Forward Day by Day vs Episcopal Prayer List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forward Day by Day
This app provides daily spiritual practices for busy individuals, including meditations, prayers, and scripture readings. It offers integrated podcasts for listening and customizable display preferences for a personalized experience.
- Daily meditation
- Daily prayers
- Daily scripture readings
- Integrated podcasts
- Customizable display preferences
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
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Forward Day by Day offers prayer on the go—daily spiritual practices for busy people. In English and Spanish. The app includes the daily meditation from Forward Day by Day, as well as all daily prayers from The Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church, and the daily scripture readings from the lectionary. Integrated podcasts allow users to listen within the app as they read. Display preferences provide various fonts and text sizing options. Forward Day by Day is an offering of Forward Movement, a ministry of the Episcopal Church.
Episcopal Prayer List
This app provides a digital space to record and manage your prayers. It allows you to set multiple daily reminders for prayer times and offers daily devotions from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.
- Add and manage prayer entries
- Set custom daily prayer reminders
- Daily devotions from Episcopal Book of Common Prayer
- Home screen widget for random prayer display
- Categorize prayer entries
- Edit and delete prayers with swipe gestures
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Version 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the app utilizing Apple’s modern frameworks. This simple app gives users a place to jot down their prayers. The app also allows users to set up four times daily to remember their prayers. This setting utilizes the notifications system to repeat daily notifications. I chose to create the app with four prayer times as the traditional monastic hours of prayer are: Morning Prayer at 7 AM, Noon Day Prayers at noon, Evening Prayers at 5 PM, and Night Prayers, also known as Compline, at 9 PM. You can add more scheduled times as you desire. Instructions for use • Prayer List Prayers are listed on the opening screen. Tap the traditional + icon in the right-hand corner to add a new prayer. You can also add an Episcopal Prayer List Widget from any home screen. This widget will randomly select a prayer from your list and display it in the widget every hour. You can manually force a refresh of the widget from the prayer list screen. In version 3.0, you can add a prayer category to the entry. Swipe left to delete a prayer from the list, and swipe right to edit. • Settings Tap into a field will bring up a picker to select a time. Set the Schedule time with the button to the right of the picker fields. To delete all the scheduled notifications, select the Cancel Notifications button at the bottom of the screen or swipe left to delete a single reminder. You can add as many reminders as desired at different scheduled times. • Daily Devotions Finally, the middle icon from the Prayer List screen takes the user to Daily Devotions. These simple one-page devotions are from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (1979) and are designed for individuals to pray in their daily routines. I hope you find this app supports your prayer journey. Blessings, (The Rev.) Mark Spaulding Retired Episcopal Priest
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Episcopal Prayer List at 5.0 against Forward Day by Day's 4.3. Forward Day by Day's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Episcopal Prayer List holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Forward Day by Day has 84 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Forward Day by Day ships an update every 2 weeks, Episcopal Prayer List every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forward Day by Day | Episcopal Prayer List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (84 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forward Movement | Mark Spaulding |
Customer experience
Forward Day by Day
Episcopal Prayer List
Bugs and requests
Forward Day by Day
Reported bugs
44 issues- 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
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- 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
Requested features
16 requests- 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
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- 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
Episcopal Prayer List
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Forward Day by Day
No in-app purchases
Episcopal Prayer List
No in-app purchases
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