Daily Prayer PC(USA)

The app is clean, and I recommend it for its usability and for it being correct in the readings 99% of the time.

But it does have a coding issue/bug. Today is May 31, 2026 as I write this. The readings it gives today under the RCL are those for the minor feast day of the Visitation of Mary. That makes sense as May 31 is that feast day.

BUT! Today’s readings should not be the visitation in the RCL. Because today is Trinity Sunday (which is a movable feast day as it’s always the first Sunday after Pentecost), and Trinity Sunday is a major feast day, the RCL readings in the app are incorrect. It’s not recognizing that the Trinity Sunday date moves and it takes precedence over a minor feast day on a fixed date.

So, get the app, use it, enjoy it! But realize that at the current time, it may get the RCL readings wrong for dates which move.

Maybe I’m not using the app correctly but I see the same scriptures repeated over and over and over on multiple dates. Very redundant. Not worth the $3. Save your money. This app is terrible!!!

Several typos which makes it feel a bit thrown together

I like the high contrast white with black letters. White on Black is hard to read. White letters fade into the black. God help us with color and font.

An earlier version allowed the choice for black background with white letters. It was much easier on the eyes. Please bring that back. A white screen with black letters is quite harsh.

The 8 week psalter is off by 2 or 3 days. Psalm 22 should always be on a Friday. Psalm 51 and 42/84 are Sunday psalms according to the psalter printed in the BCW Daily Prayer.

App crashes a second after I open it.

I really want to keep this app but it crashes constantly

Opens and immediately closes on my new iPad with the newest iPad iOS update

I really appreciate the content and pattern of daily prayer. Am using it now with my congregation. The interface desperately needs some updates — particularly for newer iOS devices. It doesn’t use the full iPhone X screen for example, and that phone is from 2017. Same is true on the iPad Pro 11 from 2018. In Xcode, the developer should see this in the emulator after setting the device to either of these or more recent. Would be great to have full display used. With iOS 14, the date picker becomes invisible when in night mode, which is very challenging — the connection to night mode is far from obvious. I’ve also tried purchasing the Company of New Pastors feature for another year, but it always crashes the app. Been trying this for a couple years, I suspect. For groups using it, it would be nice also to have the book page numbers in the liturgy and the liturgy included somewhere online for the Book of Common Worship. Thanks for the app! The recently added share options are helpful. If you update to the new Book of Common Worship, I hope you’ll keep the 1993 version as an option.

UPDATE: This app is even more desperate for an update now in 2022. Usually when I open the app, none of the readings are accessible as if all are deselected. Once I go into the Settings -> Advanced and toggle one of the entries to off and back to on, everything now shows up as expected. Though, sometimes it disappears a short time later while reading. The app presents a good scripture reading pattern and liturgy based on the 1993 Book of Common Worship; however, the interface is currently very frustrating. Please update; it’s age is showing and doesn’t present our denomination well.

This is one of the glitchiest apps I’ve encountered. If it doesn’t continually return to the opening scripture it randomly shuts down. It really needs an update.

Where has the Gospel gone? It's not showing up on the app.

Very basic and not especially appealing UI.

Would be nice to be updated to the “new” Book of Common Worship (now four years old!), with more diversity by day, the palm prayers, etc.

Certainly not worth paying for at this point, and the extra charge for the company of pastors (to provide things otherwise available for free) seems silly.

There are many daily prayer apps with better functionality available for free.

App won’t open after May 2020 update.

In this particular time of need for connection, I’d started to develop twice-weekly midday prayer services for our congregation. PCUSA was already many steps ahead of me! This app has it all and I’m VERY grateful to God and the app’s developers! Thank you!