Universalis
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Universalis is a missal and a breviary, and more besides. It gives you the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) and the Mass for every day; plus valuable additional material. Tens of thousands of people use Universalis daily. Come and join them! • Single purchase: the app lasts for ever. It does not need a subscription to make it work. • No Internet needed: everything you need is already built in. • No cleverness needed: each day, Universalis works out exactly what you need to see. • View any date: past, present and future. • Use your own local calendar: USA, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, and every diocese in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. • Easy to read and use: a choice of fonts; big or small type; dark or light theme; page-turning or scrolling. • Optional add-on: spoken audio read by real human beings (this needs a subscription: see below). • Latin if you want it: by itself or alongside the English. • Help and support: tips and instructions are included; or press “Contact Us” to send us a message, and we will reply. EXTRA MATERIAL • The “About Today” page tells you what saints are being celebrated today, worldwide. It includes reflections, biographies and illustrations. • “Mass Today” gives you the Order of Mass and today’s readings and prayers, all in one page. Bishops have been known to use it to say Mass from their iPads! • “Spiritual Reading” gathers the patristic and hagiographic readings for all the saints and feasts of the day. • “The Rosary” has a verse of Scripture for every Hail Mary of every Mystery. Spoken audio is included. • Daily Books takes selected spiritual classics and presents them in daily instalments to focus and enrich your prayer life. • Commentaries on the day’s Mass readings from a leading biblical scholar. And more – Home Screen widgets; liturgical events for your iOS calendar; daily email service; copy and paste into other apps; reminders and alarms; Mass readings on your Apple Watch. LITURGY OF THE HOURS (Divine Office) The complete official Liturgy of the Hours of the Catholic Church, as used worldwide. Morning (Lauds), daytime (Terce, Sext and None), evening (Vespers), night (Compline) and the deeply reflective Office of Readings. Do as many or as few of them as you like. • The psalms and canticles match the official English and American books. Scripture readings – United States: RSV. Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible (with RSV as an optional add-on). READINGS AT MASS The exact prayers and readings at Mass for each day. • England, Wales, Scotland: the official ESV version. • United States: the official NAB version. • Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible readings and Grail psalms, as used at Mass in most of the English-speaking world. OPTIONAL ADD-ON AUDIO (in-app purchase required) Just press the button and listen! If you want to see what you are hearing, the text is highlighted to follow the sound. After an initial download, no Internet is required. Works with CarPlay too. • Spoken English Liturgy of the Hours: every Hour of every day of every year. Monthly or annual subscription. • Spoken English Mass Readings: First and Second Reading and the Gospel. Jerusalem Bible translation only. Monthly or annual subscription. (You can listen to a sample before subscribing. Following App Store rules, subscriptions renew automatically but you can cancel auto-renewal at any time.) • Sung Latin Compline (Night Prayer): by the boys of the Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School. Single purchase. -- Privacy policy and terms of service: universalis.com/n-ios-privacy.htm
What's New
Some improvements in layout and a clearer explanation of the 2-year cycle.
Details
- Developer
- Universalis Publishing
- Main Category
- Lifestyle
- Version
- 3.165
- Version Release
- 2026-06-09
- Initial Release
- 2019-01-31
- Size
- 87 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 9.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.universalis.universalis
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.92 (8,906)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-06-14
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User Reviews
I use this app every single day. This is app is apart of my spiritual and religious life.
For a while, 2 months, the Mass Readings are not the same! Today i opened to the Pentecost Readings on Trinity Sunday! What is going on?
Love the rosary with pictures. Helps me quickly refocus when I get distracted. Simplicity of the liturgy helps me pray a few times a day now thank u🙏🏼
Thank you for making such a great app!
For anyone interested in praying the Catholic daily prayer in the “Liturgy of the Hours” format, this app is a fantastic way to do it. No longer do you need to learn the logistics of manipulating a breviary in order to pray the Hours properly, because this app lays them out with the daily propers and specifics in one readable format for each day. It’s a fantastic resource.
The only app I need for daily readings.
What a wonderful tool, it’s the most versatile and always available way to make a journey of prayers.
We must do our part. We must pray and learn. As Bishop Sheen said, if lay people could just give 15-30 minutes of solid prayer. Jesus asked Peter for one hour. We can at least give 15 everyday. I found routine I like and I love learning of the early church writings. When I see people like Bishop Barron sending out post about the same Saints I just read. Means we are reading the same text together. Very cool.
I can’t believe such a brilliant app only cost ten bucks. It’s handy and beautifully set up, with lots of info on the saints of each day, background to each reading, and more. It’s also easy to tweak it to set various preferences. The one small gripe I have is that the Gospel canticles and OT and NT canticles for the Divine Office don’t match the actual breviary in use in America. Otherwise, it’s a great app.
this app's great. I love the prayers, and the daily spiritual reading is also awesome. The singing that comes without the subscription is very beautiful and it's nice being able to listen to the rosary with the scripture while I'm driving. Very tempting to get that subscription!
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