Re-release of Daily Office

After a five-year hiatus, Daily Office is back in the App Store. I can’t remember what I’ve been doing all this time, but it probably has something to do with moving across the sea, going back to grad school, getting married, and having a child. But, whatever happened, here we are!

Daily Office is an iOS app that means to help you pray the Episcopal Daily Office in all its weird and glorious complexity, only without the complexity for you. Properly undertaken, saying Morning Prayer would require at least a copy of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer and a Bible. You would need to know which Bible readings and psalms were assigned to the day and where to find them, and you’d need to be able to do so within the context of trying to offer prayer. Daily Office does all this work for you and puts everything you need right where it belongs.

The liturgies of the Daily Office, Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline (night prayer), all allow for myriad options: This lectionary or that lectionary? This set of prayers or that? Which collects and how many psalms? Daily Office lets you make all these choices and more so that you can pay attention to praying.

This newest version takes advantage of iOS’s ability to shift colours for light and dark environments, and it introduces a new typeface and improved typography for easier reading, in both serif and sans-serif fonts.

If the app helps you pray or takes just that little bit of load off your probably very busy mind, then I’ll be happy. You can find it here.