electronic Common Prayer 4+

I agree with a previous reviewer that this used to be my go-to source for all things prayer book. Along with the inexplicable demand for a subscription came a design change that made it harder to use. But chiefly I note with Odin that the so-called Anglican tradition in North America had multiple functional daily prayer apps available for free and the Roman Catholics have a LOT of breviary-based apps available for free. It’s frustrating (and embarrassing) that I can’t find one integrated (with daily RCL readings) Episcopalian daily prayer app that is free. Just shameful. I understand copyright law, but Church Publishing is not doing the right thing here.

This latest subscription based revision to the eCP is a pathetic example of a successor being eminently less usable than the original. The initial look and feel, while very different from the original, is usable and has some advantages. However, the usability is seriously lacking.

eCP used to be fluid to use and far superior to handling numerous bookmarks in multiple books. This version breaks all of that. I can still scroll easily down through a service (e.g. HE II) and there are hot links to the Collects, Lessons, Prayers of the People, Eucharistic Prayers, etc. But heaven forbid you actually follow one of those links because when you return (<-) you are thrown back out to the home page where you have to select the service once again and then scroll down to where you were. This gets even more convoluted if you should switch between portrait and landscape orientation as it appears that any intelligent navigation only works in landscape orientation.

Significant shortcomings of the original have not been addressed, and sorely lacking are page number references for key items that would be immensely valuable for individuals who are using eCP within a group who are mostly using hardcopy Prayer Books.

All in all, this woefully poor successor to the eminently fluid original eCP. I doubt that it is worth the annual subscription fee of $10.

Hello,
I am grateful that this app exists. I wish it hadn’t shifted from the one time price to an annual subscription, but I made that shift. I would like for the app to have the correct information according to the BCP calendar, given that we are paying for the annual subscription. I keep hoping you’ll fix this, and I think I wrote about this before, but I’m writing again. When a major feast, such as St Barnabas, falls on a Sunday, please put the information for St Barnabas not on Sunday, but on the transferred day. I try to teach folks about the church calendar and the primacy of the Lord’s Day, and it would be great if this resource could mirror the calendar hierarchy described on pp. 15-18 of the BCP, and not confuse people. Thanks for listening and I hope you can fix this.