Introibo vs Catholic Catechism, Compendium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Introibo
This prayer companion is designed for the traditional Catholic life, offering full support for various Roman Missal and Roman Breviary rubrics. It provides daily prayers, liturgical calendar information, and fasting/abstinence guidelines, all available offline and without subscriptions or tracking.
- Traditional Roman Missal and Breviary support
- Daily feast, proper of the Mass, and Divine Office
- Liturgical calendar with feast details
- Fasting and abstinence guidelines
- Offline access
- Multiple rubric sets (1962, 1955, pre-1955)
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Introibo is a prayer companion built for the traditional Catholic life. Designed for the Roman Missal and Roman Breviary, with full support for the 1962, 1955, and pre-1955 rubrics. Ad-free, offline, and without subscription. No accounts. No tracking. Just the prayers of the Church, always available. YOUR DAILY COMPANION The Hodie screen shows today's feast, the proper of the Mass, the Divine Office, fasting and abstinence obligations, the daily psalm, and the seasonal Marian antiphon, all computed from the traditional calendar. See the liturgical colour, the season, and countdown to the next major feast at a glance. Follow one of seven patron saints with daily practice checklists and streak tracking to build a habit of devotion. THE TRADITIONAL ROMAN MISSAL The entire Ordinary woven together with 574 daily Propers in their correct order, each with full English translations. Latin and English rendered side-by-side. Every rubric observed: 14 proper Prefaces selected for each season and feast. The Gloria appears only when the rubrics prescribe. The Credo on Sundays and major feasts. Psalm 42 omitted in Passiontide. Proper Tracts replace the Alleluia from Septuagesima through Palm Sunday. The Canon includes proper Communicantes and Hanc Igitur for the great feasts. The correct dismissal, Ite Missa Est, Benedicamus Domino, or Requiescant in pace, chosen automatically. Three distinct Masses for Christmas. The Requiem Mass with its proper texts. THE DIVINE OFFICE Pray all eight canonical hours: Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. The complete weekly psalter with individual antiphons. Proper capitula, hymns, and versicles change automatically with the season. 285 saints' feast propers with collects and antiphons. Three-nocturn Matins with Te Deum for Class I and II feasts. Seasonal hymns for Advent, Lent, Passiontide, Easter, and Christmas. Four Marian antiphons at Compline. Set reminders for each canonical hour. LITURGICAL CALENDAR Browse the traditional calendar month by month in list or grid view. Every day shows its Latin feast name with English translation, liturgical colour, and season. Tap a day for full detail: feast, colour, season, fasting obligations under your chosen discipline, and a link to that day's Mass. Share any day as a styled PDF. THREE SETS OF RUBRICS Choose your tradition. The 1962 rubrics, the 1955 reforms, or the pre-1955 Tridentine rubrics, each with its own calendar and feast rankings. The ordo resolves temporal and sanctoral conflicts, tracks commemorations, and assigns the correct liturgical colour for every day. FASTING AND ABSTINENCE Three penance disciplines: the 1962 norms, the 1917 Code of Canon Law (with Ember Day fasts, vigil fasts, and Saturday Lenten abstinence), and the stricter pre-Pius XII observance (with Advent fasting and no upper age limit). The app shows your next obligation day and spells out exactly what you can and cannot do. SEARCH Search across everything, prayers, Mass propers, Office hours, saints, and reference articles, from one search box. Diacritic-insensitive, so "miserere" finds "Miserére." Results link directly to the content. PDF EXPORT Share or print the Mass propers and calendar days as styled PDFs with parchment background and bilingual side-by-side layout, ready to take to Mass. 67 TRADITIONAL PRAYERS Build a personal prayer rule for morning, midday, and evening. Browse 12 occasion categories. Every prayer in Latin and English. The complete Rosary bead by bead. Fourteen Stations of the Cross. Examination of conscience and confession preparation. LEARN LATIN Ten lessons in Ecclesiastical pronunciation. 97 flashcards. Psalms and Vulgate reading exercises. REFERENCE LIBRARY 41 articles. 574 searchable Propers with full English translations. Mass history timeline. Liturgical glossary. Everything works offline. No internet permission. No analytics. No data collection. Your prayer life stays on your device.
Catholic Catechism, Compendium
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Every paragraph of the official text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, in English, to read, search, learn and keep. Reading works without an internet connection. A QUESTION A DAY Each day brings a question many people ask, with the answer in the Catechism itself. You can receive it as a notification, at a time you choose, and keep the day's question on your Home Screen, in a widget. SEARCH A word, a topic, a question or a paragraph number. It searches the full text, the papal catecheses and the Bible. Paragraphs also appear in iPhone search. READING PLANS For a moment in life, such as: I am going to be a godparent, we are getting married in the Church, I have lost someone; or to go through the Catechism at your own pace: an article a day, or over a year. Plus the catecheses from the Wednesday audiences of Leo XIV, Francis, Benedict XVI and John Paul II. THE COMPENDIUM ALONGSIDE In every reading, the questions and answers of the Compendium of the Catechism that touch on what you are reading. INDEXES General, liturgical and biblical. Scripture citations open the passage without leaving the app, and so do the footnotes. FOR UNHURRIED READING Adjustable text size, dark theme, read aloud, bookmarks by category and notes (written by you). PRIVACY No accounts, no sign-up, no advertising. Privacy! What you save stays on your phone. Three things need the internet: the reading of the day's Mass, the Compendium questions and the videos. None of them identifies you. The text is the official English edition, from vatican.va. The app is made by the catecismo.pt team, for educational use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Catholic Catechism, Compendium at every 2 days against Introibo's every 5 days. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Introibo ships an update every 5 days, Catholic Catechism, Compendium every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Introibo | Catholic Catechism, Compendium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (60 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Holden Cole | paulo fontes |
In-app purchases
Introibo
No in-app purchases
Catholic Catechism, Compendium
No in-app purchases
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