Fasting Companion

This update makes Fasting Companion easier to find your way around, and brings the whole Bible and every guided study to you in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino. The Spiritual Library Home has a new door: the Spiritual Library. One tap opens a page of six tiles the Bible, Studies, Articles, Audio, Strength & Courage, and Stories of Strength. Pray and Reflect, made simple Pray and Reflect now work like the Fast tab: choose a path and it opens right below, with no extra screens. • Pray: Why We Pray, Pray Now, Prayer Audio and Prayer Memory. In Pray Now, Guided Prayer and Write Prayer come first. • Reflect: Daily Reflection, Reflect Now, Daily Examen and Reflection Memory. Your Daily Check-in now sits at the top of Reflect Now. • Each tab shows its own verse, a new one every day. • Write Prayer offers five prompts and Free Write five questions, all in view, with nothing to swipe. • The help button (?) explains whichever path you have open. Settings in six groups Appearance, App Language, Reminders, Fasting, Help & feedback, and Privacy & data. Tap a group and its settings open in place. Account & Data stays at the very bottom. The Bible in your language • Read the whole Bible in Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909), Portuguese (Almeida 1911) or Filipino (Ang Salita ng Diyos), as well as English. It is built into the app, so it opens even without a connection. • Every guided study now reads in your language: titles, daily readings, meanings, reflection questions and prayers. • Book names appear in your language on every screen, such as Salmo 46:10 or Mga Awit 46:10. • Prayers you write in the supported languages are kept in Prayer Memory. Fast with a Friend • Tell the host: if a message needs attention, quietly let your host know. Only the host sees it, marked Reported. • Host tools: the host can remove a message, mute someone, or remove someone from the fast. • Leave this fast: if you need to step away, leave with one tap. Your place opens for someone else, and your timer ends quietly. • When you share a prayer request anonymously, your own copy shows Anonymous, so you know how it went out. Also in this update • Reminders: tap your check-in reminder and today's check-in opens right where you are. Journey Marker notices and the Apostles' Fast reminders now read in your language. • Widget: the Home Screen and Lock Screen show each fast's own stage, such as Fasting together on a friend fast, and the themes of Lent and the Apostles' Fast. • Check-in: the check-in line on Journey opens today's check-in. • Export: Export My Data now also saves your study progress, what you have read and listened to, and your friend fast history. • Privacy: a new Share usage statistics switch in Settings › Privacy & data lets you choose whether to share how you use the app. What you write is never shared.