# Orthodox Hours — Daily Prayer, Psalter & Feasts

> Daily Prayer, Psalter & Feasts (iPhone/iPad app by Bruce Willke.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orthodox-hours/id6815367358 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bruce Willke](https://appshunter.io/developer/6815367360)
- Category: Reference, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-02
- Data updated: 2026-10-07
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orthodox-hours/id6815367358/reviews.md

## What is Orthodox Hours?

Hours is a prayer book for the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine tradition: the daily
cycle of prayer, the calendar of the Church, and the whole Psalter, in one place
and always to hand.

THE HOURS
The Horologion, the cycle that sanctifies the day. Orthros at dawn, the First,
Third, Sixth and Ninth Hours, Vespers at sunset, and Compline before sleep. The
hour you are presently in is marked when you open the app, so you always know
where the day stands.

TODAY
The Orthodox calendar for the day, following OCA practice:

- The commemorations and feasts, and the rank of the celebration
- The tone of the week
- The fasting rule, and what is abstained from
- The epistle and gospel readings, in full
- The lives of the saints commemorated

Follow the New Calendar or the Old. Revised Julian for Greek, Antiochian,
Romanian and OCA use; Julian for ROCOR, Serbian, Georgian and Jerusalem. The
choice is yours and the app remembers it.

THE PSALTER
All 150 Psalms, in both Masoretic and Septuagint numbering, so the psalm you are
looking for is the psalm you find.

PRAYERS BY NEED
Prayers gathered by what brings you to them: adoration, confession,
thanksgiving, supplication, intercession, lamentation and consecration.

REMINDERS
Set any of the seven hours to call you to prayer. Each repeats daily and carries
a line from that hour's own prayers rather than a generic alert. Orthros begins
at four in the morning, so it is left off until you ask for it.

CHANT
Orthodox chant that keeps playing while you pray, with the screen locked or
another app open, and with controls on the lock screen.

VESTED IN THE DAY
The app takes the colour of the day as the Church keeps it: gold through
ordinary days, purple through Great Lent, red for the feasts of martyrs and of
the Cross, dark on Great and Holy Friday, Paschal red through Bright Week. The
cycle follows the moving date of Pascha by itself, year after year, on either
calendar.

WITHOUT A SIGNAL
The prayers, the Psalter and the chant are in the app itself. The day's calendar
is kept once fetched. Hours remains useful where there is no signal at all,
which is often where prayer is wanted.

PRIVACY
Hours collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no
tracking of any kind. Calendar data comes from orthocal.info, which follows OCA
practice.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-06

Updated the support and privacy links to the app's new home, orthodoxhoursapp.com.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-03

A new app icon: the budded cross with the three-bar Orthodox cross set within it.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-02

No release notes.

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