Forward Day by Day vs Prayer Corner
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.
Prayer Corner
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Prayer Corner is a quiet space for daily prayer: the Daily Office of the Book of Common Prayer (1979), assembled fresh for each day and hour. THE OFFICES: Morning, Noonday, and Evening Prayer, and Compline, laid out in full for today: collects, canticles, and the psalms and lessons appointed by the Daily Office Lectionary. Page numbers match every pew copy. THE PSALTER: all 150 psalms in the prayer book's own translation, with the 30-day cycle and audio. THE RULE: St Benedict's Rule in its traditional daily portions, read aloud, plus a daily "word from the Rule" — one of the 72 Tools for Good Works, adapted as a short daily reminder. THE DAILY ROUND: a gentle sequence of listening for a commute or a quiet hour, drawing on podcasts from Forward Movement, Pray As You Go, sung Compline, and more, streamed from each ministry's own servers. ALSO: the bells (optional daily notifications that carry a verse or the day's Rule word, never a bare reminder), lectio divina, the Examen, stillness timers, a private journal and prayer list, and prayers for the moments life brings. Every prayer, psalm, and reading comes from its source, with gratitude. No ads, no tracking. Everything works without an account; an optional account syncs your journal and prayer list across devices, readable only by you. Prayer Corner is a personal devotional project, not an official publication of The Episcopal Church.
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Verdict
Forward Day by Day and Prayer Corner are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Forward Day by Day ships an update every 2 weeks, Prayer Corner every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forward Day by Day | Prayer Corner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (88 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 46.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 88 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forward Movement | ISAAC MICHAEL POTOCZNY-JONES |
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
Prayer Corner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Forward Day by Day
No in-app purchases
Prayer Corner
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Forward Day by Day free?
Is Prayer Corner free?
Do Forward Day by Day or Prayer Corner have ads?
Which is updated more often, Forward Day by Day or Prayer Corner?
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