# Eight-Day Retreat — Preparation For Death

> Preparation For Death (iPhone/iPad app by Bil Kimes.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eight-day-retreat/id1490477206 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bil Kimes](https://appshunter.io/developer/504093998)
- Category: Lifestyle, Education
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 229 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2019-12-21
- Data updated: 2026-09-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eight-day-retreat/id1490477206/reviews.md

## What is Eight?

Prepare for eternity with the classic spiritual exercises of Saint Alphonsus Liguori.

The Eight-Day Retreat App brings you a complete, focused spiritual retreat based on the timeless meditations from Preparation for Death. In the original book, the considerations and points are scattered across more than thirty chapters and require constant flipping back and forth, making a proper retreat extremely difficult. This app solves that problem by organizing everything into a clear eight-day sequence. The Retreat menu guides you day by day and highlights your progress until the retreat is completed.

Designed for quiet reflection and serious prayer, the app keeps technology out of the way so you can stay fixed on the eternal truths that matter most. Fully offline — no internet required once installed.

The Eight-Day Retreat App brings you a complete, focused spiritual retreat based on the timeless meditations from Preparation for Death. Designed for quiet reflection and serious prayer, the app keeps technology out of the way so you can stay fixed on the eternal truths that matter most.

What you’ll find inside:
Fully offline — no internet required once installed.

• Full Eight-Day Retreat
Suggested schedule with Introduction, daily meditations, and supporting prayers. A simple Gold Square™ tracker helps you follow your progress from Day 1 through Day 8.

• Consideration Points
Powerful meditations drawn directly from Saint Alphonsus that confront the reality of death, judgment, and the business of eternal salvation — so that our final moment may be one of joy rather than terror.

• Daily Devotions
– Rule of Life
– Maxims and Prayers (by day of the week)
– Daily Meditations
– Daily Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary
– Benediction (English & Latin)
– Holy Rosary Prayers (English & Latin)

• Practical Tools
– Customizable reminders (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or once)
– Clear index of all consideration topics
– Foreword by Fr. Carl Hoegerl, C.SS.R. explaining the origin and purpose of the work

Every view uses clean, predictable iOS controls and beautiful contemplative graphics so nothing distracts from prayer. Completely free of ads, subscriptions, and interruptions.
We dedicate this work to the Holy Souls in Purgatory and to the memory of family and friends who have gone before us. 

Begin your retreat today and place the business of eternal salvation first.

Saint Alphonsus Liguori, pray for us.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 11.26.2 — 2026-08-15

• Beautiful new redesign and overall appearance
• Beautifully redesigned views
• Always Ad-Free!

### 11.04 — 2025-05-22

Updates for version 18+ and iPhone 16 series devices

### 11.01 — 2024-03-22

Updates for version 17+ and iPhone 15 series devices

### 10.07 — 2023-07-11

Updated to remove deprecated code for statusBarOrientation. Enabled email from the "About" view inside the App.

### 10.03 — 2023-04-28

Improvements  and modifications to several views

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