Master the sacred language of the Catholic Church. Lingua Sacra combines gamified Latin learning with authentic liturgical content — prayers, Mass responses, Vulgate Scripture, Gregorian chant, the Liturgy of the Hours, and now Patristic, Scholastic, and Manuscript Latin.
FEATURES:
• 197 structured lessons across 18 tiers, from beginner greetings to reading actual medieval codices
• 2,000+ vocabulary words with pre-recorded ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation
• Tier 15 Liturgical Mastery: verse-by-verse drill of Te Deum, Pange Lingua, Tantum Ergo, Adoro Te Devote, Stabat Mater, Dies Irae, Magnificat, Benedictus, and the great sequences
• Tier 16 Patristic Latin: Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Leo the Great, Gregory the Great, Benedict’s Rule, Bede
• Tier 17 Scholastic & Magisterial: Aquinas’s Five Ways, Trent, Vatican I and II, Rerum Novarum, Humanae Vitae, Fides et Ratio
• Tier 18 Codex & Manuscript: paleography, nomina sacra, scribal abbreviations, reading medieval folios
• 26 classic prayers with word-by-word grammar (Ave Maria, Pater Noster, Salve Regina, and more)
• Mass Companion for both Ordinary Form and Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missale Romanum)
• Office of the Day: opens to the canonical Hour matching time of day, with seasonal Marian antiphon
• Saint of the Day from the Roman Calendar with Latin name, brief life, and citation
• Curated Learning Paths: Path of the Priest, Path of the Scholar, Path of the Religious
• Vulgate Bible reader with verse-by-verse Latin and English
• Spaced repetition vocabulary review powered by FSRS
• 168 graded Latin reading passages from simple stories to advanced theological narratives
• Interactive paradigm tables for all 5 declensions and 4 conjugations
• Liturgy of the Hours, Stations of the Cross, Rosary, and Sacramental Rites
• Works fully offline — no internet required
Whether you’re preparing for seminary, following the Traditional Latin Mass, homeschooling, reading the Fathers, or simply want to understand the prayers of the Church, Lingua Sacra makes Latin accessible and beautiful.
Designed with the aesthetic of an illuminated manuscript — cathedral navy backgrounds, gold accents, and the elegant EB Garamond typeface.
I never write reviews but I had to write one for this app. I’ve finished the latin course on Duolingo and whilst it did help me understand basic sentence structure and some vocabulary it was really weak and I didn’t feel confident at all. I’ve been using this app for just a week and A LOT more make sense to me now. The structure of the exercises is excellent to actually make you memorise vocabulary, there are so many ways of using the app, so much great content, great layout that is super easy to use and the best part is that everything is based on the Church, which is the reason I started learning latin in the first placr, so from the very beginning you’re getting prayers, scriptures, church fathers, saints, the mass, etc, instead of spending ages practicing silly basic sentences about weasels, stinky bathrooms and fish sauce that you won’t ever use it, which really helps boosting your motivation to learn more. What a blessing. God bless the people behind this app and I hope this app becomes extremely popular.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind review! I am glad that the app has been so helpful for you. We really appreciate user feedback and would love for you to share it with all those you think would like it.
What I Was Looking For
HaveMercyOnUsSinners
This app is exactly what I’ve been looking for. It’s not subscription-based, it mostly works offline, has good UI and customization options, and has a good amount of content from what I’ve seen so far. It’s pretty new so I’ve noticed some bugs, but nothing major. I reached out to the developer because I noticed a bug and he responded and fixed the bug very quickly and was extremely polite. From everything I’ve seen I am personally confident this app is good for my use as a Catholic. Definitely worth the 5 dollars considering it’s still a new app and already better than the numerous other apps I’ve already tried in my opinion. I plan to use this to start the path toward understanding the Vulgate and being able to read the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, so if it’s possible I’ll leave another review or an update to this one if I get to that point and let anyone reading this know how this app helped me. Ave Maria gratia plena!
Just what Latin students have been needing!
A. Rainer
Never seen anything like it! This app includes so many different ways to learn and pray with this beautiful language. I am a high schooler who has been studying Latin for 6 years and have used a lot of different apps and websites to immerse myself in the language. Lingua Sacra is definitely the best one! It is also so easy and fun to learn from the beginning. Be careful not to get too carried away with it :)
Needs some bug fixes
eternalimen
Great app overall, I’m learning the Latin in a structured and practical way, there are just some bugs. Like audio not loading or exit buttons not showing, etc. It’s a little distracting.
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you so much for your review. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. If you wouldn’t mind, please send an email to applinguasacra@gmail.com concerning all of the issues that you are experiencing with the app and I will try to address them as soon as possible.
Communion & Friendly Competition — version 2.3.3
• Live Duels — challenge a friend to a real-time Latin match with a shared code.
• Global Leaderboard — see how your weekly and all-time progress compares with learners around the world.
• More reliable sign-in across Apple, Google, and email.
• Stability, performance, and accessibility refinements throughout.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
Version 2.3.3
The developer, MARK MARQUEZ, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Accessibility
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Information
Seller
MARK MARQUEZ
Size
117.4 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
