The Daily Office vs Revised Common Lectionary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Daily Office
This app provides daily prayer services from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (2019). It offers offline access, customizable themes, and audio playback for a personalized prayer experience. Users can also share settings to pray together with others.
- Morning, Midday, Evening, and Compline prayer
- Offline access to daily services
- Customizable themes and text sizes
- Audio playback with screen lock support
- Family Prayer devotions
- Searchable Psalter
- Shareable prayer settings
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Pray Morning, Midday, Evening, and Compline (bedtime) prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (2019), every day, wherever you are. The Daily Office sets out each office on one page, in order: no flipping between sections, no looking up readings in the lectionary, no rubrics to decode. Join Christians around the world in the pattern of daily prayer the Church has kept since its earliest days. WHAT'S INSIDE • Morning Prayer, Midday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline for every day of the year • Family Prayer: shorter devotions in the same pattern, for households with children • The day's readings on their own, for Morning and Evening Prayer and the Holy Eucharist • The whole Psalter, searchable and arranged by topic, in contemporary or traditional language • Collects for the Christian year, the offices, and many occasions • The Great Litany • A calendar of the Christian year, with every feast, fast, and commemoration in its liturgical color • Lives of the saints, with traditions and further reading for each commemoration PRAY ANYWHERE, EVEN OFFLINE The days ahead download on their own, up to two months of the offices, Family Prayer, and the readings for your settings, so you can pray on a plane, on retreat, or anywhere without a signal. Keep the spoken office for today and tomorrow too, and the app refreshes your downloads in the background. PRAY ALONG WITH AUDIO Every office can be read aloud, with each word highlighted as it is spoken. Audio keeps playing with your screen locked, and you can pause, skip, and scrub from the lock screen or your headphones. BOOK VIEW Pray an office one page at a time, turning the pages like a printed prayer book, with nothing else on the screen. On iPhone Duo, open it like a book and the office opens to two pages, one on each side of the fold. PODCASTS Prefer your podcast app? Subscribe to Morning and Evening Prayer and the daily readings, or make a podcast with your own settings. MAKE IT YOURS • Light, sepia, and dark themes, or follow your device • Six typefaces, including the Caslon of the 2019 prayer book, Garamond, Baskerville, and a hyperlegible face for low vision • Any text size, with rubrics in italic or red • Every choice the rubrics allow: a 30- or 60-day psalter, a one- or two-year lectionary, canticles, the Traditional Language edition, and more • Bible translations including the ESV, KJV, RSV, NASB, NIV, and NABRE PRAY TOGETHER Share your settings with a link or QR code, so a household, small group, or congregation can pray the same office together, in the same room or online. FAITHFUL TO THE BOOK The Daily Office carefully follows the text, calendar, and rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer (2019) of the Anglican Church in North America. It is an independent project, generously supported by Anglican House Publishers, publisher of the 2019 prayer book. It is not a substitute for the printed book, but a faithful companion to it: at home, at work, or on the road. Free, with no ads and no account required. Your settings and downloads are kept on your device. Questions, corrections, or ideas? Write to feedback@dailyoffice2019.com. We read every message.
Revised Common Lectionary
Access daily and weekly scripture readings from the church year, complete with multiple translations and customizable reading options. Enjoy offline access, multilingual support, and beautiful liturgical art. Designed for accessibility, it offers a seamless reading experience for all users.
- Daily/weekly scripture readings
- Multiple Bible translations
- Customizable text display
- Read-aloud functionality
- Offline access
- Multilingual support
- Liturgical calendar view
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Open the app and today's readings are simply there: the psalm, the Old Testament and epistle readings, and the gospel, ready to read in full. No account, no ads, no cost. READ YOUR WAY • More than thirty translations, including the NRSV, ESV, NIV, NLT, CSB, CEB, NET, The Message, and classics like the RSV and KJV • Read verse by verse or in flowing paragraphs, in serif, sans-serif, or dyslexia-friendly type at five sizes, with line-spacing and bold-text options • Listen as well as read — the app can read any passage aloud with your device's voice, at the speed you choose • Two modes: Weekly or Daily • Tap any verse to compare it across translations side by side • Section headings, psalm titles, and tappable footnotes where the translation provides them • Show the verses around a passage, or the verses the lectionary skips — context is one tap away IN YOUR LANGUAGE • The whole app speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese — every screen and setting, the church calendar with its seasons and feasts, and Bible references • It follows your device language automatically, and carries a Bible translation in each of these languages too THE CHURCH YEAR, VISIBLE • Each week opens with a work of sacred art from the Vanderbilt Divinity Library's Art in the Christian Tradition collection — tap it for a full-screen, zoomable view • A calendar view painted in the liturgical colors — Advent violet, Christmas gold, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time at a glance • The app's accent color quietly follows the season you're reading (or pin your favorite) • Light and dark themes built around a midnight indigo, with a true-black option that's easy on OLED screens ALWAYS READY • Readings are cached after the first fetch, so recent passages work offline • Your settings follow you across your Apple devices through iCloud • Open any passage in Bible Gateway, YouVersion, Logos, Bible Hub, STEP Bible, Blue Letter Bible, or the NET Bible with translator's notes ACCESSIBILITY Made to be read by everyone — with full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, read-aloud, dyslexia-friendly type, and carefully checked color contrast throughout. ---- Made with love for the Gators small group at Ecclesia Clear Lake, and for everyone who prays with the church through the lectionary year.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: The Daily Office at 318 against Revised Common Lectionary's 7. Revised Common Lectionary's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for The Daily Office against 5.0 for Revised Common Lectionary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Daily Office has 318 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of The Daily Office's written reviews are positive against 100% of Revised Common Lectionary's.
The Daily Office ships an update every 3 weeks, Revised Common Lectionary weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Daily Office | Revised Common Lectionary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (318 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 318 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 237 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Daily Office, LLC | Joseph Bibby |
Customer experience
The Daily Office
Revised Common Lectionary
In-app purchases
The Daily Office
No in-app purchases
Revised Common Lectionary
No in-app purchases
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