading it silently — by a lot. (Production effect; MacLeod 2010 if you want the receipt.)
- You're tested, not just shown. Retrieval practice — pulling the answer from your own head — outperforms re-reading by a wide margin (Roediger & Karpicke 2006).
- The schedule fights forgetting. The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve is real; the only thing that beats it is reviewing before you forget. We schedule those reviews for you so you don't have to.
- The Rosary is built for this. Tactile beads + spoken prayer + repetition + meditation. Recordor leans into that — voice, a digital bead wheel, hands-free mode for the car.
With proof, not promises
Every other Catholic memorization tool tells you it works. We show you. Every user gets a personal retention dashboard — your Ebbinghaus curve, plotted next to the textbook forgetting baseline. The gap between the two lines is the work the app did for you.
Quarterly, we publish an aggregate effectiveness report alongside the financial report. Anonymized cohort retention data. Comparable to public baselines. You should be able to look at it and say either "yes, this is working" or "no, it isn't, and here's the data."
Who it's for
OCIA candidates
Adults entering the Church. The prayers, the Creed, the Mass parts — all the memorization the program assumes you'll absorb, made into a concrete daily practice instead.
Catholic school students + teachers
K-8 prayer + sacrament curricula. Teacher dashboards to track the whole class. FERPA-compliant. Kids learn, teachers see proof.
Adult converts
You've come into the Church and the prayers still don't come without looking them up. This fixes that.
Diaconal candidates + seminarians
Liturgy of the Hours, sacramental forms, scripture for homily prep. Formation programs already require this — Recordor gives you a daily practice that fits between job and family.
Devout Catholics deepening practice
You already pray the Rosary daily. Recordor makes it easier to add scripture, the Mass parts, devotional prayers — and notice when one is slipping.
Families
Hands-free Rosary mode for the car. Multi-user accounts. Teach your kids the prayers without making it feel like homework.
Why "Recordor"
“And Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.”
Luke 2:19
“I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:11
Re- (back, again) + cor (heart). To bring the word back into the heart. Not just remembering a fact, but holding it close enough that it shapes you.
Start with the Rosary.
Pick a Mystery set. We walk you through. Hands-free in the car or phrase-by-phrase recital — your choice.