Laudate - #1 Catholic App 4+

This remarkable app contains an astonishing amount of content, from the Order of the Mass with readings for each day to the complete Divine Office (aka the Liturgy of the Hours) searchable by day; there are prayers, daily readings, biogs of each saint/s of the day, bible texts, Papal documents, links to live streamed masses and much more - this really is the only Catholic app you’ll need! If I could give it six stars I would!

The Laudate app
Posted by universalis on 1 February 2021

There is an app called Laudate, which people sometimes think is ours. It isn’t.

Laudate has a section showing the various Hours. This works by taking pages from our web site and displaying them as if they were part of the Laudate app. It is no wonder that some people are confused into thinking that we have something to do with the app. We try to make the distinction clear in our web pages, but some versions of Laudate seem to be programmed to remove that explanation – which doubles the confusion.

If you are doing the Hours regularly then you would do better to get the official Universalis app. It isn’t expensive.

The Universalis app:

Uses your own local or national calendar.
Uses the official translation of the Psalms.
Goes as far into the past or future as you want.
Does not need an Internet connection.
Has a better layout and can display the Hours either page-by-page or scrolling.
Has many extra features such as the readings at Mass, the complete Mass Today page, biographies of the saints, and so on.
If you take out an optional subscription, gives you spoken audio of all the Hours each day.

Used every day for Mass and now for the Liturgy of the hours. The recent (June) daily meditations of Cardinal Newman on Our Lady and on the Hidden life of Jesus, so comforting and instructive. A truly remarkable and most laudable achievement which makes my mobile phone worth having. I hope it continues to grow, enlighten, evangelise and become a recognised Dicastery of the Catholic Church.