Digital Chant Stand vs Litourgia

The GOA DCS (Digital Chant Stand) app for iPhone and iPad gives you access to a growing library of free online Orthodox Christian liturgical texts and music. It brings together available texts, musical scores and audio recordings of hymns and entire services, to facilitate learning, preparation, and performance in church. All content and functionality is available at no cost. You will need to be online to download the DCS materials. AGES DCS is the evolution of eMatins, previously produced and offered by Fr. Seraphim Dedes. You can print PDF booklets of services as well as individual scores directly from your iPad. This public version of AGES DCS is offered for free and as is. The translations, rubrics, Greek and English texts are for the purposes of worship only and are subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by the authors, translators, developers, and personnel associated with their publication. Every effort has been made to make the materials as complete and as accurate as possible, but no warranty of fitness is implied. For information about other versions of AGES DCS and the inclusion of different texts and music, contact AGES Initiatives. AGES Initiatives envisions all Orthodox Christian churches having the texts, music and trained singers needed to maintain the fullest possible liturgical life.

Litourgia is a free application that uses the Orthodox various service books to automatically compose the daily prayers, including vespers, matins and the Holy Liturgy, according to the Typikon of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. The current version is in Arabic and follows the New Julian Calendar adopted in all Antiochian Churches; it addresses ecclesiastics, chanters or the ordinary faithful (choice pre-selectable from the settings menu). Through a rich and continuously updated database, Litourgia also gives the Icon of daily Saints and Feasts, various daily prayers and readings. It also offers a search engine connected to the archive of the Beirut Archbishopric’s weekly publication “Annashra” and its web site. This application was developed by the Orthodox Archbishopric of Beirut for the benefit of the Church children.