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The link has to be complete to work. Text messages and emails sometimes break a long link across two lines, and only the first half gets tapped.

What to do: ask whoever invited you to send it again. If you can see the whole link, copy all of it and paste it into your browser's address bar.

That is your phone protecting you, and it happens with every app that records. Nothing is listening until you say yes.

What to do: tap Allow. If you tapped Don't Allow by mistake, close the page completely, open your link again, and it will ask once more.

If it stops asking, your phone has remembered the refusal. On an iPhone, go to Settings, then Safari, then Microphone, and set it to Ask. On Android, open Chrome, tap the three dots, Settings, Site settings, Microphone.

The microphone heard silence. Almost always one of three things.

Your hand is over it. On most phones the microphone is a small hole on the bottom edge. It is easy to cover with a finger without noticing.

Headphones are plugged in, so it is listening through those instead. Unplug them and try again.

You spoke too quietly. Hold the phone about a hand's width from your mouth and speak as you would to somebody across a table.

Normal speaking voice, phone about a hand's width away. Not a whisper, and no need to project.

A quiet room matters more than a loud voice. Close a door, turn off a fan or a television, and sit still. A phone microphone picks up far more of the room than your ear does.

Record it again, as many times as you like. Nothing is final until you send it, and even then whoever asked you can ask you to redo it.

You will be offered a listen before anything is sent.

They are on the screen, in large type, as you record. You read them aloud. There is nothing to memorize.

If you would like to see them beforehand, they are further down this page under The prayers, in full.

No. No account, no password, no app. You tap the link, you read, you are finished. That is deliberate.

The family member who invited you, and whoever they choose to share the finished Rosary with. Nobody else can reach it. It is not published, not searchable, and not shared with anyone else.

You are asked to agree before you record, and that agreement is kept.

Ask the person who invited you and they can remove it. When they do, the recording is genuinely deleted rather than hidden.

If you would rather not go through them, write to hello@hearuspray.com.

Your recording is kept on your own phone as you go, so an interruption loses the sending and not the recording. Open your link again and it will offer to send what it still has.

Yes. Any recent browser will do. A phone is usually easier, because the microphone is closer to your mouth and better suited to a voice.

One is enough. A full Rosary can be recorded entirely by one person.

Seven covers it comfortably, with each person taking a decade or two. There is no upper limit, and a large family or a parish group works well.

You decide, or let it divide the Rosary evenly for you. You can move any part to anybody at any time, before or after they have recorded.

Yes. Choose any of the four when you start, and you get a separate finished Rosary for each, from the same voices, for the same one off payment.

The prayers are recorded once. What differs between the four is the mystery announced before each decade, so somebody praying the whole Rosary records the shared prayers once and then one short line for each mystery of each set you have chosen.

Four sets means twenty of those lines, five per set. It is the longest part of asking for all four, and each one is a single sentence.

You can add a set later without anybody re-recording anything. The shared prayers are reused and only that set’s announcements are new.

Each person needs two or three minutes. The waiting is the slow part: allow a week or two for relatives to get to it, and longer over a holiday.

If somebody is unwell and time matters, ask them first and fill in the rest around them.

Copy each person's link and send it however you normally reach them. A text message, WhatsApp, email, whatever they actually read.

Sending it yourself works better than any automatic system, because it arrives from a name they trust rather than from a company they have never heard of. You can also have an invitation emailed in your name, and replies come back to you.

“Still to record” on your own page lists it by person: who owes you something, how many parts, what those parts are, and whether they have opened their link yet.

Each row has a way to chase it: send the link again, copy it, email it to them, or record their part in person while you are with them.

If any part has not been given to anybody at all, that is listed separately. Those are the ones easily missed, because an unrecorded bead looks the same whether somebody was asked for it or nobody was.

Normal, and usually not refusal. People mean to and forget.

A reminder can be sent, once. Beyond that, a phone call works far better than another message. For anyone over about seventy, offering to sit with them and tap the link together removes almost every obstacle.

Two options. Record their part on your own phone while they read aloud, using their link. Or move their part to somebody else and let them keep a shorter piece, even one Hail Mary.

One prayer in a voice you will not hear again is worth more than a tidy arrangement.

Freely, for anything not yet recorded. Give a bead to somebody else, share a decade between several people, or take it back and do it yourself, as often as you like. Nobody is told they have been moved unless you send them a new link.

Once a bead has a recording on it, that recording stays on that bead. You can delete it, or ask for it again from the same person or a different one, and the new recording replaces it. What you cannot do is pick up somebody’s Hail Mary and drop it on a different bead: every recording was made for the bead it sits on, and the words would not match anywhere else.

A whole decade recorded straight through is one continuous recording, so it moves and is replaced as one thing rather than ten.

You get a page with the whole Rosary on it, and a file you can download and keep. The page can be shared with a link, and you can revoke that link later if you want to.

Everyone who recorded can keep their own part once the Rosary is finished, at no cost and with no time limit.

No. Building the Rosary and inviting people is free, and you hear a preview before you decide anything.

Unlocking the finished Rosary is a one off payment. That is every voice assembled into one recording you can download and keep, with no subscription and no expiry. Everyone who recorded can keep their own part for nothing, once the Rosary is finished.

“Account” at the top of your own page holds all of it: the name relatives see when you invite them, what you have bought and when, and a way to change your password without leaving the page.

Changing your name there changes it on every Rosary you are still collecting. A Rosary already finished keeps the name it was made under, because relatives were told that name.

Stripe emails a receipt at the moment of each payment, so your own inbox is the record. The list on the account page is there to check against it.

There is a box for it on the payment page, where the card details are entered. Type it there and the total updates before you pay.

Some codes take something off the price. Others take nothing off and exist so that whoever sent you here can be credited, which is usually a parish. Either way it is worth entering.

An unfinished one closes ninety days after you start it, and the recording links stop working. Nothing is taken from you before that, and you can ask for more time by writing to hello@hearuspray.com.

Once a Rosary is paid for it never closes. The page, the file and every recording link keep working, and the people who recorded can come back to hear their own part whenever they like.

A Rosary anybody has recorded into is kept for thirty days after you delete it, and can be put back. Any link you had shared stops working immediately.

After thirty days the recordings are removed for good.