CopticGate
App for Coptic Churches
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Welcome to the brand new mobile application for Coptic Communities!
It includes a variety of features including:
- Events (interactive calendar, upcoming/most recent)
- Announcements (includes general messages to the youth, verses, etc.)
- Forum (ability to create a post and comment on other posts anonymously)
- Recordings (provide anonymous feedback with a /5 star rating or written text)
- Readings (a blog or contemplation of a passage, can be submitted by an admin or user)
- Polls, camp registration, social media links and lots more!
And a lot more...
All important information regarding the Coptic community is now in one centralised application. There will be regular updates to provide new features.
more - Bug fix addressing which events to display on the homepage based on the date
8.5.1 19 hr ago
- New offline mode to access daily verse, hymns, rites and timeline.
- Startup and church loads far more efficiently
- Smoother church loading UI
- Selected service bugfix, now accessible for guest users
- Long text bugfix for event bookings
- Admins can access improved site
8.5.0 15 Apr
Feature: New app links, your church can send links that will take you to specific pages in the app!
Feature: New poll page and Q&A buttons and pages
Feature: Version check to ensure you're not running anything obsolete
Bugfix: Long verses no longer truncated
Bugfix: Join group dialog UI improvements
Improvement: Service occurrences fetching 7 days instead of 30
Improvement: Hymn lyrics page reworked with added hymns
8.4.0 27 Mar
- New Services page! Recurring events are displayed with standard events. Users can subscribe and follow services.
- Calendar loads events per month, made more efficient
- Social media links display bugfix
- Audio player play and stop bugfix
- Fixed recently accessed church bugfix
- Poll and topics group not displayed bugfix
8.3.0 18 Jan
- Media page redesigned! Can easily view, search, sort all uploaded recordings
- Audio player now displays at the bottom
- Audio notification takes you to playing media
- Completing sign up bugfix when returning to action
- Side menu redesigned! Clearer interface and actions with loading indicator
- Church loading improved, always displays percentage
- Initial page UI changes and map flicker fix
- Poll and Q&A widgets UI improvements also displays group
- Recently accessed church correctly being remembered when internally switching churches
- Dialog popup bug fixes
8.2.0 16/06/2025
- New interactive map of Coptic Churches!
- Notification routing bug fix
8.1.0 29/05/2025
- Massive App and Church home page redesign!
- App startup now takes you to the app home when logged in
- App home displays "Your Churches" and the full list of available churches with their logos, with each church having a menu button for follow and subscribe actions
- Routing from notifications reworked, can take you to specific church contexts and their resources.
- App home contains app specific features and Coptic feast popup (removed from Church context)
- App home displays audio button just like church context does
- Major Signup redesign
- Church home "Your Groups" redesigned and other minor improvements
- Church side menu design improvements, now contains church external links and Contact Us button
- Switch church feature redesigned
- Church groups displays number of members
- Daily verse bugfixes relating to receiving notifications and opening from terminated state
- Audio player error handling improvements
- Event, announcement, and image carousel design improvements
- Notification bugfix when signed out
- Donation page colour changes
- Signup from guest account bugfix
8.0.0 20/05/2025
- Audio player now loads up audio that was previously playing
- Fixed bug that was showing booking registrations as booked when they weren't
- Fixed bug that refreshes user data after group changes
7.7.2 25/03/2025
- Users are able to allow or deny followed churches from viewing their profile
7.7.1 16/03/2025
- FEATURE: Register multiple times for a single booking
- FEATURE: View history of registered bookings across different churches
- BUGFIX: Changes made in settings properly apply in UI
- ENHANCEMENT: Improved performance when fetching church data
- CHANGE: Renamed "Register" button to "Enquiry"
- ADMIN: Church admins can configure groups to be private requiring an access code
- ADMIN: Church admins can configure polls to display or hide poll results
7.7.0 31/01/2025
- Apple Pay is now included as payment options for bookings and donations
- Fixed disappearing social links after switching church
- Minor screen background colour changes
- Initial page UI design improvements
- Signing in with providers prepopulates name fields
- Delete user account functionality
7.6.0 04/01/2025
- Minor features and bugfix of group content including:
-- Support of multiple images
-- Attachments display labels instead of vague filenames
-- Download attachment bugfix
7.5.1 02/12/2024
- Payments configured with stripe, no longer using PayPal
- New donate feature, users can donate to the church or charities setup by the church
- Announcements and events can display multiple images
- Fixed daily verse notification
- Notifications received while on the app display consistently
- Media player notification fixes
- Security improvements
7.5.0 15/11/2024
- Media player UI improvements with media player notification display and actions fixed
- Removed notification button in appbar
7.4.3 30/10/2024
- Media player rework with Improved media UI/UX
- Draggable media player
7.4.2 28/10/2024
- Profile details includes better postcode selection to include suburb
- Account privacy information provided when creating an account or updating profile details (when required)
- Dynamic versioning meaning quicker fixes and features
- Q&A submit response bugfix
7.4.1 29/08/2024
- Booking submission bug fix properly submitting question responses
- Home page indicator UI bugfix
- Notification settings UI bugfix
- Upcoming events ordering bugfix
7.4.0 19/08/2024
- New General links! Churches can set customised buttons on homepage linking to external links
- New Coptic date conversion in Coptic Timeline page
- Opening booking delay bugfix
- Group badge bugfix
- Switching church UI improvements
- Minor performance improvements
- Improved error and loading handling
7.3.2 25/06/2024
- Coptic timeline now accurately shows what period, feasts, and fasts we're in in the Coptic calendar, displayed as a dismissible popup and in the side menu
- Church reminder appears as popup when unread, then remains accessible via a floating action button on the homepage
- Homepage UI improvements
- Booking UI fixes
- Group last updated badge fix
7.3.1 11/06/2024
- New booking system (for both Church and groups)
- Badge displayed on group button to show there's been an update
- UI fixes
7.3.0 11/05/2024
- New Library page, includes media recordings and resources
- Groups reworked to display all group info including polls, q&a, announcements, events, content
- Minor design improvements
- Reload user on email verification
- Daily verse iOS fix
7.2.0 02/04/2024
- daily verse notification fix
- notification drop down redesign
7.1.2 11/02/2024
- Home page redesigned
- Top bar shows church logo and name when navigating to main pages
- Recordings renamed to Media
- Side menu cleaned up with church navigation and app resources below
- NEW daily verse subscription for "Verse of the day" notifications can be set through the side menu
- Forum can be enabled or disabled based on church's preference
- Church avatar on homepage opens configured images
- Follow/Subscribe functionality improved
- Network performance improved
7.1.1 01/02/2024
- CopticGate accounts introduced! Sign up on the new app homepage. New features accessible to signed up users.
- Church Groups introduced. A church can setup various groups where members of a group within the church can receive their own content and notifications.
- Side menu split into church and user content
- Homepage redesign
- Improved connection and error handling
- Announcement/event image zoom
- Notification subscription bugfix
- Hymn lyrics design improvements
- Other minor bugfixes
7.0.1 11/09/2023
- CopticGate accounts introduced! Sign up on the new app homepage. New features accessible to signed up users.
- Church Groups introduced. A church can setup various groups where members of a group within the church can receive their own content and notifications.
- Side menu split into church and user content
- Homepage redesign
- Improved connection and error handling
- Announcement/event image zoom
- Notification subscription bugfix
- Hymn lyrics design improvements
- Other minor bugfixes
7.0.0 08/09/2023
- Bug fix addressing which events to display on the homepage based on the date
more Version 8.5.1 19 hr ago
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