iBreviary

Paolo Padrini

About this app

iBreviary is the application that brings the traditional Catholic prayer of the Breviary and all the texts of the Liturgy on your smartphone and tablet.
This app wants to contribute, through a partnership with Custody of the Holy Land, friendship and prayer for all Christians living Holy Places.

iBreviary contains:
• Breviary, Missal and Lectionary complete in 10 languages and continuously updated (Italian, English, Spanish, French, Romanian, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish, Latin and Galician)
• The text of the Breviary and the Missal in the "Latin Vetus Ordo" and Latin
• All the main prayers of the Christian
• Rituals for the sacraments and celebrations
• The liturgical texts used in the Holy Land

Also iBreviary "Pro Terra Sancta" offers:
• The section, "Rites", with all the rituals and texts for the various celebrations Catholic (Adoration of the Eucharist, the Sacraments, Blessings, etc.)
• The brand new "Terra Sancta" the liturgical texts used in the Holy Land
• Keep in touch through the blog and the pages of the Franciscans Holy Places
• A rich section dedicated to Saints
• Store a day on any device
• Full management of saved days (selection and cancellation)
• Store up to 14 days (something very much in demand by those who want to download a bit of days for travel or long period without internet access)
• Download the entire week
• Enlarge and diminish the text dimension, with the flick of the fingers on the screen
• The ability to adjust the color of the background, the font and the size for a better reading of texts
• (On iPad only) Create and manage your Missal

The Application is available in the following languages:
• English
• Italian
• Spanish
• French
• Romanian
• Arabic
• Portuguese
• Turkish
and contains the liturgical texts in the following languages:
• Italian
• English
• Spanish
• French
• Romanian
• Latin
• Arabian
• Turkish
• Galician
• Vetus Ordo
• Rito Ambrosiano
• Rito Monastico.

The Languages of the liturgical texts are constantly updated.

Ratings and reviews

This app is great for conveniently providing all the Liturgy of the Hours and Mass readings in one convenient spot, plus prayers and other useful Catholic items. It automatically updates to today's date, or you can download manually. Having the office of readings on my phone is so much lighter than carrying around a huge book. There are plenty of language options, too. Every once in a while there is a glitch and the readings won't show, for example. But mostly it works great.

This is by far the best app I have found for praying the liturgy of the hours. It is very simple and straightforward to use, and uses the correct official translation. I wish it included musical notation for the hymns, but I imagine that would be harder to insert. It contains options for the propers for various orders (9 of them.) One thing I would really like to see added is the Carmelite proper.

This app WOULD be very good if it worked. The several languages it offers makes it potentially very useful. But iBreviary is USELESS without an internet connection. Though you can download all the readings for the week, it constantly crashes or does not display the correct language, or displays "Sorry, this reading is empty." Worse, this problem has been ongoing for ten years and has never been fixed. Please add an option to download ALL prayers and readings, and basta.

What’s new

Android latest version support and bug fixes for all devices