Universalis on the iPhone

1. Universalis

The Universalis app costs £14.99 / $20.99 / €16.99 (for other currencies, check the App Store). There is no annual subscription. Once you have bought a licence, you can use Universalis for ever. When updates are needed, they will be available free of charge.

Buy Universalis from the App Store.

• If you have already bought the Universalis app for another device, see this page.
• If you already have a Universalis registration code, see this page.

Features

• No Internet connection needed.
• No time limits: view any date.
• Formatted for best appearance on your device.
• Type size easily changed to suit your needs.
• Full liturgical calendar including many local calendars.
• "About Today" pages for every saint and feast.
• Liturgy of the Hours: Psalms, prayers and readings from all the Hours: Morning Prayer, the three daytime Hours (Terce, Sext and None), Evening Prayer, Night Prayer and the Office of Readings.
  • Translations: The readings are from the Jerusalem Bible. For the psalms, you have a choice between our own translation (as seen in Catholic Calendar and on the Web) and the Grail version, which is used in most of the English-speaking world.
• Readings at Mass: First Reading, Responsorial Psalm, Second Reading, Gospel Acclamation and Gospel.
  • Translations: You have a choice between the Jerusalem Bible readings with the Grail psalms (used in most of the English-speaking world) and the New American Bible readings and psalms (used in the USA). Both are included in the app, and you can switch between them at any time.
  • You can also read the Gospel of the day in the original Greek.
• Order of Mass in the new translation which came into use in 2011.
• Buying the Universalis app lets you use Universalis on your Mac and Windows computers.
• The Mac and Windows versions let you create your own private Universalis e-books for the Kindle, the Sony eReader, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and other devices.
• Automated daily email service.

Here are the operating instructions.

One month free trial

If you want to see if Universalis is what you want, install Catholic Calendar instead and use its "buy one month" feature to buy one month's worth of Universalis content. Your first purchase within Catholic Calendar is free.

2. Catholic Calendar

The Catholic Calendar app is free. Download it from the App Store.

Features

• No Internet connection needed.
• No time limits: view any date.
• Formatted for best appearance on your device.
• Type size easily changed to suit your needs.
• Full liturgical calendar including many local calendars.
• "About Today" pages for every saint and feast.
• Order of Mass in the new translation which came into use in 2011.
• As a convenience, if you have an Internet connection, you can view the Universalis web content (all Liturgy of the Hours and Mass pages for yesterday, today and tomorrow) within the app. This will look better than viewing the pages in Safari.

Here are the operating instructions.

Monthly Universalis content

You can buy Universalis content (see the Universalis app, below) one month at a time from the App Store. This costs £0.69 / $0.99 / €0.79 for each month. You buy the content directly from the Catholic Calendar application, using the "Buy" button at the top of each month. The first month that you buy is free.