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Hallelujah Challenge
An app for the praise hour that starts at 11:59 PM.
We designed the Hallelujah Challenge app, from joining live to the prayer room, and partnered with Beazyn until it shipped.
- Hallelujah Challenge
- Faith & media · Mobile app
- Research, Product design, Design QA
- 1 month and 2 weeks, the design phase
- 2025
- Richoco (design), Beazyn (development)
- Live on Google Play and the App Store
The brief
A midnight praise hour that started on Instagram in June 2017
The Hallelujah Challenge is an hour of praise and prayer, convened by Pastor Nathaniel Bassey. It started on Instagram in June 2017 as a 30-day midnight praise challenge. It now runs daily during set periods each year, starting at 11:59 PM.
Nigerian News Direct reported 1.2 million combined views on Day 15 of the October 2025 edition, across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
We designed the whole app and owned the design phase, which took 1 month and 2 weeks:
- Research into how to approach an app as big as this one was going to be.
- The screens and the light and dark themes.
- Partnering with Beazyn, the development team, so a quality app shipped.
How do you keep an app this big easy to use?
The hard part
The hardest part was deciding how to approach an app this big
That was the research phase: working out how to handle an app of this size and still keep it easy to use. Once we aligned on a design philosophy, the rest of the features came together.
Key decisions
Joining live, past nights and prayer, in one app
- 01
A Join live bar on the main screens
A bar above the tab bar shows the day and a Join live button. It appears on Home and in the menu.
- 02
Light and dark, switched by the user
People use the app by day and at night.
Light and dark themes were a priority in the design. People switch between them.
- 03
Past nights, in chapters
Past sessions sit in a library, grouped by edition. Each session page splits the night into chapters (opening prayer, prayer session, special ministration and prophetic word), with related videos and a comments sheet.
- 04
A prayer room with its own programmes
The prayer room has four categories: Hallelujah Challenge, Career and business, Healing & Breakthrough, and General intercession. Inside them sit programmes such as Pre-HC Fasting & Prayer. The prayer points screen has Bible references, a minimum time to pray, sharing, an audio player and a download button.
Interface
From sign-up to the prayer room
Home, past nights and the prayer room
Sign up
Sign-up asks a single question on each screen. People can use Google, Apple or email, or skip it.
Delivery
Beazyn built the app, and we partnered with them to ship it
When the app added a News tab, which was a minor tweak, we gave Beazyn our components to build it.
Design next to what shipped
The outcome
Live on Google Play and the App Store
The app is live on Google Play, and on the App Store since 1 November 2026.
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