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Pints With Aquinas

How Hallow Became the #1 App in the World (with CEO, Alex Jones) | Ep.515

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Alex is the CEO & Co-Founder of Hallow, a Catholic app for prayer, meditation, music, bible, and sleep. Hallow has over one billion minutes prayed, 18 million downloads, 500 million prayers prayed, 200,000 five-star reviews, and is the #1 Catholic app in the world. Over Lent, Hallow became the #1 app in the app store.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I care a lot more about me getting into heaven than Hallow having like a couple thousand extra users or whatever.

0:05.5

So we take very seriously that everything on the app is in line with church teaching.

0:10.0

It's authentically Catholic and that we're trying to guide people in a spirituality, in a relationship with the Lord that's in alignment with church teaching.

0:16.5

And hopefully Hallow can be a tool for the church.

0:19.2

We were praying about how to structure it,

0:21.7

and we were debating, like, having it be just a small business or like a nonprofit where we give

0:26.2

everything away for free or a startup. Obviously, Jesus is saying you take the one talent and you

0:31.2

try to multiply it to 10 or you try to multiply it to five. What I'd never really thought of before is

0:35.0

the amount of risk involved in the person who went from one to ten.

0:38.3

You're not putting it in a treasury bill.

0:40.3

You're not like doing normal trades.

0:42.5

You're doing like pretty crazy.

0:43.7

That's the startup.

0:44.4

Like a startup goes from one to ten.

0:45.9

But what we do have is this unique opportunity to reach out to the folks who have most fallen away.

0:55.3

All right. So you went on Tucker Carlson's show and you're coming here.

1:01.9

Wow, this is very nice of you.

1:03.6

Bigger than this.

1:05.0

This is Matt Fragg.

1:06.3

Oh, yeah, Tucker wishes he could get invited.

1:09.8

So what was that like? Tucker was great. Yeah.

1:14.8

Yeah, I was pretty nervous because it was certainly the biggest interview I'd ever done.

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