# Forward Day by Day — user reviews > 67 indexed App Store user reviews of Forward Day by Day by Forward Movement, rated 4.30/5 from 84 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forward-day-by-day/id561455965/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forward-day-by-day/id561455965.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 56 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Forward Day by Day? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Great content and devotions - 👍 Customizable experience - 👍 Encouraging and accessible - 👍 Useful for daily prayer - 👍 Good for staying connected - 👍 Journal feature added - 👍 Clean interface - 👍 Supports traditional and modern practices - 👍 Good for on-the-go use - 👍 Works well on iPad (for some) - 👍 Intuitive to use (for some) - 👍 Elegant design **Cons** - 🐛 Tiny font size - 🐛 Inconsistent internet connection issues - 🐛 App not opening/crashing - 🐛 Difficult navigation - 🐛 Not available offline - 🐛 Blank screens - 🐛 Expensive for functionality - 🐛 Inconsistent updates - 🐛 Content not always matching expectations (social justice focus) - 🐛 Lack of author biographies - 🐛 Text spacing errors - 🐛 App not working on specific devices (iPhone XR) - 🐛 No text stretching/scaling - 🐛 Does not support landscape mode - 🐛 Daily Saint feature missing - 🐛 Meditations missing in app - 🐛 App not loading content - 🐛 Expensive for bugs - 🐛 Fatal errors reported - 🐛 Not accessible to non-Episcopalians - 🐛 Broken link to Daily Prayers anytime - 🐛 Doesn't swivel on iPad - 🐛 Typo fixes needed - 🐛 Lord's Prayer spacing off - 🐛 Meditation bleeds off screen - 🐛 Slow to load - 🐛 Daily Meditation page blank - 🐛 No way to enlarge font - 🐛 Cannot pinch to enlarge - 🐛 No landscape mode for larger font - 🐛 Daily meditation does not fit screen - 🐛 Text won't shift to landscape - 🐛 Content doesn't fit screen - 🐛 Not functional when content doesn't fit - 🐛 Error statements - 🐛 Fatal error - 🐛 Too many bugs - 🐛 Price is off-putting - 🐛 Needs more interactive features - 🐛 Not accessible to non-familiar users - 🐛 Less lively than competitors - 🐛 More expensive than competitors - 🐛 Daily prayer sticks on time of day - 🐛 Broken link to Daily Prayers anytime - 🐛 Won't swivel on iPad - 🐛 Only two font sizes - 🐛 Designed for iPhone, not iPad - 🐛 Typo fixes needed - 🐛 Lord's Prayer spacing off - 🐛 Meditation bleeds off screen - 🐛 Slow to load - 🐛 Daily Meditation page blank - 🐛 Bug: only loads current day after switching rites - 🐛 Meditation bleeds off viewing area - 🐛 Cannot swipe back to today's meditation - 🐛 Slow to load - 🐛 Daily Meditation page is blank - 🐛 Fonts are really small - 🐛 No way to enlarge fonts - 🐛 Cannot pinch to enlarge - 🐛 No landscape mode - 🐛 Daily meditation does not fit iPhone screen - 🐛 Text won't shift to landscape - 🐛 Potential to be excellent, but bug exists - 🐛 Font is tiny - 🐛 Difficult for many to read comfortably - 🐛 Wish font was a bit larger **Commonly reported bugs** - Blank screen when opening app - App not opening - Stopped working on iPhone XR - Not connected to Internet or won’t open - Revolving circle and not opening - Message: Not connected to the internet - No internet connection error - Cannot Launch App - App quit working - App is Broken - Crashville - App Falls Short - Very buggy - Not working! - Where's the text? - Technical issues - App not working - Spacing errors - Text does not have proper spacing between words - Lord's Prayer reads "sinsas" instead of "sins as" - The Saint isn't always the saint according to the calendar - Daily Saint does not show up at all - Meditations missing? - Daily meditation does not fit the iPhone screen - Text won't shift to landscape mode - App not working on iPad - Content doesn't fit the screen - Daily prayer now sticks on the time of day - Link to Daily prayers anytime is broken - Won't swivel as iPad is turned - Typo fixes needed - Lord's Prayer spacing is off - Meditation "bleeds" off the viewing area - Cannot swipe back to today's meditation - Slow to load - Daily Meditation page is blank - Bug: it will only load the current day once I change the settings from Rite I to Rite II and vice versa - Meditation bleeds off the screen - Problem with the devotionals section bleeding off the screen - The fonts are really small with no way to enlarge them - Cannot pinch to enlarge - No landscape mode for larger font - Daily meditation does not fit the iPhone screen - Text won't shift to landscape **Most requested features** - Ability to swipe from left edge to go back - 3-reading setting for Daily Office - Information about saints linked to Daily Office - Ability to stretch text on iPod - Option to enlarge font size - Reminders at certain times of the day - Update the app - Cache a few days or a month of data for offline use - Include author biographies - Add a search function - Consider making this a universal app for iPad functionality - More interactive features - Make it accessible to people not familiar with the Episcopal Church - Customize the office more (e.g., General Thanksgiving at Morning Prayer) - More of the daily offices included - Option to customize the office more ## Newest reviews (15 of 67) ### 4/5 — So close! Still great! *2025-06-28* Absolutely love this app to stay on top on the Daily Office and devotions on the go. Thank you! If I could request one thing, it is the ability to swipe from left edge to the right to go “back” instead of having to go all the way up to the top left to go “back.” It’s a simple gesture but powerful when using your phone with one hand. This functionality is built into most iOS apps. ### 3/5 — Forward Movement *2023-01-10* Loved this app until this afternoon when I got a blank screen when I opened it. Since it's $6.99 for the app I'm hoping this is temporary. I haven’t been able to open this for 2 days now. I can get it thru Facebook, but not the app. ### 3/5 — Depends on the Month *2021-05-19* The authors of the reflections rotate each month. Some months you get mainstream reflections on the gospel. Other months you get heavy doses of social justice reflections. It’s like a whipsaw sometimes month to month. If you are sensitive to politics being mixed into your gospel reflections, I’d look elsewhere. ### 3/5 — Stopped working on iPhone XR *2020-08-15, version 2.1.0* Please update the app. ### 4/5 — Not connecting to internet *2020-08-14* I have been getting this ap, reading it daily and now it will not open. I tried going to a hotspot but it still will not open. Please let me know what to do! Thanks ### 2/5 — Difficult to navigate *2020-08-10* Was happy to find an app for this as much easier for me to read than print version. Unfortunately, I found it cumbersome to move to a different date, among other things. Navigation is not intuitive and thus frustrating. Instead I’m using the free version on the website - much better. Save the $7 and donate to your parish instead. ### 3/5 — Not Available Offline *2020-07-31* I’m I the only one who goes on vacation to wild and natural places and is disappointed I can’t do my morning readings because this app has to be online to work? Please update your app to cache a few days or a month of data so it works everywhere I pray. ### 3/5 — Nice to have again *2020-07-22* Used to get these little books at church years ago. Nice to see it again and have it electronically. But why is the text in the app so huge?? It’s much larger than any other text on my phone. To get it a reasonable size, I have to make the rest of my phone text super tiny. You lose two stars for that. It’s like trying to read a billboard at arms length. ### 4/5 — Message: Not connected to the internet *2020-06-04* I do love this app, but I can’t get it to work properly. I keep getting that error message about the internet connection, which I see others have had trouble with, also. Please help!!! ### 2/5 — Meditations missing? *2020-04-09, version 2.1.0* I got this app because I wanted the daily meditation in electronic form. Not there! I do appreciate having the daily lectionary readings, but I still have to have the print copy to get the meditations? The app does not deliver what the App Store blurb promises... ### 4/5 — Not opening *2020-01-04, version 2.1.0* Love the app, same issues of not opening! ### 4/5 — Not connected to the internet era *2019-05-05* I love this app and just started using it 4 days ago. For the first time I am having trouble with it though. It says I am not connected to the internet and also to retry. I checked my internet connection and in fact I am connected to the internet and am able to play video on Safari. So I uninstalled it and shut down my phone. Then After several minutes I turned my phone on again, reinstalled the app and I am getting the same message. I then checked the internet connection once again and am connected just fine. I have thoroughly enjoyed having this app. Help! ### 5/5 — Quarterly Authors *2018-09-21* I was so happy to discover in my hard copy of Forward that it can be downloaded to my phone. No more anxiety about getting my quarterly copy at church before they’re all gone : ). What I did notice in the online version is no reference to the author biographies. I always enjoy reading about the person who is contributing each month and gaining perspective of their background and how it might enhance their daily thoughts. ### 5/5 — Love! *2018-06-16* So excited to have found this app! Makes finding the daily readings so much easier than googling when you’re “on the go”. ### 4/5 — FONT SIZE SOLVED? *2018-02-23, version 2.0.3* On my iPad, I discovered that if I open this app then close it and open it again the font is bigger and easily readable. Does this work for anyone else? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No accessible font sizes *2026-02-09* Theoretically the app gives you the option of changing the font size to a more accessible size, but the largest font size is barely bigger than the smallest. I cannot read with any facility with the tiny text size that this app has. I know it has a lot of wonderful content, but it’s really frustrating that I cannot read it. The audio of the text is nice at times, but it’s not the same as reading. ### 1/5 — Not connected to Internet or won’t open *2020-08-14* I’ve enjoyed this app until last night when all I got was the revolving circle..I got the same today. Turned my iPad off, then on again, but got the message that I wasn’t connected to the internet. But I was connected. Deleted the app, then restored and got the revolving circle again. Maybe I’ll try the website. Deleting the app until fixed. Very disappointing. By the way: in connecting to the website with Daily Prayer, the site also says “Not connected to the internet.” Someone needs to fix the site itself: that is the source of the problem. I will (try to) send them a contact message - if it goes thru’ ..... ### 1/5 — No internet connection *2019-05-05, version 2.1.0* From the get-go right after downloading and installing this app I get “No internet connection.” Tapping “Retry” brings no response. All other apps connect. How do I get a refund? ### 1/5 — Cannot Launch App *2019-05-05, version 2.1.0* I began having problems launching the app yesterday. I get the message “No internet connection “ with a retry button that does not work. Has anyone experienced this problem? I have installed and reinstalled with the same results. ### 1/5 — Will not open *2019-01-12, version 2.1.0* Really enjoyed the app but now it won't open. The little symbol just spins and the app never opens. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2017-08-07, version 2.0* This is a poor effort on the part of Forward Movement. The daily prayer feature doesn't work reliably for the current day and gives no visible feedback or error if it can't load the Office. The app also invariably opens to the meditation, even if you were just in the Daily Office. This means that if your phone closes the app, you have to tap several times to get back to your place. If you were in the middle of prayer and no longer have a network connection, too bad. Overall the app is much worse than Derek Olsen's breviary website, and it costs $7 instead of Derek's donation model. Avoid. ### 1/5 — App is Broken *2017-08-01, version 1.1* App is broken. I received a pop-up from Apple when opening this app, saying the developer needs to update app. I second that. ### 1/5 — Crashville *2017-07-29, version 1.1* I'm having the same problem as AUramatam, the other reviewer from July 29. The app opens to the main screen, then a blank screen with no text loading comes next. I note that no software update has been posted since 2012. 5 years in software is like a millennium, so I assume that this app is no longer compatible with iOS. Too bad--I love Forward Day By Day. ### 1/5 — App quit working *2017-07-29, version 1.1* Opened app to read this morning and nothing! Deleted and reinstalled and still nothing. What's going on? ### 1/5 — Don't waste your money! *2016-09-19, version 1.1* This app is a WONDERFUL idea - but the execution is terrible. Much of the app is unreliable, at best, and doesn't function at worst. For instance, the Daily Saint does not show up at all. I wouldn't recommend purchasing until they come out with an update. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Clean, concise and encouraging *2024-07-02, version 3.3.23* This app makes participating in the daily office so fun, accessible and enjoyable! ### 5/5 — Recommended for being customizable and the developers’ attention to detail and frequent updates *2022-09-18* All the prayers and the lectionary readings you need to pray the Daily Office or to pray shorter devotions. And it can be as traditional or modern as you like, and can be simplified or prayer with the Angelus and Regina Coeli. I’ve been using Forward Day by Day since 2018 and have watched a good app get even better. Back then I liked the basic layout and functionality, but was disappointed that I was stuck with a small font size, even if I used a larger one in my iOS default settings. That was changed a few years ago; now there is a choice of fonts, sizes, screen colors, bold/italic for responses, and even drop caps, for a nice touch. I’ve used the app at home, for meetings, when traveling, and I’ve been happy with how well it has performed. If anyone asks about devotions or the daily office, I mention this app. Sending someone to the BCP for that is just unkind, since they’re so hard to follow there. I like to support Forward Movement, for the multitude of good things they do, and with this quality app, it’s just another reason to support them. ### 5/5 — Thank you *2021-11-28* In today’s COVID era where I don’t get to church services like I would prefer, this is a great way to ensure I stay connected to the church. ### 5/5 — The journal *2021-07-27, version 3.0.5* Thank you so very much for adding the journal to this beautiful new addition of Forward! ### 5/5 — Excellent but could be even better *2021-07-13* The written firm of the Daily Office should offer a 3-reading setting which would match the podcasts of morning and evening prayer. On saints’ feast days information about the saints should be linked to the Daily Office as in the Venite app. ### 5/5 — Thanks for a great app *2020-01-30* I love the app and we use it at daily morning prayer. Suggestion/request: I ave vision troubles and I use the app because the magazines are harder to read. I wish I could stretch the text on my iPod, but the app does not support text stretching. Any chance of a change? Thank you, Deacon Lawrence ### 5/5 — Not opening today - nobody available until Monday - waah *2019-01-12* I LOVE this app but it Not opening today - nobody available until Monday - waah Just a little circle spinning.... help? I’ve tried re-installing. It isn’t even showing up in my list of installed apps now. This is the same on my iPhone 8, iPnone 8 Plus and mini iPad ... all fully updated OS. ### 5/5 — Love it ! *2018-12-29* We love this app ! Only trouble is from time to time the app, when opened it won’t load. Just the arrow round and round , it seems in fact not to be loading . Same on five iOS devices. Close then open- uninstalled and reinstalled. Nothing but the loading symbol. We have hard copies each month as a back up. Any ideas or similar experiences out there ? Hoping to hear back from the developer. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2018-11-30, version 2.1.0* The very best of the apps available for those who want a Daily Office according to the 1979 American revision of The Book of Common Prayer. Well done. ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2018-09-25, version 2.1.0* Lovely, simple app for keeping the rhythm of prayer and Scripture in daily life. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-17.*