I built byrna for myself first.
I wanted one place where training and faith lived side by side — something that would actually keep me accountable to both. Not a workout log in one app and a devotional in another, with neither one knowing the other existed. The same discipline that gets me to the gym should be the one that gets me into Scripture. Nothing I could find did that, so I built it.
Then I used it. Every day. And I loved it.
That's the part I didn't plan for. Once byrna was genuinely part of my mornings — the verse, the plan, the score climbing — it stopped feeling like a project I was working on and started feeling like something I'd miss if it disappeared. That's when it stopped being just for me. If it did that for me, other people should get to have it too.
So that's what byrna is: the app I wanted, built well enough to hand to somebody else.
“For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.”
That verse is why the devotional isn't behind the paywall and never will be. Training your body is worth something. It just isn't the thing that's worth the most. An app that charged you for the second half of that sentence would be getting it backwards.
byrna is built by one person — me. That means it moves fast and it means I read every email that comes in. If you use it and something's broken, or something's missing, or it's working and you want to tell me so, I'm the one who'll read it.