Comparison

LRD vs Paideia Collection

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LRD

Access liturgical texts and rites for the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. Features daily prayers, background audio, and customizable display settings. Includes a complete Bible and liturgical calendar.

Highlights
  • Daily prayers with "Pray Now"
  • Background audio for prayers
  • Customizable "Do No Disturb" and "Night Mode"
  • Pinch to zoom for text sizing
  • Seamless resource navigation
  • Complete Bible (RSV)
  • Liturgical Calendar with Lectionary
Features
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The LRD application contains the liturgical text & rites of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. The LRD app dynamically provides the prayers for the current day and hour using the "Pray Now" feature. A background audio option is also available to accompany users while they access the daily prayers. Users have the ability to control their preferences, including "Do No Disturb" and "Night Mode Prayer Screen" settings. The LRD app also provides our user intuitive gestures, including pinch to zoom for prayer text sizing, back swipe navigation, and portrait/landscape views (with auto fullscreen mode). Additionally, the navigational options provided within the LRD app allows users to seamlessly toggle between the various resources. Resources & Current Contents Include: - Shehimo: Book of Common Prayer - The Fast of Nineveh: Hours of Prayer for Nineveh Fast - Great Lent: Daily Prayers for the Great Lent - Holy Week: Prayers for Holy Week - Holy Qurbono (as well as Qyomtho & Sleebo Vespers/Matins, Liturgical Year Hymns) - Complete Bible (RSV) - Liturgical Calendar with Lectionary - Bookmark Bible chapters and Prayers The LRD app is also a central location for all our other resources, including our learner videos, our social media updates, and our available publications. Other pending features of the LRD app include Notifications & Reminders, and Search. For more information about the LRD app, visit: http://ds-wa.org/about-liturgical-resource-development.html https://www.facebook.com/LiturgicalRD Please direct any comments or questions to: LRD@ds-wa.org

About

Paideia Collection

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An active Paideia Collection membership is required to listen. Great books, read aloud — with the illustrations synced to the audio. Paideia Collection is a growing library of enduring literature: the histories, nature studies, myths, and stories that formed generations of readers. Each title is recorded in full and paired with the artwork from its original edition. OUR MISSION The Paideia Collection exists to bless families with the living books that have shaped the foundations of the Western canon, carrying forward the oral tradition of old. In an age when many of these rich titles are difficult to find — and some on the verge of being lost — our mission is to preserve them and make them accessible once again. Paideia was the ancient Greek word for the formation of a whole person — mind, heart, and character — through immersion in a living inheritance passed from one generation to the next. It understood what modern schooling often forgets: children are not vessels to be filled, but souls to be formed. ILLUSTRATED LISTENING As the narration moves, the plates from the printed book appear in time with it — Penn's Treaty as the story reaches Pennsylvania, a kingfisher as Arabella Buckley describes the riverbank. Not stock imagery. The engravings and paintings the author's first readers saw. A LIBRARY WORTH KEEPING Charlotte Mason's Home Education series. M. B. Synge's Story of the World. Henrietta Marshall's Our Island Story. H. A. Guerber's histories. Arabella Buckley's nature studies. The Federalist Papers. Stories that order the affections toward wonder, beauty, and courage — because what we love is shaped long before we can explain why. BUILT FOR A HOUSEHOLD Give each member of the family their own profile, with their own place in every book. Grown-ups can guide what each child reaches, and see what everyone is reading. A four-digit code keeps the grown-up area to the grown-ups. THE COMMONPLACE BOOK Keep the passages worth keeping. Save a quote as you listen, with the book, chapter, and moment already attached — the old practice of the commonplace book, carried into the app. MADE FOR REAL LISTENING Download for offline listening in the car or on a plane. Pick up where you left off across devices. Listen through CarPlay. No advertising, ever. We are a storied people. Join families who are raising their children with knights, sea captains, heroes, and saints — through the timeless power of great stories, told beautifully.

Screenshots

LRD4 screens
Paideia Collection4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Paideia Collection at every 6 days against LRD's every 3 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LRD ships an update every 3 months, Paideia Collection every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
LRD versus Paideia Collection: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLRDPaideia Collection
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (217 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings217 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB59 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperRightMove SolutionsPaideia Collection LLC

In-app purchases

None

LRD

No in-app purchases

None

Paideia Collection

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LRD free?
LRD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paideia Collection free?
Paideia Collection is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LRD or Paideia Collection have ads?
Neither LRD nor Paideia Collection shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LRD or Paideia Collection?
LRD ships an update every 3 months, and Paideia Collection every 6 days. Most recently, LRD was updated on November 6, 2026 and Paideia Collection on October 31, 2026.

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